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Evaluating the Influence of Stem Form and Vigor on Product Potential, Growth, and Survival for Northern Commercial Hardwood Species

Problem Addressed: Understanding how defects influence product recover and value; growth and mortality.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): A revised tree classification system
Key Findings: Stem form and vigor are highly variable across hardwood species; both attributes have important implications on hardwood growth & yield.
Recommendation: 4 classifications of stem form, 2 classifications of risk
Views: 767
Downloads: 6
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Forest Management for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change: Insights from Long-term Silviculture Experiments

Problem Addressed: Climate change effects on forest management
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Address the need of a management regime that simultaneously achieves adaptation and mitigation
Key Findings: Identified trade-offs between achievement of mitigation and adaptation objectives between each study
Views: 859
Downloads: 0
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Woody Debris Volume Depletion Through Decay: Implications for Biomass and Carbon Accounting

Problem Addressed: Underestimation of decay rates
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Develop method for estimating changes in log volume through time
Key Findings: Decaying logs have a collapse ratio that can serve as a surrogate for the volume remaining
Recommendation: Accounting for log volume depletion improves biomass-loss and carbon-accounting methods
Views: 1080
Downloads: 4
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Applying a Spruce Budworm Decision Support System to Maine: Projecting Spruce-Fir Volume Impacts under Alternative Management and Outbreak Scenarios

Problem Addressed: Antipated Spruce Budworm outbreak on timber supply
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Apply SBWDSS framework and use USDA FIA data to assess potential spruce-for losses from a SBW outbreak
Key Findings: Projections of moderate and severe intensity outbreaks could reduce statewide invtories by 20-30% over next 10 years.
Recommendation: Forestland owners and managers would benefit from conducting a spatially explicit township-by-township analysis of potential SBW impacts
Views: 1713
Downloads: 2
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Effects of multiple interacting disturbances and salvage logging on forest carbon stocks

Problem Addressed: Multiple disturbances or post-disturbance forest management activities on ecosystem carbon stocks.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Quantify how forest carbon stocks respond to stand-replacing blowdown and wildfire
Key Findings: Potential increases in multiple disturbance events may represent a challenge for sustaining ecosystem carbon stocks
Views: 913
Downloads: 1
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Ecological Impacts of Energy-Wood Harvests: Lessons from Whole-Tree Harvesting and Natural Disturbance

Problem Addressed: Expected impacts of even-aged energy-wood harvesting (EWH) on ecosystem structure and function
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Summarize existing knowledge to anticipate the impacts of EWH on carbon stocks, nutrients, terrestrial biodiversity, and associated aquatic ecosystems.
Key Findings: Harvesting impacts and forest sustainablitliy have relevance for examining potential consequences for biodiversity and aquatic ecosystems
Recommendation: Data is needed to address the longterm ecosystem sustainability of EWH and inform decisions concerning the acceptability of forest-derived wood as an important energy source worldwide
Views: 1058
Downloads: 4
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Effects of thinning on drought vulnerability and climate response in north temperate forest ecosystems

Problem Addressed: Do density reductions confer greater resistance and/or resilience to droughts?
Goal(s)/Objective(s): To assess how long-term forest density management reduced drought vulnerability.
Key Findings: Thinning generally enhanced drought resistance and resilience; however, this relationship showed a pronounced reversal over time in stands maintained at lower tree densities
Recommendation: Results confirm the potential of density management to moderate drought impacts on growth
Views: 928
Downloads: 0
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