FOREST ECOLOGY

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, 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 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 Forest

Dry Upland Forest Animals

Dry Upland Forest Vegetation

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

Mesic Upland Forests Vines: Supplejack, Cross Vine, Carolina Jessamine, Japanese Honeysuckle, Virginia Creeper, Cat Greenbrier, Muscadine Grape

Wet Upland Forests

Wet Upland Forests Animals

Wet Upland Forests

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, Herculis Club (prickly ash)

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

Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

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, Texas Sugarberry, Red Maple, Hawthorn Shrubs:  Indigo Bush Amorpha, Swamp Cyrilla, Poison Ivy, Drummond Sesbania, Dogwood, Sesbastian Bush Vines:  Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe, American Buckwheat Vine Common Greenbrier, Supplejack, Cross Vine, Virginia Creeper, Sweet Grape, Kentucky Wisteria

Swamp 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 Forests

Swamp and River Bottom Forests Animals

Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage 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 Seepage Forests

Fire In The Forest

Forest Restoration

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