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Purified clay needed!
Chase Earles, an award-winning Oklahoma potter, needed clay. The clay could not come from Winterville Mounds but needed to come from somewhere in Washington County, Mississippi.
Barnett Receives Society for Freshwater Science Award
USDA Forest Service fisheries biologist Zanethia Barnett is the winner of the 2022 Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) Hynes Award for New Investigators. The Hynes Award goes to a senior author of an outstanding primary publication within the last three years. Barnett won the award for a 2020 publication in Freshwater Biology that was the first to assess the effects of relatively large dams on crayfish population genetic structure. The publication was based largely on Barnett’s PhD dissertation research, which she received from the University of Mississippi in 2019.
Handbook for 30-year-old Bottomland Oak Stands
Southern floodplain forest landowners can benefit from a new USDA Forest Service handbook of silvicultural practices for oaks planted on former croplands. The practical volume outlines the methods – and supporting science – for managing stands to produce high-quality oak sawtimber, improve wildlife habitat through acorn production, or an integrated approach for both timber and wildlife.
Latest Publications
- Simulating biomass production and water use of poplars in a plantation using a STELLA-Based model
Ouyang, Ying; Dev, Satyanarayan; Grace III, Johnny M.; Amatya, Devendra M.; Leininger, Theodor D.
2022 Forests - Effects of impoundments on stream crayfish assemblages
Barnett, Zanethia C.; Adams, Susan B.; Hoeksema, Jason D.; Easson, Gregory L.; Ochs, Clifford A.
2022 Freshwater Science - Latitude, elevation, and mean annual temperature predict peat organic matter chemistry at a global scale
Verbeke, Brittany A.; Lamit, Louis J.; Lilleskov, Erik A.; Hodgkins, Suzanne B.; Basiliko, Nathan; Kane, Evan S.; Andersen, Roxane; Artz, Rebekka R. E.; Benavides, Juan C.; Benscoter, Brian W.; Borken, Werner; Bragazza, Luca; Brandt, Stefani M.; Bräuer, Suzanna L.; Carson, Michael A.; Charman, Dan; Chen, Xin; Clarkson, Beverley R.; Cobb, Alexander R.; Convey, Peter; Pasquel, Jhon del Águila; Enriquez, Andrea S.; Griffiths, Howard; Grover, Samantha P.; Harvey, Charles F.; Harris, Lorna I.; Hazard, Christina; Hodgson, Dominic; Hoyt, Alison M.; Hribljan, John; Jauhiainen, Jyrki; Juutinen, Sari; Knorr, Klaus‐Holger; Kolka, Randall K.; Könönen, Mari; Larmola, Tuula; McCalley, Carmody K.; McLaughlin, James; Moore, Tim R.; Mykytczuk, Nadia; Normand, Anna E.; Rich, Virginia; Roulet, Nigel; Royles, Jessica; Rutherford, Jasmine; Smith, David S.; Svenning, Mette M.; Tedersoo, Leho; Thu, Pham Q.; Trettin, Carl C.; Tuittila, Eeva‐Stiina; Urbanová, Zuzana; Varner, Ruth K.; Wang, Meng; Wang, Zheng; Warren, Matt; Wiedermann, Magdalena M.; Williams, Shanay; Yavitt, Joseph B.; Yu, Zhi‐Guo; Yu, Zicheng; Chanton, Jeffrey P.
2022 Global Biogeochemical Cycles - Silvicultural options for young bottomland oak-dominated plantations on former agricultural lands
Meadows, James S.; Gardiner, Emile S.; Leininger, Theodor D.; Ezell, Andrew W.
2021 General Technical Report SRS-263 - Intensity and mode of Lindera melissifolia reproduction are affected by flooding and light availability
Leininger, Theodor D.; Gardiner, Emile S.; Lockhart, Brian Roy; Schiff, Nathan M.; Wilson, Alphus Dan; Devall, Margaret S.; Hamel, Paul B.; Connor, Kristina F.
2021 Ecology and Evolution