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Development of risk matrices for evaluating climatic change responses of forested habitats

We present an approach to assess and compare risk from climate change among multiple species through a risk matrix, in which managers can quickly prioritize for species that need to have strategies developed, evaluated further, or watched. We base the matrix upon earlier work towards the National Climate Assessment for potential damage to infrastructures from climate...

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Author(s):

Louis R. Iverson; Stephen N. Matthews; Anantha M. Prasad; Matthew P. Peters; Gary Yohe

Year:

2012

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Climatic Change. 114: 231-243.

Holocene soil-geomorphic surfaces influence the role of salmon-derived nutrients in the coastal temperate rainforest of Southeast Alaska

The influence of salmon-derived nutrients (SDN) is widely accepted as a potential factor in the maintenance of aquatic and terrestrial productivity in North American Coastal rainforests. Holocene alluvial landforms are intimately connected with the return of anadromous salmon, but the influence of the soils that occupy these landforms and support this important...

Author(s):

David V. D'Amore; Nicholas S. Bonzey; Jacob Berkowitz; Janine Rüegg; Scott Bridgham

Year:

2011

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soils, alluvial terrace, pedology, salmon-derived nutrients, nitrogen isotopes

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Geomorphology. 126: 377-386

Modeling potential Emerald Ash Borer spread through GIS/cell-based/gravity models with data bolstered by web-based inputs

We model the susceptibility and potential spread of the organism across the eastern United States and especially through Michigan and Ohio using Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. We are also developing a cell-based model for the potential spread of the organism. We have developed a web-based tool for public agencies and private individuals to enter the...

Author(s):

Louis R. Iverson; Anantha M. Prasad; Davis Sydnor; Jonathan Bossenbroek; Mark W. Schwartz; Mark W. Schwartz

Year:

2006

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Emeral Ash Borer (EAB), gravity models, cell-based model

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In: Mastro, Victor, et. al., comps. Emerald Ash Borer research and technology development meeting; 2005 September 26-27; Pittsburgh, PA. FHTET-2005-16. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: 12-13.

Development of an Integrated Moisture Index for predicting species composition

A geographic information system (GIS) approach was used to develop an Integrated Moisture Index (IMI), which was used to predict species composition for Ohio forests. Several landscape features (a slope-aspect shading index, cumulative flow of water downslope, curvature of the landscape, and the water-holding capacity of the soil) were derived from elevation and soils...

Author(s):

Louis R. Iverson; Charles T. Scott; Martin E. Dale; Anantha Prasad

Year:

1996

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In: Kohl, Michael; Gertner, George Z., eds. Caring for the forest: research in a changing world, statistics, mathematics and computers, proceedings of the meeting of IUFRO S4.11-00; 1995 August 6-12; Tampere, Finland. Birmensdorf, Switzerland: Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research: 101-116.

Factors influencing line officers' decisions about National Environmental Policy Act project design and development.

Prior to the existence of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Forest Service district rangers had considerable latitude to make resource management decisions and execute management plans with relatively little encumbrance by documentation and process requirements. Today there appear to be differences not only in the district ranger population, but in the...

Author(s):

Donald G. MacGregor; David N. Seesholtz

Year:

2008

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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), planning, land management decisionmaking, Forest Service.

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Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-766. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p.

Modeling potential movements of the emerald ash borer: the model framework

The emerald ash borer (EAB, Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) is threatening to decimate native ashes (Fraxinus spp.) across North America and, so far, has devastated ash populations across sections of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Ontario. We are attempting to develop a computer model that will predict EAB future movement by adapting...

Author(s):

Louis R. Iverson; Anantha Prasad; Jonathan Bossenbroek; Davis Sydnor; Mark W. Schwartz

Year:

2010

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ash, dispersal, emerald ash borer, invasive, Ohio

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In: Pye, John M.; Rauscher, H. Michael; Sands, Yasmeen; Lee, Danny C.; Beatty, Jerome S., tech. eds. Advances in threat assessment and their application to forest and rangeland management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-802. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest and Southern Research Stations: 581-597.

Stand dynamics of mixed red alder-conifer forests of southeast Alaska.

Stand structure and dynamics were evaluated in mixed red alder (Alnus rubra Bong.) - conifer forests of southeast Alaska. We assessed stand development, tree density, total basal area, diameter distribution of live and dead trees, height distribution of live trees, and mean diameter of all and largest conifers in 40-year-old red alder - conifer...

Author(s):

Robert L. Deal; Paul E. Hennon; Ewa H. Orlikowska; David V. D'Amore

Year:

2004

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Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34: 969-980

Wildfire hazard mapping: exploring site conditions in eastern US wildland—ruban interfaces

Wildfires are a serious threat for land managers and property owners, and over the last few decades this threat has expanded as a result of increased rural development. Most wildfires in the north-eastern US occur in the wildland—urban interface, those regions of intermingling urban and non-developed vegetated lands, where access to firefighting resources can...

Author(s):

Matthew P. Peters; Louis R. Iverson; Stephen N. Matthews; Anantha M. Prasad

Year:

2013

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Maxent, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, predictive modelling, resource planning

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International Journal of Wildland Fire. 22: 567-578.

A practical approach for translating climate change adaptation principles into forest management actions

There is an ever-growing body of literature on forest management strategies for climate change adaptation; however, few frameworks have been presented for integrating these strategies with the real-world challenges of forest management. We have developed a structured approach for translating broad adaptation concepts into specific management actions and silvicultural...

Author(s):

Maria K. Janowiak; Christopher W. Swanston; Linda M. Nagel; Leslie A. Brandt; Patricia R. Butler; Stephen D. Handler; P. Danielle Shannon; Louis R. Iverson; Stephen N. Matthews; Anantha Prasad; Matthew P. Peters

Year:

2014

Keywords:

climate change, adaptation, case study, forest management

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Journal of Forestry. 112(5): 424-433.

Hydromorphic soil development in the coastal temperate rainforest of Alaska

Predictive relationships between soil drainage and soil morphological features are essential for understanding hydromorphic processes in soils. The linkage between patterns of soil saturation, reduction, and reductimorphic soil properties has not been extensively studied in mountainous forested terrain. We measured soil saturation and reduction during a 4-yr period in...

Author(s):

David V. D'Amore; Chien-Lu Ping; Paul A. Herendeen

Year:

2015

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Soil Science Society of America Journal. 79(2): 698-709.

Novel approach to evaluate the dynamic variation of wind drift and evaporation losses under moving irrigation systems

The increased need for water and food security requires the development of new approaches to save water through irrigation management strategies, particularly for center pivot irrigation. To do so entails monitoring of the dynamic variation in wind drift and evaporation losses (WDELs) of irrigation systems under different weather conditions and for relatively long time...

Author(s):

Sayed-Hossein Sadeghi; Troy R. Peters; Mohammad Z. Amini; Sparkle L. Malone; Hank W. Loescher

Year:

2015

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wind drift, evaporation loss, center pivot, catch can test, water application efficiency, strip test

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Biosystems Engineering. 135: 44-53.

Modeling potential movements of the emerald ash borer in Ohio

Author(s):

Louis R. Iverson; Anantha Prasad; Jonathan Bossenbroek; Davis Sydnor; Mark Schwartz

Year:

2006

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Source:

In: Mastro, Victor; Lance, David; Reardon, Richard;