Historically open oak and pine savannas and woodlands have transitioned to closed forests
comprised of increased numbers of tree species throughout the eastern United States. We …

Background Ecosystem management, community restoration, and managing for climate
resilience have become major priorities of land management in recent decades. For …

Fire exclusion in eastern North American Quercus–Carya woodlands has resulted in
overstory compositional changes, linked to altered fuel composition, structure, and …

Fire is a critical ecological process to the forests of the Southern Appalachians. Where fire
was excluded from forest types that historically burned frequently, unanticipated changes …

By tracking oak‐hickory (Quercus‐Carya) regeneration for 13 yr across management‐
manipulated light and topographically driven moisture gradients after partial harvest and …

Forests and grasslands have changed during the past 200 years in the eastern USA, and it
is now possible to quantify loss and conversion of vegetation cover at regional scales. We …

Abstract In the Central Appalachian forest region, oaks (Quercus L.) and other disturbance-
dependent tree species are experiencing widespread regeneration failure after decades of …

The shift from shade‐intolerant species to shade‐tolerant mesophytic species in deciduous
and mixed forests of the temperate zone is well described in studies from North America …

Recently, a two-year study found that long-term prescribed fire significantly reduced tick
abundance at sites with varying burn regimes (burned surrounded by burned areas [BB] …

Background Without periodic fire, fire-adapted plant communities across the Central
Hardwood Forest Region (CHF) in the USA have undergone significant changes in forest …