Biology - Terrestrial, Freshwater, and Marine Ecosystems Program
ForestsUSGS research focuses on healthy forest management in the United States, including understanding forest systems, sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem function, developing resource management options, recovery of sensitive and status species, supporting management of aquatic forest habitats, conducting landscape scale assessments, and addressing forest stressors such as climate change, fire, and pathogens. Listed below are examples of research projects available online and general information from USGS about grasslands.
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Mountain pond reflecting the autumn foliage of a forest. Photo by Randolph Femmer, NBII Digital Image Library
Featured PublicationPhysiological Ecology and Ecohydrology of Coastal Forested Wetlands - The form, function, and productivity of wetland communities are influenced strongly by the hydrologic regime of an area. Wetland ecosystems persist by depending upon surpluses of rainfall, evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and frequency and amplitude of water-level fluctuations. Additional Resources Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research - facilitates sound management of forest ecosystems while meeting the needs of BLM and ODF in western Oregon |
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