Proceedings, 15th central hardwood forest conference

Abstract

Proceedings of the 15th central hardwood forest conference held February 27–March 1, 2006, in Knoxville, TN. Includes 86 papers and 30 posters pertaining to forest health and protection, ecology and forest dynamics, natural and artificial regeneration, forest products, wildlife, site classification, management and forest resources, mensuration and models, soil and water, agroforestry, and fire.

Titles contained within Proceedings, 15th central hardwood forest conference

• The resilience of upland-oak forest canopy trees to chronic and acute precipitation manipulations
• Carbon dioxide fluxes in a central hardwoods oak-hickory forest ecosystem
• The sine method as a more accurate height predictor for hardwoods
• A diameter distribution approach to estimating average stand dominant height in Appalachian hardwoods
• Development of interim oak assessment guidelines for the silvah decision-support system
• Digital photo monitoring for tree crown
• Stocking equations for regeneration in mixed oak stands
• A form of two-phase sampling utilizing regression analysis
• Evaluation of landsat imagery for detecting ice storm damage in upland forests of Eastern Kentucky
• Mesavage and Girard form class taper functions derived from profile equations
• Predicting the cover-up of dead branches using a simple single regressor equation
• Long-term stream chemistry monitoring on the fernow experiment forest: implications for sustainable management of hardwood forests
• Ecosystem restoration treatments affect soil physical and chemical properties in Appalachian mixed oak forests
• Reclamation of skid roads with fiber mats and native vegetation: effects on erosion
• Impact of alternative harvesting technologies on thinning entry and optimal rotation age for eastern hardwoods
• Nitrogen dynamics post-harvest: the role of woody residues
• Biomass removal and its effect on productivity of an artificially regenerated forest stand in the Missouri ozarks
• Attributes of down woody materials in hardwood forests of the Eastern United States
• Impact of the hemlock woolly adelgid on radial growth of Eastern hemlock in Pennsylvania
• Testing the efficacy of the triclopyr and imazapyr using two application methods for controlling tree-of-heaven along a West Virginia highway
• Abundance of Armillaria within old-growth eastern hemlock stands in South-Central Pennsylvania
• Rotation length based on a time series analysis of timber degrade cause by oak borers
• Red oak decline and mortality by ecological land type in the Missouri ozarks
• Herbicide treatments for controlling invasive bush honeysuckle in a mature hardwood forest in West-Central Indiana
• Cottonwood leaf beetle control with imidacloprid soaked cuttings
• Down deadwood dynamics on a severely impacted oak decline site
• Defoliation and oak mortality in Southern New England
• Survival of striped maple following spring prescribed fires in pennsylvania
• Fuels consumption and nitrogen loss following prescribed fire: a comparison of prescription types in the Southern appalachians
• Initial effects of prescribed burning and thinning on plant communities in the Southeast Missouri ozarks
• Effects of landscape position and season of burn on fire temperature in Southern Ohio's mixed oak forests
• Forest fuels and landscape-level fire risk assessment of the ozark highlands, Missouri
• Alternative silvicultural practices in Appalachian forest ecosystems: implications for species diversity, ecosystem resilience, and commercial timber production
• The importance and distribution of hickory
• Product recovery from tree grade 1 northern red oak on Menominee tribal lands
• Ruffed grouse (Bonasa Umbellus) use of stands harvested via alternative regeneration methods in the southern Appalachians
• Acoustic assessment of stress level and potential wood quality of logs affected by oak decline
• Twenty-two year changes in regeneration potential in an old-growth Quercus forest in the Mid-Cumberland plateau, Tennessee
• Developing management guidelines for cerulean warbler breeding habitat
• Oak regeneration response to moderate and heavy traffic under mechanical harvesting in an oak-hickory forest on the Cumberland platueau
• Evaluating the flood tolerance of bottomland hardwood artificial reproduction
• Genotypic variation in flood tolerance of black walnut and three southern bottomland oaks
• Changes in tree species importance following harvesting disturbance in north Mississippi between 1967 and 1994
• Plant composition in oak savanna and woodland restoration at Prairie Fork Conservation Area in Missouri
• Developing a field facility for evaluating flood tolerance of hardwood seedlings and understory ground covers
• Correlations between tree crown condition and shade tolerance, crown form, and light availability

Keywords

Central hardwoods, silviculture, oak-hickory, upland hardwoods, bottomland hardwoods

Citation

Buckley, David S.; Clatterbuck, Wayne K.; Editors . 2007. Proceedings, 15th central hardwood forest conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS 101. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 770 p.