Central Hardwood Forest

The central hardwood forest conference is a biennial meeting dedicated to the sustainability and improvement of the central hardwood forest ecosystem.

Central hardwood forest. Abstract the central hardwood forest chf refers to the area where deciduous hardwood species overwhelmingly but not exclusively dominate the stands and cover types that occur as repeating units across the landscape. The central hardwood forest conference is a biennial meeting dedicated to the sustainability and improvement of the central hardwood forest ecosystem. Transition zones where central hardwood species mix with species from adjacent regions identify boundaries of the region. The central hardwood region covers over 100 million acres and is one of the largest forest areas in the country.

This region receives less precipitation than the more coastal areas however so drought resistant oak hickory forests predominate here. It has one of the most diverse herbaceous plant floras of ecoregions in north america. Hardwood forests like the ecoregions to the east broadleaf deciduous trees dominate the central u s. The central hardwood forest is an aggregation of plant and animal associations that varies widely within a broad and diverse area.

21st central hardwood forest conference courtyard marriott monroe convention center bloomington indiana the central hardwood forest conference is a biennial meeting dedicated to the sustainability and improvement of the central hardwood forest ecosystem. Most of the northern hardwood forest is not virgin forest it is regrowth following centuries of commercial timber harvesting and the clearing of land for agricultural purposes. How ever the forest has boundaries both physical and climatological and the plant associations and their animal residents have some distinct commonalities. The region supports a diversity of forest ecosystems most notably upland oak hickory and oak pine forests oak and pine savannas old growth hardwood and pine forests and bottomland hardwood forests.