SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Diversionary feeding reshapes primate movement and reduces bark-stripping in pine plantations

Bark-stripping by wildlife in commercial tree plantations is a widespread management challenge that causes substantial economic losses and can create tensions between production and conservation goals. Effective mitigation has been hindered by limited understanding of the ecologi...

Life cycle assessment of North American forest harvesting operations and wood processing for sustainable materials and energy products: A systematic review

This study provides a systematic review of life cycle assessment for forest harvesting systems in North America, to quantitatively assess the carbon footprint and overall impacts of lumber production and various harvested wood products and their use as biomaterials and bioenergy....

Methodology for assessing the accuracy of long-term, annual land cover monitoring at national scale: Experiences from the Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and Projection (LCMAP) initiative

Annual land cover monitoring using medium-resolution satellite imagery represents a transition from periodic mapping campaigns to continuous observation systems. This transition introduces accuracy assessment challenges not encountered in one-time mapping efforts, particularly wh...

Foliar metabolomes of woody plant communities across an elevational gradient on Mount Washington (New Hampshire, USA)

Abstract Background and Aims Plants produce myriad specialized metabolites that constitute the metabolome and mediate responses to abiotic and biotic factors. Elevational gradients, where environmental conditions change predictably over short distances, are natural laboratories f...

Beyond hypoxia: Context‐dependent transcriptional reprogramming by ERFVIIs

This Commentary highlights the finding that an increased post-submergence oxidative burst reprograms plant cysteine oxidase (PCO)-group VII ethylene response factor (ERFVII) oxygen sensing, inhibiting PCO activity and transcriptionally rewiring ERFVIIs toward oxidative stress rec...

Prescribed burns drive lasting changes in soil nitrogen cycling and microbial function

ABSTRACT Fire is a major pulse disturbance to soil microbial communities, with broad implications for nutrient cycling; however, regular burning is also a natural and often-essential process maintaining biodiversity in unique and imperiled fire-dependent ecosystems. Prescribed fi...

Typifying tiny teeth: A standardized coding system to quantify morphological variation in fish teeth for comparative ecological, evolutionary, and functional morphological studies

Abstract Teeth play a crucial role in vertebrate ecology as one of the main interfaces between predators and their prey. As the most diverse vertebrates on the planet, and the dominant vertebrate consumers in nearly all aquatic ecosystems, fishes – and their teeth – thus play an...

Mitigation of drought and cadmium stress in wheat (Triticum aestivum) through blue-red LED light and ginger-mediated ZnO nanoparticles

Drought and cadmium stress are among the significant challenges for wheat production, leading to yield losses and quality issues. Therefore, current study was aimed to investigate the effect of ginger ( Zingiber officinale )- mediated green synthesized ZnO nanoparticles (ZnO NP)...

Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria as Sustainable Bioinoculants for Mitigating Climate-Induced Abiotic Stresses

Extreme temperatures, drought, and salinity are among the most detrimental abiotic stressors limiting global plant productivity, and their frequency has intensified under climate change. These escalating pressures underscore the need for sustainable biological strategies that enh...

Wet-Spun Supramolecular Lignin/Alginate Fibers from Agricultural Residues

Abstract Purpose This is the 1st study to explore the development of fully biobased lignin/alginate fibers using lignin extracted from corn stover via the CELF process. It examines how lignin molecular weight and concentration affect fiber properties for sustainable material appl...