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The effects of forest fuel reduction on fire severity and long-term carbon storage

Creator:: Mitchell, Stephen Richard
Abstract:: Two forest management objectives being debated in the context of federally managed landscapes in the US Pacific Northwest involve a perceived trade-off between fire restoration and C sequestration. The former strategy would reduce fuel (and therefore C) that has accumulated through a century of fire suppression and exclusion that has...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Mitchell for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Forest Science presented on March 5, 2009. Title

Quaking aspen persistence in three Oregon landscapes

Creator:: Seager, S. Trent
Abstract:: Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is an important tree species in the western United States and there has been much concern about its persistence. In this thesis, I report on aspen in a portion of its range that has not been previously evaluated: the eastern and western slopes of the Central...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: cascades. I would also like to thank my graduate committee members, Paul Doescher and Marty Vavra

Spatial patterns of tree effects on pasture production in open canopied agroforests

Creator:: Harris, Norman Rex
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: rough times. I am very appreciative of Dr. Paul Doescher, Department of Rangeland Resources, and Dr

Economic and social impacts of restoration : a case study of the Great Basin Region

Creator:: Satyal, Vijayanand H.
Abstract:: The last five decades of research in arid land ecology cites Invasive species as a source of imbalances in biodiversity through habitat destruction and reductions of native species through ecosystem alterations in favor of non-native species. Invasive species are known to damage not only the surrounding ecosystem but also cause...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: graduate student. Dr. David Pyke and Dr. Paul Doescher deserve sincere appreciation for spending many

Modeling slope stability uncertainty : a case study at the Andrews Experimental Forest

Creator:: Murillo, Michelle L.
Abstract:: A simple debris-slide model, employing a digital elevation model (DEM) and geological data, was used in a geographic information system (GIS) to map slope stability in the Andrews Experimental Forest, located in the western Cascade Range in Oregon, USA. To evaluate the contribution of error in elevation to the uncertainty...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: other committee members; Drs. Jon Kimerling and Paul Doescher. A very special thanks to Dr. Gary

Directing ecological succession : the role of competition in restoring semi-arid grasslands dominated by invasive plants

Creator:: Mangla, Seema
Abstract:: Successful ecosystem restoration requires an understanding of the ecological processes directing succession. One of the challenges in the semi-arid grasslands of western United States is replacement of native species by invasive annual grasses. Solutions to this problem require identifying and manipulating ecological processes that direct succession to favor desired vegetation....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: dissertation. I want to extend thanks to my committee member Paul Doescher for introducing me to many

New perspectives on evolutionary relationships within Pinus (Pinaceae) and within subsection Ponderosae (subgenus Pinus)

Creator:: Willyard, Ann Nachreiner
Abstract:: A fossil-calibrated phylogenetic framework based on exemplars from each of the four taxonomic sections within Pinus was created using multiple nuclear and chloroplast loci. Calibration at the well-defined subgeneric split within Pinus with either fossil leaves and cones (ca. 45 million years ago) or fossil wood (ca. 85 million years...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: advisers Richard Cronn and Aaron Liston, and to my committee, Steven Strauss, Joseph Spatafora, and Paul

Role of propagule pressure and priority effects on plant establishment during restoration of invaded shrub-steppe

Creator:: Schantz, Merilynn C.
Abstract:: Biological plant invasions are diminishing the ecological integrity and function of ecosystems worldwide. A primary example of this is in the Great Basin of the United States, where invasive annual grasses, like cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae L. Nevski), are dominating many sagebrush-steppe ecosystems. In these invaded...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , writing, and editing. Lastly, I am grateful for Dr. Paul Doescher who provided me valuable insight in

Nutritional value of several Opuntia species

Creator:: Ben-Thlija, Abdellaziz
Abstract:: Little is known about cactus nutrients, their proportions in different species and the variability of these proportions with season. In the scant literature available on Opuntia species, no systematic survey has been published to document and compare the nutritional qualities of different species. Also, no studies have been done to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: members Drs. Paul Doescher, Howard Meyer and Neil Forsberg for their constructive criticism and valuable

Associations Between Crested Wheatgrass and Native Vegetation in Southeastern Oregon : An Investigation of Co-establishment, Environment, Seeding History, and Livestock management

Creator:: Nafus, Aleta M.
Abstract:: Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum [L] Gaertm), an introduced bunchgrass, has been seeded on over 5 million hectares of degraded rangeland in western North America because it establishes more readily than native bunchgrasses. Because crested wheatgrass stands are associated with native species displacement and low biological diversity, there is substantial interest...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , Paul Doescher and John Lambrinos for their support and advice. I appreciate everything they

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The effects of forest fuel reduction on fire severity and long-term carbon storage

Quaking aspen persistence in three Oregon landscapes

Spatial patterns of tree effects on pasture production in open canopied agroforests

Economic and social impacts of restoration : a case study of the Great Basin Region

Modeling slope stability uncertainty : a case study at the Andrews Experimental Forest

Directing ecological succession : the role of competition in restoring semi-arid grasslands dominated by invasive plants

New perspectives on evolutionary relationships within Pinus (Pinaceae) and within subsection Ponderosae (subgenus Pinus)

Role of propagule pressure and priority effects on plant establishment during restoration of invaded shrub-steppe

Nutritional value of several Opuntia species

Associations Between Crested Wheatgrass and Native Vegetation in Southeastern Oregon : An Investigation of Co-establishment, Environment, Seeding History, and Livestock management

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