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Population viability analysis of endangered plant species : an evaluation of stochastic methods and an application to a rare prairie plant

Creator:: Kaye, Thomas N.
Abstract:: Transition matrix models are one of the most widely used tools for assessing population viability. The technique allows inclusion of environmental variability, thereby permitting estimation of probabilistic events, such as extinction. However, few studies use the technique to compare the effects of management treatments on population viability, and fewer still...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Blouin, Steve Radosevich, and Ralph Berry, for taking the time to help me and guide my studies. Finally

The ecological legacy of Indian burning practices in southwestern Oregon

Creator:: Carloni, Kenneth R.
Abstract:: Two research questions are posed: (1) How have ecosystem conditions changed through time in southwestern Oregon? (2) How have culture-driven and climate-driven processes contributed to ecosystem change in southwestern Oregon? A brief introduction to the Little River study area is followed by a cultural and ecological history of the watershed....
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Brauner for his insights into the life and times of southwest Oregon’s native peoples, and Steve

Ecosystem effects of vegetation removal in coastal Oregon Douglas-fir experimental plantations : impacts on ecosystem production, tree growth, nutrients, and soils

Creator:: Yildiz, Oktay
Abstract:: Effects of partial understory removal on belowground and aboveground ecosystem properties were investigated in 5 and 15 yr old Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesll (Mirb.) Franco) experimental plantations in western Oregon. Seedling survival was not affected by understory removal at age 5 yr. But through age 15 yr, understory removal increased seedling...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Steve Radosevich, John Baham, and Bruce Rettig for their guidance and support. Dr. Robert Wagner

The timber harvesting behavior of family forest owners

Creator:: Butler, Brett J.
Abstract:: To increase our understanding of the timber harvesting behavior of family forest owners, I developed theoretical and empirical timber harvesting models for family forest owners in the southeastern United States. An individual-choice model was the basis for the models. Family forest owners were modeled as utility-maximizers who made harvesting decisions...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , along with graduate committee members, including Ralph Alig, Sheila Cordray, and Steve Radosevich

Dynamics of size structures : simulation and experiments in seedling stands of Pseudotsuga menziesii and Fraxinus mandshurica

Creator:: Petersen, Terry D.
Abstract:: Computer simulations and experiments were used to determine the basis for skewness and inequality in size structures (frequency distributions of Individual plant sizes) prior to self-thinning mortality. In simulated stands, density-dependent neighborhood heterogeneity caused variability in the growth rate of individuals with the same size, and such variability caused skewness...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Soil-site productivity relationships of central Oregon ponderosa pine

Creator:: Wilson, Duncan Steil, 1969-
Abstract:: The relationship between annual foliage production and nitrogen and water stress was examined in 14 naturally regenerated, mid-rotation ponderosa pine stands in central Oregon. Current-year and older foliage masses, and foliage nitrogen contents and concentration were estimated from 132 destructively sampled trees. Litterfall mass and nitrogen retranslocation rates from senescing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The role and function of fruit trees and fruit tree-based agroforestry systems in a highland watershed in northern Thailand

Creator:: Withrow-Robinson, Bradford A.
Abstract:: Field studies were conducted from 1996 to 1998 in three villages in a Highland watershed in Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand. The objectives of the study were to classify and define the fruit-based agroforestry cropping system and investigate management activities used by villagers. In the first part of the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Structural development of late successional forests in the central Oregon Coast Range : abundance, dispersal, and growth of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) regeneration

Creator:: Schrader, Barbara A.
Abstract:: Patterns of western hemlock regeneration were studied in relation to forest structural development and environment in the Oregon Coast Range. Density of western hemlock seedlings was examined across the climatic gradient from cool, moist coastal areas to the seasonally hot and dry Willamette Valley Margin. Seedling densities were most strongly...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Tree seedling establishment on heterogenous microsites in Douglas-fir forest canopy gaps

Creator:: Gray, Andrew N.
Abstract:: Tree seedling establishment and growth were studied in experimental canopy gaps to determine the effect of structural and environmental heterogeneity on species dynamics within mature and old-growth Douglas-fir forests in the Cascades of central Oregon and southern Washington. Factors examined included forest age, gap size, within-gap position. substrate, year of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Effects of lactofen herbicide on cellular uptake of glyphosate herbicide in malva parviflora L.

Creator:: Wells, Barbara Heard
Abstract:: Time-course growth chamber studies were conducted on little mallow (Malva parviflora L.) to determine whether sublethal doses of lactofen (1'-(carboethoxy)ethyl-5-[2-chloro-4-(trifluoromethyl) phenoxy]-2- nitrobenzoate) would enhance uptake of glyphosate (N'-(phosphonomethyl) glycine) by altering membrane permeability. Lactofen-induced membrane peroxidation was determined by harvesting leaf discs, measuring stress ethylene evolution, and recording increases in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: graduate committee, Dr. Les Fuchigami, Dr. Dale Moss, Dr. Steve Radosevich, Dr. Garvin Crabtree, Dr

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Population viability analysis of endangered plant species : an evaluation of stochastic methods and an application to a rare prairie plant

The ecological legacy of Indian burning practices in southwestern Oregon

Ecosystem effects of vegetation removal in coastal Oregon Douglas-fir experimental plantations : impacts on ecosystem production, tree growth, nutrients, and soils

The timber harvesting behavior of family forest owners

Dynamics of size structures : simulation and experiments in seedling stands of Pseudotsuga menziesii and Fraxinus mandshurica

Soil-site productivity relationships of central Oregon ponderosa pine

The role and function of fruit trees and fruit tree-based agroforestry systems in a highland watershed in northern Thailand

Structural development of late successional forests in the central Oregon Coast Range : abundance, dispersal, and growth of western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla) regeneration

Tree seedling establishment on heterogenous microsites in Douglas-fir forest canopy gaps

Effects of lactofen herbicide on cellular uptake of glyphosate herbicide in malva parviflora L.

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