Of the eight conifer tree species documented, Lodgepole Pine forests cover 80% of the total forested areas.
The Jones Center contains a diversity of habitat types including a variety of forested cover such as longleaf pine, loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), slash pine (P. elliottii), mixed-pine and hardwood forests, oak barrens, lowland hardwood hammocks, and cypress-gum (Taxodium ascendens-Nyssa biflora) limesink ponds (Boring 2001).
A fourth scenario was prepared assuming the effect of a forest fire in the south-west part of the area, where we simulated a reduction of the forested cover and an increase in bare soil (Scenario 4).
To verify the effect of land use change, different scenarios were constructed, assuming in three simulations a general increase in forested areas and in a fourth scenario a strong reduction of the forested cover localized in a portion of the basin, considering the ground effect of a fire event.
In the table, we consider only the model results obtained with the 2 % threshold Although we have considered a small test area, we think our findings are significant and encouraging, because not only they confirm but also quantify the positive effect of forested cover on slope stability.
Figure 2 Increase of the forest cover in the potential afforestation simulation compared to the present forested area in the model.
Forests cover almost half the land area of Prince Edward Island; however, only about one-tenth of that forested land is owned by the province.
We defined forest security cover for ungulates as forested areas with a canopy closure above 75% [54] and using a GIS model of canopy closure [55] we calculated the distance of each animal location to forest cover with 75% canopy closure.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:1044F2AE-9EF6-43BE-AE8B-14D82E121B0B Figures 14, 15, 16, 8B, Table 2 From Holroyd [15], p. 133, "hylaeus, Latin, meaning of the wood or forest, savage, wild; in reference to the forested habitat that covered the Fayum region during the late Eocene and early Oligocene".
A further comparison indicated that for forested protected areas, forest covers 81.0% and 63.6% of the core and surroundings respectively (t = 12.9, n = 550, p<0.001), and cropland covers 2% and 6.7% (t = −8.2, n = 550, p<0.001).
