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Creator:: Rose, Coulter R.
Abstract:: National Forest management in the Pacific Northwest is shifting from a focus on commodity production to ecosystem management, in which the health of the entire forest ecosystem is considered, rather than that of a few key species. Ecosystem management includes retention of some live trees following timber harvest (green-tree retention)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: harvest to forest growth and species composition in the western Cascade Mountains AN ABSTRACT OF THE

Creator:: Holub, Scott M.
Abstract:: Forests in the Pacific Northwest receive very little nitrogen through atmospheric deposition and thus studying the nitrogen cycle in this region can provide insights into how the unpolluted nitrogen cycle functions. I examined the fate of organic nitrogen versus inorganic nitrogen and the effect of tamlins on N retention by...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Organic and Inorganic Nitrogen Inputs in an Old-growth Forest of the Central Oregon Cascade Range

Creator:: Lindh, Briana C.
Abstract:: This thesis examines factors limiting understory herb presence and flowering in young second-growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests on the west side of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon, USA. I studied the belowground effects of canopy trees on understory herbs and shrubs in old-growth forests using trenched plots from which tree roots...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: menziesii) forests on the west side of the Cascade Mountains, Oregon, USA. I studied the belowground

Creator:: Kayes, Lori J.
Abstract:: Reforestation-based restoration of severely burnt plantations is one of the primary management activities following wildfire on U.S. federal lands. Restoration effects on early-seral plant and cryptogam communities have not been documented. The objectives of this study were, in severely burnt plantations two to four years post-fire, to examine the: (1)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: wildfire and restoration. Early-seral bryophytes preferentially occupy microsites with undisturbed soil

Creator:: Celis, Jessica
Abstract:: In the Oregon Cascade Range, conifer encroachment has reduced the extent of mountain meadows by as much as 50% since the mid-1940s. Although encroachment results in a general decline of meadow species abundance and diversity, species differ in their sensitivities to encroachment: some show rapid declines whereas others persist in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ F. Andrew Jones In the Oregon Cascade Range, conifer encroachment has reduced the extent

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