The 10th IUFRO International Workshop on Uneven-aged Silviculture
Little Rock, Arkansas, USA • 31 May–2 June 2016
Program
Download Program (PDF)Monday, 30 May 2016 |
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15:00-17:00 | Registration at the Doubletree Conference Center 1st floor, Lobby |
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17:00-19:00 | Welcoming Reception Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas 1200 President Clinton Avenue Little Rock, Arkansas, USA |
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Tuesday, 31 May 2016 |
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07:00-17:00 | Registration Doubletree Conference Center, 2nd floor, Grand Ballroom |
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07:00-08:00 | Breakfast Buffet (provided) Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
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08:00 |
Opening Session Palisades Room, Doubletree Hotel
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SESSION I: Uneven-aged silviculture, Around the World Palisades Room, Doubletree Hotel Moderator: TBA |
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08:20-09:00 | Forest management on the Duchy of Cornwall Geraint Richards, Head Forester, Duchy of Cornwall (invited) |
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09:00-09:20 | Diversified uneven-aged silviculture delayed conifer decline in Dinaric mixed mountain forest: A result of gap spatiotemporal dynamics or tending operations? Jurij Diaci, Matevz Adamic, Andrej Rozman, David Hladnik, University of Ljubljana, Sovenia |
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09:20-09:40 | Comparison of natural and artificial forest regeneration after windthrow Gal Fidej, Andrej Rozman and Jurij Diaci. University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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09:40-10:00 | How to use the art of Nature? Steady state in natural temperate forests as the prototype for close-to-nature forestry Tomáš Vrška and Kamil Král, Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic |
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10:00-10:30 | Morning break (provided) Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
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10:30-10:50 | Does complexity of leaf arrangement moderate the impact of drought stress? Hiromi Mizunaga and Takaharu Mochizuki, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka Japan |
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10:50-11:10 | High-value wood with continuous-cover management in Scots pine forests Riika Piispanen and Sauli Valkonen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland |
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11:10-11:30 | Ground disturbance improves natural regeneration in high-graded old-growth forests Daniel P. Soto and Klaus J. Puettmann, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA |
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11:30-11:50 | The Bradford-Hutt system for transforming young even-aged stands to continuous cover management Gary Kerr, Commonwealth Forestry Institute, United Kingdom Coauthors: Mark Snellgrove, Sophie Hale, and Victoria Stokes |
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12:00-13:15 | Lunch Buffet (provided) Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
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SESSION II: QUANTITATIVE ELEMENTS OF UNEVEN-AGED SILVICULTURE Palisades Room, Doubletree Hotel Moderator: Andreas Zingg, WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland |
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13:15-13:35 | Effect of partial cutting on windthrow in old-growth boreal stands: evidence from field experiments and modelling J-C. Ruel, Laval University, Quebec, Canada Coauthors: K.A. Anyomi and S.J. Mitchell |
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13:35-13:55 | The spatial-temporal patterns of Larch plantations and uneven-aged
silviculture in Northeast China- based on multi-source remote sensing data Jiao-jun Zhu, Qingyuan Forest Ecosystem Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China Coauthors: Gui-duo Shang, Tian Gao, Xiao Zhen |
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13:55-14:15 | Tree light capture and spatial variability of understory light increase with
species mixing and size heterogeneity Gauthier Ligot, Univ. de Liège, Gembloux, Belgium Coauthors: Aitor Ameztegui, Benoît Courbaud, Lluís Coll, Dan Kneeshaw |
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14:15-14:35 | Modeling growth and yield and economic tradeoffs of even- and
uneven-aged management in bottomland hardwood forests of the Lower
Mississippi Alluvial Valley Sunil Nepal, Brent R. Frey, and James E. Henderson, Mississippi State University, Starkville Mississippi, USA |
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14:35-14:55 | Long-term windthrow susceptibility of even- and uneven-aged sugar maple
dominated stands Philippe Nolet, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Ripon, QC Canada |
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14:55-15:15 | Maintaining the coexistence of tree species of different shade tolerances with
uneven-aged silviculture Gauthier Ligot, Univ. de Liège, Gembloux, Belgium Coauthors: Philippe Balandier, Benoît Courbaud, Daniel Kneeshaw, Hugues Claessens |
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15:15-15:35 | Diameter distributions implied by individual tree growth equations for
uneven-aged forests Thomas B. Lynch, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma USA Coauthors: Pradip Saud, Jeff Gove, Mark Ducey |
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15:35-16:00 | Introduction to the Field Tour Jim Guldin and Don C. Bragg, Southern Research Station, US Forest Service |
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16:00-18:00 | POSTER SESSION, RECEPTION (included) and cash bar Salon A, Doubletree Hotel DINNER—on your own, River Market District, Little Rock |
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POSTERS:
Posters can be set up starting Monday afternoon at 4 pm, 30 May, and before 8 am Tuesday, 31 May, 2016. |
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016 |
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WITHIN-WORKSHOP FIELD TOUR UNEVEN-AGED SILVICULTURE IN SOUTHERN PINES CROSSETT EXPERIMENTAL FOREST, CROSSETT AR |
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06:30-07:15 | Breakfast (provided) | ||
07:30 | Bus leaves for Crossett AR | ||
10:15 | Arrive at Crossett | ||
Bus A: | Stops 1 and 2 in the morning, stops 3 and 4 in the afternoon | ||
Bus B: | Stops 3 and 4 in the morning, stops 1 and 2 in the afternoon
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12:00-13:00 | Lunch in the Tent (provided) | ||
15:00 | Busses leave to return to Little Rock | ||
17:45 | Bus arrives at hotel | ||
18:15 | Walk to Dickey-Stephens Baseball Park, North Little Rock | ||
18:30-19:00 | Dinner at the Ball Park (provided; buy your own beverages) Designated catering area in the ball park |
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19:00~21:00 | Arkansas Travelers vs Corpus Christi Rockets Seats provided for the baseball game |
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Walk back to hotel | |||
THURSDAY, 2 JUNE 2016 |
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07:00-08:20 | Breakfast Buffet Salon A (provided) |
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SESSION III: UNEVEN-AGED SILVICULTURE IN NORTH AMERICA Palisades Room, Doubletree Hotel Moderator: TBA |
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08:20-09:00 | Sixty years of selection cutting at the Penobscot Experimental Forest,
Maine, USA: What worked and what didn’t Laura Kenefic, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Orono Maine, USA Coauthor: Robert Seymour, University of Maine |
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09:00-09:20 | Forest Dynamics in a Long-term record of Uneven-aged Management in a
Mixed Oak-Hickory-Pine forest in Missouri, USA David Larsen, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA |
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09:20-09:40 | Effect of silvicultural gap size on long-term species growth, stand yield, and
economic value in upland Quercus dominated stands John Lhotka, Russell A. Cunningham, and Jeffrey W. Stringer, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA |
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09:40-10:00 | Integrating Ecosystem Services into Uneven-aged Silvicultural Prescriptions
to Enhance Sustainable Forest Management Robert L. Deal, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Portland, Oregon, USA Coauthors: Nikola Smith and Joe Gates |
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10:00-10:30 | Morning break (provided)
Salon A, Doubletree Hotel |
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10:30-10:50 | Designing a multi-cohort, continuous cover, silvicultural system for
Douglas-fir dominated forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA Gregory Ettl, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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10:50-11:10 | Irregular selection: An uneven-aged management alternative that links
science concepts to integrated restoration management
Terrie Jain, Russell T. Graham, Michael Battaglia; Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, Idaho USA |
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11:10-11:30 | Interactions between stand density and stand structure in affecting damage
from hurricanes in longleaf pine Kevin O’Hara, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Coauthor: Jim Guldin |
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11:30-11:50 | Uneven-aged southern pine silviculture, B.C. (Before Crossett)
Don C. Bragg, Southern Research Station, US Forest Service |
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12:00-13:15 | Lunch Buffet (provided) Salon A |
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SESSION IV: CONVERSION OF EVEN-AGED STANDS TO UNEVEN-AGED STANDS
Palisades Room, Doubletree Hotel Moderator: TBA |
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13:15-13:35 | Human decision-making in the forests: selecting trees for removal during
transformation to uneven-aged forest stand structures Lucie Vítková, European Forest Institute, Freiburg, Germany Coauthors: Áine Ní Dhubháin and Arne Pommerening |
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13:35-13:55 | Transformation from even-aged to uneven-aged forest stand structure in
Norway spruce forests of the Black Forest, Germany Marc Hanewinkel, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany Coauthors: Dominik Wonsack and Lucie Vítková |
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13:55-14:15 | Uneven-aged silviculture of larch plantations: converting larch plantations
into mixed larch-broadleaved forests by thinning Qiaoling Yan, Qingyuan Forest Ecosystem Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China Coauthors: Jiaojun Zhu, Guangchen Wang, Jing Wang |
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14:15-14:45 | Moving to uneven-aged silviculture in native forests in Chile: short-term
results and expectations Pablo Donoso, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile Coauthors: Ralph D. Nyland, Bernardo Pilquinao, Florian Schnabel |
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14:45-15:05 | The favorable growth of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) regeneration under
the canopy – Does it ensure the success of uneven-aged silviculture? Janusz Szmyt, Władysław Barzdajn, and Jacek Zientarski; Posnan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland |
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15:05-15:25 | Impact of Light and Moisture Gradients on the Growth and Physiology
of Native Washington Tree Species: Informing Sustainable Timber
Management Matthew Aghai and Gregory Ettl, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA |
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15:25-15:45 | Managing for the parts of the sum: restoration treatments to accelerate late
successional structures Klaus Puettmann, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA |
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16:00-17:00 | IUFRO 1.05.00 Uneven-aged Silviculture Working Group
Business Meeting Gary Kerr, Chair |
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17:00 | ADJOURN | ||
18:00 | DINNER—on your own, River Market District, Little Rock | ||
POST-WORKSHOP TOUR | |||
The Post-Workshop Tour departs from the Doubletree Hotel on 3 June 2016 at 0730 AM, and returns at 6:00 pm, Monday, 6 June. Details TBA. |