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.
Nutrients Nutrients are the building blocks of everything. Nutrients can be swapped around.
Air The air contains water and nutrients. O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain, Disease, Fungi, Pollen
Sunlight Sunlight supplies: energy temperature control drought
East Texas Forest Communities
Dry Upland Forests Trees Post Oak Sweetgum Black Hickory Red Mulberry Blackjack Oak Woollybucket Bumelia Sandjack Oak (Bluejack) Southern Red Oak Black Oak Sassafras Longleaf Pine (S) Winged Elm Shortleaf Pine (N) Rusty Blackhaw
Dry Upland Forests Shrubs Vines Yaupon Summer Grape Sparkleberry (Farkleberry) Pinewoods Grape Peppervine American Beautyberry Muscadine Grape Winged Sumac Poison Ivy St. Andrews Cross Virginia Creeper Southern Dewberry Saw Greenbriar Mustang Grape From Nixon & Cunningham. 1985. Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines of East Texas
Dry Upland Forest
Dry Upland Forest
Dry Upland Forest Animals
Dry Upland Forest Animals
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Mesic Upland Forests Trees Black Cherry Southern Red Oak Sassafras Sweetgum Fringetree Flowering Dogwood Blackgum Mockernut Hickory Sugar Maple Winged Elm American Elm Loblolly Pine Water Oak
Mesic Upland Forests Shrubs Vines Yaupon Arrowwood Viburnum American Beautyberry Poison Ivy Vines Dwarf Pawpaw Supplejack Red Buckeye Cross Vine Bristleleaf Blueberry Carolina Jessamine Southern Wax Myrtle Japanese Honeysuckle Sparkleberry Virginia Creeper Carolina Holly Cat Greenbrier Common Witchhazel Muscadine Grape
Wet Upland Forests
Wet Upland Forest Animals
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests Trees Sweetgum Red Maple Sweetbay Magnolia River Birch Blackgum American Hornbeam Eastern Hophornbeam Bitternut Hickory White Oak American Beech Water Oak American Holly Hercules’ Club (Prickly Ash) Silverbell
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests Shrubs Vines Giant Cane Carolina Snailseed American Beautyberry Supplejack Brook Euonymus Muscadine Grape Deciduous Holly Virginia Creeper Sparkleberry Laurel Greenbrier Common Pawpaw Spicebush Arrowwood Viburnum
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
River Bottom Forests Trees General Ridge Flat American Hornbeam Overcup Oak Willow Oak Water Oak Blackgum Sweetgum Green Ash Flat Carolina Ash Red Maple Deciduous Holly American Snowbell Cedar Elm Laurel Oak
River Bottom Forests Trees (cont.) Vines Shrubs Texas Sugarberry Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe Red Maple American Buckwheat Vine Hawthorn Common Greenbrier Shrubs Supplejack Indigo Bush Amorpha Cross Vine Swamp Cyrilla Virginia Creeper Poison Ivy Sweet Grape Drummond Sesbania Kentucky Wisteria Dogwood Sesbastian Bush
Swamp Forests Trees Shrubs Vines Green Ash Common Buttonbush Bald Cypress Summersweet Clethra Water Tupelo Water Willow Swamp Privet Scarlet Rosemallow Water Elm Corkwood Carolina Ash Sweetbells leucothoe Water Locust Possumhaw Virburnum Vines Common Cupseed Decumaria Vine
Swamp Forests
Swamp and River Bottom Forest Animals
Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage Forests Trees Wax Myrtle Red Chokeberry Red Maple Poison Sumac Sweetbay Magnolia Arkansas Blueberry Blackgum Possumhaw Viburnum Red Bay Vines Shrubs Baygall Holly Laurel Greenbrier He-huckleberry
Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage Forests
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
For More Information Texas Forest Service Website http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/