{"id":161,"date":"2017-09-08T20:18:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T20:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation2\/?page_id=161"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T16:19:42","slug":"photo-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/photo-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nSeptember 2021<\/strong><\/span>\n

\"\"Invasive species occupying the forest understory of Salamander park in April. This natural area in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is heavily invaded by Ficaria verna <\/em>and Alliaria petiolata<\/em> and, consequently, is depauperate of native wildflowers.\u00a0Photo Credit: Rachel Reeb<\/p>\n

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\nAugust 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Prairie in the \u2018Big Sky\u2019 country at Fort Keogh Livestock and Range Research Laboratory in Miles City, Montana. Fort Keogh is used as working range, but is infested with two non-native invasive brome grasses, Bromus tectorum<\/em> and Bromus arvensis<\/em>\u00a0(B. tectorum<\/em> is the reddish-tinted grass in the picture). These non-native grasses cause major issues for ranchers in western United States, which is why they are important species of study. Photo credit: Morgan Frost.<\/p>\n

April 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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High altitude savanna-forest mosaics in Western Ghats, India. Photo credit: Nikunj Goel<\/p>\n

December 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Upland, dry heath dominated by bell heather (Erica cinearea<\/i>) and ling heather (Calluna vulgaris<\/i>). Wicklow Mountains National Park, County Wicklow, Ireland. Photo credit: Lisa Kluesner.<\/p>\n

November 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Submitted by William Lyons<\/strong>, Graduate Research Assistant and MS Student at Kentucky State University in the College of Agriculture, Community,\u00a0and the Sciences. The image is from Raven Run Nature Sanctuary in Lexington, Kentucky, one of William\u2019s study areas.<\/p>\n

His thesis title: Accessing the Effects of Recreation Attributed Forest Fragmentation on the Spread of Invasive Species in Central Kentucky through UAV Multispectral Remote Sensing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His project aims\u00a0to\u00a0(1)\u00a0perform supervised classification and object based image analysis of 2019 NAIP imagery and multispectral UAV imagery\u00a0to identify two\u00a0endemic invasive plant species\u00a0to Central Kentucky\u00a0Amur honeysuckle,\u00a0Lonicera maackii\u00a0<\/em>(Rupr.) Herder and Bradford pear,\u00a0Pyrus\u00a0calleryana\u00a0<\/em>Decne, and\u00a0(2)\u00a0determine\u00a0the habitat attributes (slope, aspect,\u00a0elevation, canopy height, and canopy density)\u00a0that\u00a0these species are found in abundance.<\/p>\n

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October 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dead Dichrostachys cinerea<\/i>\u00a0following a severe drought in Kruger National Park, South Africa.\u00a0D. cinerea <\/i>is a prolific woody encroacher in southern African savannas but was heavily impacted by drought. Photo credit: Madelon Case, 2020 Ton Damman Award winner for best talk by a student in vegetation ecology at the ESA Annual Meeting.<\/p>\n

September 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Tall cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium<\/em>) bog grading in to a black spruce (Picea mariana<\/em>) forest, Hatcher Pass, Alaska. Photo credit: Lisa Kluesner.<\/p>\n

June 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sunrise over longleaf pine (Pinus palustris<\/em>) flatwoods with an understory dominated by saw palmetto (Serenoa repens)<\/em>. Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia, USA. Photo credit: Kyle Palmquist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 2021 Invasive species occupying the forest understory of Salamander park in April. This natural area in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is heavily invaded by Ficaria verna and Alliaria petiolata and, consequently, is depauperate of native wildflowers.\u00a0Photo Credit: Rachel Reeb \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 August 2021 Prairie in the \u2018Big Sky\u2019 country at Fort Keogh Livestock and Range…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/vegetation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}