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Creator:: Bork, Joyce L.
Abstract:: Historic fire return intervals in three different vegetation types dominated by ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.) were determined using fire scarred trees. Dendrochronological techniques were used to achieve accuracy in dating fire scars on samples collected from six 40 acre plots established in each site. Mean fire return intervals (MFRI)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Brainerd, Richard E.
Abstract:: A greenhouse bioassay was used to compare ectomycorrhiza formation and diversity in soils from undisturbed and clearcut and burned areas in moist mesic, moist montane and dry montane forest types representing a gradient of environmental harshness. It was hypothesized that mycorrhiza diversity decreases with increasing environmental harshness and that stability...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Huang, Jing, 1964-
Abstract:: Forest spatial pattern is a primary interest of landscape ecology due to the relationships between spatial configuration of biotic components and ecological processes. The spatial pattern must be measured in meaningful ways so that relationships between forests and their environment can be analyzed. Aerial and satellite imageries provide ecologists a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Velazquez-Martinez, Alejandro
Abstract:: The objectives of this research were to study: a) the effect of thinning and treatments consisting of pruning and multinutrient fertilization on aboveground biolnass increment, growth efficiency (GE), and foliar nutrients; b) the influence of topoedaphic variables (soil nutrients, slope, aspect, and rock content) and foliar nutrients on both leaf...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Borchers, Jeffrey G.
Abstract:: The effect of physical factors such as soil structure, bulk density, parent material, and topographic variables on soil C and N dynamics and ectomycorrhizal inocululu potential in forests of southwest Oregon were investigated In the high-elevation white fir (Abies concolor (Gord. & Glend.) Lindl.) zone, two old poorly-vegetated clearcuts with...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Rojas-Melo, Nestor S.
Abstract:: Bioassays using red alder and snowbrush plants grown in soils collected from a clearcut, a young Douglas-fir plantation, and an old-growth stand were conducted. Sites are located at the Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon. In the first bioassays, more alder than snowbrush plants survived and nodulated. Of the plants that survived,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Egeland, Dawn M.
Abstract:: Douglas-fir and western hemlock growth and stocking were examined on two neighboring clear-cut watersheds in the Western Cascades of Oregon and related to the intensity of burning and logging disturbance, habitat type, soil type, aspect and the influence of percent cover of both invading Ceanothus species and residual Acer circinatum....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Carloni, Kenneth R.
Abstract:: Two research questions are posed: (1) How have ecosystem conditions changed through time in southwestern Oregon? (2) How have culture-driven and climate-driven processes contributed to ecosystem change in southwestern Oregon? A brief introduction to the Little River study area is followed by a cultural and ecological history of the watershed....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: River watershed in the Umpqua National Forest in southwestern Oregon -- an area that also experienced

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