13th Central Hardwoods Forest Conference

Abstract

This conference was the 13th in a series of biennial meetings that have been hosted by numerous universities and research stations of the USDA Forest Service in the Central Hardwood forest region in the eastern United States. The purpose of the Conference has remained the same since it's inception -- that is to provide a forum for the formal and informal exchange of information concerning the ecology, siliviculture, and management of the Central Hardwood forest by wide range of subjects was presented representing research efforts to understand this diverse forest resource. An especially noteworthy shift from previous conferences was the increase in oral and poster presentations related to forests in riparian zones and other wetlands and water quality issues. Altogether, there were 60 oral and 33 poster presentations accepted for this conference yielding these proceedings containing 58 peer-reviewed papers, 23 research notes, and 9 abstracts.

Titles contained within 13th Central Hardwoods Forest Conference

• The Central Hardwood Forest: its boundaries and physiographic provinces
• The Central Hardwood Forest: Its Boundaries and Physiographic Provinces
• Shifts and future trends in the forest resources of the Central Hardwood Region
• Shifts and future trends in the forest resources of the Central Hardwood region
• The status of timber resources in the North Central United States
• The status of timber resources in the North Central United States
• Roles for agroforestry in hardwood regeneration and natural-stand management
• Roles for agroforestry in hardwood regeneration and natural-stand management
• The fire and oak hypothesis: incorporating the influence of deer browsing and canopy gaps
• The fire and oak hypothesis: incorporating the influence of deer browsing and canopy gaps
• USDA Forest Service farm woodlands case study - 50 year results from West Virginia
• USDA Forest Service farm woodlands case study - 50 year results from West Virgina
• A comparative analysis of the diversity of woody vegetation in old-growth and secondary southern Appalachian cove forests
• Evaluating management practices for log-grown shiitake production in Midwestern agroforestry
• Integrating fuel and forest management: developing prescriptions for the Central Hardwood Region
• Patterns of forest land owner participation in the West Virginia forest stewardship program
• A new book: the ecology and silviculture of oaks
• Water, water everywhere... integrated riparian research in the North Central Region
• Watershed scale assessment of the impact of forested riparian zones on stream water quality
• Assessing the extent of nitrogen saturation in northern West Virginia forested watersheds: a survey of stream nitrate concentrations
• Riparian shrub buffers reduce surface water pollutant loads
• Defining perennial, intermittent and ephemeral channels in eastern Kentucky: application to forestry best management practices
• Patterns in species composition and diversity along intermittent creeks in the Missouri Ozarks
• Ground-flora communities of headwater riparian areas in an old-growth central hardwood forest
• Composition and structure of an old-growth floodplain forest of the lower Kaskaskia River
• Riparian forest communities of the lower Kaskaskia River bottoms
• Late-season flooding regimes influence the accretion and partitioning of nitrogen and biomass in silver maple seedlings
• Survival results of a biomass planting in the Missouri River floodplain
• Comparison of site preparation methods and stock types for artificial regeneration of oaks in bottomlands
• The development of oak reproduction following soil scarification - implications for riparian forest management
• Adaptation of four Amorpha shrubs to four light levels
• Effect of vegetation structure on breeding territory selection by red-winged blackbirds in a floodplain forest restoration project
• Soil water nitrate concentrations in giant cane and forest riparian buffer zones
• Effect of site treatments on soil temperature and moisture and oak and pine growth and nutrient concentrations
• Relationships between biotic and abiotic factors and regeneration of chestnut oak, white oak, and northern red oak
• Site and canopy characteristics associated with oak advance reproduction in mature oak-hickory forests in the ridge and valley province in Tennessee
• Large woody debris in a second-growth central Appalachian hardwood stand: volume, composition, and dynamics
• Relating past land-use, topography, and forest dynamics in the Illinois Ozark hills
• Gap characteristics of southeastern Ohio second-growth forests
• Regenerating mixed oak stands in Pennsylvania: a quarter-century retrospective
• Effect of preharvest understory treatment and group opening size on four-year survival of advance reproduction in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas
• Effect of preharvest understory treatment and group opening size on four-year survival of advance reproduction in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas
• Effects of gap size, duration of daylight, and presence of leaf litter on forest regeneration
• Canopy gap replacement failure in a Pennsylvania forest preserve subject to extreme deer herbivory
• Patterns of tree species diversity and composition in old-field successional forests in central Illinois
• The population dynamics of goldenseal by habitat type on the Hoosier National Forest
• Response of pin cherry to fire, canopy disturbance, and deer herbivory on the Westvaco Wildlife and Ecosystem Research Forest
• Mortality trends and traits of hardwood advance regeneration following seasonal prescribed fires
• Understory response to disturbance: an investigation of prescribed burning and understory thinning treatments
• Spatial and temporal distribution of fire temperatures from prescribed fires in the mixed oak forests of southern Ohio
• Comparison of a low-tech vs. a high-tech method to evaluate surface fire temperatures
• Stand compositional dynamics in a mature Illinois Ozarks forest: implications for management
• Sawtimber oak stand response to six distinct cutting methods
• Influence of thinning style on stand structure and growth in upland oaks: a 58-year case study
• Litterfall of two southern Appalachian cove hardwood forests
• Canopy disturbance intervals, early growth rates, and canopy accession trends of oak-dominated old-growth forests
• From savanna to campus woodlot: the historical ecology of farm woodlots in southern Illinois
• Nettie Hart Memorial Woodland, Illinois: present composition and changes in community structure
• Using ROC curves to compare neural networks and logistic regression for modeling individual noncatastrophic tree mortality
• Modeling hardwood crown radii using circular data analysis
• SILVAH 5.1: developing interim guidelines for managing oak in Pennsylvania through multi-agency cooperation
• Soil structure characterized using computed tomographic images
• Projection matrices as a forest management tool: an invasive tree case study
• Assessing West Virginia NIPF owner preferred forest management assistance topics and delivery methods
• Diversifying farm income through woodlot management: characteristics of farmer-owned NIPF land in Illinois
• An expert system for estimating production rates and costs for hardwood group-selection harvests
• Assessing tree care professionals' awareness and knowledge about the Asian Longhorned Beetle
• Forest productivity: an integrated research and development program
• Effect of acorn mass and size, and early shoot growth on one-year old container-grown RPM™ oak seedlings
• Designing and testing a subirrigation system for rooting hardwood cuttings
• Giant cane propagation techniques for use in restoration of riparian forest ecosystems
• Nutrition and irrigation regime affect size and early growth of white oak seedlings
• Planted and natural tree seedling survival and density in three floodplain restorations on abandoned agricultural fields
• Auger planting of oak seedlings in northern Arkansas
• Weed barriers for tree seedling establishment in the Central Great Plains
• Improving tree establishment with forage crops
• Increasing amounts of chemical weed control increase growth of white ash, white oak, and black walnut saplings in a tall fescue sod
• Liriodendron growth on native and stripmine soils
• The Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center: its strategic plans for sustaining the hardwood resource
• Designing specific chloroplast markers for black walnut from a set of universal primers
• Diversity and relatedness in a black walnut seed orchard
• Effects of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae and seed source on nursery-grown black walnut seedlings
• Survival and growth of deep-planted, in-leaf grafts in a germplasm repository of canker-resistant butternut
• Dendrochemical response to soil fertilization
• Branch morphology in young poplar clones on floodplain sites in Missouri
• Sap sugar parameters of silver maple provenances and clones grown on upland and bottomland sites
• Performance of black walnut from the central hardwood region in China's Yellow River watershed
• The genetic effects of a diameter limited cut on black walnut
• Heartwood formation in four black walnut plantations
• Emerging hardwood pest problems and implications for the Central Hardwood region
• Use of USDA forest inventory and analysis data to assess oak tree health in Minnesota
• Climate-tree growth models in relation to long-term growth trends of white oak in Pennsylvania
• Growth and mortality of bigtooth aspen trees stressed by defoliation
• Survival of oak root systems following frill girdle herbicide treatment for oak wilt control
• The need for silvicultural practices and collection of butternut germplasm for species conservation
• Legume ground covers alter defoliation response of black walnut saplings to drought and anthracnose
• Differences in Optimal Growth Equations For White Oak in the Interior Highlands

Keywords

Central Hardwood, silviculture, oak-hickory, upland hardwoods, bottomland hardwoods

Citation

Van Sambeek, J.W.; Dawson, Jeffrey O.; Ponder, Felix Jr; Loewenstein, Edward F.; Fralish, James S. 2003. 13th Central Hardwoods Forest Conference. General Technical Report NC-234. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station