Forest ecology

considered the most serious issue affecting the world. Climate change impacts forest ecology system is significant developing recently however, human activities are also damaging the global environment almost the same as development of new technology. Human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, agriculture and increased deforestation are contributing to climate change. It is clear that people have to protect forests to decrease the climate change. In addition, it requires not only national

Introduction In an attempt to avoid walking on the rain forest floor during ecology research in South America, rope walkways were strung from tree to tree. To ensure the safety of the researchers, the maximum weight that could be carried from tree to tree without the walkways collapsing had to be set. To model this system, two pulleys containing a central object suspended halfway between them with counterweights of equal mass on the outside of the pulleys was created, as shown in Figure 1. Our goal

Deep in Unova, a forest was alive with the sounds of bug and bird Pokémon. A newly hatched Sewaddle crawled along the branch of a tall Oran berry tree, eyeing a particularly large, juicy looking Oran berry dangling tauntingly above its head. The small bug Pokémon reached up with two of its stubby legs, resting its body weight on its remaining four. Unfortunately for the Sewaddle, the berry was still out of reach. Growing frustrated, the little Pokémon raised its body higher and stood on only two

BEECH FOREST ECOSYSTEMS INTRODUCTION This essay will look at beech forest ecosystems, describing the main characteristics, along with pre-human and current distribution of beech forests. Vegetation structure and native fauna associated with the ecosystem will be looked at with examples of species given. Environmental effects such as altitude, latitude, rainfall and soil drainage, and how they can affect beech forests will be investigated. Anthropogenic effects will also be looked at, explaining

The definitions for the words “forest” and “woodland” are heterogeneous around the world and are circumscribed to each country´s structural stands in local eco-regions. Countries as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Japan, Mexico or US, with a great diversity of climates and soil conditions attributable to their large land extensions and altitude gradients (Borja-Jimenez et al. 2013), can be identified as territories with high variety of forests and woodlands. The great diversity

Ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Plateau cover a large portion of the higher mesas and mountains from elevations of 6000 to approximately 8000 feet. They often form almost pure stands encompassing tens of thousands of acres at elevations above 6500 feet in the southern area. Located southwest of Flagstaff to the White Mountains of eastern Arizona, the Mogollon Rim comprises the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona. The escarpment reaches close to 200 miles across central Arizona

Forests are one of the most important natural resources with diverse economic, socio-cultural and ecological uses. The livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people Worldwide have been engaged on forest products either directly or indirectly. Forests have a vital safety net role in time of needs (Anonymous, 2008). Changes in land use and land cover are increasingly rapid, and can have adverse impacts and implications at local, regional and global scales (Brandon, 1998). Besides, the vicinity of

Introduction Forest succession is the process of change in the species structure in a forested community over time. Succession is fundamental to forest ecology because it allows ecologist to predict what communities will do in disturbances such as wildfires, flooding, and clear cuts. Succession can be site and time specific requiring the use of scales such as micro of mega. Based on the knowledge from previous labs such as silvics and seed ecology students predictions could be that because of seed

Today forest loss due to conversion into to other land use has reached a dangerous level. Recent study conducted by the researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York, Google, the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Research Center, and South Dakota State University shows that during 2000-2012, the world forest was lost with approximately 2.3 million square kilometers per year. Particularly in Indonesia, they said that deforestation rate increases from 10,000 square

Real Life Kermit: New Discovery of Glass Frog A glass frog that closely resembles Kermit the Frog has been found! Hyalinobatrachium dianae was recently found in the tropical wet forests and premontane rainforests in Costa Rica by researchers from the Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center in April 2015. H. dianae is a type of glass frog that belongs to the genus Hyalinobatrachium and the family Centrolenidae, which consists of about 150 different glass frog species. Senior researcher Dr. Brian Kubicki