Theodor Leininger

Title	Project Leader
Location	Southern Hardwoods Laboratory Site Contact Information
Phone	662-686-3178
E-Mail	tleininger@fs.fed.us
Science Area	Watersheds
CBHR Team	Stand Management and Forest Health
Current Research	I have several studies designed to determine and evaluate the causes of hardwood declines in forest and plantation ecosystems and urban environments, with a view toward developing management strategies to minimize losses. Greenhouse and field studies have been employed to examine the interaction of biological (e.g., fungal and bacterial pathogens) and non-biological (e.g., moisture stress and elevated temperature) factors on tree health. I am developing and testing new ways of detecting pathogen-caused degrades in trees (e.g., bacterial wetwood and heart rots). Studies are underway to measure the effects of stand modification on ameliorating declines in stand health brought on by flooding and on insect and disease communities of bottomland hardwood forests.
Collaborative Research	Developing seedling standards for afforestation of former agricultural land in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Developing accounting and monitoring guidelines for carbon sequestration in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley Multi-disciplinary study of the field ecology, stress physiology, pathology, population genetics, seed biology, and dispersal ecology of the endangered pondberry (Lindera melissifolia)
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