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Landscape variation of seasonal pool plant communities in forests of northern Minnesota, USA

Seasonal forest pools are abundant in the northern Great Lakes forest landscape, but the range of variation in their plant communities and the relationship of this variation to multi-scale landscape features remains poorly quantified. We examined seasonal pools in forests of northern Minnesota USA with the objective of quantifying the range of variation in plant...

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Author(s):

Brian Palik; Dwight Streblow; Leanne Egeland; Richard Buech

Year:

2007

Keywords:

seasonal ponds, vernal pools, wetland plants

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Wetlands. 27(1): 12-23.

Anticipating forest and range land development in central Oregon (USA) for landscape analysis, with an example application involving mule deer

Forest policymakers, public lands managers, and scientists in the Pacific Northwest (USA) seek ways to evaluate the landscape-level effects of policies and management through the multidisciplinary development and application of spatially explicit methods and models. The Interagency Mapping and Analysis Project (IMAP) is an ongoing effort to generate landscape-wide...

Author(s):

Jeffrey D. Kline; Alissa Moses; Theresa Burcsu

Year:

2010

Keywords:

spatial land-use models, landscape change, wildland-urban interface, mule deer

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Environmental Management. 45: 974-984

Selection criteria for forested natural areas in New England, USA

The selection of forested natural areas for research and educational purposes is discussed. Five factors are important: sufficient size; representation of typical communities and sites; documented disturbance histories; acceptable current condition in terms of age, tree size, and successional stage; and administrative feasibility.

Author(s):

William B. Leak; Mariko Yamasaki; Marie-Louise Smith; David T. Funk

Year:

1994

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Source:

Natual Areas Journal. 14(4): 300-305.

Leaf area and structural changes after thinning in even-aged Picea rubens and Abies balsamea stands in Maine, USA

We tested the hypothesis that changes in leaf area index (LAIm2 m-2) and mean stand diameter following thinning are due to thinning type and residual density. The ratios of pre- to postthinning diameter and LAI were used to assess structural changes between replicated crown, dominant, and low thinning treatments to 33% and 50% residual density in even-aged Picea rubens...

Author(s):

R. Justin DeRose; Robert S. Seymour

Year:

2012

Keywords:

leaf area index, Picea rubens, Abies balsamea

Source:

International Journal of Forestry Research. 2012: Article ID 181057.

Long-term landscape changes in a subalpine spruce-fir forest in central Utah, USA

In Western North America, increasing wildfire and outbreaks of native bark beetles have been mediated by warming climate conditions. Bioclimatic models forecast the loss of key high elevation species throughout the region. This study uses retrospective vegetation and fire history data to reconstruct the drivers of past disturbance and environmental change....

Author(s):

Jesse L. Morris; R. Justin DeRose; Andrea R. Brunelle

Year:

2015

Keywords:

spruce beetle, climate change, dendroctonus, engelmann spruce, logging, western North America, wildfire

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Forest Ecosystems. 2: 35.

Climate variability and fire effects on quaking aspen in the central Rocky Mountains, USA

Our understanding of how climate and fire have impacted quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) communities prior to the 20th century is fairly limited. This study analysed the period between 4500 and 2000 cal. yr BP to assess the pre-historic role of climate and fire on an aspen community during an aspen-dominated period.

Author(s):

Vachel A. Carter; Andrea Brunelle; Thomas A. Minckley; John D. Shaw; R. Justin DeRose; Simon Brewer

Year:

2017

Keywords:

aspen, climate variability, disturbance, drought, fire history, late Holocene, palaeoecology, pollen, Rocky Mountains, vegetation change

Source:

Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12932.

Effect of increasing temperatures on the distribution of spruce beetle in Engelmann spruce forests of the Interior West, USA

The spruce beetle (Dendoctronus rufipennis) is a pervasive bark beetle indigenous to spruce (Picea spp.) forests of North America. In the last two decades outbreaks of spruce beetle have increased in severity and extent. Increasing temperatures have been implicated as they directly control beetle populations, potentially inciting endemic populations to build to...

Author(s):

R. Justin DeRose; Barbara J. Bentz; James N. Long; John D. Shaw

Year:

2013

Keywords:

BIOMOD, Forest Inventory and Analysis, global climate change, niche modeling, species distribution modeling

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Forest Ecology and Management. 308: 198-206.

Classification, genetic variation and pathogenicity of Lymantria dispar nucleopolyhedrovirus isolates from Asia, Europe, and North America

Lymantria dispar multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (LdMNPV) has been formulated and applied to control outbreaks of the gypsy moth, L. dispar. To classify and determine the degree of genetic variation among isolates of L. dispar NPVs from different parts of the range of the gypsy moth, partial sequences of the

Author(s):

Robert L. Harrison; Melody A. Keena; Daniel L. Rowley

Year:

2014

Keywords:

Baculovirus, Nucleopolyhedrovirus, Gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, Genome, LdMNPV

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Pathology. 116: 27-35.

Herbivory and advance reproduction influence quaking aspen regeneration response to management in southern Utah, USA

Recent concern regarding the potential decline of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forests in the western United States has sparked concern over whether the species can be effectively regenerated. Using a retrospective approach, we quantified the response of regenerating aspen stems to an ordinary set of silvicultural treatments conducted over...

Author(s):

Justin M. Britton; R. Justin DeRose; Karen E. Mock; James N. Long

Year:

2016

Keywords:

browsing, coppice, herbivory, Populus tremuloides, silviculture

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Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 46: 674-682.

Fire and the origin of Table Mountain pine - pitch pine communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA

The prevalence of stand-replacing fire in the formation of Table Mountain pine - pitch pine (Pinus pungens Lamb. and Pinus rigida Mill., respectively) communities was investigated with dendrochronological techniques. Nine stands in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee were analyzed for age structure, species recruitment trends,...

Author(s):

Patrick H. Brose; Thomas A. Waldrop

Year:

2006

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Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:710-718

Fire and the orgin of the Table Mountain pine - pitch pine communities in the southern Appalachian mountains, USA

The prevalence of stand-replacing tire in the formation of Table Mountain pine - pitch pine (Pinus pungens Lamb. and Pinus rigida Mill., respectively) communities was investigated with dendrochronological techniques. Nine stands in Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee were analyzed for age structure, species recruitment trends,...

Author(s):

Patrick H. Brose; Thomas A. Waldrop

Year:

2006

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Source:

Can. J. Forest Res., Vol. 36: 710-718

A dendrochronological analysis of a disturbance-succession model for oak-pine forests of the Appalachian Mountains, USA

Disturbance-succession models describe the relationship between the disturbance regime and the dominant tree species of a forest type. Such models are useful tools in ecosystem management and restoration, provided they are accurate. We tested a disturbance-succession model for the oak-pine (Quercus spp. - Pinus spp.) forests of the...

Author(s):

Patrick H. Brose; Thomas A. Waldrop

Year:

2010

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Source:

Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40: 1373-1385.

Fire regimes of remnant pitch pine communities in the Ridge and Valley Region of central Pennsylvania, USA. Forests

Many fire-adapted ecosystems in the northeastern U.S. are converting to fire-intolerant vegetation communities due to fire suppression in the 20th century. Prescribed fire and other vegetation management activities that increase resilience and resistance to global changes are increasingly being implemented, particularly on public lands. For many fire-dependent...

Author(s):

Joseph Marschall; Michael Stambaugh; Benjamin Jones; Richard Guyette; Patrick Brose; Daniel C. Dey

Year:

2016

Keywords:

Pennsylvania, dendrochronology, fire scars, fire severity, humans

Source:

Forests. 7(10): 224.

Modeling and predicting vegetation response of western USA grasslands, shrublands, and deserts to climate change (Chapter 1)

Experimental research and species distribution modeling predict large changes in the distributions of species and vegetation types in the Interior West due to climate change. Species? responses will depend not only on their physiological tolerances but also on their phenology, establishment properties, biotic interactions, and capacity to evolve and migrate. Because...

Author(s):

Megan M. Friggens; Marcus V. Warwell; Jeanne C. Chambers; Stanley G. Kitchen

Year:

2012

Keywords:

climate change, grasslands, shrublands, deserts, assessment

Source:

In: Finch, Deborah M., ed. Climate change in grasslands, shrublands, and deserts of the interior American West: a review and needs assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-285. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 1-20.

The influences of drought and humans on the fire regimes of northern Pennsylvania, USA

Understanding past fire regimes is necessary to justify and implement restoration of disturbance-associated forests via prescribed fire programs. In eastern North America, the characteristics of many presettlement fire regimes are unclear because of the passage of time. To help clarify this situation, we developed a 435-year fire history for the former conifer forests...

Author(s):

Patrick H. Brose; Daniel C. Dey; Richard P. Guyette; Joseph M. Marschall; Michael C. Stambaugh

Year:

2013

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Source:

Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 43: 757-767.

Simulation of quaking aspen potential fire behavior in Northern Utah, USA

Current understanding of aspen fire ecology in western North America includes the paradoxical characterization that aspen-dominated stands, although often regenerated following fire, are ?fire-proof?. We tested this idea by predicting potential fire behavior across a gradient of aspen dominance in northern Utah using the Forest Vegetation Simulator and the Fire and...

Author(s):

R. Justin DeRose; A. Joshua Leffler

Year:

2014

Keywords:

canopy base height, canopy bulk density, crowning index, Populus tremuloides, species composition, torching index

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Forests. 5: 3241-3256.

Tree-ring reconstruction of the level of Great Salt Lake, USA

Utah's Great Salt Lake (GSL) is a closed-basin remnant of the larger Pleistocene-age Lake Bonneville. The modern instrumental record of the GSL-level (i.e. elevation) change is strongly modulated by Pacific Ocean coupled ocean/atmospheric oscillations at low frequency, and therefore reflects the decadalscale wet/dry cycles that characterize the region. A within-...

Author(s):

R. Justin DeRose; Shih-Yu Wang; Brendan M. Buckley; Matthew F. Bekker

Year:

2014

Keywords:

decadal oscillation, dendroclimatology, drought cycle, Great Basin, paleohydrology, pluvial

Source:

The Holocene. 24(7): 805-813.

Origin, development, and impact of mountain laurel thickets on the mixed-oak forests of the central Appalachian Mountains, USA

Throughout forests of the northern hemisphere, some species of ericaceous shrubs can form persistent understories that interfere with forest regeneration processes. In the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America, mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) may interfere in the regeneration of mixed-oak (Quercus spp.) forests. To...

Author(s):

Patrick H. Brose

Year:

2016

Keywords:

Dendrochronology, Forest regeneration, Kalmia latifolia, Quercus spp.

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 374: 33-41.

Statistical treatment for the wet bias in tree-ring chronologies: A case study from the InteriorWest, USA

Dendroclimatic research has long assumed a linear relationship between tree-ring increment and climate variables. However, ring width frequently underestimates extremely wet years, a phenomenon we refer to as ?wet bias?. In this paper, we present statistical evidence for wet bias that is obscured by the assumption of linearity. To improve tree-ring-climate modeling, we...

Author(s):

Yan Sun; Matthew F. Bekker; R. Justin DeRose; Roger Kjelgren; S. -Y. Simon Wang

Year:

2017

Keywords:

dendrochronology, dendroclimatology, likelihood-based modeling, saturation

Source:

Environmental and Ecological Statistics. 24: 131-150.

An evaluation of seven methods for controlling mountain laurel thickets in the mixed-oak forests of the central Appalachian Mountains, USA

In the Appalachian Mountains of eastern North America, mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) thickets in mixed-oak (Quercus spp.) stands can lead to hazardous fuel situations, forest regeneration problems, and possible forest health concerns. Therefore, land managers need techniques to control mountain laurel thickets and limit...

Author(s):

Patrick H. Brose

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management

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Landscape variation of seasonal pool plant communities in forests of northern Minnesota, USA

Anticipating forest and range land development in central Oregon (USA) for landscape analysis, with an example application involving mule deer

Selection criteria for forested natural areas in New England, USA

Leaf area and structural changes after thinning in even-aged Picea rubens and Abies balsamea stands in Maine, USA

Long-term landscape changes in a subalpine spruce-fir forest in central Utah, USA

Climate variability and fire effects on quaking aspen in the central Rocky Mountains, USA

Effect of increasing temperatures on the distribution of spruce beetle in Engelmann spruce forests of the Interior West, USA

Classification, genetic variation and pathogenicity of Lymantria dispar nucleopolyhedrovirus isolates from Asia, Europe, and North America

Herbivory and advance reproduction influence quaking aspen regeneration response to management in southern Utah, USA

Fire and the origin of Table Mountain pine - pitch pine communities in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA

Fire and the orgin of the Table Mountain pine - pitch pine communities in the southern Appalachian mountains, USA

A dendrochronological analysis of a disturbance-succession model for oak-pine forests of the Appalachian Mountains, USA

Fire regimes of remnant pitch pine communities in the Ridge and Valley Region of central Pennsylvania, USA. Forests

Modeling and predicting vegetation response of western USA grasslands, shrublands, and deserts to climate change (Chapter 1)

The influences of drought and humans on the fire regimes of northern Pennsylvania, USA

Simulation of quaking aspen potential fire behavior in Northern Utah, USA

Tree-ring reconstruction of the level of Great Salt Lake, USA

Origin, development, and impact of mountain laurel thickets on the mixed-oak forests of the central Appalachian Mountains, USA

Statistical treatment for the wet bias in tree-ring chronologies: A case study from the InteriorWest, USA

An evaluation of seven methods for controlling mountain laurel thickets in the mixed-oak forests of the central Appalachian Mountains, USA

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