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Variable-retention harvests in the Pacific Northwest: a review of short-term findings from the DEMO study

In the Pacific Northwest (PNW) region of the contiguous United States, retention of live (green) trees in harvest units is an integral part of forest management practices on federal lands, yet the ecological benefits that result from various levels or patterns of retained trees remain speculative. The Demonstration of Ecosystem Management Options (DEMO) study was...

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Author(s):

Keith B. Aubry; Charles B. Halpern; Charles E. Peterson

Year:

2009

Keywords:

aggregated retention, biological responses, dispersed retention, forest structure, green-tree retention, refugia, public perceptions

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Forest Ecology and Management doi: 10.1 016/j.foreco.2009.03.013

Executive summary

This report provides a preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources in the United States. The term ?adaptation? in this document refers to adjustments in human social systems (e.g., management) in response to climate stimuli and their effects. Since management always occurs in the context of desired ecosystem conditions or...

Author(s):

Susan H. Julius; Jordan M. West; Geoffrey M. Blate; Jill S. Baron; Brad Griffith; Linda A. Joyce; Peter Kareiva; Brian D. Keller; Margaret A. Palmer; Charles H. Peterson; J. Michael Scott

Year:

2008

Keywords:

climate change, global warming, ecosystems, adaptation

Source:

In: Julius, S.H.; West, J.M., eds. Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources. Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4. Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change Science Program: p. 1-1 to 1-6

Soil fauna responses to natural disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change: Current state of the science and a call to action

Environmental disturbances seem to be increasing in frequency and impact, yet we have little understanding of the belowground impacts of these events. Soil fauna, while widely acknowledged to be important drivers of biogeochemical function, soil structure and sustainability, and trophic interactions, are understudied compared to other belowground organisms such as...

Author(s):

David R. Coyle; Uma J. Nagendra; Melanie K. Taylor; J. Holly Campbell; Chelsea E. Cunard; Aaron H. Joslin; Abha Mundepi; Carly A. Phillips; Mac A. Callaham

Year:

2017

Keywords:

Belowground, Biodiversity, Climate change, Ecosystem function, Invasive species, Invertebrate, Taxonomy

Source:

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Subcontinental-scale patterns of large-ungulate herbivory and synoptic review of restoration management implications for midwestern and northeastern forests

Browse of forest understory vegetation by deer and other large ungulates alters ecosystem processes, making it difficult to regenerate forest land in herbivory-stressed areas. Seventy years ago, Aldo Leopold identified problem areas in the United States where overpopulation of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) was likely to lead to...

Author(s):

William H. McWilliams; James A. Westfall; Patrick H. Brose; Daniel C. Dey; Anthony W. D'Amato; Yvette L. Dickinson; Mary Ann Fajvan; Laura S. Kenefic; Christel C. Kern; Kenneth M. Laustsen; Shawn L. Lehman; Randall S. Morin; Todd E. Ristau; Alejandro A. Royo; Andrew M. Stoltman; Susan L. Stout

Year:

2018

Keywords:

browse map, tree regeneration, wildlife habitat, white-tailed deer, forest understory, forest monitoring, forest sustainability

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-182. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 24 p.

Evaluating the effects of varying levels and patterns of green-tree retention: experimental design of the DEMO study.

In western Oregon and Washington, recent changes in federal forest management policy contained in the Northwest Forest Plan have led to new harvest prescriptions on millions of acres of public lands. For example. on upland sites, standards and guidelines now require that live (green) trees are retained in at least 15% of the area within each harvest unit and recommend...

Author(s):

Keith B. Aubry; Michael P. Amaranthus; Charles B. Haipern; James D. White; Brenda L. Woodard; Charles E. Peterson; Cynthia A. Lagoudakisi; Alan J. Horton

Year:

1999

Keywords:

Source:

Northwest Science. 73(Special Issue): 12-26

Application of an assessment protocol to extensive species and total basal area per acre datasets for the eastern coterminous United States

We recently developed an assessment protocol that provides information on the magnitude, location, frequency and type of error in geospatial datasets of continuous variables (Riemann et al. 2010). The protocol consists of a suite of assessment metrics which include an examination of data distributions and areas estimates, at several scales, examining each in the form...

Author(s):

Rachel Riemann; Ty Wilson; Andrew Lister

Year:

2012

Keywords:

Accuracy assessment, uncertainty, geospatial data, continuous variables, species distribution

Source:

In: McWilliams, Will; Roesch, Francis A. eds. 2012. Monitoring Across Borders: 2010 Joint Meeting of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium and the Southern Mensurationists. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-157. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 161-174.

Approaches to monitoring changes in carbon stocks for REDD+

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus improving forest-management (REDD+) is a mechanism to facilitate tropical countries' participation in climate change mitigation. In this review we focus on the current state of monitoring systems to support implementing REDD+. The main elements of current monitoring systems - Landsat satellites and...

Author(s):

Richard Birdsey; Gregorio Angeles-Perez; Werner A Kurz; Andrew Lister; Marcela Olguin; Yude Pan; Craig Wayson; Barry Wilson; Kristofer Johnson

Year:

2013

Keywords:

Source:

Carbon Management. 4(5): 519-537.

Chapter 3: Omics and the Future of Sustainable Biomaterials

With global focus on the conversion of biomass into products, fuels, and energy, there is a strong need for information that will lead to new sustainable products, applications, and biotechnological advances. The omics approach to biology is a discovery-driven method that may deliver solutions to these overarching problems. It gives scientists the ability to obtain a...

Author(s):

Juliet D. Tang; Susan V. Diehl

Year:

2014

Keywords:

genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, wood protection, wood utilization

Source:

In: Deterioration and Protection of Sustainable Biomaterials, 2014, American Chemical Society, ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC. 2014. pp. 59-79

Opportunities to improve monitoring of temporal trends with FIA panel data

The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, is an annual monitoring system for the entire United States. Each year, an independent "panel" of FIA field plots is measured. To improve accuracy, FIA uses the "Moving Average" or "Temporally Indifferent" method to combine estimates from...

Author(s):

Raymond Czaplewski; Michael Thompson

Year:

2009

Keywords:

forest monitoring, Kalman filter, composite estimator, Pinus contorta, Dendroctonus ponderosae, population dynamics model, AIC, information-theoretics

Source:

In: McWilliams, Will; Moisen, Gretchen; Czaplewski, Ray, comps. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium 2008; October 21-23, 2008; Park City, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 55 p.

Climate change and fire management in the mid-Atlantic region

In this review, we summarize the potential impacts of climate change on wildfire activity in the mid-Atlantic region, and then consider how the beneficial uses of prescribed fire could conflict with mitigation needs for climate change, focusing on patters of carbon (C) sequestration by forests in the region. We use a synthesis of field studies, eddy flux tower...

Author(s):

Kenneth L. Clark; Nicholas Skowronski; Heidi Renninger; Robert Scheller

Year:

2014

Keywords:

Forest composition, Wildfire, Prescribed burns, Carbon sequestration, Mitigation

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management. 327: 306-315.

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Variable-retention harvests in the Pacific Northwest: a review of short-term findings from the DEMO study

Executive summary

Soil fauna responses to natural disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change: Current state of the science and a call to action

Subcontinental-scale patterns of large-ungulate herbivory and synoptic review of restoration management implications for midwestern and northeastern forests

Evaluating the effects of varying levels and patterns of green-tree retention: experimental design of the DEMO study.

Application of an assessment protocol to extensive species and total basal area per acre datasets for the eastern coterminous United States

Approaches to monitoring changes in carbon stocks for REDD+

Chapter 3: Omics and the Future of Sustainable Biomaterials

Opportunities to improve monitoring of temporal trends with FIA panel data

Climate change and fire management in the mid-Atlantic region

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