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Natural regeneration of Douglas-fir in uneven-aged stands in southwest Oregon

Creator:: Gerstein, Jared M.
Abstract:: The response to various levels of stand density by natural Douglas-fir regeneration, shrub and sprouting hardwood species was studied in the mixed-evergreen-forests of southwest Oregon. Partial-cut old growth (harvested 22-31 years prior) and thinned evenaged (harvested 9-17 years prior) stand types were used as surrogates for intentionally managed uneven-aged stand...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Simulating Effects of Genetic Tree Improvement on Growth and Yield of Coastal Douglas-fir

Creator:: Joo, Sukhyun
Abstract:: Estimating volume gains in genetically improved stands at rotation age is challenging because first-generation progeny tests in Douglas-fir were typically established to measure the relative growth performance of individual trees from open-pollinated parent trees. The overall goal of this dissertation research was to improve growth simulation of genetically improved Douglas-fir...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Title: Simulating Effects of Genetic Tree Improvement on Growth and Yield of Coastal Douglas-fir

The impact of microclimate variation on budburst phenology within a mature Douglas-fir tree (Pseudostuga menziesii)

Creator:: Miller, Rebecca A.
Abstract:: Budburst, the initiation of annual growth in plants, is sensitive to climate variation and is therefore used to monitor physiological responses to climate change. Budburst timing can vary between regions of an individual tree, but this phenomenon it is unaccounted for in current monitoring efforts and may contribute to the...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis

Micropropagation of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in a double-phase culture medium

Creator:: Gross, Leah M.
Abstract:: The timber and Christmas tree industries are important components of the Pacific Northwest economy. A goal of both industries is to produce high quality trees with high growth rates. Accomplishing this requires increased genetic quality of the trees grown. Tissue culture provides the most promise for propagating these superior genotypes....
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

Managing Douglas-fir Mortality: Case Studies from Western Oregon

Creator:: Campbell, Lewis
Abstract:: An increase in frequency and severity of hot, dry summers has been associated with a dramatic shift in the coniferous forests of western Oregon’s valleys, especially on the privately-owned properties along the low-elevation edges of these valleys. Various conifer species, including Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), are declining in these forests, leaving...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: . Title: Managing Douglas-fir Mortality: Case Studies from Western Oregon Abstract approved

Douglas-fir hydraulic architecture and relationships among xylem properties at multiple scales via a Bayesian analysis

Creator:: Dunham, Sonya M.
Abstract:: This study investigated variation in xylem anatomy, hydraulic properties, and the relationship between anatomy and properties within Douglas-fir trees at multiple scales. The hierarchical scales in the study included fertilization treatments (fertilized and unfertilized), trees within the treatments, and positions within the trees. Tracheid diameter, tracheid length, percent latewood, number...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 2006. Title: Douglas-fir Hydraulic Architecture and Relationships Among Xylem Properties at Multiple

Influence of spacing and crown recession on wood quality of intensively-managed young-growth Douglas-fir

Creator:: Robbins, James M.
Abstract:: Intensive management of young-growth Douglas-fir plantations has emphasized volume growth over wood quality. A better understanding of the variables that affect wood quality is needed so that wood quality and stand yield can be systematically combined into a silviculture program. This experiment utilized two separate experiments to establish the relationship...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Influence of Spacing and Crown Recession on Wood Quality of Intensively-Managed Young-Growth Douglas-fir

Stiffness of Douglas-fir lumber : effects of wood properties and genetics

Creator:: Vikram, Vikas
Abstract:: Wood stiffness is one of the most important properties of lumber and veneer. We studied wood stiffness (modulus of elasticity, MOE), wood density, microfibril angle, and knots in a 25 year-old wind pollinated progeny test (50 families, ~ 373 trees) of coastal Douglas-fir to understand the potential for genetically improving...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Stiffness of Douglas-fir Lumber: Effects of Wood Properties and Genetics. Abstract approved

Identifying candidate genes associated with cold adaptation in Douglas-fir using DNA microarrays

Creator:: Howe, Dana Kathryn
Abstract:: In forest trees from temperate and boreal regions, cold acclimation is an important adaptive trait that involves changes in gene expression and physiology. Genecological, quantitative genetic, and QTL studies have been used to study the genetics of cold acclimation in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), but the genes responsible for...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , 2006. Title: Identifying Candidate Genes Associated with Cold Adaptation in Douglas-fir using DNA

Early genetic selection for wood stiffness in juvenile Douglas-fir and western hemlock

Creator:: Urhan, Oguz S.
Abstract:: Wood modulus of elasticity (MOE), also known as wood stiffness, is one of the most important wood properties. Wood stiffness is a measure of the resistance to deflection, and is important because some products such as laminated veneer lumber, plywood, and dimension lumber require stiff and strong wood. Incorporating wood...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Douglas fir and Western Hemlock. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Oguz S. Urhan for the degree of

Estimating spatial changes in acoustic velocity in felled Douglas-fir stems

Creator:: Dowding, Bodie
Abstract:: To compete with other building materials, the wood products industry must find a way to increase value and lower costs. Wood stiffness is important for most wood uses. Value can be increased and costs can be lowered by sorting logs for stiffness in the woods using acoustic devices mounted on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Douglas-fir Stems Abstract approved: Glen Murphy To compete with other building materials

Structure and hydraulic function of xylem in two tree species with contrasting amounts of sapwood, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus ponderosa

Creator:: Domec, Jean-Christophe
Abstract:: Every wood anatomist knows that the wood near the center of a tree (juvenile wood) differs from the wood laid down at some distance from the pith (mature wood), and that the wood produced during the spring (earlywood) differs from the wood produced during the summer (latewood). There is a...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Interactions Between Wild Bee Communities and Douglas-fir Beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae) Populations in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsugae menziezii) Forests of the Intermountain West

Creator:: Foote, Gabriel G.
Abstract:: This work combines both applied and basic research regarding previously undescribed relationships between two ecologically and economically important insect groups in coniferous forests, bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) and wild bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) communities in Western North America. Across the continent, native bark beetle outbreaks are key drivers of structural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Title: Interactions Between Wild Bee Communities and Douglas-fir Beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae

Simulating Wood Properties in the Context of a Growth and Yield Model for Planted Douglas-fir

Creator:: Osborne, Nathaniel L.
Abstract:: Forest growth and yield models are critical to supporting decision making in forestry, but often lack considerations for wood properties. The feasibility of simulating wood properties in the context of a Douglas-fir individual tree growth and yield model was evaluated. This assessment explored the effect of predicted sapwood width, stem...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Context of a Growth and Yield Model for Planted Douglas-fir Abstract approved

Modeling air-drying of Douglas-fir and hybrid poplar biomass in Oregon

Creator:: Kim, Dong-Wook
Abstract:: Both transportation costs and market values of woody biomass are strongly linked to the amount of moisture in the woody biomass. Therefore, managing moisture in the woody biomass well can lead to significant advantages in the woody biomass energy business. In this study, two prediction models were developed to estimate...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: -Drying of Douglas-fir and Hybrid Poplar Biomass in Oregon Abstract approved

Basic and applied studies on Douglas-fir beetle : spatial relationships of infestations, lipids and host habitat, and attraction distances of pheromone-baited traps

Creator:: Dodds, Kevin J.
Abstract:: Three studies on Douglas-fir beetle (DFB), Dendroctonuspseudotsuae, were conducted to investigate its basic and applied biology. Studies included investigations into the spatial relationship of DFB infestations over multiple years and multiple landscapes, relationships between DFB brood adult lipid levels and position of development along the length of tree boles, and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Evaluation of a prototype NIR system for Douglas-fir wood density estimation

Creator:: Belart Lengerich, Maria Francisca
Abstract:: Forest products companies in the U.S. face vigorous competition from other wood producers around the world and other industries (steel, aluminum, plastics, composites). To be competitive, forest companies need to control costs, sort and allocate logs to the most appropriate markets, and recover more value at time of harvest. Interest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: for Douglas-fir Wood Density Estimation. Abstract approved: Glen E. Murphy Forest

Using Acoustic Measurements and Inventory Data to Estimate Stiffness in Standing Douglas-Fir Trees

Creator:: Delgado Trejo, Jorge Luis
Abstract:: Total US lumber production in 2011 was 77.9 million cubic meters. Its primary use was for housing and construction. There is a growing concern that the structural properties for wood are being reduced as trees are harvested at much younger ages as the wood supply shifts from older to younger...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Stiffness in Standing Douglas-Fir Trees. AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jorge Luis Delgado Trejo

Effect of plant date on subsequent seedling field performance

Creator:: Taylor, Michael Monroe
Abstract:: Douglas-fir (Psudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) seedlings were outplanted on eight dates (every three weeks from mid-August 2005 through mid-January 2006). On each plant date, seedlings from a conventional dormancy (CONV) induction treatment, including moisture and nutrient stress, and a shortened daylength (SD) treatment were outplanted on three western Oregon sites...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: DOUGLAS-FIR SEEDLINGS IN WESTERN OREGON

Physiological Responses of Loblolly Pine and Douglas-fir Seedlings from Various Provenances to Timing and Frequency of Drought Stress

Creator:: Mosel, Jamie E.
Abstract:: Drought is expected to increase in many parts of the world and has been shown to affect tree physiology and growth, with seedlings being particularly vulnerable. Seedling drought responses are often species dependent, and even within species different populations may demonstrate a spectrum of responses to drought, from susceptibility to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: December 12, 2016. Title: Physiological Responses of Loblolly pine and Douglas-fir Seedlings from

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Natural regeneration of Douglas-fir in uneven-aged stands in southwest Oregon

Simulating Effects of Genetic Tree Improvement on Growth and Yield of Coastal Douglas-fir

The impact of microclimate variation on budburst phenology within a mature Douglas-fir tree (Pseudostuga menziesii)

Micropropagation of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) in a double-phase culture medium

Managing Douglas-fir Mortality: Case Studies from Western Oregon

Douglas-fir hydraulic architecture and relationships among xylem properties at multiple scales via a Bayesian analysis

Influence of spacing and crown recession on wood quality of intensively-managed young-growth Douglas-fir

Stiffness of Douglas-fir lumber : effects of wood properties and genetics

Identifying candidate genes associated with cold adaptation in Douglas-fir using DNA microarrays

Early genetic selection for wood stiffness in juvenile Douglas-fir and western hemlock

Estimating spatial changes in acoustic velocity in felled Douglas-fir stems

Structure and hydraulic function of xylem in two tree species with contrasting amounts of sapwood, Pseudotsuga menziesii and Pinus ponderosa

Interactions Between Wild Bee Communities and Douglas-fir Beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae) Populations in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsugae menziezii) Forests of the Intermountain West

Simulating Wood Properties in the Context of a Growth and Yield Model for Planted Douglas-fir

Modeling air-drying of Douglas-fir and hybrid poplar biomass in Oregon

Basic and applied studies on Douglas-fir beetle : spatial relationships of infestations, lipids and host habitat, and attraction distances of pheromone-baited traps

Evaluation of a prototype NIR system for Douglas-fir wood density estimation

Using Acoustic Measurements and Inventory Data to Estimate Stiffness in Standing Douglas-Fir Trees

Effect of plant date on subsequent seedling field performance

Physiological Responses of Loblolly Pine and Douglas-fir Seedlings from Various Provenances to Timing and Frequency of Drought Stress

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