Proceedings of the 12th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Abstract

Ninety-two papers and thirty-six poster summaries address a range of issues affecting southern forests. Papers are grouped in 15 sessions that include wildlife ecology; fire ecology; natural pine management; forest health; growth and yield; upland hardwoods - natural regeneration; hardwood intermediate treatments; longleaf pine; pine plantation silviculture; site amelioration and productivity; pine nutrition; pine planting, stocking, spacing; ecophysiology; bottomland hardwoods - natural regeneration; and bottomland hardwoods—artificial regeneration.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 12th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

• Vegetation Cover Affects Mammal Herbivory on Planted Oaks and Success of Reforesting Missouri River Bottomland Fields
• Relationships Between Herpetofaunal Community Structure and Varying Levels of Overstory Tree Retention in Northern Alabama: First-year Results
• Songbird Community Variation Among Five Levels of Overstory Retention in Northern Alabama
• The Effects of Prescribed Burning and Thinning on Herpetofauna and Small Mammals in the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina: Preliminary Results of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
• Litter Decomposition and Soil Respiration Responses to Fuel-Reduction Treatments in Piedmond Loblolly Pine Forests
• Impacts of Growing-Season Prescibed Burns in the Florida Pine Flatwoods Type
• Preliminary Effects of Prescribed Burning and Thinning as Fuel Reduction Treatments on the Piedmont Soils of the Clemson Experimental Forest
• Relationship Between Palmer's Drought Severity Index and the Moisture Index of Woody Debris in the Southern Coastal Plain
• Effects of Fuel-Reduction Techniques on Vegetative Composition of Piedmont Loblolly-Shortleaf Pine Communities: Preliminary Results of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
• Physiological and Growth Responses of Midrotation Loblolly Pine to Treatments of Fire, Herbicide, and Fertilizer
• An Evaluation of Fuel-Reduction Treatments Across a Landscape Gradient in Piedmont Forests: Preliminary Results of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
• Impact of Prescribed Fire and Thinning on Host Resistance to the Southern Pine Beetle: Preliminary Results of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
• Fire Monitoring: Effects of Scorch in Louisiana's Pine Forests
• Long-Term Effects of Season of Prescribed Burn on the Fine-Root Growth, Root Carbohydrates, and Foliar Dynamics of Mature Longleaf Pine
• Effectiveness of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments For Controlling Wildfire Behavior in Piedmont Forests: A Simulation Study
• Effects of Vegetation Management With Prescribed Fire on Soil Physical Properties in a Young Longleaf Pine Stand
• Long-Term Prescribed Burning Regime Has Little Effect on Springtails in Pine Stands of Southern Arkansas
• Seasonal Avifauna Reponses to Fuel Reduction Treatments in the Upper Piedmont of South Carolina: Results From Phase 1 of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
• Economies of Scale and Forest Management in Mississippi
• Microclimatic Conditions After Reproduction Cutting in Shortleaf Pine Stands in the Ouachita Mountains
• An Assessment of Mississippi's Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowners' Knowledge of Forest Best Management Practices
• Preliminary Results of Double-Sample Forest Inventory of Pine and Mixed Stands with High- and Low-Density LiDAR
• Size of Coarse Woody Debris 5 Years After Girdling and Removal Treatments in 50-Year-Old Loblolly Pine Plantations
• Mississippi's New Forestry Best Management Practices Video
• Volume, Mass, And Nutrients Of Down Woody Debris Following Initial Shortleaf Pine-Bluestem Grass Restoration Activities In The Ouachita Mountains Of Arkansas
• Forcasting Shortleaf Pine Seed Crops in the Ouachita Mountains
• History of Piedmont Forests: Implications For Current Pine Management
• Relative Impacts of Ice Storms on Loblolly Pine Plantations in Central Arkansas
• Impacts of Insect Defoliation in Cottonwood Plantations in Mississippi
• Impacts of Oak Decline on Forest Structure in Arkansas and Oklahoma: Preliminary Results
• Nantucket Pine Tip Moth Control and Loblolly Pine Growth in Intensive Pine Culture: Two-Year Results
• Effects of Botryosphaeria Inoculation and Stress During Lifting and Outplanting on Initial Growth of Outplanted Sweetgum Seedlings
• Fusiform Rust Trends in East Texas: 1969 to 2002
• Ice Damage in a Chronosequence of Agroforestry Pine Plantatoins in Arkansas, U.S.A.
• Reforestation Efforts in Indiana Following the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
• Baseline Characterization of Forested Headwater Stream Hydrology and Water Chemistry in Southwest Georgia
• Use of Aerial Hyperspectral Imaging For Monitoring Forest Health
• Effects of Artificial Defoliation on the Growth of Cottonwood: Simulation of Cottonwood Leaf Beetle Defoliation
• Longhorned Beetles in Greentree reservoirs and Naturally Flooded Bottomland Hardwood Stands
• Stand Density and Canopy Gaps
• Growth and Development of Yellow-Poplar Plantations On Three Sites Ranging From 9 to 18 Years
• Predicting and Projecting Stand Dominant Height From Inventory Data For Young Longleaf Pine Plantations in Southwest Georgia
• Reproducibility and Reliability: How To Define the Population of Trees That Represent Site Quality For Longleaf Pine Plantations
• Loblolly Pine Saplings Affected By Hurricane Hugo Retained Growth
• Impact of Early Pruning and Thinning on Lumber Grade Yield From Loblolly Pine
• Foliage Density Distribution and Prediction of Intensively Managed Loblolly Pine
• Visual Basic Growth-and-Yield Models With A Merchandising Optimizer For Planted Slash and Loblolly Pine in the West Gulf Region
• Annual Tree Growth Predictions From Periodic Measurements
• Relation of Stem Diameter, Branch Basal Area, and Leaf Biomass in Rapidly Growing Loblolly Pine
• A Bid Price Equation For Timber Sales on the Ouachita and Ozark National Forests
• Development of Mature Natural Even-Aged Stands of Loblolly Pine in the Piedmont
• Estimation of Reineke and Volume-Based Maximum Size-Density Lines For Shortleaf Pine
• Long-Term Records of Southern Pine Dynamics in Even-Aged Stands
• First-Year Effects of Shelterwood Cutting, Wildlife Thinning, and Prescribed Burning on Oak Regeneration and Competitors in Tennessee Oak-Hickory Forests
• Modeling 9-Year Survival Of Oak Advance Regeneration Under Shelterwood Overstories
• Topographic Position and Site Index: An Oak Regeneratoin Relationship
• A Decision-Making Model For Managing or Regenerating Southern Upland Hardwoods
• Yellow-Poplar and Oak Seedling Density Responses to Wind-Generated Gaps
• Intermediate Cutting in Mixed Upland Oak Stands on the Western Highland Rim, Tennessee, After a Quarter of a Century
• Leaf Biomass and Acorn Production in a Thinned 30-Year-Old Cherrybark Oak Plantation
• Diameter-Growth and Epicormic Branching Response of an East Texas Bottomland Red Oak Stand 3 Years After Thinning and Fertilization
• Determining Stocking Levels in Young, Mixed Hardwood Stands in the North Carolina Piedmmont
• First-Year Response on an Upland Hardwood Forest to Five Levels of Overstory Tree Retention
• Individual Tree Release and Enrichment Planting in Young Natural Upland Hardwoods
• Individual Oak Tree Growth in Southern Bottomland Hardwood Stands (Preliminary Results)
• Restoring Upland Forests to Longleaf Pine: Initial Effects on Fuel Load, Fire Danger, Forest Vegetation, and Beetle Populations
• A Comparison of the Ecological Effects of Herbicide and Prescribed Fire in a Mature Longleaf Pine Forest: Response of Juvenile and Overstory Pine
• Establishing Longleaf Pine Seedlings on Agricultural Fields and Pastures
• Factors Affecting Survival of Longleaf Pine Seedlings
• Determining the Correct Planting Depth For Container-Grown Longleaf Pine Seedlings
• Container-Grown Longleaf Pine Seedling Quality
• Thinning Guidelines For Loblolly Pine Plantations in Eastern Texas Based on Alternative Management Criteria
• Oustar: A Premixed Blend of Velpar DF+Oust XP For Herbaceous Weed Control and Enhanced Loblolly Pine Seedling Performance
• Identifying Loblolly Pine and Four Common Competing Hardwood Species Using MultiSpectral Reflectance Analysis
• Relationship Between Canopy Dynamics and Stem Volume Production of Four Species Receiving Irrigation and Fertilization
• Growth Results From 20-Year-Old Low Density Pine Plantations
• Spot Application of Diammonium Phosphate and Poultry Litter at Establishment in an Old-Field Planted Loblolly Pine Plantation
• How Are Short Rotations Woody Crops Affected By Institutional Factors in the Southern United States?
• Early Growth Response of Slash Pine to Double-Bedding on a Flatwoods Site in Georgia
• Relationship of Aboveground Biomass Production Site Index and Soil Characteristics in a Loblolly Pine Stand
• Forest Soil Productivity on the Southern Long-Term Soil Productivity Sites at Age 5
• Defining Steamside Management Zones or Riparian Buffers
• Copper Deficiency in Pine Plantations in the Georgia Coastal Plain
• Use of Miniature Plantations to Examine Accelerated Stand Development in Loblolly Pine Plantations: Second Year Results
• Old-Field Thinned Loblolly Pine Plantation Fertilization With Diammonium Phosphate Plus Urea and Poultry Litter -- 4 Year Growth and Product Class Distribution Results
• The Effect of Large Applications of Nutrients From Organic Waste on Biomass Allocation and Allometric Relations in Loblolly Pine
• Effects of Fertilization on the Vegetation Dynamics of Yougn Loblolly Pine Plantations
• Within and Between Canopy Variabilit of Foliar Nitrogen Concentration for Loblolly and Slash Pine Stands Planted at Different Densities
• Genetic and Spacing Effects on Loblolly Pine Plantation Development Through Age 17
• Stock Type Affects Performance of Shortleaf Pine Planted in the Ouachita Mountains Through 10 Years
• Comparison of Planting Bar and Hoedad Planted Seedlings For Survival and Growth in a Controlled Environment
• The Response of Bareroot Loblolly Pine Seedlings to the Amount and Timing of Nitrogen Fertilization in the Nursery
• Performance of Slash Pine Bare-Root Seedlings and Containerized Rooted Cuttings Planted on Five Dates in Louisiana
• Four Pine Species Grown at Four Spacings on the Eastern Highland Rim, Tennessee, After 30 Years
• Rectangular Spacing: An Economic Benefit?
• Predicting Soil CO₂ Efflux Rates in the Loblolly Pine Ecosystem Across the Region
• Belowground Processes in Nitrogen Fertilized Cottonwood and Loblolly Pine Plantations
• Reapplication of Silvicultural Treatments Impacts Phenology and Photosynthetic Gas Exchange of Loblolly Pine
• Long-term Root Growth Response to Thinning, Fertilization, and Water Deficit in Plantation Loblolly Pine
• Stem Sinuosity of Loblolly Pine Seedlings as Influenced by Taproot Shape
• Soil CO₂ Efflux Trends Following the Thinning of a 22-Year-Old Loblolly Pine Plantation on the Piedmont of Virginia
• The Physiology and Biochemistry of Desiccating White Oak and Cherrybark Oak Acorns
• Distribution of Mature Cones, Conelets, and Old Cones in Shortleaf Pine-Oak Stands an Uneven-Aged Regeneration Cut
• Effects of Light Regimes on the Biomass and Morphological Characteristics of 2-Year-Old Cherrybark Oak Seedlings
• Estimating Leaf Nitrogen of Eastern Cottonwood Trees with a Chlorophyll Meter
• Seasonal Sucrose Metabolism in Longleaf Pine Tree Stem Cambial Tissues
• A Comparison of Oak Regeneration Conditions Following Midstory Injection and Partial Overstory Removal in a Tombigbee River Terrace
• Regeneratoin Development 3 Years After Thinning and Fertilization in an East Texas Bottomland Hardwood Stand (To Manage or To Regenerate: Can We Do Both?)
• Sprout Singling in North Alabama Hardwoods
• Photosynthetic Potential Of Laurel Oak Seedlings Following Canopy Manipulation
• Herbicide Release of 4 Year Old, Naturally Regenerated Bottomland Oaks -- 10 Year Results
• Timber Harvesting Effects After 16 Years in a Tupelo-Cypress Swamp
• Influences of Elevation on Overstory Species Composition in an Old-Growth Bottomland Hardwood-Loblolly Pine Forest in Southern Arkansas
• Germination Conditions For Poison Ivy
• Survival and Growth of Bottomland Hardwood Seedlings and Natural Woody Invaders Near Forest Edges
• Flush Development Dynamics in First-Year Nursery-Grown Seedlings of Eight Oak Species
• How Are Investment Returns Affected By Competition Control and Southern Oak Seedling Survival?
• Mechanical Damage Incurred by Underplanted Northern Red Oak Following Six Overstory Treatments: First-Year Results
• Northern Red Oak From Acorns to Acorns in 8 Years or Less
• Growth and Development of Outplanted High-Quality Northern Red Oak Seedlings and the Effects of Competing Herbaceous Productions Within Four Overstory Treatments -- First-Year Results
• Improving Species Composition in Mismanaged Bottomland Hardwood Stands in Western Alabama
• Outplanting of the Endangered Pondberry
• Effects of Subsoiling and Competition Control on First Year Survival and Growth of Four Hardwood Species
• Growth and Survival of Baldcypress Planted in an Old Rice Field of Coastal South Carolina
• Flood Plain Topography Affects Establishment Success of Direct-Seeded Bottomland Oaks
• Monitoring and Assessment of Tree Establishment in the Wetland Reserve Program in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain
• Partial Cutting and Establishment of Artificial Nuttall Oak Regeneration in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
• Radial Growth of Nine Selected 18-Year-Old Baldcypress Provenances Under Prolonged Drought

Citation

Connor, Kristina F.; Editor 2004. Proceedings of the 12th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-71. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 600 p.