Proceedings of the 15th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Abstract

Sixty-eight papers and seventeen posters address a range of issues affecting southern forests. Papers are grouped in 12 sessions that include pine silviculture session I, hardwood silviculture - intermediate treatment and stand development, longleaf pine; quantitative silviculture and economics, pine silviculture session II, hardwood regeneration, carbon and bioenergy, fire and fuels management, soils and water, and forest health.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 15th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

• Role of the USDA Forest Service experimental forest: an extension point of view
• Before and after comparisons of tree height in successive loblolly pine plantations with intervening machine, whole-tree harvesting
• Comparison of three site preparation techniques on growth of planted loblolly pine 6 years after a southern pine beetle epidemic
• First-year survival and growth of fertilized slash pine in south Alabama
• Plant community responses to soil disturbance and herbicide treatments over 10 years on the Texas LTSP study
• Impacts of four decades of stand density management treatments on wood properties of loblolly pine
• Short-term effects of silviculture on breeding birds in William B. Bankhead National Forest
• A better way - uneven-aged management of southern yellow pine
• Influences of tree, stand, and site characteristics on the production of epicormic branches in southern bottomland hardwood forests
• Overstory tree status following thinning and burning treatments in mixed pine-hardwood stands on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
• Boxelder (Acer negundo L.) stand development- can it serve as a trainer species?
• Light, canopy closure, and overstory retention in upland Ozark forests
• Assessing anthropogenic and natural disturbances: forest response to similarly aged clearcut and tornado disturbances in an east Tennessee oak-hickory forest
• Long-term stand growth after helicopter and ground-based skidding in a tupelo-cypress wetland: 21-year results
• A preliminary test of estimating forest site quality using species composition in a southern Appalachian watershed
• Hypotheses for common persimmon stand development in mixed-species bottomland hardwood forests
• Impact of fire in two old-growth montane longleaf pine stands
• A decision tree approach using silvics to guide planning for forest restoration
• Effects of prescribed burning on small mammal, reptile, and tick populations on the Talladega National Forest, Alabama
• Site index model for naturally regenerated even-aged longleaf pine
• Surface soil root distribution and possible interaction with site factors in a young longleaf pine stand
• Longleaf pine regeneration following Hurricane Ivan utilizing the RLGS plots
• 2008 interim guidelines for growing longleaf pine seedlings in container nurseries
• Developmental dynamics of longleaf pine seedling flushes and needles
• Effects of canopy treatments on early growth of planted longleaf pine seedlings and ground vegetation in North Carolina: a preliminary study
• Sixty years of management on a small longleaf pine forest
• The estate owner’s approach to forest economics
• Cost effectiveness of three different release treatments of table mountain pine in a severely overstocked and pure stand
• Financial performance of loblolly and longleaf pine plantations
• Estimating annual growth losses from drought in loblolly pine plantations
• Modeling thinning in east Texas loblolly and slash pine plantations
• Predicting diameter at breast height from total height and crown length
• Estimating loblolly pine size-density trajectories across a range of planting densities
• Volume and crown characteristics of juvenile loblolly pine grown at various ratios of between and within row spacings
• Effect of application timing on efficacy of site preparation treatments using Chopper® GEN2™
• Fifth-year pine growth response to woody release treatments in young loblolly plantations
• Pine growth following chemical site prep and postplant herbaceous weed control compared to chemical site prep only
• Establishment trial of an oak-pine/soybean-corn-wheat alley-cropping system in the upper coastal plain of North Carolina
• Assessing potential genetic gains from varietal planting stock in loblolly pine plantations
• Regenerating shortleaf pine in clearcuts in the Missouri Ozark Highlands
• Regeneration dynamics during oak decline with prescribed fire in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas
• Regeneration in bottomland forest canopy gaps 6 years after variable retention harvests to enhance wildlife habitat
• Red maple (Acer rubrum) response to prescribed burning on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
• Predicting the regeneration of Appalachian hardwoods: adapting the REGEN model for the Appalachian Plateau
• Modeling the long-term effects of oak shelterwood regeneration treatments on species diversity and oak abundance in southern Appalachian forests of North Carolina
• A comparison of canopy structure measures for predicting height growth of underplanted seedlings
• Effect of directed-spray glyphosate applications on survival and growth of planted oaks after three growing seasons
• Nine-year performance of a variety of Populus taxa on an upland site in western Kentucky
• A comparison of tree shelters installed on green ash and cherrybark oak seedlings in Arkansas
• A tree biomass and carbon estimation system
• Results of a long-term thinning study in some natural, even-aged pine stands of the Midsouth
• Growth and stem form quality of clonal Pinus taeda following fertilization in the Virginia Piedmont
• Site-specific forest management: matching genotypes and silviculture to optimize carbon sequestration
• Understory fuel variation at the Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge: a description of chemical and physical properties
• Short-term effects of fuel reduction treatments on soil mycorrhizal inoculum potential in beetle-killed stands
• Fuel dynamics across southern Appalachian landscapes
• Fuel-reduction treatments for restoration in eastern hardwoods: impacts on multiple ecosystem components
• Interest group opinions about fuel reduction in southern Appalachia
• Erosion response of a harvested piedmont loblolly pine plantation in Alabama: preliminary results
• Evaluation of road approaches to four different types of stream crossings in the Virginia Piedmont
• Influence of forest roads standards and networks on water yield as predicted by the distributed hydrology-soil-vegetation model
• The effectiveness of streamside management zones in controlling nutrient fluxes following an industrial fertilizer application
• Determination of field-effective soil properties in the tidewater region of North Carolina
• Using a GIS-based spot growth model and visual simulator to evaluate the effects of silvicultural treatments on southern pine beetle-infested stands
• Flooding effects on stand development in cypress-tupelo
• Increasing populations of Kentucky lady’s slipper orchid on the Kisatchie National Forest: seedling production and outplanting trials
• Thinning to improve growth, bole quality, and forest health in an Inonotus hispidus-infected, red oak-sweetgum stand in the Mississippi Delta: 10-year results
• Stream carbon dynamics in low-gradient headwaters of a forested watershed
• Agroforestry planting design affects loblolly pine growth
• Conversion of an oak seed orchard to oak silvopasture
• Intensive straw harvesting, fertilization, and fertilizer source affect nitrogen mineralization and soil labile carbon of a loblolly pine plantation
• Forested communities of the pine mountain region, Georgia, USA
• The longest active thinned and pruned loblolly pine permanent plots: the last measurement
• Influence of forest road buffer zones on sediment transport in the Southern Appalachian Region
• Developing equations for estimating tree component biomass for naturally regenerated shorteaf pine in southeast Oklahoma with application to biomass partitioning in thinned and unthinned stands
• Effects of planting density and genotype on canopy size, canopy structure, and growth of 25-year-old loblolly pine stands in southeastern Oklahoma
• Using existing growth models to predict RCW habitat development following site preparation: pitfalls of the process and potential growth response
• Regenerating oak-dominated forests using irregular, gap-based silvicultural systems
• Development of volume equations using data obtained by upper stem dendrometry with Monte Carlo integration: preliminary results for eastern redcedar
• Diameter-height and crown relationships for loblolly pine from North Carolina and Oklahoma-Arkansas seed sources near the western edge of the natural range
• Response to prescribed burning of 5-year-old hardwood regeneration on a mesic site in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
• Impact of rainfall on the moisture content of large woody fuels
• Occurrence and spread of nonnative invasive plants in stands treated with fire and/or mechanical treatments in the upper piedmont of South Carolina
• Fuel loading following fuel-reduction treatments and impacts from natural disturbances
• Not all basal area is created equal: the influence of species and stand development on canopy cover of four common southern pines
• The health of loblolly pine stands at Fort Benning, GA
• Hydrologic influence on sediment transport of low-gradient, forested headwater streams in central Louisiana
• Forest landowner attitudes toward shortleaf pine restoration: results of nine Missouri focus groups
• Land classification of the standing stone state forest and state park on the eastern highland rim in Tennessee: the interaction of geology, topography, and soils
• Growth ring response in shortleaf pine following glaze icing conditions in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma
• Reineke’s stand density index: a quantitative and non-unitless measure of stand density
• Fuel loading in the Southern Appalachian Mountains may be a function of site quality and decomposition rates
• Effects of planting density and genotype on loblolly pine stands growing in the mountains of southeastern Oklahoma

Citation

Guldin, James M., ed. 2013. Proceedings of the 15th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-GTR-175. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 585 p.