Effects of Herbaceous and Woody Plant Control on Longleaf Pine Growth and Understory Plant Cover

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Haywood
Keyword(s):  
Woody Plant ◽  
Longleaf Pine ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Understory Plant ◽  
Plant Control

scholarly journals Post-fire management and recovery of a pine forest in Greece

Web Ecology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Spanos ◽  
Y. Raftoyannis ◽  
P. Platis ◽  
E. Xanthopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Woody Plant ◽  
Pinus Halepensis ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Control Site ◽  
Plant Composition ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Pine Regeneration ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Treatment Application

Abstract. The effects of management after fire in Pinus halepensis forests were assessed in northern Greece. Seeding, logging and building of log barriers were applied in burned sites and compared to a control site. Two years after treatment application, 70–80% of the ground in all sites was covered with vegetation. Seeding with herbaceous plants did not increase plant cover. Logging and building of log barriers negatively affected herbaceous species but increased woody species. During the first spring after fire, the highest numbers of P. halepensis seedlings were observed in the control site and the lowest number in the logged site. Logging and log barrier building had a negative effect on pine regeneration compared to control and seeding treatments. Woody plant composition was similar in control and seeding sites, with dominance of P. halepensis and Cistus species. A different pattern was observed in the logging and log-barrier sites with a low number of seeders and a high number of resprouter species.

scholarly journals Effects of Land-Use Practices on Woody Plant Cover Dynamics in Sahelian Agrosystems in Burkina Faso since the 1970s–1980s Droughts

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 5908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendpouiré Arnaud Zida ◽  
Babou André Bationo ◽  
Jean-Philippe Waaub
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Woody Plant ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Landsat Images ◽  
Land Use Practices ◽  
Agroforestry Practices

The 1970s–1980s droughts in the Sahel caused a significant degradation of land and plant cover. To cope with this situation, populations have developed several biophysical and social adaptation practices. Many of these are agroforestry practices and contribute to the maintenance of agrosystems. Unfortunately, they remain insufficiently documented and their contributions to the resilience of agrosystems insufficiently evaluated. Many authors widely link the regreening in the Sahel after droughts to the resumption of rainfall. This study examines the contribution of agroforestry practices to the improvement of woody plant cover in the North of Burkina Faso after the 1970s–1980s droughts. The examination of practices is carried out by integrating the rainfall, soil, and geomorphology variables. Landsat images are used to detect changes in woody plant cover: increasing, decreasing, and no-change in the Enhanced Vegetation Index. In addition, 230 field observations, coupled with interviews conducted on the different categories of change, have allowed to characterize the biophysical environment and identify land-use practices. The results show a variability of vegetation index explained to 9% (R2 = 0.09) by rainfall. However, Chi-Squared independence tests show a strong dependence between changes in woody plant cover and geomorphology (p = 0.0018 *), land use, land cover (p = 0.0001 *), and land-use practices (p = 0.0001 *). Our results show that rainfall alone is not enough to explain the dynamics of agrosystems’ woody plant cover. Agricultural and social practices related to the dynamics of farmer perceptions play a key role.

Sensitivity of regional evapotranspiration partitioning to variation in woody plant cover: insights from experimental dryland tree mosaics

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 1040-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Camilo Villegas ◽  
Francina Dominguez ◽  
Greg A. Barron-Gafford ◽  
Henry D. Adams ◽  
Maite Guardiola-Claramonte ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Woody Plant ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Regional Evapotranspiration ◽  
Evapotranspiration Partitioning

Eleventh-Year Results of Fertilization, Herbaceous, and Woody Plant Control in a Loblolly Pine Plantation

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 173-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Haywood ◽  
Allan E. Tiarks
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Taeda ◽  
Loblolly Pine ◽  
Woody Plant ◽  
Sandy Loam ◽  
Herbaceous Plant ◽  
Pine Plantation ◽  
Stand Volume ◽  
Fine Sandy Loam ◽  
Pinus Taeda L ◽  
Plant Control

Abstract Through 11 years, fertilization at planting significantly increased the stemwood volume (outside bark) per loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) on an intensively prepared moderately well-drained fine sandy loam site in northern Louisiana. Four years of herbaceous plant control significantly increased pine survival, and because herbaceous plant control increased survival, it resulted in a significant increase in total stand volume. Woody plant control no longer produced significant results by age 11. South. J. Appl. For. 14(4):173-177.

Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense) Removal and its Effect on Native Plant Communities of Riparian Forests

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Hanula ◽  
Scott Horn ◽  
John W. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Plant Communities ◽  
Foliar Application ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Riparian Forests ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Chinese Privet ◽  
Desirable Outcome ◽  
Understory Plant ◽  
Future Condition

AbstractChinese privet is a major invasive shrub within riparian zones throughout the southeastern United States. We removed privet shrubs from four riparian forests in October 2005 with a Gyrotrac® mulching machine or by hand-felling with chainsaws and machetes to determine how well these treatments controlled privet and how they affected plant community recovery. One year after shrub removal a foliar application of 2% glyphosate was applied to privet remaining in the herbaceous layer. Three “desired-future-condition” plots were also measured to assess how well treatments shifted plant communities toward a desirable outcome. Both methods completely removed privet from the shrub layer without reducing nonprivet shrub cover and diversity below levels on the untreated control plots. Nonprivet plant cover on the mulched plots was > 60% by 2007, similar to the desired-future-condition plots and higher than the hand-felling plots. Both treatments resulted in higher nonprivet plant cover than the untreated controls. Ordination showed that after 2 yr privet removal plots were tightly grouped, suggesting that the two removal techniques resulted in the same plant communities, which were distinctly different from both the untreated controls and the desired-future-condition. Both treatments created open streamside forests usable for recreation and other human activities. However, much longer periods of time or active management of the understory plant communities, or both, will be required to change the forests to typical mature forest plant communities.

scholarly journals Mapping woody plant cover in desert grasslands using canopy reflectance modeling and MISR data

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Chopping ◽  
Lihong Su ◽  
Andrea Laliberte ◽  
Albert Rango ◽  
Debra P. C. Peters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Woody Plant ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Canopy Reflectance ◽  
Reflectance Modeling

Decadal shifts in grass and woody plant cover are driven by prolonged drying and modified by topo-edaphic properties

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 2480-2494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth M. Munson ◽  
Temuulen T. Sankey ◽  
George Xian ◽  
Miguel L. Villarreal ◽  
Collin G. Homer
Keyword(s):  
Woody Plant ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Edaphic Properties

Springs on rangelands: runoff dynamics and influence of woody plant cover

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (15) ◽  
pp. 3277-3288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Huang ◽  
Bradford P. Wilcox ◽  
Libby Stern ◽  
Humberto Perotto-Baldivieso
Keyword(s):  
Woody Plant ◽  
Plant Cover ◽  
Runoff Dynamics
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