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Seedling Responses of Five Species of Western Conifers to Simulated Ambient Sulfur Dioxide Exposures

Seedlings of ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, white fir, Engelmann spruce, and subalpine fir were exposed continuously to charcoal-filtered (CF) air or one of three levels of a simulated ambient exposure typical of SO, pollution near smelters in the western United States. Seedlings were exposed during winter-spring experiments for 60 days to hourly means of 17, 38, and 54...

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Author(s):

Theodor D. Leininger; Paul R. Miller; Susan L. Schilling; Paul H. Dunn

Year:

1991

Keywords:

Ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, white fir, Engelmann spruce, subalpine fur.

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For. Science, Vol. 37, No. 6. PP. 1538-1549

Modeling forest biomass and growth: Coupling long-term inventory and LiDAR data

Combining spatially-explicit long-term forest inventory and remotely sensed information from Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) datasets through statistical models can be a powerful tool for predicting and mapping above-ground biomass (AGB) at a range of geographic scales. We present and examine a novel modeling approach to improve prediction of AGB and estimate AGB...

Author(s):

Chad Babcock; Andrew O. Finley; Bruce D. Cook; Aaron Weiskittel; Christopher W. Woodall

Year:

2016

Keywords:

LiDAR, Forest biomass, Biomass growth, Temporal misalignment, Long-term forest inventory, Bayesian hierarchical models, Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Gaussian process, Geospatial

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Remote Sensing of Environment. 182: 1-12.

Diameter Growth Models for Inventory Applications

Distant-independent, individual-tree, diametar growth models were constructed to update information for forest inventory plots measured in previous years. The models are nonlinear in the parameters and were calibrated weighted nonlinear least squares techniques and forest inventory plot data. Analyses of residuals indicated that model predictions compare favorably to...

Author(s):

Ronald E. McRoberts; Christopher W. Woodall; Veronica C. Lessard; Margaret R. Holdaway

Year:

2002

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In: Crookston, Nicholas L.; Havis, Robert N., comps. Second Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2002 February 12-14; Fort Collins, CO. Proc. RMRS-P-25. Ogden, UT: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station: 158-163

Growth form and distribution of introduced plants in their native and non-native ranges in Eastern Asia and North America

There is a growing interest in understanding the influence of plant traits on their ability to spread in non-native regions. Many studies addressing this issue have been based on relatively small areas or restricted taxonomic groups. Here, we analyse a large data base involving 1567 plant species introduced between Eastern Asia and North America or from elsewhere to...

Author(s):

Robert E. Ricklefs; Qinfeng Guo; Hong Qian

Year:

2008

Keywords:

Biological invasions, Eastern Asia, invasibility, invasion resistance, native vs. exotic ranges, North America, wetland vs. upland habitat

Source:

Diversity and Distribution, vol. 14: 381-386

Effects of tree size and spatial distribution on growth of ponderosa pine forests under alternative management scenarios

Forest ecosystems may be actively managed toward heterogeneous stand structures to provide both economic (e.g., wood production and carbon credits) and environmental benefits (e.g., invasive pest resistance). In order to facilitate wider adoption of possibly more sustainable forest stand structures, defining growth expectations among alternative management scenarios is...

Author(s):

C.W. Woodall; C.E. Fiedler; R.E. McRoberts

Year:

2009

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Environmentalist. 29: 301-309.

Biological invasion hotspots: a trait-based perspective reveals new sub-continental patterns

Invader traits (including plant growth form) may play an important, and perhaps overlooked, role in determining macroscale patterns of biological invasions and therefore warrant greater consideration in future investigations aimed at understanding these patterns. To assess this need, we used empirical data from a national-level survey of forest in the contiguous 48...

Author(s):

Basil V. Iannone III; Kevin M. Potter; Qinfeng Guo; Andrew M. Liebhold; Bryan C. Pijanowski; Christopher M. Oswalt; Songlin Fei

Year:

2015

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Source:

Ecography

Growth, yield, and disease resistance of 7- to 12-year-old poplar clones in the north central United States.

Summarizes growth, yield, and disease resistance of 95 poplar clones at or near rotation age (culmination of mean annual increment). Plantations were established from 1986 to 1992 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Clones DN164, DN177, DN154, NM2, NE264, DN170, and DN21 are recommended for further testing.

Author(s):

D.A. Netzer; D.N. Tolsted; M. E. Ostry; J. G. Isebrands; D.E. Riemenschneider; K.T. Ward

Year:

2002

Keywords:

Hybrid poplar, intensive culture, biomass yields, disease resistance, hybrid trials.

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-229. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 31 p.

Remeasured FIA plots reveal tree-level diameter growth and tree mortality impacts of nitrogen deposition on California’s forests

The air in California?s forests spans a broad range of purity, from virtually no locally generated pollutants to highly elevated levels of pollutants in forests downwind of urban and agricultural source areas. Ten-year remeasurement data from Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots in California were used in combination with modelled atmospheric nitrogen (N)...

Author(s):

Mark E. Fenn; Jeremy S. Fried; Haiganoush K. Preisler; Andrzej Bytnerowicz; Susan Schilling; Sarah Jovan; Olaf Kuegler

Year:

2015

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In: Stanton, Sharon M.; Christensen, Glenn A., comps. 2015. Pushing boundaries: new directions in inventory techniques and applications: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2015. 2015 December 8–10; Portland, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-931. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 185-188.

Field performance of Populus expressing somaclonal variation in resistance to Septoria musiva

Over 1500 trees from two hybrid poplar clones regenerated from tissue culture and expressing somatic variation in leaf disease resistance in a laboratory leaf disk bioassay were field-tested for 5-11 years to examine their resistance to Septoria leaf spot and canker and to assess their growth characteristics compared with the source clones....

Author(s):

M. E. Ostry; K. T. Ward

Year:

2003

Keywords:

Tissue culture, Intraclonal variation, Disease resistance, Tree improvement

Source:

Plant Science 164:1-8

Indiana's forest resources in 2004

Reports the initial results of five annual panels (2000-2004) of the inventory of Indiana's forest resources and one panel (2004) of growth, removals, and mortality. Includes information on forest area, number of trees, volume, biomass, growth, removals, mortality, and forest health.

Author(s):

Christopher Woodall; Gary Brand; Joey Gallion

Year:

2006

Keywords:

Annual inventory, forest area, forest type, volume, biomass, Indiana

Source:

Resour. Bull. NC-268. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 37 p.

Indiana's forest resources in 2005

Reports the initial results of five annual panels (2001-2005) of the inventory of Indiana's forest resources and two panels (2004 and 2005) of growth, removals, and mortality. Includes information on forest area, number of trees, volume, biomass, growth, removals, mortality, and forest health.

Author(s):

Christopher Woodall; Gary Brand; Joey Gallion

Year:

2006

Keywords:

annual inventory, forest area, forest type, volume, biomass, Indiana

Source:

Resour. Bull. NRS-3. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 36 p.

When is one core per tree sufficient to characterize stand attributes? Results of a Pinus ponderosa case study

Increment cores are invaluable for assessing tree attributes such as inside bark diameter, radial growth, and sapwood area. However, because trees accrue growth and sapwood unevenly around their pith, tree attributes derived from one increment core may not provide sufficient precision for forest management/research activities. To assess the variability in a tree's...

Author(s):

C.W. Woodall

Year:

2008

Keywords:

ponderosa pine, increment cores, sapwood, growth, Pinus ponderosa

Source:

Tree-Ring Research. 64(1): 55-60.

Intertree competition in uneven-aged ponderosa pine stands

Intertree competition indices and effects were examined in 14 uneven-aged ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum Engelm.) stands in eastern Montana. Location, height, diameter at breast height (DBH), basal area increment, crown ratio, and sapwood area were determined for each tree (DBH >3.8 cm) on one stem-mapped plot...

Author(s):

C.W. Woodall; C.E. Fiedler; K.S. Milner

Year:

2003

Keywords:

Ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa var. scopulorum Engelm., competition, uneven-aged stands, Montana, growth efficiency

Source:

Can. J. For. Res. 33: 1719-1726 (2003)

Testing the stress-gradient hypothesis during the restoration of tropical degraded land using the shrub Rhodomyrtus tomentosa as a nurse plant

The relative importance of facilitation and competition between pairwise plants across abiotic stress gradients as predicted by the stress-gradient hypothesis has been confirmed in arid and temperate ecosystems, but the hypothesis has rarely been tested in tropical systems, particularly across nutrient gradients. The current research examines the interactions between a...

Author(s):

Nan Liu; Hai Ren; Sufen Yuan; Qinfeng Guo; Long Yang

Year:

2013

Keywords:

abiotic stress, facilitation, plant–plant interaction, reforestation, woody plants

Source:

Restoration Ecology 21(5):578–584

Performance of the Forest Vegetation Simulator in managed white spruce plantations influenced by eastern spruce budworm in northern Minnesota

Silvicultural strategies such as thinning may minimize productivity losses from a variety of forest disturbances, including forest insects. This study analyzed the 10-year postthinning response of stands and individual trees in thinned white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) plantations in northern Minnesota, USA, with light to moderate defoliation...

Author(s):

Matthew B. Russell; Anthony W. D'Amato; Michael A. Albers; Christopher W. Woodall; Klaus J. Puettmann; Michael R. Saunders; Curtis L. VanderSchaaf

Year:

2015

Keywords:

silviculture, forest thinning, Forest Vegetation Simulator, Picea glauca, Choristoneura fumiferana

Source:

Forest Science. 61(4): 723-730.

The state of South Carolina's forests, 2001

Forest land area in South Carolina amounted to 12.4 million acres, including 12.2 million acres of timberland. Nonindustrial-private timberland amounted to 8.9 million acres, a decline of less than 1 percent since 1993. Family forest owners dominate the private ownership group with 357,000 landowners who collectively control 7.1 million acres of forest land in the...

Author(s):

Roger C. Conner; Tim Adams; Brett J. Butler; William A. Bechtold; Tony G. Johnson; Sonja N. Oswalt; Gretchen Smith; Susan Will-Wolf; Christopher W. Woodall

Year:

2004

Keywords:

annual inventory, forest health indicators, forest ownership, Hurricane Hugo recovery, pulpwood, timber products output

Source:

Resour. Bull. SRS–96. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 67 p.

Applying survival analysis to a large-scale forest inventory for assessment of tree mortality in Minnesota

Tree mortality has traditionally been assessed in forest inventories through summaries of mortality by location, species, and causal agents. Although these methods have historically constituted the majority of tree mortality summarizations, they have had limited use in assessing mortality trends and dynamics. This study proposed a novel method of applying survival...

Author(s):

C.W. Woodall; P.L. Grambsch; W. Thomas

Year:

2005

Keywords:

Mortality, Survival analysis, Hazard function, Forest inventory

Source:

Ecological Modelling 189 (2005) 199?208

Survival and growth of deep-planted, in-leaf grafts in a germplasm repository of canker-resistant butternut

Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.), highly valued for its timber and nuts, occurs as widely scattered trees or isolated stands throughout the Central Hardwood region (Rink 1990). The introduced fungus Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum has rapidly cankered, girdled, and killed most of the butternut trees; however, a few trees that...

Author(s):

J. W. Van Sambeek; Michael E. Ostry; James J. Zaczek

Year:

2003

Keywords:

Source:

In: Van Sambeek, J. W.; Dawson, Jeffery O.; Ponder Jr., Felix; Loewenstein, Edward F.; Fralish, James S., eds. Proceedings of the 13th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-234. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station: 476-479

Linking biotic homogenization to habitat type, invasiveness and growth form of naturalized alien plants in North America

Aim Biotic homogenization is a growing phenomenon and has recently attracted much attention. Here, we analyse a large dataset of native and alien plants in North America to examine whether biotic homogenization is related to several ecological and biological attributes. Location North America (north of Mexico). Methods We assembled...

Author(s):

Hong Qian; Qinfeng Guo

Year:

2010

Keywords:

Source:

Diversity and Distributions 16:119-125.

Resource-use efficiencies of three indigenous tree species planted in resource islands created by shrubs: implications for reforestation of subtropical degraded shrublands

Shrub resource islands are characterized by resources accumulated shrubby areas surrounded by relative barren soils. This research aims to determine resource-use efficiency of native trees species planted on shrub resource islands, and to determine how the planted trees may influence the resource islands in degraded shrublands in South China. Shrub (Rhodomyrtus...

Author(s):

Nan Liu; Qinfeng Guo

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Nurse plant, , Resource accumulation, Restoration, Rhodomyrtus tomentosa

Source:

Plant Ecol 213:1177–1185

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Seedling Responses of Five Species of Western Conifers to Simulated Ambient Sulfur Dioxide Exposures

Modeling forest biomass and growth: Coupling long-term inventory and LiDAR data

Diameter Growth Models for Inventory Applications

Growth form and distribution of introduced plants in their native and non-native ranges in Eastern Asia and North America

Effects of tree size and spatial distribution on growth of ponderosa pine forests under alternative management scenarios

Biological invasion hotspots: a trait-based perspective reveals new sub-continental patterns

Growth, yield, and disease resistance of 7- to 12-year-old poplar clones in the north central United States.

Remeasured FIA plots reveal tree-level diameter growth and tree mortality impacts of nitrogen deposition on California’s forests

Field performance of Populus expressing somaclonal variation in resistance to Septoria musiva

Indiana's forest resources in 2004

Indiana's forest resources in 2005

When is one core per tree sufficient to characterize stand attributes? Results of a Pinus ponderosa case study

Intertree competition in uneven-aged ponderosa pine stands

Testing the stress-gradient hypothesis during the restoration of tropical degraded land using the shrub Rhodomyrtus tomentosa as a nurse plant

Performance of the Forest Vegetation Simulator in managed white spruce plantations influenced by eastern spruce budworm in northern Minnesota

The state of South Carolina's forests, 2001

Applying survival analysis to a large-scale forest inventory for assessment of tree mortality in Minnesota

Survival and growth of deep-planted, in-leaf grafts in a germplasm repository of canker-resistant butternut

Linking biotic homogenization to habitat type, invasiveness and growth form of naturalized alien plants in North America

Resource-use efficiencies of three indigenous tree species planted in resource islands created by shrubs: implications for reforestation of subtropical degraded shrublands

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