Intensive agricultural technologies lead to a simplification of landscape and decrease in biodiversity. Besides economic benefits, alley cropping might increase species richness, improving pollination agriculture. In this research, traditional apricot plantation combined with crop fields was studied Burgenland, focused on herbaceous diversity composition, which have crucial role promoting polli...

Green-tree or structural retention is becoming increasingly common as a method of regeneration harvest in the Pacific Northwest. Amelioration of microclimatic stress is assumed to be one mechanism by which overstory retention enhances the survival of forest organisms and the potential for ecosystem recovery following timber harvest. We examined patterns of transmitted light (photosynthetic phot...

Piñon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) trees are reduced to restore native vegetation and avoid severe fires where they have expanded into sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) communities. However, what phase of tree infilling should treatments target to retain desirable understory cover and avoid weed dominance? Prescribed fire and tree felling were applied to 8–20-ha treatment plot...

We explored the potential of airborne laser scanner (ALS) data to improve Bayesian models linking biodiversity indicators of the understory vegetation to environmental factors. Biodiversity was studied at plot level and models were built to investigate species abundance for the most abundant plants found on each study site, and for ecological group richness based on light preference. The usual ...

It is well known that soil microbial communities reestablish following disturbance, but limited research has been done on how long this takes in eastern reclaimed coal mine soils. The objective of this study was to track the development of total microbial biomass in reclaimed mine soils following coal mining in southwestern Virginia. A chronosequence of sites was established based on locally do...

This research quantified the canopy phenology, growing season and inter-annual dynamics of the overstory and understory vegetation in a boreal wildfire chronosequence in northern Manitoba, Canada. Optical measurements of the canopy radiation regime were made in the 2004–2006 growing seasons to evaluate the spatial and temporal variation in the effective leaf area index (Le) and fraction of inte...

Studies report that urban areas may not provide breeding habitat for interior-forest birds, but some residential neighborhoods do have sufficient vegetation to serve as forest birds and even specialists. The authors investigated the occurrence of three specialists, pileated woodpeckers, summer tanagers, northern parulas, during season in two suburban Gainesville, Florida, found all species occu...