| | Accession Number | 5003450 |
| | Title | Impact of supplemental planting of early successional tree species in bottomland |
| | hardwood reforestation sites |
| | Project Description | Reforestation of bottomland sites on public lands, and on private lands through forest easements |
| | under the U.S. Department of Agricultures Wetland Reserve Program and the U. S. Fish and |
| | Wildlife Services Partners for Wildlife Program, have historically emphasized sowing acorns or |
| | planting seedlings of heavy-seeded oaks and pecan. These heavy-seeded species are often slow |
| | to develop vertical forest structure. Additionally, where distances to source populations of |
| | light-seeded tree species are great, lack of invasive early-successional tree species further limits |
| | rapid development of vertical forest structure. We will supplement heavy-seeded tree plantings with |
| | small patches of early-successional species within reforested sites to promote vertical structure, |
| | provide avian perches and nest sites, and thereby increase richness of woody species. Because |
| | fast-growing species may be more impacted be weedy herbaceous vegetation than are |
| | slow-growing trees species, we will assess different weed control measures. We predicted that |
| | this ultimately will increase richness of avian species. Richness of woody species and breeding |
| | birds on treated sites will be compared with reforested sites where no early successional species |
| | were planted. |
| | Keywords | forest management, migratory birds, reforestation, species diversity, supplemental planting, |
| | Principal | Daniel J Twedt, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center: dan_twedt@usgs.gov; |
| | Investigators |
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