American Deciduous Forests

Temperate Deciduous Forests

Trends in Spring Phenology of Western European Deciduous Forests

Plant phenology is changing because of recent global warming, and this change may precipitate changes in animal distribution (e.g., pests), alter the synchronization between species, and have feedback effects on the climate system through the alteration of biogeochemical and physical processes of vegetated land surface. Here, ground observations (leaf unfolding/first leaf separation of six deci...

Convergence, Consilience, and the Evolution of Temperate Deciduous Forests.

The deciduous habit of northern temperate trees and shrubs provides one of the most obvious examples of convergent evolution, but how did it evolve? Hypotheses based on the fossil record posit that deciduousness evolved first in response to drought or darkness and preadapted certain lineages as cold climates spread. An alternative is that evergreens first established in freezing environments an...

Revisiting the Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America

the dominant land cover in the eastern United States, extending from New England to Florida and westward to the prairies of the Great Plains (Greeley 1925). Native American communities had certainly influenced forest composition and structure, though the magnitude and extent of their influence are subject to continuing debate (Russell 1983). It was in the 18th and 19th centuries, however, that ...

Probing the past 30year phenology trend of US deciduous forests

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