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Public preference for native forest ecosystems is on the rise throughout the world because of their valuable market outputs, i.e., timber and nontimber products, and nonmarket outputs such as biodiversity, ecological services, and aesthetics. As a result, restoration of native forest ecosystems has become an important component of sustainable forest management (Stainback and Alavalapati 2004). Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests are one of the most biologically diverse native ecosystems in North America, supporting hundreds of plant and animal species. When Europeans first colonized North America, forests dominated by longleaf pine covered vast areas of the southeastern Coastal Plain. At that time longleaf pine forests may have existed on close to 36 million hectares (Landers et al. 1995). Due to landscape changes brought on by colonization, agricultural expansion, and population growth over the past several centuries, longleaf pine today covers only a small fraction of its historical range.
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Alavalapati, J.R., Stainback, G.A., Matta, J.R. (2007). Longleaf Pine Restoration. In: Jose, S., Jokela, E.J., Miller, D.L. (eds) The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30687-2_13
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