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Repeated measures from FIA data facilitates analysis across spatial scales of tree growth responses to nitrogen deposition from individual trees to whole ecoregions

The abundance of temporally and spatially consistent Forest Inventory and Analysis data facilitates hierarchical/multilevel analysis to investigate factors affecting tree growth, scaling from plot-level to continental scales. Herein we use FIA tree and soil inventories in conjunction with various spatial climate and soils data to estimate species-specific responses of...

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Charles H. (Hobie) Perry; Kevin J. Horn; R. Quinn Thomas; Linda H. Pardo; Erica A.H. Smithwick; Doug Baldwin; Gregory B. Lawrence; Scott W. Bailey; Sabine Braun; Christopher M. Clark; Mark Fenn; Annika Nordin; Jennifer N. Phelan; Paul G. Schaberg; Sam St. Clair; Richard Warby; Shaun Watmough; Steven S. Perakis

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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. p. 191.

Forest tree growth response to hydroclimate variability in the southern Appalachians

Climate change will affect tree species growth and distribution; however, under the same climatic conditions species may differ in their response according to site conditions. We evaluated the climate-driven patterns of growth for six dominant deciduous tree species in the southern Appalachians. We categorized species into two functional groups based on their stomatal...

Author(s):

Katherine J. Elliott; Chelcy Ford Miniat; Neil Pederson; Stephanie H. Laseter

Year:

2015

Keywords:

radial growth, hydroclimate, tree-rings, small storms, ring-porous, diffuse-porous, structural equation modeling, productivity

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Global Change Biology

Growth and survival relationships of 71 tree species with nitrogen and sulfur deposition across the conterminous U.S.

Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) influences forest demographics and carbon (C) uptake through multiple mechanisms that vary among tree species. Prior studies have estimated the effects of atmospheric N deposition on temperate forests by leveraging forest inventory measurements across regional gradients in deposition. However, in the United States (U.S.), these...

Author(s):

Kevin J. Horn; R. Quinn Thomas; Christopher M. Clark; Linda H. Pardo; Mark E. Fenn; Gregory B. Lawrence; Steven S. Perakis; Erica A. H. Smithwick; Douglas Baldwin; Sabine Braun; Annika Nordin; Charles H. Perry; Jennifer N. Phelan; Paul G. Schaberg; Samuel B. St. Clair; Richard Warby; Shaun Watmough

Year:

2018

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PLOS ONE

Application of Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data to estimate the amount of old growth forest and snag density in the Northern Region of the National Forest System

This report discusses valid use of data produced by the Forest Service?s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program and used by the Northern Region of the National Forest System to analyze the compliance of individual National Forests with their Standards and Guidelines. It emphasizes use of FIA data on snag density and the percentage of forest area that meets the...

Author(s):

Raymond L. Czaplewski

Year:

2004

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Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), data, Northern Region, National Forest System, snag density, forest area, old growth, analyses

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Unpublished paper on file at: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO. 13 p.

Changes in conifer and deciduous forest foliar and forest floor chemistry and basal area tree growth across a nitrogen (N) deposition gradient in the northeastern US

We evaluated foliar and forest floor chemistry across a gradient of N deposition in the Northeast at 11 red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) sites in 1987/1988 and foliar and forest floor chemistry and basal area growth at six paired spruce and deciduous sites in 1999. The six red spruce plots were a subset of the original 1987/1988 spruce sites. In 1999...

Author(s):

Johnny L. Boggs; Steven G. McNulty; Linda H. Pardo

Year:

2007

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N saturation, spruce-fir, N deposition gradient, northern hardwood forests

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Environmental Pollution, Vol. 149: 303-314

How climatic conditions, site, and soil characteristics affect tree growth and critical loads of nitrogen for northeastern tree species

Forest health is affected by multiple factors, including topography, climate, and soil characteristics, as well as pests, pathogens, competitive interactions, and anthropogenic deposition. Species within a stand may respond differently to site factors depending on their physiological requirements for growth, survival, and regeneration. We determined optimal ranges of...

Author(s):

Molly J. Robin-Abbott; Linda H. Pardo

Year:

2017

Keywords:

nitrogen deposition, topography, precipitation, temperature

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Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-172. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 143 p.

An agent architecture for an integrated forest ecosystem management decision support system

A wide variety of software tools are available to support decision in the management of forest ecosystems. These tools include databases, growth and yield models, wildlife models, silvicultural expert systems, financial models, geographical informations systems, and visualization tools. Typically, each of these tools has its own complex interface and data format. To...

Author(s):

Donald Nute; Walter D. Potter; Mayukh Dass; Astrid Glende; Frederick Maier; Hajime Uchiyama; Jin Wang; Mark Twery; Peter Knopp; Scott Thomasma; H. Michael Rauscher

Year:

2003

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Agent architecture, blackboard architecture, ecosystem management, model management, decision support system, knowledge based system, Prolog

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Decision Support for Multiple Purpose Forestry, April 23-25, Vienna, Austria, p. 1-11

NED and SILVAH: A history of the coalition

Forest management decision support software has been used for several decades. Many people have tried a variety of approaches, with varying degrees of success, to provide information that helps forest managers make decisions. This chapter documents some of the successes and failures of NED and SILVAH. In 1988 the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service...

Author(s):

Mark J. Twery

Year:

2019

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In: Stout, Susan L., ed. SILVAH: 50 years of science-management cooperation. Proceedings of the Allegheny Society of American Foresters training session; 2017 Sept. 20-22; Clarion, PA. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-186. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 98-105.

Spatial autocorrelation in growth of undisturbed natural pine stands across Georgia

Moran's I statistic measures the spatial autocorrelation in a random variable measured at discrete locations in space. Permutation procedures test the null hypothesis that the observed Moran's I value is no greater than that expected by chance. The spatial autocorrelation of gross basal area increment is analyzed for undisturbed, naturally regenerated stands...

Author(s):

Raymond L. Czaplewski; Robin M. Reich; William A. Bechtold

Year:

1994

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Forest Science. 40(2): 314-328.

Monitoring land/forest cover using the Kalman filter: A proposal

Although growth and yield models have been used to update forest inventories for large regions, such models poorly predict cover changes from land use conversions, regeneration, and harvest. These changes could be monitored directly for large areas using remote sensing, which can be expensive, or estimates made by agricultural agencies, which are not detailed for...

Author(s):

Raymond L. Czaplewski; Ralph J. Alig; Noel D. Cost

Year:

1988

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Kalman filter, monitoring, land/forest cover, statistical estimator

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In: Ek, Alan R.; Shifley, Stephen R.; Burk, Thomas E. Forest growth modelling and prediction: Volume 2. Gen. Tech. Report NC-120. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. p. 1089-1096.

Intelligent Model Management in a Forest Ecosystem Management Decision Support System

Decision making for forest ecosystem management can include the use of a wide variety of modeling tools. These tools include vegetation growth models, wildlife models, silvicultural models, GIS, and visualization tools. NED-2 is a robust, intelligent, goal-driven decision support system that integrates tools in each of these categories. NED-2 uses a blackboard...

Author(s):

Donald Nute; Walter D. Potter; Frederick Maier; Jin Wang; Mark Twery; H. Michael Rauscher; Peter Knopp; Scott Thomasma; Mayukh Dass; Hajime Uchiyama

Year:

2002

Keywords:

ecosystem management, model management, decision support system, knowledge based system, blackboard architecture, Prolog

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In: Integrated Assessment and Decision Support Proceedings of the First Biennial Meeting on the International Environmental Modeling and Software Society, IEMSs; 2002 June 24-27; Switzerland: University of Lugano; Vol. 3: 396-401.

Calcium and aluminum impacts on sugar maple physiology in a northern hardwood forest

Forests of northeastern North America have been exposed to anthropogenic acidic inputs for decades, resulting in altered cation relations and disruptions to associated physiological processes in multiple tree species, including sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.). In the current study, the impacts of calcium (Ca) and aluminum (Al) additions on mature...

Author(s):

Joshua M. Halman; Paul G. Schaberg; Gary J. Hawley; Linda H. Pardo; Timothy J. Fahey

Year:

2013

Keywords:

acid deposition, antioxidant activity, carbon partitioning, cations, frost injury, Hubbard Brook, membrane integrity, reproductive capacity

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Tree Physiology. 33(11): 1242-1251.

Gypsy moth impacts in pine-hardwood mixtures

Gypsy moth has affected pine-hardwood mixtures, especially oak-pine stands, since the late 1800's. Several old and new studies on impacts in mixed stands are reviewed. When pines are heavily defoliated, considerable growth loss and mortality can occur. Mortality is heaviest in understory white pine trees, Impact information is used to suggest silvicultural...

Author(s):

Kurt W. Gottschalk; Mark J. Twery

Year:

1989

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In: Waldrop, Thomas A., ed. Proceedings of pine-hardwood mixtures: A symposium on management and ecology of the type; 1989 April 18-19; Atlanta, GA. Gen. Tech. Rep. SE-58. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station: 50-58.

NED-2: a decision support system for integrated forest ecosystem management

NED-2 is a Windows-based system designed to improve project-level planning and decision making by providing useful and scientifically sound information to natural resource managers. Resources currently addressed include visual quality, ecology, forest health, timber, water, and wildlife. NED-2 expands on previous versions of NED applications by integrating treatment...

Author(s):

Mark J. Twery; Peter D. Knopp; Scott A. Thomasma; H. Michael Rauscher; Donald E. Nute; Walter D. Potter; Frederick Maier; Jin Wang; Mayukh Dass; Hajime Uchiyama; Astrid Glende; Robin E. Hoffman

Year:

2005

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Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 49:24-43

Public attitudes toward programs designed to enhance forest related benefits on private lands

Public agencies may at times provide education, technical help, tax incentives, or other forms of aid to private landowners to help them enhance their land in ways that benefit the public. Since public funds are used to pay these expenses, it is important that program goals be correlated with underlying public values and concerns. We used a conjoint ranking survey to...

Author(s):

Donald F. Dennis; Mark J. Twery; Michael A. Rechlin; Bruce Hansen

Year:

2003

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Source:

In: Schuster, Rudy, comp., ed. Proceedings of the 2002 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-302. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 163-164

A method for integrating multiple components in a decision support system

We present a flexible, extensible method for integrating multiple tools into a single large decision support system (DSS) using a forest ecosystem management DSS (NED-2) as an example. In our approach, a rich ontology for the target domain is developed and implemented in the internal data model for the DSS. Semi-autonomous agents control external components and...

Author(s):

Donald Nute; Walter D. Potter; Zhiyuan Cheng; Mayukh Dass; Astrid Glende; Frederick Maierv; Cy Routh; Hajime Uchiyama; Jin Wang; Sarah Witzig; Mark Twery; Peter Knopp; Scott Thomasma; H. Michael Rauscher

Year:

2005

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Agents, Blackboard architecture, Ecosystem management, Decision support system, Knowledge based system, Regeneration, Fire risk analysis

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Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 49 (2005) 44-59

Spatial cross-correlation of undisturbed, natural shortleaf pine stands in northern Georgia

In this study a cross-correlation statistic is used to analyse the spatial relationship among stand characteristics of natural, undisturbed shortleaf pine stands sampled during 1961-72 and 1972-82 in northern Georgia. Stand characteristics included stand age, site index, tree density, hardwood competition, and mortality. In each time period, the spatial cross-...

Author(s):

Robin M. Reich; Raymond L. Czaplewski; William A. Bechtold

Year:

1994

Keywords:

cross-correlogram, Moran's I, spatial anomaly

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Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 1: 201-217.

Accuracy and efficiency of area classifications based on tree tally

Inventory data are often used to estimate the area of the land base that is classified as a specific condition class. Examples include areas classified as old-growth forest, private ownership, or suitable habitat for a given species. Many inventory programs rely on classification algorithms of varying complexity to determine condition class. These algorithms can be...

Author(s):

Michael S. Williams; Hans T. Schreuder; Raymond L. Czaplewski

Year:

2001

Keywords:

area classifications, inventory data, classification algorithms

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Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 31: 556-560.

Distributions of rare mollusks relative to reserved lands in northern California

In 1994 the Northwest Forest Plan identified several hundred relatively rare plant and animal species as "Survey and Manage" based in part on their presumed association with late-succesional/old-growth forests. Other such species were given protection from grazing. However, broad-scale surveys for few of these species existed at that time....

Author(s):

Jeffrey Dunk; William Zielinski; Karen West; Kristin Schmidt; Jim Baldwin; Julie Perrochet; Kary Schlick; Jan Ford

Year:

2002

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Northwest Science 76(3): p. 249–256

Comparison of estimators for rolling samples using Forest Inventory and Analysis data

The performance of three classes of weighted average estimators is studied for an annual inventory design similar to the Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the United States. The first class is based on an ARIMA(0,1,1) time series model. The equal weight, simple moving average is a member of this class. The second class is based on an ARIMA(0,2,2) time series...

Author(s):

Devin S. Johnson; Michael S. Williams; Raymond L. Czaplewski

Year:

2003

Keywords:

rolling samples, panel survey, annual inventory, FIA, weighted average

Source:

Forest Science. 49(1): 50-63.

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Repeated measures from FIA data facilitates analysis across spatial scales of tree growth responses to nitrogen deposition from individual trees to whole ecoregions

Forest tree growth response to hydroclimate variability in the southern Appalachians

Growth and survival relationships of 71 tree species with nitrogen and sulfur deposition across the conterminous U.S.

Application of Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data to estimate the amount of old growth forest and snag density in the Northern Region of the National Forest System

Changes in conifer and deciduous forest foliar and forest floor chemistry and basal area tree growth across a nitrogen (N) deposition gradient in the northeastern US

How climatic conditions, site, and soil characteristics affect tree growth and critical loads of nitrogen for northeastern tree species

An agent architecture for an integrated forest ecosystem management decision support system

NED and SILVAH: A history of the coalition

Spatial autocorrelation in growth of undisturbed natural pine stands across Georgia

Monitoring land/forest cover using the Kalman filter: A proposal

Intelligent Model Management in a Forest Ecosystem Management Decision Support System

Calcium and aluminum impacts on sugar maple physiology in a northern hardwood forest

Gypsy moth impacts in pine-hardwood mixtures

NED-2: a decision support system for integrated forest ecosystem management

Public attitudes toward programs designed to enhance forest related benefits on private lands

A method for integrating multiple components in a decision support system

Spatial cross-correlation of undisturbed, natural shortleaf pine stands in northern Georgia

Accuracy and efficiency of area classifications based on tree tally

Distributions of rare mollusks relative to reserved lands in northern California

Comparison of estimators for rolling samples using Forest Inventory and Analysis data

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