Proceedings of the 14th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Abstract

A range of issues affecting southern forests are addressed in 113 papers. Papers are grouped into 12 sessions that include carbon; pine silviculture; invasive species; site preparation; hardwood artificial regeneration; longleaf pine; forest health and fire; growth and yield; hardwood intermediate treatments; hardwood natural regeneration; wildlife; and posters.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 14th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

• Quantifying carbon sequestration in forest plantations by modeling the dynamics of above and below ground carbon pools
• Carbon sequestration and natural longleaf pine ecosystem
• Carbon sequestration resulting from bottomland hardwood afforestation in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
• Carbon storage, soil carbon dioxide efflux and water quality in three widths of piedmont streamside management zones
• Effects of nutrient and organic matter manipulation on carbon pools and fluxes in a young loblolly pine varietal stand on the lower coastal plain of South Carolina
• Family by environment interactions for loblolly and slash pine plantations in the southeastern United States
• Pinestraw raking, fertilization and poultry litter amendment effects on soil physical properties for a mid-rotation loblolly pine plantation
• Initial response of loblolly pine and competition to mid rotation fertilization and herbicide application in the gulf coastal plain
• Impact of pruning intensity on growth of young loblolly pine trees: some early results
• Effects of precommercial thinning in naturally regenerated loblolly-shortleaf pine stands in the upper west gulf coastal plain: results after two growing seasons
• Understory plant community response to compaction and harvest removal in a loblolly pine plantation
• A comparison of northern and southern table mountain pine stands
• Long-term affects of a single P fertilization on Hedley P pools in a South Carolina loblolly pine plantation
• Effect of biosolids on a loblolly pine plantation forest in the Virginia piedmont
• Projected growth and yield and changes in soil site productivity for loblolly pine stands 10 years after varying degrees of harvesting disturbance
• Double-planting can affect gains from weed control treatments
• Relationship between herbaceous layer, stand, and site variables in the Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
• The facilitation and impacts of Microstegium vimineum colonization in an eastern hardwood forest
• Influencing factors on vegetative cogongrass spread into pine forests on the Mississippi gulf coast
• Effects of mechanical and chemical control on Microstegium vimineum and its associates in central West Virginia
• Comparison of alternative kudzu control measures on a before-tax basis in Mississippi
• Efficacy of ‘hack and squirt’ application of imazapyr, triclopyr, and glyphosate to control the invasive tree species Chinese tallowtree
• Use of carfentrazone for control of natural pine in forestry site preparation areas
• Strategies to achieve long-term benefits from multiple operational herbicide applications in lower coastal plain pine stands
• Split-season herbaceous weed control for full-season seedling performance
• Loblolly pine growth following operational vegetation management treatments compares favorably to that achieved in complete vegetation control research trials
• Evaluating subsoiling and herbaceous weed control on shortleaf pine planted in retired farm land
• Effects of disking, bedding, and subsoiling on survival and growth of three oak species in central Mississippi
• Evaluation of Nuttall oak and cherrybark oak survival by planting stock and site preparation treatment type in a WRP planting on a retired agricultural site
• Evaluating the use of enhanced oak seedlings for increased survival and growth: first-year survival
• Determining the factors associated with seedling herbivory on afforested carbon sequestration sites in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley: preliminary results
• Growing cottonwoods for biomass: results of a ten-year irrigation study
• Rooting stem cuttings of northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) utilizing hedged stump sprouts formed on recently felled trees
• White oak epicotyl emergence and 1-0 seedling growth from surgically altered germinating acorns
• Success of riparian restoration projects in the mountains, piedmont, and coastal plain of Virginia
• The use of gibberellic acid as a presowing treatment for cherrybark and Nuttall oak acorns
• Releasing red oak reproduction using a growing season application of Oust
• Silvicultural and logistical considerations associated with the pending reintroduction of American chestnut
• Effects of prescribed fire on vegetation and fuel loads in longleaf pine stands in the bluestem range
• Stand dynamics of an old-field longleaf pine stand following herbicide application, poor survival, and subsequent replanting
• Effect of lime stabilized biosolids and inorganic fertilizer applications on a thinned longleaf stand - ten year results
• Effects of liquid fertilizer application on the morphology and outplanting success of container longleaf pine seedlings
• Longleaf pine bud development: influence of seedling nutrition
• Effects of container cavity size and copper coating on field performance of container-grown longleaf pine seedlings
• Artificially regenerating longleaf pine on wet sites: preliminary analysis of effects of site preparation treatments on early survival and growth
• Composition and structure of managed pine stands compared to reference longleaf pine sites on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
• Impact of Hurricane Ivan on the regional longleaf pine growth study: is there a relation to site or stand conditions?
• Initial effects from re-introducing fire in Alabama montane longleaf stands: fifty years since last burn
• Influence of repeated prescribed fire and herbicide application on the fine root biomass of young longleaf pine
• Fuel loading and fire intensity-effects on longleaf pine seedling survival
• Forest soil response to fuel reduction treatments in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
• Third-year responses of understory woody regeneration to fuel reduction treatments in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
• Energy content in dried leaf litter of some oaks and mixed mesophytic species that replace oaks
• Spacing and family affect fusiform rust incidence in loblolly pine at age 17
• Assessment of loblolly pine decline and site conditions on Fort Benning Military Reservation, GA
• Regeneration response to tornado and salvage harvesting in a bottomland forest
• Conceptual framework for improved wind-related forest threat assessment in the Southeastern United States
• Southern pine beetle infestation probability mapping using weights of evidence analysis
• Financial rates of return on thinned and unthinned stands, using large-scale forest inventory data in Mississippi and Arkansas, 1977 to 1995
• Impact of initial spacing on yield per acre and wood quality of unthinned loblolly pine at age 21
• The densest loblolly pine stand and its silvicultural implications
• Pine seed tree growth and yield on the Crossett Experimental Forest
• Self-referencing site index equations for unmanaged loblolly and slash pine plantations in east Texas
• Consequences of a fixed-top DOB assumption on the estimation of pine chip-n-saw and sawtimber tons
• Comparing diameter growth of stands prior to canopy closure to diameter growth of stands after canopy closure
• Adjustments of individual-tree survival and diameter-growth equations to match whole-stand attributes
• Compatible taper and volume equations for young longleaf pine plantations in southwest Georgia
• Applying the age-shift approach to model responses to midrotation fertilization
• Adjusting site index and age to account for genetic effects in yield equations for loblolly pine
• Thinning guidelines from crown area relationships for young hardwood plantations
• National workshop on forest productivity & technology: cooperative research to support a sustainable & competitive future - progress and strategy
• Comparing methods to estimate Reineke’s maximum size-density relationship species boundary line slope
• Forested land cover classification on the Cumberland Plateau, Jackson County, Alabama: a comparison of Landsat ETM+ and SPOT5 images
• Stand quality management of a water oak plantation in Louisiana: preliminary results following thinning
• Morphological and physiological responses of hardwood trees to plantation thinning
• The Sylview graphical interface to the SYLVAN STAND STRUCTURE model with examples from southern bottomland hardwood forests
• Oak regeneration following complete and partial harvesting in the Mississippi Bluff Hills: preliminary results
• Pre- and post-clearcut tree species distribution in two physiographic regions of the Shawnee National Forest, Illinois
• Effects of pre- and post-harvest site preparation treatments on natural regeneration success in a mixed hardwood stand after 10 years
• Production of willow oak acorns in an Arkansas greentree reservoir: an evaluation of regeneration and waterfowl forage potential
• Biomass accumulation patterns of Nuttall oak seedlings established under three stand conditions
• Hickory regeneration under five silvicultural prescriptions in an oak-hickory forest in northern Alabama
• Accelerating development with fertilization in a young natural Piedmont mixed hardwood pine stand
• Cerulean Warbler response to silvicultural manipulations on managed forestland in Desha Co., Arkansas, third year results
• Abundance and population structure of eastern worm snakes in forest stands with various levels of overstory tree retention
• The influence of red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) on nutrient cycling in Appalachian hardwood forests
• Amphibian and reptile response to prescribed burning and thinning in pine-hardwood forests: pre-treatment results
• Habitat use of two songbird species in pine-hardwood forests treated with prescribed burning and thinning: first year results
• Snag recruitment and mortality in a bottomland hardwood forest following partial harvesting: second-year results
• Influence of establishment timing and planting stock on early rotational growth of loblolly pine plantations in Texas
• Use of a thermocouple-datalogger system to evaluate overstory mortality
• Development of a shortleaf pine individual-tree growth equation using non-linear mixed modeling techniques
• Biomass and nitrogen dynamics of four plantation tree species receiving irrigation and fertilization
• Case study to examine the effects of a growing-season burn and annosum root disease on mortality in a longleaf pine stand
• Growth response of dominant and co-dominant loblolly pines to organic matter removal, soil compaction, and competition control
• Pondering the monoterpene composition of Pinus serotina Michx.: can limonene be used as a chemotaxonomic marker for the identification of old turpentine stumps?
• Evaluating growth assumptions using diameter or radial increments in natural even-aged longleaf pine
• Effects of prescribed burning, mechanical, and chemical treatments to curtail rhododendron dominance and reduce wildfire fuel loads
• Segmented polynomial taper equation incorporating years since thinning for loblolly pine plantations
• Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) restoration on gulf lower coastal plain flatwoods sites: role of shrub control and phosphorous fertilization
• Assessment of the 1998–2001 drought impact on forest health in southeastern forests: an analysis of drought severity using FHM data
• Simulation of dynamics of southern pine beetle hazard rating with respect to silvicultural treatment and stand development
• Using BEHAVEPlus for predicting fire behavior in southern Appalachian hardwood stands subjected to fuel reduction treatments
• Effects of fire season on vegetation in longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests
• Effects of forest fire and logging on forest degradation in Mongolia
• Effect of thinning on partitioning of aboveground biomass in naturally regenerated shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata mill.)
• Second-year growth and bole quality response of residual poletimber trees following thinning in an even-aged bottomland hardwood sawtimber stand
• Wood quality for longleaf pines: a spacing, thinning and pruning study on the Kisatchie National Forest
• Hardwood regeneration related to overstory shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata mill.) basal area, site index, and time since cutting in Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma
• The effects of tree shelters on seedling survival and growth of two bottomland hardwood species: third-year results
• Effects of harvesting treatments on the ant community in a Mississippi River bottomland hardwood forest in west-central Mississippi
• A model for estimating understory vegetation response to fertilization and precipitation in loblolly pine plantations
• Delayed mortality of eastern hardwoods after prescribed fire

Citation

Stanturf, John A., ed. 2010. Proceedings of the 14th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–121. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 614 p.