Southern Appalachians
Synoptic climatology of northwest flow snowfall in the southern Appalachians
... wind direction are extracted at the time in which the spatial extent of snowfall (event maturation) is greatest across the region. Lastly, this automated approach is useful for exceptionally long time series of data, ...
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Spatial Distribution of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Induced Hemlock Mortality in the Southern Appalachians
... A variety of factors affect species distribution, composition, and abundance (Hodkinson 2005). If the terrain characteristics are well known, vegetation composition and structure could be predicted via species-terrain ...
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Coupled prediction of flood response and debris flow initiation during warm and cold season events in the Southern Appalachians, USA
... the Southern Appalachians reinforces the proposition that heavy rainfall alone and local topography are not sufficient conditions to determine the locations at which debris flows ...the Southern ...
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The Phenology of the Apple Maggot Fly, Rhagoletis pomonella (Diptera: Tephritidae), in the Southern Appalachians
... Over the last decade, the apple industry has faced a great deal of uncertainty. Increased domestic production during the 1990's, together with increased competition in domestic and import markets from countries such as ...
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Spatial Tools for Managing the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in the Southern Appalachians
... the southern Appalachian region, with isolated infestations now appearing as far south as Georgia (Ward et ...the southern Appalachians has not been well delineated, except in isolated locations such ...
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Assessing Species Composition in Second Growth and Old Growth Rich Coves of the Southern Appalachians
... Because of ongoing debate over the long term impacts of logging, we conducted a study to assess if second growth (70 ±10 years) rich coves differ from old growth rich coves (>125 years) in species diversity or ...
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The Foraging and Nesting Ecology of Black-Throated Blue Warbler (Dendroica Caerulescens) and Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia Citrina) in the Southern Appalachians
... the southern Appalachian Mountains creates diverse microclimatic and edaphic conditions which supports high biological ...the southern Appalachians have differentiated from their northern ...
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Changes in old-growth and second-growth eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) communities in the southern Appalachians after the introduction of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae
... The environmental variables that influence eastern hemlock’s distribution include moisture availability, aspect, elevation, temperature, pH, nutrient availability, light availability, and forest floor cover. Eastern ...
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Effects of Atmospheric Pollution on High-Elevation Fauna in the Southern Appalachians.
... The Southern Appalachians are exposed to some of the highest levels of air pollution in North America, and animals in the higher elevations where deposition is greatest may be at an increased risk to ...
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White-footed Mouse and Invertebrate Associations with Logging Residue: Informing Potential Wood Bioenergy Markets in the Southern Appalachians.
... the southern Appalachians, debris volumes after biomass harvesting in our sites would drop from ...the southern Appalachians than in the Coastal ...the southern Appalachians ...
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Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes in Forested Headwater Catchments of the Southern Appalachians.
... This dissertation provides a holistic understanding of how climate, topography and vegetation mediate hydrologic processes that influence runoff generation and biogeochemical processes in the Southern ...
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Assessing Carolina Hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana Engelm.) Population Genetic Structure and Diversity in the Southern Appalachians using Microsatellite Markers.
... Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana Engelm.) is a rare conifer species that exists in a few small, isolated populations throughout the southern Appalachian Mountains. There is a need to develop conservation ...
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Predatory Mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) in Fraser fir Christmas Tree Plantations in the Southern Appalachians of North Carolina
... Pollen availability may also be a factor, as many phytoseiid mites feed on pollen as well as their prey (Chant 1959, Chant and Fleschner 1960, McMurtry and Croft 1997), and pol[r] ...
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The Development of Topography in Ancient and Active Orogens: Case Studies of Landscape Evolution in the Southern Appalachians, USA and Crete, Greece.
... Wegmann (2008) and Strasser et al. (2011) utilized Pleistocene marine terraces, bio- erosional notches and alluvial fans, combined with radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) geochronology and ...
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Geologic Investigations in the Smith River Allochthon and Lynchburg Group, Southern Appalachians: Implications for the Evolution of the Eastern Laurentian Margin
... Some workers view the documentation of abundant ca. 0.9-1.25 Ga detrital zircons, the absence of typical Gondwanan detrital zircon age populations (i.e. 0.55-0.65 Ga, 2.2 Ga, or 3.0 Ga), and the close proximity of the ...
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Short-term Response of Small Mammals and Plethodon spp. to Oak Regeneration Silviculture Treatments in the Southern Appalachians.
... Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and North Carolina State University Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology ...Service, Southern Research Station, Upland Hardwood Ecology and Management ...
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Understanding Landscape Influences on Aquatic Fauna across the Central and Southern Appalachians
... Abstract: Understanding influences of multiple stressors across the landscape on aquatic biota is important for conservation, as it allows for an understanding of spatial patterns and informs stakeholders of significant ...
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Post-fire vegetation dynamics and the invasion of Paulownia tomentosa in the southern Appalachians
... Although seed-banks are presumed to play a role in vegetation dynamics over time, their relative importance in xeric forests is unclear. Work by Schiffman and Johnson (1992) found a sparse (.43 seeds/m 2 ) seed-bank in a ...
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4720.pdf
... the Southern Appalachians are found on xeric exposed slopes and ridgetops at mid-elevations, and are dominated by the yellow pine species pitch pine (Pinus rigida), shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata), Virginia ...
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TaraMcKinnonThesis_final.pdf
... original Southern Appalachians located in Virginia), (3) the Southern Appalachians (a subset of the original Southern Appalachians including all sites south of Virginia), (4) ...
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