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Mediation of conifer root growth by mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth regulators

Creator:: Scagel, Carolyn F.
Abstract:: Many mycorrhizosphere microorganisms can produce plant growth regulating compounds in vitro. Plant growth regulating compounds are known to mediate root growth and development. In reforestation practices, conifer tree seedling growth and survival are linked to rapid root growth and development after outplanting. Multifactorial experiments were conducted to document variations in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Mediation of conifer root growth by mycorrhizal fungi and

Root decomposition in three coniferous forests : effects of substrate quality, temperature, and moisture

Creator:: Chen, Hua
Abstract:: Controls of substrate quality, temperature, and moisture on woody root decomposition in the Pacific Northwest were explored using chronosequences, time series, laboratory incubations, and simulation modeling approaches at three sites: Cascade Head (CAH), H. J. Andrews (HJA), and Pringle Falls Experimental Forests (PRF). In the chronosequence study, a structural component-oriented...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Dry coniferous forests in the Western Oregon Cascades

Creator:: Means, Joseph E.
Abstract:: Pseudotsuga menziesii dominates the forests of the Pacific Northwest. But though it is dominat, Tsuaa heteroohylla or Abies amabilis is usually climax. Many researchers have studied Pseudotsuga on the widespread mesic sites where it is seral, but few have examined the relatively rare ecosystems in which Pseudotsuga or its associate...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Dry coniferous forests in the Western Oregon Cascades

Meta-sedimentary bedrock as an alternative source of water for forest ecosystems in a Mediterranean climate

Creator:: Zwieniecki, Maciej A.
Abstract:: Evaluation of meta-sedimentary bedrock as a source of stored water available to plants in a mediterranean climate is presented based on: root length distribution (RLD), root morphology, rock water holding capacity and seasonal pattern of water depletion. Studies were performed in southwestern Oregon under young stands of whiteleaf manzanita, ponderosa...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Below ground biology of Botrychium pumicola (Ophioglossaceae)

Creator:: Camacho, Francisco J.
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: rare fern, with extant populations in Klamath, Lake and Deschutes counties, ofcentral Oregon. It

Forecasting Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides foot rot of winter wheat

Creator:: Grybauskas, Arvydas P.
Abstract:: The use of fungicides for the control of foot rot of winter wheat, caused by Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides (Fron) Dei., requires a forecast of disease risk to optimize this management practice ecologically and economically. Foot rot occurs in both the mild, wet (100+ cm, ppt./year) annual cropped areas in western Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: in western Oregon, and the drier (25-50 cm. ppt./year) summer-fallowed areas in eastern Oregon

Growth of plantation conifers and whiteleaf manzanita in southwest Oregon

Creator:: Hanson, Thomas J. (Thomas Jeffrey)
Abstract:: Southwest Oregon presents an environment of hot dry summers, cool moist winters, and rocky, shallow soils. The establishment of conifer plantations in this region presents challenging problems for initial seedling survival and subsequent growth. Three areas of concern include early conifer growth after seedling establishment, growth of competing hardwoods within...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Effects of weed control on vegetation dynamics in Pacific Northwest conifer plantations

Creator:: Chen, Fen-Hui
Abstract:: Weed control in Pacific Northwest forests has been criticized for its potential impact on biodiversity. Changes were evaluated in conifer growth, diversity of vegetation in situ and of recruiting plants through different regeneration mechanisms after applying temporally-varied weed control by herbicide treatments based on the critical period concept. Conifer size...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Sweet corn decline syndrome in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Creator:: Hoinacki, Elisabeth V.
Abstract:: For the past several years vegetable growers in Oregon's Willamette Valley have experienced reduced yields in their sweet corn plantings. We conducted studies to 1) describe the symptomology and etiology of the disease, 2) test a root rot rating system we developed to evaluate factors in the disease syndrome, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 2.1. Development of root rot of sweet corn in four fields in Oregon in A) 1997 and three fields mB

Mixed-Severity Fire Effects on Biological Legacies and Vegetation Response in Pseudotsuga Forests of Western Oregon's Central Cascades, USA

Creator:: Dunn, Christopher J.
Abstract:: Mixed-severity fire occurrence is increasingly recognized in Pseudotsuga forests of the Pacific Northwest, but questions remain about how tree mortality varies, and forest structure is altered, across the disturbance gradient observed in these fires. Therefore, we sampled live and dead biological legacies at 45 one ha plots, with four 0.10...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: regime included mixed evergreen-conifer forests of the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon, mixed

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Mediation of conifer root growth by mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth regulators

Root decomposition in three coniferous forests : effects of substrate quality, temperature, and moisture

Dry coniferous forests in the Western Oregon Cascades

Meta-sedimentary bedrock as an alternative source of water for forest ecosystems in a Mediterranean climate

Below ground biology of Botrychium pumicola (Ophioglossaceae)

Forecasting Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides foot rot of winter wheat

Growth of plantation conifers and whiteleaf manzanita in southwest Oregon

Effects of weed control on vegetation dynamics in Pacific Northwest conifer plantations

Sweet corn decline syndrome in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Mixed-Severity Fire Effects on Biological Legacies and Vegetation Response in Pseudotsuga Forests of Western Oregon's Central Cascades, USA

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