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FOREST ECOLOGYFOREST ECOLOGY
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The EnvironmentThe Environment
SoilWaterNutrientsAirSunlight
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SoilSoil
The soil has water, nutrients, and air.
Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients.
Roots need oxygen.
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WaterWater
Rainfall fills the soil, applies pressure to cells, is broken up in plant reactions.
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NutrientsNutrients
Nutrients are the building blocks of everything.
Nutrients can be swapped around.
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AirAir
The Air contains water and nutrients.
O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain, Disease, Fungi, Pollen
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SunlightSunlight
Sunlight supplies: energy temperature
control drought.
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EAST TEXAS FOREST EAST TEXAS FOREST COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES
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Dry Upland ForestsDry Upland Forests
Trees:
Post Oak, Black Hickory, Blackjack Oak, Sandjack Oak (bluejack), Black Oak, Longleaf Pine (S), Shortleaf Pine (N), Sweetgum, Red Mulberry, Woollybucket Bumelia, Southern Red Oak, Sassafras, Winged Elm, Rusty Blackhaw
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Dry Upland ForestsDry Upland Forests
Shrubs:Yaupon, Sparkleberry (farkleberry), American Beautyberry, Winged Sumac, St. Andrews Cross, Southern Dewberry
Vines:Summer Grape, Pinewoods Grape, Peppervine, Muscadine Grape, Poison Ivy, Virginia Creeper, Saw Greenbriar, Mustang Grape
From Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines of East Texas Nixon & Cunningham 1985
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Dry Upland ForestDry Upland Forest
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Dry Upland ForestDry Upland Forest
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Dry Upland Forest AnimalsDry Upland Forest Animals
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Dry Upland Forest AnimalsDry Upland Forest Animals
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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Mesic Upland ForestsMesic Upland Forests
Trees:Southern Red Oak, Sweetgum, Flowering Dogwood, Mockernut Hickory, Winged Elm, Loblolly Pine, Water Oak, Black Cherry, Sassafras, Fringetree, Blackgum, Sugar Maple, American Elm
Shrubs:American Beautyberry, Poison Ivy, Dwarf Pawpaw, Red Buckeye, Bristleleaf Blueberry, Southern Wax Myrtle, Sparkleberry, Carolina Holly, Common Witchhazel, Yaupon, Arrowwood Viburnum
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Mesic Upland ForestsMesic Upland Forests
Vines:
Supplejack, Cross Vine, Carolina Jessamine, Japanese Honeysuckle, Virginia Creeper, Cat Greenbrier, Muscadine Grape
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Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
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Wet Upland Forests AnimalsWet Upland Forests Animals
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Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
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Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
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Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
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Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
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Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
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Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests
Trees:
Red Maple, River Birch, American Hornbeam, Bitternut Hickory, American Beech, American Holly, Silverbell, Sweetgum, Sweetbay Magnolia, Blackgum, Eastern Hophornbeam, White Oak, Water Oak, Herculis Club (prickly ash)
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Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests
Shrubs:
Giant Cane, American Beautyberry, Brook Euonymus, Deciduous Holly, Sparkleberry, Common Pawpaw, Spicebush, Arrowwood Viburnum
Vines:
Carolina Snailseed, Supplejack, Muscadine Grape, Virginia Creeper, Laurel Greenbrier
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Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests
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Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests
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River Bottom ForestsRiver Bottom Forests
Trees: Ridge - American Hornbeam, Water Oak, Blackgum, Sweetgum Flat - Carolina Ash, Red Maple, American Snowbell, Laurel Oak General - Overcup Oak, Willow Oak, Water Oak, Laurel Oak,
Green Ash, Sweetgum, American Hornbeam, Deciduous Holly, Cedar Elm , Texas Sugarberry, Red Maple, Hawthorn
Shrubs: Indigo Bush Amorpha, Swamp Cyrilla, Poison Ivy, Drummond
Sesbania, Dogwood, Sesbastian BushVines: Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe, American Buckwheat Vine Common
Greenbrier, Supplejack, Cross Vine, Virginia Creeper, Sweet Grape, Kentucky Wisteria
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Swamp ForestsSwamp Forests
Trees: Green Ash, Bald Cypress, Water Tupelo, Swamp
Privet, Water Elm , Carolina Ash, Water Locust
Shrubs: Common Buttonbush, Summersweet Clethra, Water
Willow, Scarlet Rosemallow, Corkwood, Sweetbells leucothoe, Possumhaw Virburnum
Vines: Common Cupseed, Decumaria Vine
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Swamp ForestsSwamp Forests
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Swamp and River Bottom Swamp and River Bottom Forests AnimalsForests Animals
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Pitcher Plant Bog and Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage ForestsSeepage Forests
Trees: Red Maple, Sweetbay Magnolia, Blackgum, Red Bay
Shrubs: Baygall Holly, he-huckleberry, Wax Myrtle, Red
Chokeberry, Poison Sumac, Arkansas Blueberry, Possumhaw Viburnum
Vines: Laurel Greenbrier
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Pitcher Plant Bog and Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage ForestsSeepage Forests
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Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
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Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
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Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
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Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
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Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
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Forest RestorationForest Restoration
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Forest RestorationForest Restoration
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Texas Forest Service
Insert address, phone, and e-mail
Texas Forest Service Website: http://txforestservice.tamu.edu
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