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Restoration treatments and regeneration dynamics in East Texas mixed wood forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Extensive harvesting, fire exclusion, and plantation forestry altered composition and structure, and thus function and habitat values of east Texas Pineywoods uplands. Upland restoration efforts are made difficult by the ...
Turning up the heat: fire ecology and climate adaptive silviculture in longleaf pine forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
. While research has shown that this regeneration within patches alters fuel composition, specific changes of fuel loads, and subsequent alterations of fire behaviour and fire effect is unknown. Results indicate that patches reduce fuel loads and fire...
Relationship of habitat variables and observation data on muskrat occupancy in an urban green space waterway : a case study from Forest Park, St. Louis, USA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
and development of an UGS but also in the day to day management of the area. My research was prompted by park stewards looking for a non-lethal method in which to manage an ever-growing muskrat population. To address this topic, my research established twenty...
Regeneration of soil microbial, physical, and chemical properties in restored bottomland hardwood forest wetlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
(WRP)] was initiated with the goal of reducing the loss of wetlands and restoring wetlands previously converted to agricultural land use. Despite the importance of preserving and restoring wetlands, the benefits of wetland restoration have not been well...