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A review of basin morphology and pool hydrology of isolated ponded wetlands: implications for seasonal forest pools of the northeastern United States

Seasonal forest pools (SFPs) are geographically- and hydrologically- isolated ponded wetlands, in that they are topographically isolated from other surface waters. SFPs occur commonly throughout the temperate forests of the eastern United States and adjacent Canada. SFPs are ephemeral in occurrence, typically drying annually. The regular drying of SFPs excludes fish...

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Author(s):

Robert T. Brooks; Robert T. Brooks

Year:

2005

Keywords:

amphibians, aquatic invertebrates, hydrology, hydroperiod, seasonal forest pools, woodland vernal pools

Source:

Wetlands Ecology and Management. 13: 335-348.

Genetic consequences of forest population dynamics influenced by historic climatic variability in the western USA

We review recent advances in climate science that show cyclic climatic variation over multiple time scales and give examples of the impacts of this variation on plant populations in the western USA. The paleohistorical reconstructions we review and others indicate that plant specles track these cycles in individualistically complex ways. These dynamic histories suggest...

Author(s):

Robert D. Westfall; Constance I. Millar

Year:

2004

Keywords:

Climatic response, climate change, genetic statistics, quantitative genetic variation, tree-ring analysis

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management 197:159-170

Status and trends of dam removal research in the United States

Aging infrastructure coupled with growing interest in river restoration has driven a dramatic increase in the practice of dam removal. With this increase, there has been a proliferation of studies that assess the physical and ecological responses of rivers to these removals. As more dams are considered for removal, scientific information from these dam-removal studies...

Author(s):

J. Ryan Bellmore; Jeffrey J. Duda; Laura S. Craig; Samantha L. Greene; Christian E. Torgersen; Mathias J. Collins; Katherine Vittum

Year:

2016

Keywords:

dams, dam removal, monitoring, meta-analysis, river restoration

Source:

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 4(2): e1164-.

The need for performance criteria in evaluating the durability of wood products

Data generated from wood-product durability evaluations can be difficult to interpret. Standard methods used to evaluate the potential long-term durability of wood products often provide little guidance on interpretation of test results. Decisions on acceptable performance for standardization and code compliance are based on the judgment of reviewers or committees....

Author(s):

Stan Lebow; Bessie Woodward; Patricia Lebow; Carol Clausen

Year:

2010

Keywords:

Wood preservatives, wood preservation, service life, wood standards, engineering standards, standardization, preserved wood, testing, standards, performance testing, durability, preservatives, review article, preservation, treated wood, preservative treated wood, exposure tests, performance criteria, evaluation methods, wood products

Source:

Journal of Istanbul University Forestry Faculty. Vol. 58, no. 2 (2010): p. 29-41.

Identification of individual foothill yellow-legged frogs (Rana boylii) using chin pattern photographs: a non-invasive and effective method for small population studies

The ability to identify individual animals is a valuable tool in the study of amphibian population dynamics, movement ecology, social behavior, and habitat use. Numerous methods of marking amphibians have been employed including the use of passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags, radio-transmitters, elastomers, branding, and mutilation techniques such as toe...

Author(s):

K.R. Marlow; K.D. Wiseman; Clara Wheeler; J.E. Drennan; R.E. Jackman

Year:

2016

Keywords:

Foothill yellow-legged frog, photoidentification, individual identification technique, chin markings

Source:

Herpetological Review. 47(2): 193-198

FIA Quality Assurance Program: Evaluation of a Tree Matching Algorithm for Paired Forest Inventory Data

The quality of Forest Inventory and Analysis inventory data can be documented by having quality assurance crews remeasure plots originally measured by field crews within 2 to 3 weeks of the initial measurement, and assessing the difference between the original and remeasured data. Estimates of measurement uncertainty for the data are generated using paired data...

Author(s):

James E. Pollard; James A. Westfall; Paul A. Patterson; David L. Gartner

Year:

2005

Keywords:

Source:

In: Proceedings of the fifth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2003 November 18-20; New Orleans, LA. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-69. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 222p.

Genetic diversity within species

Based on our review of literature and survey of geneticists workingon California taxa, we find genetic information lacking for most speciesin the Sierra Nevada. This situation is likely to remain infuture, with specific groups of taxa or occasional rare or high-interestspecies receiving specific study. Where we do have empirical information,we find few generalities...

Author(s):

D. L. Rogers; C. I. Millar; R. D Westfall

Year:

1996

Keywords:

NEPA, National Environmental Policy Act, genetic awareness, resoration, biocides

Source:

Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project, Final report to Congress, Volume II, Assessments and Scientific Basis for Management Options, Centers for water and Wildland Resources, Report No. 37, University of California, Davis, California

Potential impacts of global climate change on the hydrology and ecology of ephemeral freshwater systems of the forests of the northeastern United States

Global, national, and regional assessments of the potential effects of Global Climate Change (GCC) have been recently released, but not one of these assessments has specifically addressed the critical issue of the potential impacts of GCC on ephemeral freshwater systems (EFS). I suggest that this is a major oversight as EFS occur in various forms across the globe. In...

Author(s):

Robert T. Brooks

Year:

2009

Keywords:

Source:

Climatic Change. 95: 469?483.

Long-term durability of CCA and ACA : how is 0.4 doing?

For decades the phrase ?point 4? was synonymous with wood treated for use in contact with the ground. In this paper we review how and why the 0.4 lb/ft³ (6.4 kg/m³) retention became such an accepted standard, and then evaluate how well this retention has performed in long term stake testing. Data from plots near Saucier,...

Author(s):

Stan T. Lebow; Cherilyn A. Hatfield; Bessie Woodward

Year:

2010

Keywords:

Wood preservatives, preservative testing, wood deterioration, service life, southern pines, copper, preserved wood, wood preservation, wood decomposition, stake preservation, chromated copper arsenate, ammoniacal copper arsenate, CCA, ACA, durability, preservative treated wood, treated wood, failure, field tests, stake tests, stake decay, decay resistance, wood decay, exposure tests, Mississippi, durability

Source:

Proceedings, one hundred sixth annual meeting of the American Wood Protection Association ... Savannah, Georgia, May 23-25, 2010: volume 106. Birmingham, Ala. : American Wood Protection Association, c2010: p. 174-183.

The role of remote sensing in U.S. forest inventories: Past, present and future

In the current budget climate, the U.S. Forest Inventory and Analysis program is under increased pressure to do more with less. While reliance solely on field data under the current annual inventory system is a suitable solution when funding is adequate and stable, decreasing budgets and increasing need for timely information may necessitate solutions that can augment...

Author(s):

G. Moisen; K. Brewer; R. Czaplewski; S. Healey; K. Megown; M. Finco

Year:

2014

Keywords:

remote sensing, forest inventories, Forest Inventory and Analysis

Source:

The International Forestry Review. 16(5): 201.

Testing alternative response designs for training forest disturbance and attribution models

Understanding and modeling land cover and land use change is evolving into a foundational element of climate, environmental, and sustainability science. Land cover and land use data are core to applications such as carbon accounting, greenhouse gas emissions reporting, biomass and bioenergy assessments, hydrologic function assessments, fire and fuels planning and...

Author(s):

T. Schroeder; G. Moisen; K. Schleeweis

Year:

2014

Keywords:

forest disturbance, attribution models, land cover, land use, mapping applications

Source:

The International Forestry Review. 16(5): 424.

Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: Comparing tuning processes and model performance

Random forests (RF) and stochastic gradient boosting (SGB), both involving an ensemble of classification and regression trees, are compared for modeling tree canopy cover for the 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD). The objectives of this study were twofold. First, sensitivity of RF and SGB to choices in tuning parameters was explored. Second, performance of the...

Author(s):

E. Freeman; G. Moisen; J. Coulston; B. Wilson

Year:

2014

Keywords:

random forests (RF), stochastic gradient boosting (SGB), tree canopy cover

Source:

The International Forestry Review. 16(5): 408.

Small-area estimation of forest attributes within fire boundaries

Wildfires are gaining more attention every year as they burn more frequently, more intensely, and across larger landscapes. Generating timely estimates of forest resources within fire perimeters is important for land managers to quickly determine the impact of fi res on U.S. forests. The U.S. Forest Service?s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program needs tools to...

Author(s):

T. Frescino; G. Moisen; K. Adachi; J. Breidt

Year:

2014

Keywords:

wildfires, specified fire perimeter, small-area estimation, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA), FIESTA

Source:

The International Forestry Review. 16(5): 408.

An historically consistent and broadly applicable MRV system based on LiDAR sampling and Landsat time-series

The authors are developing a REDD+ MRV system that tests different biomass estimation frameworks and components. Design-based inference from a costly fi eld plot network was compared to sampling with LiDAR strips and a smaller set of plots in combination with Landsat for disturbance monitoring. Biomass estimation uncertainties associated with these different data sets...

Author(s):

W. Cohen; H. Andersen; S. Healey; G. Moisen; T. Schroeder; C. Woodall; G. Domke; Z. Yang; S. Stehman; R. Kennedy; C. Woodcock; Z. Zhu; J. Vogelmann; D. Steinwand; C. Huang

Year:

2014

Keywords:

MRV, LiDAR, sampling, biomass estimation

Source:

The International Forestry Review. 16(5): 405.

Effects of historic forest disturbance on water quality and flow in the Interior Western U.S

Water quality and flow is affected my many complex factors in the Interior Western U.S. While many studies focus on individual water parameters response to a limited number of changing conditions, little work looks at long term effects of diverse forest disturbances on a broader array of water quality and flow metrics. The U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and...

Author(s):

M. Matyjasik; G. Moisen; C. Combe; T. Hathcock; S. Mitts; M. Hernandez; T. Frescino; T. Schroeder

Year:

2014

Keywords:

forest disturbance, water quality, stream flow

Source:

The International Forestry Review. 16(5): 408.

Dam removal: Listening in

Dam removal is widely used as an approach for river restoration in the United States. The increase in dam removals?particularly large dams?and associated dam-removal studies over the last few decades motivated a working group at the USGS John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis to review and synthesize available studies of dam removals and their findings....

Author(s):

M. M. Foley; J. R. Bellmore; J. E. O'Connor; J. J. Duda; A. E. East; G. E. Grant; C. W. Anderson; J. A. Bountry; M. J. Collins; P. J. Connolly; L. S. Craig; J. E. Evans; S. L. Greene; F. J. Magilligan; C. S. Magirl; J. J. Major; G. R. Pess; T. J. Randle; P. B. Shafroth; C. E. Torgersen; D. Tullos; A. C. Wilcox

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Dam removal, ecosystem, river restoration.

Source:

Water Resources Research. 53(7): 5229-5246.

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A review of basin morphology and pool hydrology of isolated ponded wetlands: implications for seasonal forest pools of the northeastern United States

Genetic consequences of forest population dynamics influenced by historic climatic variability in the western USA

Status and trends of dam removal research in the United States

The need for performance criteria in evaluating the durability of wood products

Identification of individual foothill yellow-legged frogs (Rana boylii) using chin pattern photographs: a non-invasive and effective method for small population studies

FIA Quality Assurance Program: Evaluation of a Tree Matching Algorithm for Paired Forest Inventory Data

Genetic diversity within species

Potential impacts of global climate change on the hydrology and ecology of ephemeral freshwater systems of the forests of the northeastern United States

Long-term durability of CCA and ACA : how is 0.4 doing?

The role of remote sensing in U.S. forest inventories: Past, present and future

Testing alternative response designs for training forest disturbance and attribution models

Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: Comparing tuning processes and model performance

Small-area estimation of forest attributes within fire boundaries

An historically consistent and broadly applicable MRV system based on LiDAR sampling and Landsat time-series

Effects of historic forest disturbance on water quality and flow in the Interior Western U.S

Dam removal: Listening in

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