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Creator:: Bailey, Arthur Wesley, 1938-
Abstract:: Forest associations, secondary succession, and relationships of plant communities to Roosevelt elk were investigated. Stratification of vegetation into ecological units and an understanding of secondary succession by habitat-type were a necessary first step in investigations into browsing of conifers by elk. The study was jointly conducted by the Oregon State...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Young, James A. (James Albert), 1937-
Abstract:: This investigation was undertaken to characterize and evaluate the forage production and utilization of the successional vegetation of the mixed conifer forest. Field studies were carried out during the summers of 1962 through 1964 at the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station Hall Ranch which is located 12 miles southeast of Union,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Chase, Wallace T.
Abstract:: Respiratory rates were measured, in situ, for the litter, the soil, and the litter-soil subsystems of a Pseudotsuga menziesii forest as a function of type of understory vegetation. The major objectives were to demonstrate the utility of the litter layer as a distinct subsystem of this forest ecosystem, to demonstrate...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Adams, David Howard
Abstract:: Numerous isolates of Armillaria mellea were obtained within a 250 by 450 foot Study Area in a ponderosa pine plantation in central Oregon. These isolates were recovered from roots of armillaria-killed young-growth pine, from large stumps of the former pine overstory, including roots away from the stump proper, and from...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Leininger, Wayne C.
Abstract:: A three-year investigation was conducted during 1980-1982 to evaluate the potential of using herded sheep as a silvicultural tool to suppress brush in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) plantations of Oregon's Coast Range. Sheep browsing of Douglas-fir was highest in May soon after bud break. Averaged over the 2 years of grazing,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Zenner, Eric K.
Abstract:: Despite the critical ecological roles of structural features in forests, ecologically relevant quantitative measures of structure that allow comparisons among forest stands are still limited. A new index, the structural complexity index (SCI), was developed to characterize and compare the structural complexity of different forests. Point patterns of stem-mapped trees...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Creator:: Zavitkovski, J.
Abstract:: The ecological and silvicultural importance of snowbrush, Ceanothus velutinus, in the areas west of the summit of the Oregon Cascades was studied. Particular attention has been given its nitrogen- fixing ability under both field and greenhouse conditions. On west slopes of the Oregon Cascades snowbrush occurs above 2, 500 feet...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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