Tenth workshop on seedling physiology and growth problems in oak plantings

Abstract

Research results and ongoing research activities in field performance of oak plantings, seedling propagation, genetics, acorn germination, and natural regeneration of oaks are described in 15 abstracts.

Titles contained within Tenth workshop on seedling physiology and growth problems in oak plantings

• Oak research and technology transfer activities of the University of Tennessee's tree improvement program
• Two-year survival of planted seedlings as influenced by planting stock, planting method, fertilization or competition control
• Results from a 20-year-old bottomland oak species comparison trial in western Kentucky
• Enhancing natural blue oak regeneration in California
• Doing more with less: efficiencies at Vallonia State Nursery
• A conceptual model for developing mixed-species plantations in the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
• Integrating a wood quality component with the Sylvan Stand Structure Model for comparing cherrybark oak plantation management scenarios
• The use of relative growth rates to assess flood tolerance in oak seedlings
• Afforesting oaks in bottomlands
• Enhancing oak growth and development on Louisiana wetlands reserve program easements
• Evaluation of Root Force^TM container seedlings of four oak species for bottomland forest restoration in southern Indiana: 5-year results
• Oak seedling outplanting performance
• First-year evaluation of two northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) plantings during a drought year
• Performance of four hardwoods on a good preharvested site, without weed control, treated with fire before planting and with and without tree shelter
• Control of acorn weevils in a bur oak seed orchard

Citation

Lockhart, Brian Roy; Gardiner, Emile S.; Dey, Daniel C. 2008. Tenth workshop on seedling physiology and growth problems in oak plantings. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-32. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 18 p.