One of my favorite excursions of the year is my AP Environmental Science class field trip up Blue Job Mountain in Farmington, N.H. The purpose of this field trip is to collect data about a variety of ...

The biome concept organizes large-scale ecological variation. Terrestrial biomes are distinguished primarily by their predominant vegetation, and are mainly determined by temperature and rainfall. Aa ...

Deciduous forests have been threatened by logging and agricultural expansion, but there are ways to restore them to their original condition, either actively or passively. The main disturbances that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The regressive succession model hypothesizes tropical savanna-woodlands to be a degraded stage of primary deciduous forests. Species diversity ...

Biomes are large natural areas that have their own characteristics. Scientists classify them by their climate, animal life, vegetation, and landscape. Learn more about biomes. Science Trek is ...

Plant Ecology, Vol. 166, No. 1 (2003), pp. 145-156 (12 pages) We investigated plant species diversity as it related to stand structure and landscape parameters in abandoned coppice forests in a ...