Shortleaf pine restoration and ecology in the Ozarks: proceedings of a symposium

Abstract

Contains 27 papers and 14 extended abstracts from the symposium "Shortleaf pine restoration and ecology in the Ozarks" held November 7-9, 2006, at the University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Springfield, MO.

Titles contained within Shortleaf pine restoration and ecology in the Ozarks: proceedings of a symposium

• Historical and social factors affecting pine management in the Ozarks during the late 1800s through 1940
• The historical ecology of fire, climate, and the decline of shortleaf pine in the Missouri Ozarks
• Shortleaf pine composition and structure in the United States
• Genetic variation in the southern pines: evolution, migration, and adaptation following the pleistocene
• Forest stand dynamics of shortleaf pine in the Ozarks
• The importance of shortleaf pine for wildlife and diversity in mixed oak-pine forests and in pine-grassland woodlands
• Restoration and management of shortleaf pine in pure and mixed stands--science, empirical observation, and the wishful application of generalities
• Successional trends of six mature shortleaf pine forests in Missouri
• Shortleaf pine: a species at risk?
• Tree species associations of Pinus echinata mill. over a large-scale sampling regime on the interior highlands of Arkansas
• Genetic improvement of shortleaf pine on the Mark Twain, Ouachita, and Ozark National Forests
• Performance of shortleaf pine provenances in Missouri
• Loblolly pine SSR markers for shortleaf pine genetics
• Chromosomal locations of the ribosomal dna genes in shortleaf pine
• Shortleaf pine hybrids: growth and tip moth damage in southeast Mississippi
• Phylogeographic analyses and evaluation of shortleaf pine population structure in Missouri
• Regenerating shortleaf pine: results of a 5-year cooperative research initiative
• Underplanting shortleaf pine in the Missouri Ozarks
• Underplanting shortleaf pine at Coldwater Conservation Area in Missouri
• Direct seeding of shortleaf pine
• What fire frequency is appropriate for shortleaf pine regeneration and survival?
• Effects of site preparation subsoiling and prescribed burning on survival and growth of shortleaf pine in the Mark Twain National Forest: results after 20 growing seasons
• The effects of a wildfire on pine seedling recruitment
• Hardwood regeneration related to overstory shortleaf pine basal area and site index in Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma
• Shortleaf pine reproduction abundance and growth in pine-oak stands in the Missouri Ozarks
• Shortleaf pine seedling production and seeding trends in Missouri
• The state of mixed shortleaf pine-upland oak management in Missouri
• Productivity of planted shortleaf pine in artificially compacted Clarksville soil
• Amounts and spatial distribution of downed woody debris, snags, windthrow, and forest floor mass within streamside management zones occurring in shortleaf pine stands five years after harvesting
• Wildlife diversity of restored shortleaf pine-oak woodlands in the northern Ozarks
• Birds of shortleaf pine forests in Missouri: an historical and contemporary perspective
• Avian response to pine restoration at Peck Ranch Conservation Area
• Timber harvest levels and pressure on shortleaf pine in Missouri
• Financial rates of return on shortleaf pine stands in Arkansas between 1978 and 1995
• Branch and foliage biomass relations for shortleaf pine in southeast Oklahoma
• Shortleaf pine natural community restoration on Peck Ranch Conservation Area in the Missouri Ozarks
• Glade/woodland restoration in the St. Francis Mountain Bird Conservation Area
• The Pineknot project: restoration of a Missouri Ozark pinery
• Shortleaf pine-bluestem restoration in the Ouachita National Forest
• The Ozark Highlands pine-oak woodland restoration partnership

Keywords

woodland restoration, southern pines, pine regeneration and management, tree improvement, wildlife diversity

Citation

Kabrick, John M.; Dey, Daniel C.; Gwaze, David. 2007. Shortleaf pine restoration and ecology in the Ozarks: proceedings of a symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-15. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 215 p.