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Creator:: Concilio, Amy, Ma, Siyan, Ryu, Soung-Ryoul, North, Malcolm, and Chen, Jiquan
Abstract:: Soil respiration is a major pathway for carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems yet little is known about its response to natural and anthropogenic disturbances. This study examined soil respiration response to prescribed burning and thinning treatments in an old-growth, mixedconifer forest on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains....
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Full Text:: prescribed burning. Acknowledgements We would like to thank the USDA Forest Service Sierra Nevada Research

Creator:: Smith, Thomas F., Rizzo, David M., and North, Malcolm
Abstract:: Mortality patterns in an old-growth, mixed-conifer forest, in the absence of wildfire, were investigated at the Teakettle Experimental Forest from 2000 to 2002. We tested the hypothesis that after a century of fire suppression, pathogen- and insect-associated mortality (between episodic droughts) would be significantly greater on ingrowth trees (i.e., smaller-diameter,...
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Full Text:: North, Forest Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Sierra Nevada Research Center, Department of Environmental

Creator:: Marra, James L. and Edmonds, Robert L.
Abstract:: The Teakettle Ecosystem Experiment in the southern Sierra Nevada is using thinning and prescribed fire to recreate historical stand conditions. As part of Teakettle we assessed pretreatment diversity and density of the soil arthropod community in 1998 and 2000. We determined the density and diversity of soil microarthropods among treatment...
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Full Text:: supported by a grant from the USDA Forest Service, Sierra Nevada Research Center, Davis, CA. Manuscript

Creator:: Stephens, Scott Lewis
Abstract:: Fire suppression has increased fuel loads and fuel continuity in mixed-conifer ecosystems, resulting in forest structures that are vulnerable to catastrophic fire. This paper models fire behaviour in a mixed-conifer forest and investigates how silvicultural and fuels treatments affect potential fire behaviour. The computer program FARSITE was used to spatially...
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Full Text:: Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Albany, CA 94710, USA Received 2 April 1997; accepted 5 August 1997

Creator:: Pyare, Sanjay and Longland, William S.
Abstract:: During 1997–1998, we investigated the influence of both the relative abundance of truffles, preferred food items, and microhabitat structure on the occurrence of northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus Shaw) in oldgrowth forest habitat of the Sierra Nevada Range, U.S.A. Following live-trapping sessions, we searched the forest floor for truffle diggings...
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Full Text:: of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, and USDA Agricultural Research Service, 920 Valley Road, Reno, NV 89512

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