Forest Ecology

Texas Envirothon
The Environment

 Soil
 Water
 Nutrients
 Air
 Sunlight
Soil

 The soil has water,

nutrients, and air.
 Plants can’t eat, they
need nutrients.
 Roots need oxygen.
Water

 Rainfall fills the soil,

applies pressure to cells,
is broken up in plant
reactions.
Nutrients

 Nutrients are the building

blocks of everything.
 Nutrients can be swapped
around.
Air

 The air contains water

and nutrients.
 O2, CO2, H20, Acid Rain,
Disease, Fungi, Pollen
Sunlight

 Sunlight supplies:
 energy
 temperature control
 drought
East Texas Forest
Communities
Dry Upland Forests
 Trees
 Post Oak
 Black Hickory
 Blackjack Oak
 Sandjack Oak (Bluejack)
 Black Oak
 Longleaf Pine (S)
 Shortleaf Pine (N)
 Sweetgum
 Red Mulberry
 Woollybucket Bumelia
 Southern Red Oak
 Sassafras
 Winged Elm
 Rusty Blackhaw
Dry Upland Forests

 Shrubs  Vines
 Yaupon  Summer Grape
 Sparkleberry  Pinewoods Grape
(Farkleberry)  Peppervine
 American Beautyberry  Muscadine Grape
 Winged Sumac  Poison Ivy
 St. Andrews Cross  Virginia Creeper
 Southern Dewberry  Saw Greenbriar
 Mustang Grape

From Nixon & Cunningham. 1985. Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines of East Texas
Dry Upland Forest
Dry Upland Forest
Dry Upland Forest Animals
Dry Upland Forest Animals
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Dry Upland Forest Vegetation
Mesic Upland Forests

 Trees
  Black Cherry
Southern Red Oak
  Sassafras
Sweetgum
  Fringetree
Flowering Dogwood
  Blackgum
Mockernut Hickory
  Sugar Maple
Winged Elm
  American Elm
Loblolly Pine
 Water Oak
Mesic Upland Forests

 Shrubs  Yaupon
  Arrowwood Viburnum
American Beautyberry
 Poison Ivy  Vines
 Dwarf Pawpaw  Supplejack
 Red Buckeye  Cross Vine
 Bristleleaf Blueberry  Carolina Jessamine
 Southern Wax Myrtle  Japanese Honeysuckle
 Sparkleberry  Virginia Creeper
 Carolina Holly  Cat Greenbrier
 Common Witchhazel  Muscadine Grape
Wet Upland Forests
Wet Upland Forest Animals
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Wet Upland Forest Vegetation
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

 Trees
  Sweetgum
Red Maple
  Sweetbay Magnolia
River Birch
  Blackgum
American Hornbeam
  Eastern Hophornbeam
Bitternut Hickory
  White Oak
American Beech
  Water Oak
American Holly
  Hercules’ Club (Prickly
Silverbell
Ash)
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests

 Shrubs  Vines
 Giant Cane  Carolina Snailseed
 American Beautyberry  Supplejack
 Brook Euonymus  Muscadine Grape
 Deciduous Holly  Virginia Creeper
 Sparkleberry  Laurel Greenbrier
 Common Pawpaw
 Spicebush
 Arrowwood Viburnum
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
Mesic Creek Bottom Forests
River Bottom Forests

 Trees
  General
Ridge
  Overcup Oak
American Hornbeam
  Willow Oak
Water Oak
  Water Oak
Blackgum
  Laurel Oak
Sweetgum
  Green Ash
Flat
 Sweetgum
 Carolina Ash
 American Hornbeam
 Red Maple
 Deciduous Holly
 American Snowbell
 Cedar Elm
 Laurel Oak
River Bottom Forests
 Trees (cont.)  Vines
 Texas Sugarberry
 Red Maple
 Hawthorn
 Shrubs
 Indigo Bush Amorpha
 Swamp Cyrilla
 Poison Ivy
 Drummond Sesbania
 Dogwood
 Sesbastian Bush
 Wooly Dutchman’s Pipe
 American Buckwheat Vine
 Common Greenbrier
 Supplejack
 Cross Vine
 Virginia Creeper
 Sweet Grape
 Kentucky Wisteria
Swamp Forests

 Trees  Shrubs
 Green Ash  Common Buttonbush
 Bald Cypress  Summersweet Clethra
 Water Tupelo  Water Willow
 Swamp Privet  Scarlet Rosemallow
 Water Elm  Corkwood
 Carolina Ash  Sweetbells leucothoe
 Water Locust  Possumhaw Virburnum
 Vines
 Common Cupseed
 Decumaria Vine
Swamp Forests
Swamp and River Bottom
Forest Animals
Pitcher Plant Bog and
Seepage Forests
  Wax Myrtle
Trees
  Red Chokeberry
Red Maple
  Poison Sumac
Sweetbay Magnolia
  Arkansas Blueberry
Blackgum
  Possumhaw Viburnum
Red Bay
  Vines
Shrubs
  Laurel Greenbrier
Baygall Holly
 He-huckleberry
Pitcher Plant Bog and
Seepage Forests
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
Fire in the Forest
For More Information

Texas Forest Service Website

http://txforestservice.tamu.edu/