The Southern Pine Ecology and Management Research Work Unit (SRS-RWU-4159), headquartered on the University of Arkansas campus at Monticello, Arkansas, continues a tradition of research on plants, wildlife, and soils in pine-dominated forests of the southeastern United States. Our emphasis is on mixed loblolly-shortleaf pine and pine-hardwood forests of the West Gulf Coastal Plain in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, and the shortleaf pine and pine-hardwood forests of the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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Forests for Bats
“Almost all North American bats rely on forests for survival,” says Roger Perry, USDA Forest Service research wildlife biologist. Perry recently led the team that updated Forest Management and Bats, a booklet designed for private landowners and anyone managing forests. It was first published in 2006 by Bat Conservation International, and Daniel Taylor of BCI wrote the original version and contributed to the update. The updated publication is a 2020 product of the White-nose Syndrome National Plan.
Latest Publications
- Long-term effects of group opening size and site preparation method on gap-cohort development in a temperate mixedwood forest
Mohler, Colby; Bataineh, Mohammad; Bragg, Don C.; Ficklin, Robert; Pelkki, Matthew; Olson, Matthew. - Evaluation of long-term shortleaf pine progeny tests in the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests, USA
Hossain, Shaik M.; Bragg, Don C.; McDaniel, Virginia L.; Pike, Carolyn C.; Crane, Barbara S.; Nelson, C. Dana. - Forecasting the distribution of a range-expanding bat reveals future response to climate change and habitat
True, Michael C.; Perry, Roger W.; Ford, William M. - The first silvicultural study of the Southern Forest Experiment Station
Bragg, Don C. - Calling phenology and call structure of sympatric treefrogs in eastern Texas
Perez, Leah K.; Childress, James D.; Kwiatkowski, Matthew A.; Saenz, Daniel; Gumm, Jennifer M.