Center for Hardwood Ecology
Hardwood forests dominated by maple and oak were an important and widespread native ecosystem that attracted settlement and development in Minnesota and elsewhere in the region. Major problems such as fragmentation, changes in disturbance regime, fire suppression, increased grazing of plants by deer, potential climate change, and invasion of exotic species threaten the existence of these ecosystems and limit the potential for their renewed regeneration
and restoration in the region. The Center for Hardwood Ecology brings together an interdisciplinary group of ecologists to study ecological processes at the physiological, community, and landscape levels, and to apply findings to management initiatives.
http://cfhe.cfans.umn.edu/
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