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CO₂ enrichment and carbon partitioning to phenolics: do plant responses accord better with the protein competition or the growth-differentiation balance models?

Rising levels of atmospheric CO₂ can alter plant growth and partitioning to secondary metabolites. The protein competition model (PCM) and the extended growth/differentiation balance model (GDB_e) are similar but alternative models that address ontogenetic and environmental effects on whole-plant carbon partitioning to the...

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W.J. Mattson; R. Julkunen-Tiitto; D.A. Herms

Year:

2005

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Oikos. 111: 337-347.

Effects of nutrient availabiiity on biomass allocation as well as constitutive and rapid induced herbivore resistance in poplar

Many studies have examined effects of nutrient availability on constitutive herbivore resistance of plants, but few have addressed effects on expression of rapid induced resistance (RIR). We quantified effects of two levels of nutrient availability on growth, biomass allocation, photosynthesis, and constitutive secondary metabolism of black poplar (>i>Populus...

Author(s):

Carolyn Glynn; Daniel A. Herms; Marie Egawa; Robert Hansen; William J. Mattson

Year:

2003

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OIKOS 101(2):385-397

Variable performance of outbreak defoliators on aspen clones exposed to elevated CO₂ and O₃

Increasing atmospheric concentrations of ozone and CO₂ affect many aspects of tree physiology. However, their effects on tree resistance to insects have received relatively little attention. The objectives of this study were to test the effects of elevated CO₂ and ozone on the resistance of three quaking aspen (...

Author(s):

Daniel A. Herms; William J. Mattson; David N. Karowe; Mark D. Coleman; Terry M. Trier; Bruce A. Birr; J. G. Isebrands

Year:

1996

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In: Hom, John; Birdsey, Richard; O'Brian, Kelly, eds. Proceedings 1995 meeting of the northern global change program; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-214. Radnor, PA: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 43-55.

Precommercial thinning in mixed-species conifer plantations affected by armillaria and heterobasidion root diseases in West-Central Oregon and Washington: 30-year results

Four 10- to 20-year-old plantations were precommercially thinned to determine the effects on tree growth and mortality caused by armillaria and heterobasidion root diseases. The plantations represented different species compositions with one each of (1) coastal Douglas-fir and noble fir, (2) Douglas-fir and western hemlock, (3) pure Douglas-fir, and (4) Shasta red fir...

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Gregory M. Filip; Joshua J. Bronson; Kristen L. Chadwick; Jeremy B. Filip; Susan J. Frankel; Donald J. Goheen; Ellen M. Goheen; Sylvia R. Mori; Angel L. Saavedra

Year:

2015

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Armillaria ostoyae, Heterobasidion occidentale, Thinning, tree growth, tree mortality

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Forest Science. 61(5): 914-925

Does reproduction compromise defense in woody plants?

A general principle of adaptive allocation was proposed by Cody (1966) who hypothesized that 1) all living organisms have finite resources to partition among growth and competing physiological processes such as reproduction and defense; and 2) natural selection results in the evolution of unique resource allocation patterns that maximize fitness in different...

Author(s):

Daniel A. Herms; William J. Mattson

Year:

1991

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In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 35-46

Forest growth and timber quality: crown models and simulation methods for sustainable forest management

The purpose of the international conference from which these proceedings are drawn was to explore relationships between forest management activities and timber quality. Sessions were organized to explore models and simulation methodologies that contribute to an understanding of tree development over time and the ways that management and harvesting activities can...

Author(s):

Dennis P. Dykstra; Robert A. Monserud

Year:

2009

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forest management, forest operations, process models, hybrid models, mechanistic crown models, simulation, sustainable forest management, wood quality.

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Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-791. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 267 p.

Resistance to galling adelgids varies among families of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmani P.)

Cooley gall adelgids, Adelges cooleyi, and round gall adelgids, Adelges abietis, differentially infested 110 half-sib families of Engelmann spruce, Picea engelmannii at 9 study sites in British Columbia. There was a negative genetic correlation (-0.53) between the infestations of the two gall-forming species....

Author(s):

William J. Mattson; Alvin Yanchuk; Gyula Kiss; Bruce Birr

Year:

1999

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In: Lieutier, F.; Mattson, W.J.l Wagner, M.R., eds. Physiology and Genetics of Tree-Phytophage Interactions international symposium; 1997 August 31-September 5; Gujan, France. Paris, France: INRA Editions: 51-64.

Effects of elevated CO₂ and shade on the decomposition of senesced tree foliage: impacts on the growth and survival of treehole mosquitoes

We tested the hypothesis that growth, survival, and reproductive capacity of treehole mosquitoes can be affected by alterations of forest sunlight and CO₂ levels. Larval Aedes triseriatus were fed naturally senesced , abscised foliage from red oak (Quercus rubra) and paper birch (Betula papyrifera...

Author(s):

R. Malcolm Strand; Daniel A. Herms; Michael G. Kaufman; Mark E. Kubiske; William J. Mattson; Edward D. Walker; Kurt S. Pregitzer; Richard W. Merritt

Year:

1996

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Balancing conflicting values: ecosystem solutions in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada.

Ecosystem approaches to sustainable forest management in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada have arisen in response to significant changes that have occurred in these societies over the past century or so (Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force, 1995). One such change as been rapid population growth along the Pacific Coast, where the mild...

Author(s):

Richard W. Haynes; Robert C. Szaro; Dennis P. Dykstra

Year:

2005

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Forests in Landscapes: Ecosystems Approaches to Sustainability. 16 p

Moderation of [CO₂]-induced gas exchange responses by elevated tropospheric O₃ in trembling aspen and sugar maple

The greenhouse gases CO₂ and 0₃ are increasing in the earth's atmosphere. Little is known about long-term impacts of these two co-occurring gases on forest trees. We have been examining the impacts of these two gases on the physiology and growth of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and sugar...

Author(s):

Pooja Sharma; Anu Sober; Jaak Sober; Gopi P. Podila; Mark E. Kubiske; William J. Mattson; Judson G. Isebrands; David F. Karnosky

Year:

2003

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greenhouse gases, ozone, carbon dioxide, interacting pollutants

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Ekologia. 22(Supplement 1): 304-317.

Tropospheric 0₃ moderates responses of temperate hardwood forests to elevated CO₂: a synthesis of molecular to ecosystem results from the Aspen FACE project

1. The impacts of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and/or O₃ have been examined over 4 years using an open-air exposure system in an aggrading northern temperate forest containing two different functional groups (the indeterminate, pioneer, 0₃-sensitive species Trembling Aspen, Populus tremuloides...

Author(s):

D. F. Karnosky; D. R. Zak; K. S. Pregitzer; C. S. Awmack; J. G. Bockheim; R. E. Dickson; G. R. Hendrey; G. E. Host; J. S. King; B. J. Kopper; E. L. Kruger; M. E. Kubiske; R. L. Lindroth; W. J. Mattson; E. P. McDonald; A. Noormets; E. Oksanen; W. F. J. Parsons; K. E. Percy; G. K. Podila; D. E. Riemenschneider; P. Sharma; R. Thakur; A. S&#244ber; J. S&#244ber; W. S. Jones; S. Anttonen; E. Vapaavuori; B. Mankovska; W. Heilman; J. G. Isebrands

Year:

2003

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Aggrading aspen forest, carbon budgets, carbon sequestration, interacting pollutants

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Functional Ecology 17:289-304

Forest thinnings for integrated lumber and paper production

Integrated lumber and paper productions using forest thinning materials from U.S. national forests can significantly reduce the cost of prescriptive thinning operations. Many of the trees removed during forest thinnings are in small-diameter classes (diameter at breast height

Author(s):

J.Y. Zhu; C.T. Scott; R. Gleisner; D. Mann; D.W. Vahey; D.P. Dykstra; G.H. Quinn; L.L. Edwards

Year:

2007

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Forest thinning, Lumber, testing, pulping, wood density, tracheary cells, lodgepole pine, pulpwood, wood fibers, tracheids, small-diameter timber, small timbers, utilization, suppressed growth, thinnings, pulp and paper processes, thermomechanical pulping, smallwood

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Forest products journal. Vol. 57, no. 11 (Nov. 2007): p. 8-13

Diet-Induced Thermogenesis in Insects: A Developing Concept in Nutritional Ecology

Diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT) is a concept that has been well known in one form or another for more than a century in vertebrate nutrition and physiological ecology. Yet, it is practically unknown in the physiology and nutritional ecology of insects. We suggest that DIT is a ubiquitous mechanism occurring in most if not all organisms and functions to maintain...

Author(s):

Terry M. Trier; William J. Mattson

Year:

2003

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diet-induced thermogenesis, unbalanced diets, biological stoichiometry, spruce budworm, Choristoneura, insects

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Environmental Ecology 32(1):1-8

Two dimensional finite element heat transfer models for softwood

The anisotropy of wood creates a complex problem for solving heat and mass transfer problems that require analyses be based on fundamental material properties of the wood structure. Most heat transfer models use average thermal properties across either the radial or tangential directions and have not differentiated the effects of cellular alignment, earlywood/latewood...

Author(s):

Hongmei Gu; John F. Hunt

Year:

2004

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Finite element modeling, thermal conductivity, transient heat transfer, cellular structure, growth ring, moisture content

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Proceedings : 7th Pacific Rim Bio-Based Composites Symposium : Nanjing, China, October 31--November 2, 2004 : Volume 1. [S.l.] : Science & Technique Literature Press: Pages 344-354

Rates and Implications of Rainfall Interception in a Coastal Redwood Forest

Throughfall was measured for a year at five-min intervals in 11 collectors randomly located on two plots in a second-growth redwood forest at the Caspar Creek Experimental Watersheds. Monitoring at one plot continued two more years, during which stemflow from 24 trees was also measured. Comparison of throughfall and stemflow to rainfall measured in adjacent clearings...

Author(s):

Leslie M. Reid; Jack Lewis

Year:

2007

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evapotranspiration, interception, landslides, peakflow, water budget

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In: Standiford, Richard B.; Giusti, Gregory A.; Valachovic, Yana; Zielinski, William J.; Furniss, Michael J., technical editors. 2007. Proceedings of the redwood region forest science symposium: What does the future hold? Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-194. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; p. 107-118

Research, technology transfer, and education needs assessment for non-residential wood structures in California

Market share growth for wood products in the area of non-residential construction will require research, technology transfer, and education for architects, engineers, general contractors, and...

Author(s):

Tom Williamson; Jennifer O'Connor; Karen L. Martinson

Year:

2009

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Wooden buildings, California, materials, design, construction, research, technological innovations, wooden-frame buildings, wood, non-residential, research, technology transfer, needs assessment, priorities, design, construction

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General technical report FPL-GTR-183

Comparing hydrologic responses to tractor-yarded selection and cable-yarded clearcut logging in a coast redwood forest

Initial increases in dry-season flow after selective logging of second-growth coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) in the 424 ha South Fork Caspar Creek watershed disappeared by 7 years after logging ended, and low flows then dropped to below expected values for the next 20 years. During the16 years after clearcut logging in the 473 ha North Fork...

Author(s):

Leslie M. Reid

Year:

2012

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cumulative watershed effects, logging, low flow, peakflow, recovery

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In: Standiford, Richard B.; Weller, Theodore J.; Piirto, Douglas D.; Stuart, John D., tech. coords. Proceedings of coast redwood forests in a changing California: A symposium for scientists and managers. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-238. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. pp. 151-161

Elevated CO₂ alters birch resistance to Lagomorpha herbivores

We studied the three-way interaction of elevated CO₂, nitrogen (N), and temperature (T), and the two-way interaction of elevated CO₂ and early-season defoliation on the secondary chemistry and resistance of Eurasian silver birch (Betula pendula) and North American paper birch (B. papyrifera

Author(s):

William J. Mattson; Kari Kuokkanen; Pekka Niemela; Riitta Julkunen-Tiitto; Seppo Kellomaki; Jorma Tahvanainen

Year:

2004

Keywords:

global climate change, growth-differentiation balance, phenolics, source/sink balance, tannins

Source:

Global Change Biology 10:1402-1413

Effects of elevated CO₂ and shade on the decomposition of senesced tree foliage: impacts on microbial activity

We examined microbial respiration and carbon/nitrogen content of decomposing leaf material in microcosms used for growth studies of the treehole mosquito, Aedes triseriatus. Leaf material originated from birch and oak trees exposed to conditions of shade/sun and elevated/ambient levels of CO₂. Microbial respiration as measured...

Author(s):

Michael G. Kaufman; R. Malcolm Strand; Mark E. Kubiske; William J. Mattson; Daniel A. Herms; Edward D. Walker; Kurt S. Pregitzer; Richard W. Merritt

Year:

1996

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Evaluating effects of thinning on wood quality in southeast Alaska

We examined the effect of thinning on wood quality of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) located on Prince of Wales and Mitkof Islands in southeast Alaska. Sample trees came from paired plots (thinned versus unthinned) in eight naturally regenerated, mixed stands of young-growth western...

Author(s):

Eini C. Lowell; Dennis P. Dykstra; Robert A. Monserud

Year:

2012

Keywords:

precommercial thinning, thinning, wood quality, Sitka spruce, hemlock, second-growth timber

Source:

Western Journal of Applied Forestry

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CO₂ enrichment and carbon partitioning to phenolics: do plant responses accord better with the protein competition or the growth-differentiation balance models?

Effects of nutrient availabiiity on biomass allocation as well as constitutive and rapid induced herbivore resistance in poplar

Variable performance of outbreak defoliators on aspen clones exposed to elevated CO₂ and O₃

Precommercial thinning in mixed-species conifer plantations affected by armillaria and heterobasidion root diseases in West-Central Oregon and Washington: 30-year results

Does reproduction compromise defense in woody plants?

Forest growth and timber quality: crown models and simulation methods for sustainable forest management

Resistance to galling adelgids varies among families of Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmani P.)

Effects of elevated CO₂ and shade on the decomposition of senesced tree foliage: impacts on the growth and survival of treehole mosquitoes

Balancing conflicting values: ecosystem solutions in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada.

Moderation of [CO₂]-induced gas exchange responses by elevated tropospheric O₃ in trembling aspen and sugar maple

Tropospheric 0₃ moderates responses of temperate hardwood forests to elevated CO₂: a synthesis of molecular to ecosystem results from the Aspen FACE project

Forest thinnings for integrated lumber and paper production

Diet-Induced Thermogenesis in Insects: A Developing Concept in Nutritional Ecology

Two dimensional finite element heat transfer models for softwood

Rates and Implications of Rainfall Interception in a Coastal Redwood Forest

Research, technology transfer, and education needs assessment for non-residential wood structures in California

Comparing hydrologic responses to tractor-yarded selection and cable-yarded clearcut logging in a coast redwood forest

Elevated CO₂ alters birch resistance to Lagomorpha herbivores

Effects of elevated CO₂ and shade on the decomposition of senesced tree foliage: impacts on microbial activity

Evaluating effects of thinning on wood quality in southeast Alaska

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