forest ecology. the environment soil water nutrients air sunlight
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FOREST ECOLOGYFOREST ECOLOGY
The EnvironmentThe Environment
SoilWaterNutrientsAirSunlight
SoilSoil
The soil has water, nutrients, and air.
Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients.
Roots need oxygen.
WaterWater
Rainfall fills the soil, applies pressure to cells, is broken up in plant reactions.
NutrientsNutrients
Nutrients are the building blocks of everything.
Nutrients can be swapped around.
AirAir
The Air contains water and nutrients.
O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain, Disease, Fungi, Pollen
SunlightSunlight
Sunlight supplies: energy temperature
control drought.
EAST TEXAS FOREST EAST TEXAS FOREST COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES
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
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
Dry Upland ForestDry Upland Forest
Dry Upland ForestDry Upland Forest
Dry Upland Forest AnimalsDry Upland Forest Animals
Dry Upland Forest AnimalsDry Upland Forest Animals
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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
Mesic Upland ForestsMesic Upland Forests
Vines:
Supplejack, Cross Vine, Carolina Jessamine, Japanese Honeysuckle, Virginia Creeper, Cat Greenbrier, Muscadine Grape
Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
Wet Upland Forests AnimalsWet Upland Forests Animals
Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests
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)
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
Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests
Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests
Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests
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
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
Swamp ForestsSwamp Forests
Swamp and River Bottom Swamp and River Bottom Forests AnimalsForests Animals
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
Pitcher Plant Bog and Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage ForestsSeepage Forests
Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest
Forest RestorationForest Restoration
Forest RestorationForest Restoration
Texas Forest Service
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Texas Forest Service Website: http://txforestservice.tamu.edu
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