Projects
The Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project (MOFEP) is a long-term, landscape-level experiment measuring the living (i.e. birds, plants, trees) and non-living (i.e. soil, water, weather) parts of a forested ecosystem. MOFEP provides science-based information to forest managers so they may employ management practices that ensure healthy and sustainable forest, fish and wildlife resources while also providing opportunities to all citizens to use, enjoy and learn about their forest resource.
This project evaluates the impacts of forest management on the richness, diversity, abundance, and composition of ground flora plant species and soft mast abundance.
This project evaluates the impacts of forest management on the composition and structure of woody trees, saplings, sprouts, and seedlings.
This project tracks songbird breeding abundance and success resulting over longer time scales and multiple rounds of harvest.
This project determines the effects of forest management on small mammal composition, species richness, and relative abundance in Missouri Ozark oak-hickory forests.