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Quantitative genetic tools for insecticide resistance risk assessment: estimating the heritability of resistance

Quantitative genetic studies of resistance can provide estimates of genetic parameters not available with other types of genetic analyses. Three methods are discussed for estimating the amount of additive genetic variation in resistance to individual insecticides and subsequent estimation of heritability (h²) of resistance. Sibling analysis and...

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Author(s):

Michael J. Firko; Jane Leslie Hayes

Year:

1990

Keywords:

insecta, sibling analysis, offspring-parent regression, threshold trait analysis

Source:

Journal of Economic Entomology, Vol. 83(3)647-654

Evaluation of the FVS-CR diameter growth model in structurally heterogeneous ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson) stands in the Southern Rockies, and potential modifications

Forest managers are increasingly focused on promoting or maintaining forest structural complexity, including the heterogeneity of forest structures within stands. However, many of the forest growth models commonly used by forest managers assume that stands are structurally homogeneous. Therefore, using these forest models to project the development of structurally...

Author(s):

Yvette L. Dickinson; Michael A. Battaglia; Lance A. Asherin

Year:

2019

Keywords:

GENGYM (GENeralized Growth and Yield Model), local competition, crown ratio

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Forest Ecology and Management. 448: 1-10.

Modelling night-time ecosystem respiration by a constrained source optimization method

One of the main challenges to quantifying ecosystem carbon budgets is properly quantifying the magnitude of night-time ecosystem respiration. Inverse Lagrangian dispersion analysis provides a promising approach to addressing such a problem when measured mean CO₂ concentration profiles and nocturnal velocity statistics are available. An inverse...

Author(s):

Chun-Tai Lai; Gabriel Katul; John Butnor; David Ellsworth; Ram Oren

Year:

2002

Keywords:

localized near field theory, inverse methods, ecosystem respiration, net ecosystem exchange, forest carbon budget

Source:

Global Change Biology (2002) 8, 124-141

Soil properties differently influence estimates of soil CO₂ efflux from three chamber-based measurement systems

Soil C0₂ efflux is a major component of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) of forest systems. Combining data from multiple researchers for larger-scale modeling and assessment will only be valid if their methodologies provide directly comparable results. We conducted a series of laboratory and field tests to assess the presence and magnitude of...

Author(s):

John R. Butnor; Kurt H. Johnsen; Chris A. Maier

Year:

2005

Keywords:

Calibration, CO2 efflux, diffusivity, porosity, soil CO2 efflux, soil respiration

Source:

Biogeochemistry 73: 283-301

Relationships between acoustic variables and different measures of stiffness in standing Pinus taeda trees

Acoustic tools are increasingly used to estimate standing-tree (dynamic) stiffness; however, such techniques overestimate static stiffness, the standard measurement for determining modulus of elasticity (MOE) of wood. This study aimed to identify correction methods for standing-tree estimates making dynamic and static stiffness comparable. Sixty Pinus taeda L...

Author(s):

Christian R. Mora; Laurence R. Schimleck; Fikret Isik; Jerry M. Mahon Jr.; Alexander Clark III; Richard F. Daniels

Year:

2009

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Source:

Journal Article Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 1421-1429.

Evaluation of traps used to monitor southern pine beetle aerial populations and sex ratios

Various kinds of traps have been employed to monitor and forecast population trends of the southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann; Coleoptera: Scolytidae), but their accuracy in assessing pine-beetle abundance and sex ratio in the field has not been evaluated directly.
In trus study, we...

Author(s):

James T. Cronin; Jane L. Hayes; Peter Turchin

Year:

2000

Keywords:

Bark beetles, Dendroctonus frontalis, dispersal, insect traps, markrelease-recapture, population monitoring

Source:

Agricultural and Forest Entomology 2:69-76

Surface-based GPR underestimates below-stump root biomass

Aims While lateral root mass is readily detectable with ground penetrating radar (GPR), the roots beneath a tree (below-stump) and overlapping lateral roots near large trees are problematic for surface-based antennas operated in reflection mode. We sought to determine if tree size (DBH) effects GPR root detection proximal to longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill) and if...

Author(s):

John R. Butnor; Lisa J. Samuelson; Thomas A. Stokes; Kurt H. Johnsen; Peter H. Anderson; Carlos A. Gonzalez-Benecke

Year:

2016

Keywords:

GPR . Root mass, taproot . Lateral root . Below-stump . Pinus palustris . Longleaf pine

Source:

Plant and Soil

Utility of Ground-Penetrating Radar as a Root Biomass Survey Tool in Forest Systems

Traditional methods of measuring tree root biomass are labor intensive and destructive in nature. We studied the utility of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to measure tree root biomass in situ within a replicated, intensive culture forestry experiment planted with loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). The study site was located in Decatur County, Georgia,...

Author(s):

John R. Butnor; J.A. Doolittle; Kurt H. Johnsen; L. Samuelson; T. Stokes; L. Kress

Year:

2003

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Source:

Soil Science Society of America Journal 67:1607–1615

Carbon Sequestration in loblolly pine plantations: Methods, limitations, and research needs for estimating storage pools

Globally, the species most widely used for plantation forestry is loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Because loblolly pine plantations are so extensive and grow so rapidly, they provide a great potential for sequestering atmospheric carbon (C). Because loblolly pine plantations are relatively simple ecosystems and because such a great volume of...

Author(s):

Kurt Johnsen; Bob Teskey; Lisa Samuelson; John Butnor; David Sampson; Felipe Sanchez; Chris Maier; Steve McKeand

Year:

2004

Keywords:

Source:

In: Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–75. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. Chapter 32. p. 373-381.

Detecting defects in conifers with ground penetrating radar: applications and challenges

Our objective was to test ground penetrating radar (GPR) to non-destructively estimate decay volumes in living coniferous trees. GPR is geophysical tool which uses an antenna to propagate short bursts of electromagnetic energy in solid materials and measure the two-way travel time and amplitude of reflected signals. We compared estimates hof bole decay from data...

Author(s):

J.R. Butnor; M.L. Pruyn; D.C. Shaw; M.E. Harmon; A.N. Mucciardi; M.G. Ryan

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Source:

For. Path. Vol. 39: 309-322

Experimental evaluation of several key factors affecting root biomass estimation by 1500 MHz ground penetrating radar

Accurate quantification of coarse roots without disturbance represents a gap in our understanding of belowground ecology. Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has shown significant promise for coarse root detection and measurement, however root orientation relative to scanning transect direction, the difficulty identifying dead root mass, and the effects of root shadowing...

Author(s):

John Bain; Frank Day; John Butnor

Year:

2017

Keywords:

coarse roots, ground penetrating radar, root biomass, 1500 MHz antenna

Source:

Remote Sensing

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) detects fine roots of agricultural crops in the field

Aim Ground penetrating radar (GPR) as a non-invasive technique is widely used in coarse root detection. However, the applicability of the technique to detect fine roots of agricultural crops is unknown. The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility of utilizing GPR to detect fine roots in the field.

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Author(s):

Xiuwei Liu; Xuejun Dong; Qingwu Xue; Daniel I. Leskovar; John Jifon; John R. Butnor; Thomas Marek

Year:

2018

Keywords:

Ground penetrating radar, Fine roots, Average pixel intensity, Triticum aestivum, Saccharum

Source:

Plant and Soil

Use of ground-penetrating radar to study tree roots in the southeastern United States

Summary: The objectives of our study were to assess the feasibility of using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) to study roots over a broad range of soil conditions in the southeastern United States. Study sites were located in the Southern Piedmont, Carolina Sandhills and Atlantic Coast Flatwoods. At each site, we tested for selection of the appropriate...

Author(s):

John R. Butnor; J.A. Doolittle; L. Kress; Susan Cohen; Kurt H. Johnsen

Year:

2001

Keywords:

GPR, map roots, noninvasive, radar antenna, radar profile, reflector, root biomass, root biomass assessment, root biomass sampling, root detection

Source:

Tree Physiology 21, 1269?1278. Heron Publishing - Victoria, Canada

Determining the vulnerability of Mexican pine forests to bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus are natural inhabitants of forests; under particular conditions some species of this genus can cause large-scale tree mortality. However, only in recent decades has priority been given to the comprehensive study of these insects in Mexico. Mexico possesses high ecological diversity in Dendroctonus-...

Author(s):

Y. Salinas-Moreno; A. Ager; C.F. Vargas; J.L. Hayes; G. Zuniga

Year:

2010

Keywords:

bark beetles, pine, vulnerability, Mexico, distribution, richness

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 260: 52-61

Probabilistic risk models for multiple disturbances: an example of forest insects and wildfires

Building probabilistic risk models for highly random forest disturbances like wildfire and forest insect outbreaks is a challenging. Modeling the interactions among natural disturbances is even more difficult. In the case of wildfire and forest insects, we looked at the probability of a large fire given an insect outbreak and also the incidence of insect outbreaks...

Author(s):

Haiganoush K. Preisler; Alan A. Ager; Jane L. Hayes

Year:

2010

Keywords:

Forest threats, multinomial regression, multiple stressors, nonparametric regression, spatial regression, spline functions

Source:

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-GTR-802. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest and Southern Research Stations: 371-379

Road density not a major driver of Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) population demographics in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

In recent years there have been concerns over the conservation and management of freshwater turtle populations in the state of Texas. In 2008 and 2009, we completed several investigations addressing anthropogenic impacts on freshwater turtles in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (LRGV) of Texas. Here, we use a model selection approach within an information-theoretic...

Author(s):

Ivana Mali; Brian E. Dickerson; Donald J. Brown; James R. Dixon; Michael R. J. Forstner

Year:

2013

Keywords:

conservation, GIS, human impacts, turtles, urbanization

Source:

Herpetological Conservation and Biology. 8(1): 131-140.

Measuring soil frost depth in forest ecosystems with ground penetrating radar

Soil frost depth in forest ecosystems can be variable and depends largely on early winter air temperatures and the amount and timing of snowfall. A thorough evaluation of ecological responses to seasonally frozen ground is hampered by our inability to adequately characterize the frequency, depth, duration and intensity of soil frost events. We evaluated the use of...

Author(s):

John R. Butnor; John L. Campbell; James B. Shanley; Stanley Zarnoch

Year:

2014

Keywords:

GPR, Forest, Frozen soil, Nondestructive, Soil frost

Source:

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 192-193:121-131

Modeling the effects of forest management on in situ and ex situ longleaf pine forest carbon stocks

Assessment of forest carbon storage dynamics requires a variety of techniques including simulation models. We developed a hybrid model to assess the effects of silvicultural management systems on carbon (C) budgets in longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) plantations in the southeastern U.S. To simulate in situ C pools, the model integrates a growth and yield model...

Author(s):

C.A. Gonzalez-Benecke; L.J. Samuelson; T.A. Martin; W.P. Cropper Jr; Kurt Johnsen; T.A. Stokes; John Butnor; P.H. Anderson

Year:

2015

Keywords:

Pinus palustris plantations, Silviculture, Biomass, Prescribed Burning, Carbon Stock Modeling

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management

Forest service contributions to the national land cover database (NLCD): Tree Canopy Cover Production

A tree canopy cover (TCC) layer is one of three elements in the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) 2011 suite of nationwide geospatial data layers. In 2010, the USDA Forest Service (USFS) committed to creating the TCC layer as a member of the Multi-Resolution Land Cover (MRLC) consortium. A general methodology for creating the TCC layer was reported at the 2012 FIA...

Author(s):

Bonnie Ruefenacht; Robert Benton; Vicky Johnson; Tanushree Biswas; Craig Baker; Mark Finco; Kevin Megown; John Coulston; Ken Winterberger; Mark Riley

Year:

2015

Keywords:

Source:

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: 241-243.

The importance of disturbance and forest structure to bird abundance in the Black Hills

Many North American birds associated with forest disturbances such as wildfire and mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks are declining in abundance. More information on relationships between avian abundance and forest structure and disturbance is needed to guide conservation and management. Our objective was to determine densities of American Three-...

Author(s):

Elizabeth A. Matseur; Joshua J. Millspaugh; Frank R. Thompson; Brian E. Dickerson; Mark A. Rumble

Year:

2019

Keywords:

bird abundance, Black Hills, disturbance, point counts, time-removal models

Source:

The Condor: Ornithological Applications. 121: 1-18.

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Quantitative genetic tools for insecticide resistance risk assessment: estimating the heritability of resistance

Evaluation of the FVS-CR diameter growth model in structurally heterogeneous ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Douglas ex C. Lawson) stands in the Southern Rockies, and potential modifications

Modelling night-time ecosystem respiration by a constrained source optimization method

Soil properties differently influence estimates of soil CO₂ efflux from three chamber-based measurement systems

Relationships between acoustic variables and different measures of stiffness in standing Pinus taeda trees

Evaluation of traps used to monitor southern pine beetle aerial populations and sex ratios

Surface-based GPR underestimates below-stump root biomass

Utility of Ground-Penetrating Radar as a Root Biomass Survey Tool in Forest Systems

Carbon Sequestration in loblolly pine plantations: Methods, limitations, and research needs for estimating storage pools

Detecting defects in conifers with ground penetrating radar: applications and challenges

Experimental evaluation of several key factors affecting root biomass estimation by 1500 MHz ground penetrating radar

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) detects fine roots of agricultural crops in the field

Use of ground-penetrating radar to study tree roots in the southeastern United States

Determining the vulnerability of Mexican pine forests to bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Probabilistic risk models for multiple disturbances: an example of forest insects and wildfires

Road density not a major driver of Red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) population demographics in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

Measuring soil frost depth in forest ecosystems with ground penetrating radar

Modeling the effects of forest management on in situ and ex situ longleaf pine forest carbon stocks

Forest service contributions to the national land cover database (NLCD): Tree Canopy Cover Production

The importance of disturbance and forest structure to bird abundance in the Black Hills

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