Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference
Authors: | Kristina F. Connor, [Editor] |
Year: | 2006 |
Type: | General Technical Report |
Station: | Southern Research Station |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2737/SRS-GTR-92 |
Source: | Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-92. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 640 p. |
Abstract
A range of issues affecting southern forests are addressed in 109 papers and 39 poster summaries. Papers are grouped in 14 sessions that include wildlife ecology; pine silviculture; longleaf pine; nutritional amendments; vegetation management; site preparation; hardwoods: artificial regeneration; hardwoods: midstory competition control; growth and yield; water quality; forest health; fire; hardwoods: natural regeneration; and hardwood intermediate treatments.Titles contained within Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference
- Initial cerulean warbler response to experimental silvicultural manipulations, Desha County, Arkansas
- Evaluating some proposed matrices for scoring sub-optimal red-cockaded woodpecker foraging habitat in relation to the 2003 recovery plan
- Response of avian bark foragers and cavity nesters to regeneration treatments in the oak-hickory forest of Northern Alabama
- Dry creek long-term watershed study: the effects of harvesting in streamside management zones and adjacent uplands of riparian corridors on avian communities in the Coastal Plain of Georgia
- Implications of large oak seedlings on problematic deer herbivory
- Response of timber growth and avian communities to quality vegetation management in mid-rotation crp pine plantations
- Stacking the log deck, or some fallacies about natural pine managment
- Growth following pruning of young loblolly pine trees: some early results
- The effects of sower and bed density on bareroot loblolly pine seedling morphology and early height growth
- Loblolly pine seedling response to competition from exotic vs. native plants
- Understory growth and composition resulting from soil disturbances on the long-term soil productivity study sites in Mississippi
- Current knowledge on effects of forest silvicultural operations on carbon sequestration in southern forests
- Harvest intensity and competition control impacts on loblolly pine fusiform rust incidence
- Description of a land classification system and its application to the management of Tennessee's state forests
- A comparison of tools for remotely estimating leaf area index in loblolly pine plantations
- Using forest vegetation simulator to aid communications between natural resource managers and stakeholders
- Effects of planting density on the Biomass partitioning of intensively managed loblolly pine stands on the Piedmont and upper Coastal plain of Georgia
- Separating live from dead longleaf pine seeds: good and bad news
- Silvicultural alternatives in a longleaf pine/wiregrass woodland in southwest Georgia: understory hardwood response to harvest-created gaps
- Stand dynamics of a longleaf pine restoration project
- Analysis of seasonal, diurnal, and noctural growth patterns of young longleaf pine
- Early longleaf pine seedling survivorship on hydric soils
- How does fire affect longleaf pine roots carbohydrates, foliar nutrients, and sapling growth?
- Container-grown longleaf pine seedling quality
- Early growth of planted longleaf pine seedlings in relation to light, soil moisture, and soil temperature
- Herbaceous weed control in an old-field planted longleaf pine stand
- Carbon sequestration and natural longleaf pine ecosystems
- The short-term effects of fertilization on loblolly pine photosynthesis and biomass
- Effects of fertilization on CO2 efflux in a two-year-old loblolly pine stand on the Virginia Piedmont
- Impact of weed control and fertilization on growth of four species of pine in the Virginia Piedmont
- Effects of a controlled release fertilizer on the nitrogen dynamics of mid-rotation loblolly pine plantation in the Piedmont, Virginia
- Nitrogen distribution within the soil-plant-microbial system in response to pre-thinning fertilization treatments in Louisiana
- Effects of application of mill-generated primary sludge and boiler ash on loblolly pine survival and growth
- Growth of precommercially thinned loblolly pine 4 years following application of poultry litter
- Timing of chopper herbicide site preparation relative to bedding in the establishment of lower coastal plain pine plantations
- Comparison of treatments of controlling kudzu prior to planting tree seedlings
- Chopper herbicide site preparation for different bedding timings and vegetation complexes in North Florida
- Herbicide comparions for mid-rotation competition release in loblolly and slash pine
- Timing of herbaceous weed control in lower coastal plain loblolly pine plantations
- Intensive management of loblolly pine during establishment influences nutrition and productivity through 15 growing seasons
- Eleven-year loblolly pine growth in respononse to site preparation and seedling type in North Louisiana
- Hardwood vigor and survival following applications of imazapyr in mid-rotation pine plantations
- Biomass of first and second rotation loblolly pine plantations in the South Carolina Coastal Plain
- Western gulf culture-density study-early results
- Eighteen-year response of slash pine to wet-weather harvesting and site preparation on a poorly drained silt loam soil in Louisiana
- Relationship between tillage intensity and initial growth of loblolly pine seedlings
- A 16-year evaluation of effects of ripping on shortleaf pine on a Missouri ozarks site
- First-year survival and growth of three species assemblages planted on reclaimed mine land as affected by three levels of silvicultural intensity
- First-year survival and growth of bottomland oak species following intensive establishment procedures
- Direct seeding woody species for restoration of bottomlands
- The role of large container seedlings in afforesting oaks in bottomlands
- Comparing natural and artificial methods for establishing pin oak advance reproduction in bottomland forests managed as greentree reservoirs
- Clonal tests of new cottonwood selections from the southeast
- Survival, growth, and acornet production of artificially regenerated northern red oak on two high-quality mesic sites at year seven
- Effect of acorn moisture content at sowing on germination and seedling growth of white oak and northern red oak
- Stocktype and harvest gap size influence northern red oak regeneration success
- How does prolonged exposure to natural conditions affect acorn moisture and viability?
- Impact of defoliation on height and diameter of a first year rising cottonwood plantation
- Species selection trials and silvicultural techniques for the restoration of bottomland hardwood forests - a 10 year review
- Effects of light acclimation on photosynthesis, growth, and biomass allocation in america chestnut seedlings
- A comparison of tree shelters and their effects on seedling survival and growth of two bottomland hardwood species: first-year results
- Light transmittance following midstory removal in a riparian hardwood forest
- Response of sun-grown and shade-grown northern red oak seedlings to outplanting in clearcuts and shelterwoods in North Alabama
- Initial response of underplanted yellow poplar and cherrybark oak seedlings to four levels of mechanical midstory removal
- Survival and growth of underplanted northern red oak on mesic sites in Eastern Tennessee: two-year results
- Release of suppressed oak advance regeneration
- Regeneration response to midstory control following long-term single tree selection management of Southern Appalachian hardwoods
- Use of a generalized sigmoid growth function to predict site index for unmanaged loblolly and slash pine plantations in East Texas
- Family and spacing affect stem profile of loblolly pine at age 19
- Predicting the past: a simple reverse stand table projection method
- Mortality of trees in loblolly pine plantations
- Dynamics of dense direct-seeded stands of southern pines
- A whole stand growth and yield system for young longleaf pine plantations in Southwest Georgia
- Development of growth and yield models for southern hardwoods: site index determinations
- Evolution of silvicultural thinning: from rejection to transcendence
- Adjusting slash pine growth and yield for silvicultural treatments
- The statistical reason why some researchers say some silvicultural treatments "wash-out" over time
- New methods for estimating parameters of weibull functions to characterize future diameter distributions in forest stands
- Variation in wood density by stand origin and log position for loblolly pine sawtimber in the coastal plain of Arkansas
- Effect of rotation age and physiographic region on weight per cubic foot of planted loblolly pine
- Development of a photogrammetric method of measuring tree taper outside bark
- An economic comparison of slash and loblolly pine under various levels of management in the lower Atlantic and gulf coastal plain
- Parameter-based stochastic simulation of selection and breeding for multiple traits
- A non-destructive method for quantifying small-diameter woody biomass in southern pine forests
- Individual tree growth models for natural even-aged shortleaf pine
- Calibration of d.b.h.-height equations for southern hardwoods
- Predicting oak density with ecological, physical, and soil indicators
- Inclusion of climatic variables in longleaf pine growth models
- The application of nirvana to silvicultural studies
- A new type of density-management diagram for slash pine plantations
- Forecasting economic gains from intensive plantation management using unrealistic yield over input curves
- Dry creek long-term watershed study: effects of timber harvest on hydrology and sediment export in headwater streams in Southwest Georgia
- Dry creek long-term watershed study: assessment of immediate response of aquatic macroinvertebrates to watershed level harvesting and thinning of streamside management zones
- Dry creek long-term watershed study: buffer zone performance as viable amphibian habitat
- Soil erosion from harvested sites versus streamside management zone sediment deposition in the Piedmont of Virginia
- Impacts of multiple applications of fertilizer on stream chemistry in the Ouachita Mountains
- Commercial timber value of streamside management zones in managed pine and hardwood stands
- Characteristics of a bottomland hardwood forest under greentree reservoir management in East Central Arkansas
- Ground truth assessments of forests affected by oak decline and red oak borer in the interior highlands of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri: preliminary results from overstory analysis
- Impact of herbivory by cottonwood leaf beetle on three selected cottonwood clones: year 2 results
- Early changes in physical tree characteristics during an oak decline event in the Ozark highlands
- Site factors influencing oak decline in the interior highlands of Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma
- Geographic origin of cottonwood from the southeast affects Melampsora infection in 3-year-old clonal trials
- Tip moth control and loblolly pine growth in intensive pine culture: four year results
- Freeze injury to southern pine seedlings
- Physiological, anatomical, and ecological characteristics of southern live oak
- Ice damage effects on an old-field, thinned and fertilized loblolly pine stand in South Carolina
- Survey of twenty-six hybrid poplar lines for poplar borer
- Effects of silvicultural operations in a Mississippi River bottomland hardwood forest on ground beetles in the genus Brachinus
- Changes in the disturbance regime of upland yellow pine stands in the Southern Appalachian Mountains during the 20th century
- Early dynamics of table mountain pine stands following stand-replacement prescribed fires of varying intensity
- Remnant fire disturbed montane longleaf pine forest in west central georgia
- Effects of prescribed fire on production of foliage by sapling longleaf pine
- Community analysis of pitcher plant bogs of the Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama
- Short-term effects of springtime prescribed fires on adult populations of soil-emerging weevils in Central Appalachian hardwood stands
- The effect of fire on flowering dogwood stand dynamics in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Performance of mixed pine-hardwood stands 16 years after fell-and-burn treatments
- Loblolly pine growth response to mid-rotational treatments in an Eastern Texas plantation
- A simulation of wildfire behavior in piedmont forests
- Preliminary fuel characterization of the chauga ridges region of the Southern Appalachian Mountains
- A comparison of three methods for classifying fuel loads in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
- Development of a photo guide for fuels in the Southern Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia and Western South Carolina
- Assessment of the FARSITE model for predicting fire behavior in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
- The national fire and fire surrogate study: early results and future challenges
- Managing composition of piedmont forests with prescribed fire
- Effect of ground skidding on oak advance regeneration
- Long-term effects of clearcutting on tree species composition in an oak-hickory forest
- Regeneration microsites and resource levels resulting from a range of silvicultural treatments in tennessee oak-hickory forests
- Using group selection to regenerate oaks in Northern Arkansas
- Stump sprout dominance probabilities of five oak species in southern Indiana 15 years after clearcut harvesting
- Long-term success of stump sprout regeneration in baldcypress
- A study of the early fruit characteristics of pondberry
- Allometry and biomass of pollarded black locust
- Species-site relationships in a Northern Arkansas upland forest
- Silvicultural treatments to regenerate principal species in the flat rock forest community
- Can root biomass of white oak advance regeneration be reliably predicted from diameter and height?
- Can prescribed fires be used to promote the recruitment of white oak (Quercus alba) seedlings?
- Soil physical and chemical properties associated with flat rock and riparian forest communities
- Logging damage to residual trees following commercial harvesting to different overstory retention levels in a mature hardwood stand in Tennessee
- Epicormic branching in red oak crop trees five years after thinning and fertilizer application in a bottomland hardwood stand
- Third-year growth and bole-quality responses to thinning in a late-rotation red oak-sweetgum stand in East Texas
- Effects of thinning intensity and crown class on cherrybark oak epicormic branching five years after treatment
- Early response of interplanted nuttall oak to release from an eastern cottonwood overstory
- The response of two very young naturally regenerated upland hardwood stands to weed control and fertilization
- Crop trees and quality in bottomland hardwoods ten years after an early thinning in a young sprout-origin stand in south carolina
- Thinning to improve growth and bole quality in an Inonotus hispidus-infected, red oak-sweetgum stand in the Mississippi Delta: sixth-year results
- Comparison of windthrow damage among thinned and unthinned hardwoods and adjacent pine stands following a late winter tornado on the Cumberland Plateau near Sewanee, TN
- Crop tree release options for young hardwood stands in North Carolina