FOREST ECOLOGYFOREST ECOLOGY

The EnvironmentThe Environment

SoilWaterNutrientsAirSunlight

SoilSoil

The soil has water, nutrients, and air.

Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients.

Roots need oxygen.

WaterWater

Rainfall fills the soil, applies pressure to cells, is broken up in plant reactions.

NutrientsNutrients

Nutrients are the building blocks of everything.

Nutrients can be swapped around.

AirAir

The Air contains water and nutrients.

O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain, Disease, Fungi, Pollen

SunlightSunlight

Sunlight supplies: energy temperature

control drought.

EAST TEXAS FOREST EAST TEXAS FOREST COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES

Dry Upland ForestsDry Upland Forests

Trees:

Post Oak, Black Hickory, Blackjack Oak, Sandjack Oak (bluejack), Black Oak, Longleaf Pine (S), Shortleaf Pine (N), Sweetgum, Red Mulberry, Woollybucket Bumelia, Southern Red Oak, Sassafras, Winged Elm, Rusty Blackhaw

Dry Upland ForestsDry Upland Forests

Shrubs:Yaupon, Sparkleberry (farkleberry), American Beautyberry, Winged Sumac, St. Andrews Cross, Southern Dewberry

Vines:Summer Grape, Pinewoods Grape, Peppervine, Muscadine Grape, Poison Ivy, Virginia Creeper, Saw Greenbriar, Mustang Grape

From Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines of East Texas Nixon & Cunningham 1985

Dry Upland ForestDry Upland Forest

Dry Upland ForestDry Upland Forest

Dry Upland Forest AnimalsDry Upland Forest Animals

Dry Upland Forest AnimalsDry Upland Forest Animals

Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

Mesic Upland ForestsMesic Upland Forests

Trees:Southern Red Oak, Sweetgum, Flowering Dogwood, Mockernut Hickory, Winged Elm, Loblolly Pine, Water Oak, Black Cherry, Sassafras, Fringetree, Blackgum, Sugar Maple, American Elm

Shrubs:American Beautyberry, Poison Ivy, Dwarf Pawpaw, Red Buckeye, Bristleleaf Blueberry, Southern Wax Myrtle, Sparkleberry, Carolina Holly, Common Witchhazel, Yaupon, Arrowwood Viburnum

Mesic Upland ForestsMesic Upland Forests

Vines:

Supplejack, Cross Vine, Carolina Jessamine, Japanese Honeysuckle, Virginia Creeper, Cat Greenbrier, Muscadine Grape

Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests

Wet Upland Forests AnimalsWet Upland Forests Animals

Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests

Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests

Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests

Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests

Wet Upland ForestsWet Upland Forests

Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests

Trees:

Red Maple, River Birch, American Hornbeam, Bitternut Hickory, American Beech, American Holly, Silverbell, Sweetgum, Sweetbay Magnolia, Blackgum, Eastern Hophornbeam, White Oak, Water Oak, Herculis Club (prickly ash)

Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests

Shrubs:

Giant Cane, American Beautyberry, Brook Euonymus, Deciduous Holly, Sparkleberry, Common Pawpaw, Spicebush, Arrowwood Viburnum

Vines:

Carolina Snailseed, Supplejack, Muscadine Grape, Virginia Creeper, Laurel Greenbrier

Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests

Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests

Mesic Creek Bottom ForestsMesic Creek Bottom Forests

River Bottom ForestsRiver Bottom Forests

Trees: Ridge - American Hornbeam, Water Oak, Blackgum, Sweetgum Flat - Carolina Ash, Red Maple, American Snowbell, Laurel Oak General - Overcup Oak, Willow Oak, Water Oak, Laurel Oak,

Green Ash, Sweetgum, American Hornbeam, Deciduous Holly, Cedar Elm , Texas Sugarberry, Red Maple, Hawthorn

Shrubs: Indigo Bush Amorpha, Swamp Cyrilla, Poison Ivy, Drummond

Sesbania, Dogwood, Sesbastian BushVines: Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe, American Buckwheat Vine Common

Greenbrier, Supplejack, Cross Vine, Virginia Creeper, Sweet Grape, Kentucky Wisteria

Swamp ForestsSwamp Forests

Trees: Green Ash, Bald Cypress, Water Tupelo, Swamp

Privet, Water Elm , Carolina Ash, Water Locust

Shrubs: Common Buttonbush, Summersweet Clethra, Water

Willow, Scarlet Rosemallow, Corkwood, Sweetbells leucothoe, Possumhaw Virburnum

Vines: Common Cupseed, Decumaria Vine

Swamp ForestsSwamp Forests

Swamp and River Bottom Swamp and River Bottom Forests AnimalsForests Animals

Pitcher Plant Bog and Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage ForestsSeepage Forests

Trees: Red Maple, Sweetbay Magnolia, Blackgum, Red Bay

Shrubs: Baygall Holly, he-huckleberry, Wax Myrtle, Red

Chokeberry, Poison Sumac, Arkansas Blueberry, Possumhaw Viburnum

Vines: Laurel Greenbrier

Pitcher Plant Bog and Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage ForestsSeepage Forests

Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest

Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest

Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest

Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest

Fire In The ForestFire In The Forest

Forest RestorationForest Restoration

Forest RestorationForest Restoration

Texas Forest Service

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Texas Forest Service Website: http://txforestservice.tamu.edu

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