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Forest Ecology

Forest Ecology. Texas Envirothon. The Environment. Soil Water Nutrients Air Sunlight. Soil. The soil has water, nutrients, and air. Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients. Roots need oxygen. Water. Rainfall fills the soil, applies pressure to cells, is broken up in plant reactions.

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Forest Ecology

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  1. Forest Ecology Texas Envirothon

  2. The Environment • Soil • Water • Nutrients • Air • Sunlight

  3. Soil • The soil has water, nutrients, and air. • Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients. • Roots need oxygen.

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

  5. Nutrients • Nutrients are the building blocks of everything. • Nutrients can be swapped around.

  6. Air • The air contains water and nutrients. • O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain, Disease, Fungi, Pollen

  7. Sunlight • Sunlight supplies: • energy • temperature control • drought

  8. East Texas Forest Communities

  9. Dry Upland Forests • Trees • Post Oak • Black Hickory • Blackjack Oak • SandjackOak (Bluejack) • Black Oak • Longleaf Pine (S) • Shortleaf Pine (N) • Sweetgum • Red Mulberry • WoollybucketBumelia • Southern Red Oak • Sassafras • Winged Elm • Rusty Blackhaw

  10. Dry 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 Nixon & Cunningham. 1985. Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines of East Texas

  11. Dry Upland Forest

  12. Dry Upland Forest

  13. Dry Upland Forest Animals

  14. Dry Upland Forest Animals

  15. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  16. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  17. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  18. Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

  19. Mesic 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

  20. Mesic Upland Forests • Shrubs • American Beautyberry • Poison Ivy • Dwarf Pawpaw • Red Buckeye • Bristleleaf Blueberry • Southern Wax Myrtle • Sparkleberry • Carolina Holly • Common Witchhazel • Yaupon • Arrowwood Viburnum • Vines • Supplejack • Cross Vine • Carolina Jessamine • Japanese Honeysuckle • Virginia Creeper • Cat Greenbrier • MuscadineGrape

  21. Wet Upland Forests

  22. Wet Upland Forest Animals

  23. Wet Upland Forest Vegetation

  24. Wet Upland Forest Vegetation

  25. Wet Upland Forest Vegetation

  26. Wet Upland Forest Vegetation

  27. Wet Upland Forest Vegetation

  28. Mesic 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 • Hercules’ Club (Prickly Ash)

  29. Mesic 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

  30. Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

  31. Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

  32. Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

  33. River 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

  34. River Bottom Forests • Trees (cont.) • Texas Sugarberry • Red Maple • Hawthorn • Shrubs • Indigo Bush Amorpha • Swamp Cyrilla • Poison Ivy • Drummond Sesbania • Dogwood • SesbastianBush • Vines • Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe • American Buckwheat Vine • Common Greenbrier • Supplejack • Cross Vine • Virginia Creeper • Sweet Grape • Kentucky Wisteria

  35. Swamp Forests • Trees • Green Ash • Bald Cypress • Water Tupelo • Swamp Privet • Water Elm • Carolina Ash • Water Locust • Shrubs • Common Buttonbush • SummersweetClethra • Water Willow • Scarlet Rosemallow • Corkwood • Sweetbells leucothoe • PossumhawVirburnum • Vines • Common Cupseed • DecumariaVine

  36. Swamp Forests

  37. Swamp and River Bottom Forest Animals

  38. Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage Forests • Trees • Red Maple • Sweetbay Magnolia • Blackgum • Red Bay • Shrubs • BaygallHolly • He-huckleberry • Wax Myrtle • Red Chokeberry • Poison Sumac • Arkansas Blueberry • PossumhawViburnum • Vines • Laurel Greenbrier

  39. Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage Forests

  40. Fire in the Forest

  41. Fire in the Forest

  42. Fire in the Forest

  43. Fire in the Forest

  44. Fire in the Forest

  45. Fire in the Forest

  46. For More Information Texas Forest Service Website http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/

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