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Forest Decentralization in Ghana: Examining Empowerment of Local Institutions

Creator:: Mawutor, Samuel M.
Abstract:: Decentralizing resource control for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a widely promoted scheme for natural resource governance worldwide. Researchers and policymakers have suggested that this approach has the potential to achieve positive social outcomes and succeed where centralized resource conservation has been inadequate. In reality, the powers transferred are...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: approved: ______________________________________________________ Reem F. Hajjar Decentralizing

Karuk Stewardship of Xánthiip (black oak, Quercus kelloggii) in the Western Klamath Mountains: Development of an Ecocultural Monitoring Protocol

Creator:: Thoreson, Jessie
Abstract:: My thesis is an exploration of xánthiip (Karuk for black oak, Quercus kelloggii) restoration within the Karuk Tribe’s Ancestral Territory in present-day northwestern California. Black oak is a cultural keystone species for the Karuk and has been chosen as one of the species to guide Tribally led forest restoration work...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: .................................................................................................... 125 Appendix F: Practitioner-Defined Quality Attributes of Black Oak at Different Scales ... 130

Quantifying Forest Degradation Requires a Long-Term, 8 Landscape-Scale Approach

Creator:: Betts, Matthew G., Yang, Zhiqiang, Hadley, Adam S., Hightower, Jessica, Hua, Fangyuan, Lindenmayer, David, Seo, Eugene, and Healey, Sean P.
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: Yang2, Adam S. Hadley3, Jessica Hightower1, Fangyuan 10 Hua4, David Lindenmayer5, Eugene Seo1, Sean P

Understanding ecohydrological connectivity in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach

Creator:: Miller, Gretchen R., Cable, Jessica M., McDonald, Alyson K., Bond, Barbara, Franz, Trenton E., Wang, Lixin, Gou, Si, Tyler, Anna P., Zou, Chris B., and Scott, Russell L.
Abstract:: Ecohydrological connectivity is a system level property that results from the linkages in the networks of water transport through ecosystems, by which feedbacks and other emergent system behaviours may be generated. We created a system dynamics model that represents primary ecohydrological networks to examine how connectivity between ecosystem components impacts...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach Gretchen R. Miller,1* Jessica M. Cable,2 Alyson K

Limitations to Seedling Regeneration on Tropical Forest Restoration Plantations in Northern Thailand

Creator:: Sangsupan, Hathai A.
Abstract:: This dissertation investigated potential ecological limitations to seedling regeneration in young, seasonally dry, evergreen forest restoration plantations in northern Thailand. We explored whether recruitment of colonizing tree species in the restoration plantations can be attributed to seed dispersal mode (i.e. abiotic or animal dispersal) and seed size. We did this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Forest Science Department Graduate Research Assistantship, the Oregon Lottery Scholarship, the Robert F

Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates

Creator:: Stephenson, Nathan L., van Mantgem, Phillip J., Bunn, Andrew G., Bruner, Howard, Harmon, Mark E., O'Connell, Kari B., Urban, Dean L., and Franklin, Jerry F.
Abstract:: At global and regional scales, tree mortality rates are positively correlated with forest net primary productivity (NPP). Yet causes of the correlation are unknown, in spite of potentially profound implications for our understanding of environmental controls of forest structure and dynamics and, more generally, our understanding of broad-scale environmental controls...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: BRUNER,3 MARK E. HARMON,3 KARI B. O’CONNELL,3 DEAN L. URBAN,4 AND JERRY F. FRANKLIN5 1U.S. Geological

Contrasting Hydraulic Strategies in Two Tropical Lianas and Their Host Trees

Creator:: Johnson, Daniel M., Domec, Jean-Christophe, Woodruff, David R., McCulloh, Katherine A., and Meinzer, Frederick C.
Abstract:: • Premise of the Study: Tropical liana abundance has been increasing over the past 40 yr, which has been associated with reduced rainfall. The proposed mechanism allowing lianas to thrive in dry conditions is deeper root systems than co-occurring trees, although we know very little about the fundamental hydraulic physiology...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: TREES ANDRADE , J. L. , F. C. MEINZER , G. GOLDSTEIN , AND S. A

Using Biodiversity Distribution Data to Support Landscape Conservation and Management in Colombia

Creator:: Zárrate-Charry, Diego A.
Abstract:: Global biodiversity decline is primarily driven by habitat loss. Deforestation, the primary driver of terrestrial habitat loss, is increasing worldwide, with the most significant impact in the world biodiversity hotspots. Sadly, specific knowledge of such impacts in biodiversity-rich but data-poor countries are still unknown, and many national and regional narratives...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: this chapter: Natalia Rivera Rincón, Jairo Perez, Mauricio Vela, Jose F Gonzalez Maya, Andrés Arias

Above- and belowground controls on water use by trees of different wood types in an eastern US deciduous forest

Creator:: Meinzer, Frederick C., Woodruff, David R., Eissenstat, David M., Lin, Henry S., Adams, Thomas S., and McCulloh, Katherine A.
Abstract:: Stomata control tree transpiration by sensing and integrating environmental signals originating in the atmosphere and soil, and co-occurring species may differ in inherent stomatal sensitivity to these above- and belowground signals and in the types of signals to which they respond. Stomatal responsiveness to environmental signals is likely to differ...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: ) and capacitive discharge of water into the transpiration stream (Andrade et al. 1998, Meinzer 2002

Can Pollination Networks Withstand Species Loss? An Examination of Plant–Hummingbird Interactions and Their Responses to Experimental Removal of a Flowering Plant Species

Creator:: Leimberger, Kara G.
Abstract:: Global environmental change is causing local extinctions of species. When species depend on one another, as in the mutualistic relationship between plants and pollinators, loss of one interaction partner may cause cascading effects within the community – such as additional extinctions and reduced pollination services. Network theory provides a way...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: designed by Matthew G. Betts, Adam S. Hadley, F. Andrew Jones, and W. John Kress. Matthew G. Betts, my

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Forest Decentralization in Ghana: Examining Empowerment of Local Institutions

Karuk Stewardship of Xánthiip (black oak, Quercus kelloggii) in the Western Klamath Mountains: Development of an Ecocultural Monitoring Protocol

Quantifying Forest Degradation Requires a Long-Term, 8 Landscape-Scale Approach

Understanding ecohydrological connectivity in savannas: a system dynamics modelling approach

Limitations to Seedling Regeneration on Tropical Forest Restoration Plantations in Northern Thailand

Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates

Contrasting Hydraulic Strategies in Two Tropical Lianas and Their Host Trees

Using Biodiversity Distribution Data to Support Landscape Conservation and Management in Colombia

Above- and belowground controls on water use by trees of different wood types in an eastern US deciduous forest

Can Pollination Networks Withstand Species Loss? An Examination of Plant–Hummingbird Interactions and Their Responses to Experimental Removal of a Flowering Plant Species

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