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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.

Silviculture affects composition, growth, and yield in mixed northern conifers: 40-year results from the Penobscot Experimental Forest

This long-term experiment in Maine, U.S.A., was designed to provide information on the best silvicultural practices for managing stands of mixed northern conifers in northeastern U.S.A. We evaluated growth and yield and changes in species composition, quality, and structure during the first 40 years of the experiment. Replicated treatments include the selection system...

Author(s):

Paul E. Sendak; John C. Brissette; Robert M. Frank

Year:

2003

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Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 33: 2116-2128.

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

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.

Contrasting spatial patterns in active-fire and fire-suppressed Mediterranean climate old-growth mixed conifer forests

In Mediterranean environments in western North America, historic fire regimes in frequent-fire conifer forests are highly variable both temporally and spatially. This complexity influenced forest structure and spatial patterns, but some of this diversity has been lost due to anthropogenic disruption of ecosystem processes, including fire. Information from reference...

Author(s):

Danny L. Fry; Scott L. Stephens; Brandon M. Collins; Malcolm North; Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino; Samantha J. Gill

Year:

2014

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PLoS One. 9(2): e88985

Squeezing the arctic carbon balloon

The advancement of trees into Arctic tundra can increase total aboveground carbon storage. A study now shows, however, that greater plant growth also enhances belowground decomposition, resulting in a net loss of carbon from the ecosystem.

Author(s):

Evan S. Kane

Year:

2012

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Nature Climate Change. 2: 841-842.

Timber Supply Projections for Northern New England and New York: Integrating a Market Perspective

The North East State Foresters Association (NEFA) commissioned a study that resulted in the publication of a report titled, "A Forest Resource Model of the States of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine." In this article we used the integrated NEFA computer simulation framework to go beyond the reported results and further explore the effects on the...

Author(s):

Paul E. Sendak; Robert C. Abt; Robert J. Turner

Year:

2003

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Timber supply, markets, economic modeling, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont.

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Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 20(4): 175-185.

Analysis of the interaction between timber markets and the forest resources of Maine

The abundant timber resources of Maine are critical to the State's timber economy; thus, when the 1995 forest inventory indicated a 20% decline in softwood growing stock, there was great concern by industry and government. Furthermore, declining near-term softwood growing stock levels were forecast. To better understand what was occurring in Maine's forest,...

Author(s):

William G. Luppold; Paul E. Sendak

Year:

2004

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Forest sustainability, spruce-fir, hardwood substitution

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Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 21(3): 135-143.

Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests

We re-sampled areas included in an unbiased 1911 timber inventory conducted by the U.S. Forest Service over a 4000 ha study area. Over half of the re-sampled area burned in relatively recent management- and lightning-ignited fires. This allowed for comparisons of both areas that have experienced recent fire and areas with no recent fire, to the same areas historically...

Author(s):

Brandon M. Collins; Richard G. Everett; Scott L. Stephens

Year:

2011

Keywords:

fire ecology, fire management, forest ecology, restoration

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Ecosphere. 2(4): 1-14

Developing above-ground woody biomass equations for open-grown, multiple-stemmed tree species: shelterbelt-grown Russian-olive

Multiple-stemmed tree species are often used in agricultural settings, playing a significant role in natural resource conservation and carbon sequestration. Biomass estimation, whether for modeling growth under different climate scenarios, accounting for carbon sequestered, or inclusion in natural resource inventories, requires equations that can accurately describe...

Author(s):

Xinhau Zhour; James R. Brandle; Michele M. Schoeneberger; Tala Awada

Year:

2007

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Agroforestry, biomass model, carbon, Elaegnus angustifolia windbreak, shelterbelt

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Ecological Modelling, Vol. 202: 311-323

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

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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.

Long-term data from silvicultural studies: interpreting and assessing old records for economic insights

Long-term silvicultural studies on the Penobscot Experimental Forest in Maine and Bartlett Experimental Forest in New Hampshire offer opportunities for the patient financial analyst. The economist working with carefully collected growth and yield data can increase the value of these studies to other researchers and ultimately to forest managers. Issues related to data...

Author(s):

Paul E. Sendak; Robert M. Frank; William B. Leak

Year:

2006

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In: Irland, Lloyd C.; Camp, Ann E.; Brissette, John C.; and Donohew, Zachary R., eds. Long-term Silvicultural & Ecological Studies: Results for Science and Management. New Haven, CT: Yale University: 203-207

Efficacy of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for restoring forest heterogeneity to mixed-conifer forest in the central Sierra Nevada, CA

Frequent-fire forests were historically characterized by lower tree density, a higher proportion of pine species, and greater within-stand spatial variability, compared to many contemporary forests where fire has been excluded. As a result, such forests are now increasingly unstable, prone to uncharacteristically severe wildfire or high levels of tree mortality in...

Author(s):

Eric E. Knapp; Jamie M. Lydersen; Malcolm P. North; Brandon M. Collins

Year:

2017

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Frequent-fire forest, Prescribed fire, Restoration, Silviculture, Spatial structure

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Forest Ecology and Management. 406: 228-241

Ring shake in eastern hemlock: frequency and relationship to tree attributes

Ring shake is a barrier to improved utilization of eastern hemlock, an important component of the total softwood timber resource in the Eastern United States and Canada. Ring shake is the lengthwise separation of wood that occurs between and parallel to growth rings, diminishing lumber yields and values. Evaluating the potential for ring shake is essential to improving...

Author(s):

John E. Baumgras; Paul E. Sendak; David L. Sonderman

Year:

2000

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In: McManus, Katherine A.; Shields, Kathleen S.; Souto, Dennis R., eds. Proceedings: Symposium on sustainable management of hemlock ecosystems in eastern North America. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-267. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 156-160.

Association of ring shake in eastern hemlock with tree attributes

Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.) is a major or minor associate in many forest types in northeastern North America. There has never been the high level of demand for eastern hemlock lumber that characterizes competing softwoods like white pine and spruce. Nevertheless, periodically interest in greater utilization of eastern hemlock for...

Author(s):

John P. Brown; Paul E. Sendak

Year:

2006

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Forest Products Journal 56(10):31-36

Long-term research on classical silvicultural approaches in the Acadian Forest: Penobscot Experimental Forest Part I

The most comprehensive study of stand dynamics in the Acadian Forest Region is an experiment by the USDA Forest Service at the Penobscot Experimental Forest (PEF) in Maine. It was established from 1952-1957 to study changes in structure, composition, and productivity from an array of silvicultural treatments. Ingrowth, accretion, and mortality of individual trees (!Y0....

Author(s):

John C. Brissette; Michael R. Saunders; Laura S. Kenefic; Paul E. Sendak

Year:

2006

Keywords:

silviculture, long-term research, northern conifers

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In: Proceedings, Society of American Foresters 2006 national convention; 2006 October 25-29; Pittsburgh, PA. Bethesda, MD: Society of American Foresters. [CD-ROM].

Simulating the dynamics of linear forests in great plains agroecosystems under changing climates

Most forest growth models are not suitable for the highly fragmented, linear (or linearly shaped) forests in the Great Plains agroecosystems (e.g., windbreaks, riparian forest buffers), where such forests are a minor but ecologically important component of the land mosaics. This study used SEEI)SCAPE, a recently modified gap model designed for cultivated land mosaics...

Author(s):

Qinfeng Guo; J. Brandle; Michele Schoeneberger; D. Buettner

Year:

2004

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Can. J. for. Res. 34: 2564-2572

Beyond reducing fire hazard: fuel treatment impacts on overstory tree survival

Fuel treatment implementation in dry forest types throughout the western United States is likely to increase in pace and scale in response to increasing incidence of large wildfires. While it is clear that properly implemented fuel treatments are effective at reducing hazardous fire potential, there are ancillary ecological effects that can impact forest...

Author(s):

Brandon M. Collins; Adrian J. Das; John J. Battles; Danny L. Fry; Kevin D. Krasnow; Scott L. Stephens

Year:

2014

Keywords:

forest resilience, frequent-fire forests, large trees, mixed-conifer forest, restoration, Sierra Nevada

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Ecological Applications. 24(8): 1879-1886

Analyzing the uncertainties in use of forest-derived biomass equations for open-grown trees in agricultural land

Quantifying carbon in agroforestry trees requires biomass equations that capture the growth differences (e.g., tree specific gravity and architecture) created in the more open canopies of agroforestry plantings compared with those generally encountered in forests. Whereas forest-derived equations are available, equations for open-grown trees are not. Data from...

Author(s):

Xinhua Zhou; Michele M. Schoeneberger; James R. Brandle; Tala N. Awada; Jianmin Chu; Derrel L. Martin; Jihong Li; Yuqiang Li; Carl W. Mize

Year:

2014

Keywords:

agroforestry, Austrian pine, carbon sequestration, eastern redcedar, green ash, windbreak

Source:

Forest Science 60(2015)

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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

Silviculture affects composition, growth, and yield in mixed northern conifers: 40-year results from the Penobscot Experimental Forest

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

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

Contrasting spatial patterns in active-fire and fire-suppressed Mediterranean climate old-growth mixed conifer forests

Squeezing the arctic carbon balloon

Timber Supply Projections for Northern New England and New York: Integrating a Market Perspective

Analysis of the interaction between timber markets and the forest resources of Maine

Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests

Developing above-ground woody biomass equations for open-grown, multiple-stemmed tree species: shelterbelt-grown Russian-olive

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

Long-term data from silvicultural studies: interpreting and assessing old records for economic insights

Efficacy of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for restoring forest heterogeneity to mixed-conifer forest in the central Sierra Nevada, CA

Ring shake in eastern hemlock: frequency and relationship to tree attributes

Association of ring shake in eastern hemlock with tree attributes

Long-term research on classical silvicultural approaches in the Acadian Forest: Penobscot Experimental Forest Part I

Simulating the dynamics of linear forests in great plains agroecosystems under changing climates

Beyond reducing fire hazard: fuel treatment impacts on overstory tree survival

Analyzing the uncertainties in use of forest-derived biomass equations for open-grown trees in agricultural land

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