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FOREST ECOLOGY

FOREST ECOLOGY. The Environment. Soil Water Nutrients Air Sunlight. Soil. The soil has water, nutrients, and air. Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients. Roots need oxygen. Water. Rainfall fills the soil, applies pressure to cells, is broken up in plant reactions. Nutrients.

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FOREST ECOLOGY

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  1. FOREST ECOLOGY

  2. The Environment Soil Water Nutrients Air Sunlight

  3. Soil The soil has water, nutrients, and air. Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients. Roots need oxygen.

  4. Water Rainfall fills the soil, applies pressure to cells, is broken up in plant reactions.

  5. Nutrients • Nutrients are the building blocks of everything. • Nutrients can be swapped around.

  6. Air • The Air contains water and nutrients. • O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain, Disease, Fungi, Pollen

  7. Sunlight Sunlight supplies: • energy • temperature control • drought.

  8. EAST TEXAS FOREST COMMUNITIES

  9. Dry 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

  10. Dry 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

  11. Dry Upland Forest

  12. Dry Upland Forest

  13. Dry Upland Forest Animals

  14. Dry Upland Forest Animals

  15. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  16. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  17. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  18. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  19. Mesic 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

  20. Mesic Upland Forests • Vines: Supplejack, Cross Vine, Carolina Jessamine, Japanese Honeysuckle, Virginia Creeper, Cat Greenbrier, Muscadine Grape

  21. Wet Upland Forests

  22. Wet Upland Forests Animals

  23. Wet Upland Forests

  24. Wet Upland Forests

  25. Wet Upland Forests

  26. Wet Upland Forests

  27. Wet Upland Forests

  28. Mesic 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)

  29. Mesic 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

  30. Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

  31. Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

  32. Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

  33. River 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 Bush Vines: • Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe, American Buckwheat Vine Common Greenbrier, Supplejack, Cross Vine, Virginia Creeper, Sweet Grape, Kentucky Wisteria

  34. Swamp 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

  35. Swamp Forests

  36. Swamp and River Bottom Forests Animals

  37. Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage 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

  38. Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage Forests

  39. Fire In The Forest

  40. Fire In The Forest

  41. Fire In The Forest

  42. Fire In The Forest

  43. Fire In The Forest

  44. Forest Restoration

  45. Forest Restoration

  46. For More Information Texas Forest Service Insert address, phone, and e-mailTexas Forest Service Website: http://txforestservice.tamu.edu

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