Forests of the World
These two climatic variables are the main drivers of forest distribution around the world.
What are temperature and precipitation?
This group of soil animals can move through air-filled pore spaces, but can't burrow.
What are mesofauna?
This metric of forest carbon balance takes into account photosynthesis and respiration by all organisms.
What is net ecosystem productivity?
These introduced species alter the understory plant diversity and soil carbon balance of forests in northern North America.
What are earthworms?
This tree was prized by early American loggers as they moved from the East to the Midwest.
What is Eastern white pine?
Its wet and dry seasons correspond to the summer and winter in temperate regions of the same hemisphere.
What is tropical seasonal forest?
These fungal root symbionts obtained photosynthesized sugars from their plant in exchange for nutrients obtained by decomposing soil organic matter.
What are ectomycorrhizae?
Forests reduce streamflow relative to unforested land due to higher rates of this process.
What is evapotranspiration?
The property of boreal forests that makes restoring or afforesting them potentially "climate-negative".
What is low albedo?
Oil palm plantations and/or agroforestry systems could be environmentally and economically beneficial in Brazil by replacing this land use category.
What are pastures?
Two tree species found throughout much of the Canadian boreal forest dominating a type of forest community known as "blackjack".
What are black spruce and jack pine?
Bromeliads, moss, and lichens all fall into this category of forest "plants".
What are epiphytes?
The Pacific Northwest, the United Kingdom, and much of the tropics share this limitation on NPP.
What is light?
Forests are a major part of this system that has expanded since 1850 due to CO2 fertilization.
What is the terrestrial carbon sink?
This policy of the Canadian settler government has led to increased wildfire risk in the boreal forest?
This geographically restricted forest sequesters more carbon per unit area than any other forest.
What are mangrove forests?
This metric of diversity would consider 5 tree species in different orders more diverse than 10 species in the same family.
What is phylogenetic diversity?
This step of the nitrogen cycle is catalyzed by facultatively anaerobic microbes.
What is denitrification?
This form of global change may improve conditions for some species but leaves forests more vulnerable to heat and drought.
What is habitat fragmentation?
A poet inspired by the cathedral-like majesty of a redwood forest could be said to derive this from that ecosystem.
What is a cultural ecosystem service?
This deciduous conifer is a fixture of the Siberian taiga.
What is a larch?
This hypothesized driver of understory plant diversity relies on the presence of microhabitats like fallen logs, treefall pits, and canopy gaps.
What is resource heterogeneity?
This type of soil organic matter consists of low-molecular weight compounds bound to soil particles (usually clay).
What is mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM)?
This Cary Institute-proposed framework contains recommendations for policymakers to prevent the spread of non-native forest pests and pathogens.
What is Tree SMART Trade?
This tropical forest tree is pollarded so that its fragrant inner bark can be sustainably harvested.
What is cinnamon?