Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
Temperate broadleaf forests are pivotal to the global carbon cycle, Representing 37% of the global forest carbon pool (Pan et al 2011). • Maintaining compositional diversity in temperate broadleaf forests, such as the Gordon Natural Area (GNA) is critical to maintaining ecosystem services, such as carbon sequestration. • Pressures from native and non-native herbivores threaten the biodiversity of temperate broadleaf forests in the United States (Ghandi et al. 2010). The introduction of non-native insects such as the emerald ash borer (Argrilus planipennis), as well as the overpopulation of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) has led to declines in some tree species. • Monitoring changes in forest carbon storage and tree species composition through time informs our understanding of forest development and resilience to agents of change.
Recommended Citation
Levinsky, K., & Schedlbauer, J. L. (2024). Assessing changing carbon pool dynamics and species composition in a Pennsylvania broadleaf forest fragment. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/srca_gr/8
Comments
Two students were funded with CSRCA grant for work during summer of 2023.
One of them continued working on an independent study described here as a poster presented to the Mid-Atlantic Ecological Society of America Chapter Conference in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, as well as at the College of Sciences & Mathematics poster session, both in spring of 2024.