The Center for Forested Wetlands Research is an interdisciplinary unit whose program is designed to develop, quantify and synthesize ecological information needed to sustainably manage and restore the structure, function and productivity of wetland-dominated forested landscapes. The Center is an integral component of the Forest Watershed Science Unit (RWU-4353) within the Southern Research Station’s Watershed Science Program.
The Center's work is conducted under the basic tenets of forest sustainability, and is intended to provide the data and tools necessary for managing forested wetland landscapes to sustain ecosystem functions, goods, and services for future generations. Specific applications are focused on issues associated with climate change, carbon cycling, bioenergy and landscape functions. The relevance of the research is regional, national, and international, although it is derived primarily from work in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States.
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Longleaf Pine on the Santee Experimental Forest
In 1989, South Carolina’s Francis Marion National Forest lost close to a third of its pine and hardwood trees to Hurricane Hugo. USDA Forest Service land managers have spent the last thirty years recovering from that disturbance and working to meet the state’s growing needs for clean water, forest products, recreation areas, and wildlife habitat.
To that end, the Francis Marion adopted a new forest plan in 2017 focused upon restoring longleaf pine, the once-dominant southern species, across 33,000 acres of national forest lands.
Latest Publications
- Not just urban: The formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, is invading forests in the Southeastern USA
Evans, Theodore A.; Forschler, Brian T.; Trettin, Carl C. - Regional differences in stream water nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment responses to forest harvesting in the conterminous USA
Muwamba, Augustine ; Rau, Benjamin ; Trettin, Carl C.; Amatya, Devendra M.; Tollner, Ernest W.; Panda, Sudhanshu - A daily water table depth computing model for poorly drained soils
Amatya, Devendra M.; Fialkowski, Marcin ; Bitner, Agnieszka - Mangrove carbon assessment tool: Model validation and assessment of mangroves in southern USA and Mexico
Dai, Zhaohua ; Trettin, Carl C.; Frolking, Steve ; Birdsey, Richard A. - Mangrove carbon assessment tool: Model development and sensitivity analysis
Dai, Zhaohua ; Trettin, Carl C.; Frolking, Steve ; Birdsey, Richard A.