Creating a Knowledge Base for Management of Southern Bottomland Hardwood Ecosystems

John C. Bliss; Stephen B. Jones; John A. Stanturf; Christine M. Hamner

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Creating a Knowledge Base for Management of Southern Bottomland Hardwood Ecosystems

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Authors:

John C. Bliss, Stephen B. Jones, John A. Stanturf, Christine M. Hamner

Year:

1997

Type:

Scientific Journal

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

Published in USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, General Technical Report SRS-017

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Abstract

We describe an interdisciplinary approach to forecasting potential impacts of even-aged and uneven-aged silvicultural treatments upon bottomland hardwood ecosystems in the Southern United States. Our approach involves identifying scientists with expertise in key disciplines: utilizing the Delphi technique to develop consensus among these scientists on important system processes and functions. and to estimate mean values for management effects on same; and synthesizing results in conceptual models of key ecological. physical. and social relationships. These models will provide conceptual support for long term field research on management of these ecosystems underway at four sites in the South.

Keywords

ecosystem management, adaptive management, bottomland hardwoods, Delphi, silviculture

Citation

Bliss, John C.; Jones, Stephen B.; Stanturf, John A.; Burke, Marianne K.; Hamner, Christine M. 1997. Creating a Knowledge Base for Management of Southern Bottomland Hardwood Ecosystems. Published in USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, General Technical Report SRS-017