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Ecological effects of post-wildfire management activities (salvage-logging and grass-seeding) on vegetation composition, diversity, biomass, and growth and survival of Pinus ponderosa and Purshia tridentata

Creator:: Sexton, Timothy Ogden
Abstract:: Salvage-logging and artificial seeding of grass following wildfire are common practices in coniferous forests of the western United States, yet few studies have quantified the ecological effects of these post-fire activities. The effects of post-wildfire salvage-logging and grass-seeding on vegetation composition, aboveground biomass, and growth and survival of Pinus ponderosa...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The influence of cow age on grazing distribution and utilization of mountain riparian areas and adjacent uplands

Creator:: Morrison, Julie A.
Abstract:: The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of cow age on grazing distribution relative to mountain riparian areas. In each of two years, sixty cow-calf pairs were stratified by age into the following treatments: 1) thirty first calf heifers (442 kg, body condition score (BCS)=4.5), and 2)...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Effects of wood species and prior fungal exposure on the feeding habits of the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis

Creator:: Mankowski, Mark Edward
Abstract:: The effects of natural preconditioning (source wood), wood species, and previous exposure of wood to two types of fungi on the feeding rates and protozoa survival in the Pacific dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis (Isoptera: Termospidae) were examined under laboratory conditions. Termites were exposed to four wood species that had been...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Termite Zootermopsis angusticollis Abstract approved: Timothy . Schowalter The effects of natural

Host selection and wood channelization by beetles in conifer logs in western Oregon

Creator:: Zhong, He
Abstract:: The host preferences and wood channelization rates of scolytid and cerambycid beetles were studied at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest (Lane County, Oregon) during 1986 and 1987. Attack density and gallery volumes were measured in fall-felled experimental logs of four major conifer species: Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga mensiesii (Mirb.) Franco), western...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Harmon, Dr. Rick Kelsey, Mr. Jay Sexton, Mr. Joseph Gladwin, Miss Anne Connelly, and Miss Holly Brown

Arthropod community structure in regenerating Douglas-fir and red alder forests : influences of geography, tree diversity and density

Creator:: Schaerer, Brett L.
Abstract:: The structuring of canopy arthropod communities was reviewed and investigated in relation to tree species diversity and its component factors, interspersion of different species and density of each tree species. Fifteen treatments of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and red alder (Alnus rubra) (various densities and proportions of each) were randomly assigned...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Tree Diversity and Density Abstract approved: Timothy D. Schowalter The structuring of canopy

Impact of insects on seed production in a Douglas-fir seed orchard in Oregon

Creator:: Dombrosky, Scott A.
Abstract:: The impact of various factors on seed production in a Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) seed orchard in western Oregon was examined by monitoring the fate of seeds in thirty cones, stratified into three crown levels, on each of ten trees during the 1984 growing season. Cones were examined monthly between April...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to my major professor, Dr. Timothy Schowalter, for his

The influence of herbivore generated inputs on nutrient cycling and soil processes in a lower montane tropical rain forest of Puerto Rico

Creator:: Fonte, Steven J.
Abstract:: The role of insect herbivores in the nutrient cycling dynamics of forest ecosystems remains poorly understood. Although past research in herbivory has focused primarily on the deleterious effects that insects can have on tree growth and mortality, the overall effects of herbivory are more complex. Herbivores have the potential to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of Puerto Rico Abstract approved: __________________ _ Timothy D. Schowalter The role of insect

Non-native and native plant species distributions and variability along an elevation gradient in the Wallowa Mountains, Oregon

Creator:: Averett, Joshua P.
Abstract:: Invasion by non-native plants into natural areas is an important component of global change that threatens biodiversity and ecosystem structure and function. Mountains are currently among the least invaded ecosystems, however, these biodiversity hotspots are increasingly under threat of exotic plant invasion. Evaluation of plant species distribution patterns in mountain...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Timothy DelCurto, Michael M. Borman Invasion by non-native plants into natural areas is an

Response of needle-litter decomposition and soil nitrogen mineralization to logging-debris manipulation and competing vegetation control in western Oregon and Washington

Creator:: Meehan, Nathan Andrew
Abstract:: Growing societal demand for forest products is pressuring managers to increase productivity from a finite land area, and it is expected that increased supply will come mostly from expansion of intensively managed stands. The USDA Forest Service and numerous collaborators created the Long-Term Soil Productivity (LTSP) network of research sites...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Small mammal responses to silvicultural fuels treatments in southwest Oregon

Creator:: Manning, Jeffrey A.
Abstract:: Despite the belief that fuels management, a form of prescribed fire that reduces accumulated fuels in commercially thinned forests, is necessary to restore forest 'health' in the Pacific Northwest, its effects on wildlife has received little attention in the scientific literature. Because fuels management is supported, funded, and implemented nationwide...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: silvicultural treatment (Harmon and Sexton 1996, Pyne et al. 1996) such as thinning (Walstad et al. 1990

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Ecological effects of post-wildfire management activities (salvage-logging and grass-seeding) on vegetation composition, diversity, biomass, and growth and survival of Pinus ponderosa and Purshia tridentata

The influence of cow age on grazing distribution and utilization of mountain riparian areas and adjacent uplands

Effects of wood species and prior fungal exposure on the feeding habits of the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis

Host selection and wood channelization by beetles in conifer logs in western Oregon

Arthropod community structure in regenerating Douglas-fir and red alder forests : influences of geography, tree diversity and density

Impact of insects on seed production in a Douglas-fir seed orchard in Oregon

The influence of herbivore generated inputs on nutrient cycling and soil processes in a lower montane tropical rain forest of Puerto Rico

Non-native and native plant species distributions and variability along an elevation gradient in the Wallowa Mountains, Oregon

Response of needle-litter decomposition and soil nitrogen mineralization to logging-debris manipulation and competing vegetation control in western Oregon and Washington

Small mammal responses to silvicultural fuels treatments in southwest Oregon

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