Tentative
Concurrent Sessions schedule for Tuesday PM
Silviculture for changing objectives including conservation,
restoration, and/or intensified timber productionCo-Leaders: Brian
Palik, NC Research Station, USDA Forest Service and David Coates,
BC Ministry of Forestry
Agriculture Production Room
| 1:45-2:10 |
Can natural dynamics-based silviculture
sustain boreal aspen plant communities? |
Haeussler et al., Université
du Québec à Montréal |
| 2:10-2:35 |
Managing for complexity in northern
hardwood forests: is individual-tree selection enough? |
Crow, USDA Forest Service |
| 2:35-3:00 |
Two species are better than one:
ecological and economic reasons for retianing white birch
in interior spruce plantations |
Hawkins and Steele, University of
Northern British Columbia and Kemp Natural Resources Station |
| 3:00-3:25 |
Seedling and border tree growth in Sierran group
selection openings |
York and al., University of California |
| 3:25-3:50 |
Break |
| 3:50-4:15 |
Testing the effect of pre-commercial
thinning on understory herb and shrub communities: does thinning
help restore old-growth composition? |
Lindh and Muir, Oregon State University |
| 4:15-4:40 |
Influence of overstory removal on growth of
epiphytic mosses and lichens in Western Oregon |
Muir and al., Oregon State University |
| 4:40-5:05 |
Patch reserves as refugia for low-mobility
species in managed forests |
Wessel, Oregon State University |
Dynamic natural and managed forests and landscapes: implications
for conserving biodiversity
Co-Leaders: Michael Wimberly, Warnell School of Forest Resources,
University of Georgia and Steve Friedman, Department of Forestry,
Michigan State University
Construction and Engineering Auditorium
| 1:45-2:10 |
Using ecological landtype phase
(eltp) to evaluate the effect of management on southeast Missouri
Ozark vegetation |
Sasseen et al., University of Missouri-Columbia |
| 2:10-2:35 |
Using biophysical factors to predict
regional biodiversity potential in the Pacific and inland
Northwest |
Hansen and Waren, Montana State
University and Oregon State University |
| 2:35-3:00 |
Changes in landscape pattern by
roads in northern Wisconsin, 1938-1999 |
Hawbaker and Radeloff, University
of Wisconsin - Madison |
| 3:00-3:25 |
Complex patterns of forest succession across
wildfire and mountain pine beetle boundaries; spatial variation
creates spatio-temporal diversity |
McIntire and Kimmins, Univeristy of British
Columbia |
| 3:25-3:50 |
Break |
| 3:50-4:15 |
Successional pathways and disturbance
in a montane forest: interactions of fire, species dynamics,
and environmental gradients |
Prichard and Peterson, University
of Washington |
| 4:15-4:40 |
Species mixing and spatial patterns in a boreal
mixedwood chronosequence |
Park et al., Université de Québec
à Montréal |
| 4:40-5:05 |
Pacific Northwest oak forests: the missing pollinators |
Moldenke and VerLinden, Oregon State University |
Biotic influences: invasives, pathogens and herbivory
Co-Leaders: Steve Radosevich, Department of Forest Science, Oregon
State University and Catherine Parks, PNW Research Station, USDA
Forest Service
Agriculture Leaders Room
| 1:45-2:10 |
Disease dynamics of two exotic pathogens
in California forest ecosystems |
Maloney et al., University of California |
| 2:10-2:35 |
Interaction between beech bark disease
and the susceptibility of beech to wind disturbance with consequences
to stand structure and composition |
Papaik and Canham, Institute of
Ecosystem Studies |
| 2:35-3:00 |
The decline of Pinus lambertiana
and the rise of Abies concolor in the central Sierra Nevada:
assessing the impact of non-equilibrium determinants of forest
composition |
Battles and Schurr, University of
California Berkeley |
| 3:00-3:25 |
Insect-plant interactions and disturbance by
eastern spruce budworm in a boreal mixedwood forest |
Nealis and Regniere, Pacific Forestry Centre
and Laurentian Forestry Centre |
| 3:25-3:50 |
Break |
| 3:50-4:15 |
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| 4:15-4:40 |
Forest response to the decline of a dominant
species: ecosystem to regional analyses of hemlock woolly
adelgid impacts in New England |
Orwig, Harvard University |
| 4:40-5:05 |
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Development of ecosystem cycles: baselines and anthropogenic
change
Co-Leaders: Steven Perakis, USGS-FRESC and Jana Compton, US EPA,
National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
Agriculture Science Room
| 1:45-2:10 |
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| 2:10-2:35 |
Long-term decomposition of Douglas-fir
roots grown under elevated CO2 and/or temperature treatments:
implication for carbon sequestration |
Chen, Oregon State University |
| 2:35-3:00 |
Effects of litter quality on dissolved
organic matter and its dynamics in a temperate coniferous
forest soil |
Yano et al., The Ecosystems Center |
| 3:00-3:25 |
Human-induced changes in U.S. biogenic voc emissions |
Caspersen et al., University of Toronto |
| 3:25-3:50 |
Break |
| 3:50-4:15 |
Complexity in forest ecosystem modeling:
how much complexity and at what scales |
Kimmins et al., University of British
Columbia |
| 4:15-4:40 |
Fragmentation and edge effects on landscape-level
soil respiration in a managed land mosaic in N. Wisconsin |
Zheng et al., University of Toledo
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| 4:40-5:05 |
Disturbance and forest carbon balance: temporal
signals change from stand to landscape scale |
Harmon et al., Oregon State University |
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