Climate change and loss of biodiversity are widely recognized as the foremost
environmental challenges of our time. Forests annually sequester large quantities of …

A campaign is underway to clear established forests and expand early-successional
habitats—also called young forest, pre-forest, early seral, or open habitats—with the …

Aim Global declines in large old trees from selective logging have degraded old‐forest
ecosystems, which could lead to delayed declines or losses of old‐forest‐associated wildlife …

Advanced regeneration, in the form of tree seedlings and saplings, is critical for ensuring the
long‐term viability and resilience of forest ecosystems in the eastern United States. Lack of …

In terms of adult tree mortality, harvesting is the most prevalent disturbance in northeastern
United States forests. Previous studies have demonstrated that stand structure and tree …

Wood products are an essential provisioning ecosystem service with US forests providing
nearly one-fifth of global wood supply. As of 2018, an estimated 46% of the annual wood …

National parks are unique and significant vector-borne pathogen transmission settings,
engaging over 300 million people in outdoor recreation per year. In this study, we integrated …

While invasive plant distributions are relatively well known in the eastern United States,
temporal changes in species distributions and interactions among species have received …

Forests are critical to the planetary operational system and evolved without human
management for millions of years in North America. Actively managing forests to help them …

Biotic global change agents, such as non-native plants ('weeds'), non-native earthworms
('worms'), and overabundant herbivores (white-tailed 'deer'), can be major stressors in the …