A model for regional-scale oak savanna management: The roles of fire, canopy, and soils for understory plant diversity.

ABSTRACT: Predicting the outcomes of land management on biodiversity is difficult without a mechanistic understanding of how management approaches, ecosystem structure, environmental conditions, and biodiversity interact. Management effects may be direct or indirect, context- or scale-dependent, or obscured by local environmental conditions. Resolving these relationships at the regional scale may be difficult, given heterogeneity in local environmental conditions, yet understanding broad-scale patterns can elucidate context dependencies and improve restoration outcomes. We confronted these challenges within globally rare oak savannas in the midwestern United States, which have been altered by fire exclusion and resulting woody encroachment. By modeling direct and indirect pathways by which managemen

SUBMITTER: Bassett TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12524983 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature