Michael Kost

Michael Kost
University of Michigan | U-M · Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

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The history of intentional introduction of Rhamnus cathartica L. to the regions of the Midwest, USA, is briefly described. The species abundance and structure of plant communities in which Rhamnus cathartica, a native species for Belarus and invasive in the USA, grows has been studied. We compared the studied parameters (floristic description of th...
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The culmination of three decades of work by Michigan Natural Features Inventory ecologists, this essential guidebook to the natural communities of Michigan introduces the diverse terrain of a unique state. Small enough to carry in a backpack, this field guide provides a system for dividing the complex natural landscape of Michigan into easily under...
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Report Number: 2010-16 In 2010, surveys were conducted in the Waterloo Game Unit at Waterloo Recreation Area for exemplary natural communities and rare animal species. To plan this natural features inventory, we utilized IFMAP Stage 1 data, which was completed by MNFI in 2009. The surveys resulted in new occurrences for eleven elements (i.e., natur...
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Overview: Wet prairie is native wetland grassland that occurs on frequently saturated, occasionally inundated soils on outwash plains and outwash channels and in depressions on ground moraines, end moraines, and ice-contact features. Soils range from loam to loamy sands and sandy clays, typically with neutral pH and high organic content. Cordgrass...
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Overview: Wet-mesic prairie is a native wetland grassland that occurs on occasionally saturated, rarely inundated soils on outwash plains and outwash channels and in depressions on ground moraines, end moraines, and ice-contact features. Soils range from loam to loamy sands and sandy clays, typically with neutral pH and high organic content. Domina...
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Overview: Wet prairie is native wetland grassland that occurs on frequently saturated, occasionally inundated soils on outwash plains and outwash channels and in depressions on ground moraines, end moraines, and ice-contact features. Soils range from loam to loamy sands and sandy clays, typically with neutral pH and high organic content. Cordgrass...
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Overview: Wet-mesic flatwoods is a somewhat poorly drained to poorly drained forest on mineral soils dominated by a mixture of lowland and upland hardwoods. The community occurs exclusively on glacial lakeplain in southeastern Lower Michigan, where an impermeable clay layer in the soil profile contributes to poor internal drainage. Seasonal hydrolo...
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Overview: Coastal fen is a sedge-and rush-dominated lacustrine wetland that occurs on calcareous substrates along Lake Huron and Lake Michigan north of the climatic tension zone. The community occurs on marl and organic soils in historic coastal embayments and on moderately alkaline, carbonate-rich fine-textured sands and clays lakeward. Vegetation...
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Overview: Inundated shrub swamp is a shrub-dominated wetland occurring in small kettle depressions on ice-contact features, ground moraines, end moraines, outwash plains, and glacial lakeplains. Soils are saturated or inundated mucks of variable depth over silty or sandy clay. Substrate pH ranges from strongly acid to circumneutral. Water depth var...
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A natural community is defined as an assemblage of interacting plants, animals, and other organisms that repeatedly occurs under similar environmental conditions across the landscape and is predominantly structured by natural processes rather than modern anthropogenic disturbances. Protecting and managing representative natural communities is criti...
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Overview: Mesic sand prairie is a native grassland community that is typically dominated by little bluestem (Andropogon scoparius), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans), and/or prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis) and occurs on sandy loam, loamy sand, or sand soils on nearly level glacial outwash and glacial la...
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Overview: Wet-mesic sand prairie is a native lowland grassland community with species dominance shared by several prairie and wetland grasses, including blue joint grass (Calamagrostis canadensis), cordgrass (Spartina pectinata), big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii), little bluestem (Andropogon scoparius), prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis), I...
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This natural community classification is designed to serve as a tool for those seeking to understand, describe, and document the diversity of natural communities in Michigan. A natural community is defined as an assemblage of interacting plants, animals, and other organisms that repeatedly occurs under similar environmental conditions across the la...
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Hardwood-Conifer Swamp Community Abstract Overview: Hardwood-conifer swamp is a minerotrophic forested wetland dominated by a mixture of lowland hardwoods and conifers, occurring on organic soils and poorly drained mineral soils throughout Michigan. The community occurs on a variety of landforms, often associated with headwater streams and areas of...
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This document provides a brief discussion of the aspen association of Michigan, detailing this system’s landscape and historical context, range, ecological processes, characteristic vegetation and fauna, and threatened and endangered species. In addition, potential options and strategies are suggested for enhancing biodiversity of managed aspen ass...
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Oak associations are found in every county in Michigan, but the largest areas are in northern Lower Michigan, where they comprise a range of managed forest ecosystems dominated by four oak species: northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis); black oak (Quercus velutina); white oak (Quercus alba); and red oak (Quercus rubra). These oak species were a...
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In northern temperate regions, sedge meadows dominated by the tussock-sedge Carex stricta Lam. (Cyperaceae) were historically a fire-maintained community type. In two Wisconsin natural areas (Lulu Lake and Summerton), we assessed the effects of time since prescribed spring burning on plant composition and aboveground biomass in eight sedge meadows...
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Thesis (M.S. in Biological Sciences)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1996. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 24-28).

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