The amount and type of ground cover in various areas depends greatly on if it is in a disturbed or undisturbed area. Experiments were conducted in order to analyze the presence and type of materials. Disturbed areas were observed to contain more trash and less coarse woody debris, while undisturbed areas disclosed opposite results. This experiment is useful when comparing past and / or future data from the same areas to determine the change and the impact. .
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INTRODUCTION.
Long-term ecological research is particularly valuable for understanding disturbance dynamics over long time periods and placing those dynamics in a regional context. The important role of disturbances in shaping landscapes and influencing ecosystems is now well recognized in ecology. Fires, storms, floods, pest outbreaks, species invasions, human interaction and resource extraction, to name but a few types of disturbance, affect many ecosystems over a range of scales. Disturbance is defined as any relatively discrete event in time that disrupts ecosystem, community, or population structure and changes resource pools, substrate availability, or the physical environment (White and Pickett 1985).
The relationship between humans and the environment is extremely important to planet survival. All living things must live together forming a type of harmony and balance. .
The Disturbance and Ground Cover experiment was conducted in an effort to understand the effects human interaction has on the environment and to compare disturbed with undisturbed areas. Disturbed sites are more likely to have significantly less vegetation, leaf litter and coarse woody debris than the less disturbed sites. .
METHODS AND MATERIALS.
In order to survey vastly different areas, four groups were formed and sent to separate areas throughout the Miami University Middletown campus. The areas of interest included disturbed, or better traveled locations, and undisturbed, less traveled areas.
The Forest Recreation Michigan has some of the best forests in the country. The forests of Michigan are used for many reasons. ... Without hunting, deer populations would exceed the forest capacity and could be detrimental to the forest. ... When the snow melts the forests come alive. ... The forests of Michigan are used by everyone. ...
The rain forest is the home of about 50% of all species, the rain forest is a resource that should be saved and must be saved. ... Even though there is not any rain forest in the United States, the rain forest greatly affects us in ways not known to all. ... Peter White writes about how in Central America and Amazonian, spans of undisturbed forests have been cleared for cattle ranches and farms due to the need for a greater advancement of technology. ... They are a group of Indians that live in the forest. ... They believe evil spirits live inside the forest, so to not upset th4em they don...
Tropical rain forests are also by far the most threatened. ... Since every species depends on every other species, which is what the tropical rain forests are considered to be, if the tropical rain forests would be left undisturbed, every tree would support the next. ... As they scatter the tree's seeds around the forest and beyond an even denser forest is created. However, when one section of a forest is destroyed, the remaining sections of the forest are exposed to elements from which it should be protected. Eventually the forest dies out. ...
The Cedar Forest was the realm of the Mesopotamian Gods and where no mortal or normal human being was allowed to enter. He was sent there to protect the forest by terrifying any man that dared enter the forest by using his size and god-like feature to be almost unstoppable when at the right moment. ... Humbaba was assigned to be the protector of the Cedar Forest, and to do this he'd need traits or characteristics to terrify any man that would dare enter the forest for any reason or to alter the forest in any way. ... It was then disturbed by some miners and from then on has killed anybody...
Forest Fires Forest fires have been around since the dawn of time. ... So one might ask, "Who is in charge of the forests?" ... Forest Service is. ... Forest Service, their approach to dealing with forests fires has changed the ways of the entire U.S. ... Forest Service. ...
Gustave Klimt : The Birch Forest. ... He believed that reality consisted of archetypes (forms) and that what we perceive around us is only an imitation of these archetypes, therefore Klimt's Birch Forest is an interpretation of a perfect birch forest, reinterpreted. ... I disagree because I do not see what a forest of birch could do with the society. ... The sunlight streaming through the forest of pale tree trunks contrasting with the multicoloured leaves on the forest floor. ... Klimt's painting, The Birch Forest, is a piece of artwork....
The conflict of reality vs. imagination is explored through images of bent birches. ... Reality vs. imagination is explored with the symbolism of a boy used to represent imagination. ... The final way Frost gets the theme across of reality vs. imagination is through the tone used in the poem. ... The speakers" imagination is soon disturbed by "Truth" in lines 21, 22: But I was going to say when Truth broke in With all her matter-of-fact about the ice-storm Here the speaker is reminded that reality is that the ice storms were the cause for the birches to bend. ... He sounds ready to fac...
MAINE FOREST SERVICE: POSITION ON CLEAR-CUTTING We, the Maine Forest Service, in general, don't believe in the practice of clear-cutting for sustainable forest management. ... Firstly, the committee should be informed of the research that the Maine Forest Service has done to examine the effects of clear-cutting on the forest environment as a whole. ... First and Foremost, clearcutting destroys the natural balance of the forest ecosystem. ... In sum, each part of the forest is dependent on the other for means of survival. ... The forest soil, is possibly the most valuable resource in...
Between 1874 and 1893 the Americans in Hawaii became increasingly disturbed by what they regarded as the fiscal and other irresponsibilities of the constitutional monarchy. ... The descendants of early missionaries and other whites had gained complete economic control of the islands, establishing a political system run by a few powerful men that was essentially undisturbed for half a century. ...
