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Forest Ecology Texas Envirothon
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The Environment Soil Water Nutrients Air Sunlight
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Soil The soil has water, nutrients, and air.
Plants can’t eat, they need nutrients. Roots need oxygen.
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Water Rainfall fills the soil, applies pressure to cells, is broken up in plant reactions.
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Nutrients Nutrients are the building blocks of everything.
Nutrients can be swapped around.
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Air The air contains water and nutrients.
O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain, Disease, Fungi, Pollen
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Sunlight Sunlight supplies: energy temperature control drought
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East Texas Forest Communities
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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
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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 Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines of East Texas
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Dry Upland Forest
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Dry Upland Forest
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Dry Upland Forest Animals
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Dry Upland Forest Animals
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
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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
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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
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Wet Upland Forests
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Wet Upland Forest Animals
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Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
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Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
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Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
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Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
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Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
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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
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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
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Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
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Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
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Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
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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
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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
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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
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Swamp Forests
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Swamp and River Bottom Forest Animals
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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
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Pitcher Plant Bog and Seepage Forests
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Fire in the Forest
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Fire in the Forest
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Fire in the Forest
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Fire in the Forest
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Fire in the Forest
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Fire in the Forest
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For More Information Texas Forest Service Website
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