Proceedings of the 16th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Abstract

A range of issues affecting southern forests are addressed, including pine and hardwood silviculture, soil and water, physiology and genetics, carbon and bioenergy, fire and fuels, forest health, restoration, growth and yield, and forest economics.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 16th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

• The effects of planting density and cultural intensity on loblolly pine crown characteristics at age twelve
• Efficacy and non-target impact of midstory injection in bottomland hardwoods
• Extending the capabilities of an individual tree growth simulator to model non-traditional loblolly pine plantation systems for multiple products
• Longitudial variation in wood specific gravity of planted loblolly pine in the southern United States
• Genetic effects on stand-level uniformity, and above- and belowground dry mass production in juvenile loblolly pine
• A watershed-based environmental and regulatory data analysis system for the forest products industry
• Effects of silvicultural management on low gradient stream water quality in Louisiana
• Herbicide site preparation and release options for eucalyptus plantation establishment in the western gulf
• Short-term changes in loblolly pine water conductance and photosynthetic capacity from fertilizer source and straw harvesting
• Age structure of a southern pine stand following 72 years of uneven-aged silviculture
• Apical bud toughness tests and tree sway movements to examine crown abrasion: preliminary results
• Canopy accession patterns of table mountain and pitch pines during the 19th and 20th centuries
• Exploring genetic diversity, physiologic expression and carbon dynamics in longleaf pine: a new study installation at the Harrison Experimental Forest
• Longer black willow cuttings result in better initial height and diameter growth in biomass plantations
• Herpetofaunal response to oak-regenerating silvicultural practices in the mid-Cumberland plateau of southern Tennessee
• Use of the Weibull function to predict future diameter distributions from current plot data
• Assessing soil impacts related to forest harvest operations
• Lessons from the field: The first tests of restoration American chestnut (Castanea dentata) seedlings planted in the Southern Region
• Longleaf pine agroforestry
• First year response of oak natural regeneration to a shelterwood harvest and midstory competition control in the Arkansas Ozarks
• Effectiveness of timber harvesting BMPs: monitoring spatial and temporal dynamics of dissolved oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorus in a low-gradient watershed, Louisiana
• Sustaining Quercus humboldtii and Colombobalanus excelsa on the Colombian landscape: preservation or conservation - a research perspective
• Longleaf pine wood and straw yields from two old-field planted sites in Georgia
• Characterization of yields for Pinus taeda genotypes at the half-sib, full-sib, and varietal levels of genetic improvement at two planting densities at age 5 in the upper coastal plain of Georgia
• Pine straw production: from forest to front yard
• Influence of light and moisture on longleaf pine seedling growth in selection silviculture
• Efficacy of treatments using MAT-28 for pine site preparation
• Use of aminocyclopyrachlor for forestry site preparation in the Southeastern U.S.
• Control and management of eastern baccharis in a recently established bottomland hardwood plantation
• Geospatial relationships of tree species damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in south Mississippi
• Spatial analysis of longleaf pine stand dynamics after 60 years of management
• Frequency and season of prescribed fire affect understory plant communities in longleaf pine stands
• Ice damage effects on thinned loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) stands in southeastern Oklahoma
• Management intensity and genetics affect loblolly pine crown characteristics
• Evaluating different planting stocks for oak regeneration on Hurricane Katrina disturbed lands
• Whole canopy gas exchange among elite loblolly pine families subjected to drought stress
• Evaluation of short-rotation woody crops to stabilize a decommissioned swine lagoon
• Planting density and silvicultural intensity impacts on loblolly pine stand development in the western gulf coastal plain through age 8
• Sediment yield along an actively managed riparian buffer
• Release of nitrogen and phosphorus from loblolly pine forest floor in a post-harvest microclimate
• Are we over-managing longleaf pine?
• Assessing the leaning, bending, and sinuosity of sapling-size trees
• Changes in non-pine woody species density, composition, and diversity following herbicide and fertilization application to mid-rotation loblolly pine stands
• Twenty-nine years of development in planted cherrybark oak-sweetgum mixtures: implications for future mixed-species hardwood plantations
• Relative maxima of diameter and basal area
• Estimating fuel consumption during prescribed fires in Arkansas
• Long-term effects of wetland harvesting practices on productivity and carbon pools
• Effects of thinning on aboveground carbon sequestration by a 45-year-old eastern white pine plantation: A case study
• Growth and bole quality responses to thinning in a red oak-sweetgum stand in southeastern Arkansas: nine-year results
• Stand quality management in a late-rotation, red oak-sweetgum stand in east Mississippi: preliminary results following thinning
• Prescribed burning cost recovery analysis on nonindustrial private forestland in North Carolina
• Whole-canopy gas exchange among four elite loblolly pine seed sources planted in the western gulf region
• Long and short term changes in the forests of the Cumberland Plateau and Mountains using large scale forest inventory data
• A comparison of herbicide tank mixtures for mid-rotation gallberry competition release in slash pine
• Early results of a chestnut planting in eastern Kentucky illustrate reintroduction challenges
• Silviculture and the assessment of climate change genetic risk for southern Appalachian forest tree species
• Management intensity and genetics affect loblolly pine seedling performance
• Stand and individual tree growth response to treatments in young natural hardwoods
• Field performance and bioenergy characteristics of four commercial eucalyptus grandis cultivars in Florida
• Comparison of advanced genetic loblolly pine planting stock
• Development of an applied black willow tree improvement program for biomass production in the south
• Technology for biomass feedstock production in southern forests and GHG implications
• Effectiveness and costs of overland skid trail BMPs
• Comparing second year growth of American sycamore, black willow, and eastern cottonwood with and without fertilization
• The application of single-tree selection compared to diameter-limit cutting in an upland oak-hickory forest on the Cumberland Plateau in Jackson County, Alabama
• Effects of chemical site preparation on herbaceous vegetation prior to hardwood plantation establishment
• Evaluation of site preparation and planting stock on nuttall oak and cherrybark oak growth on a former agriculture area
• Estimating the probability of survival of individual shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata mill.) trees
• Will afforestation in temperate zones warm the earth?
• Blue storms depress growth of shortleaf pine in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma
• Beetle-killed stands in the South Carolina piedmont: from fuel hazards to regenerating oak forests
• Short-term carbon partitioning fertilizer responses vary among two full-sib loblolly pine clones
• Differences among shortleaf pine seed sources on the Ozark and Ouachita National Forests at age ten
• Effect of culture and density on aboveground biomass allocation of 12 years old loblolly pine trees in the upper coastal plain and piedmont of Georgia and Alabama
• Methodology and preliminary results of evaluating stem displacement and assessing root system architecture of longleaf pine saplings
• Surface soil root response to season of repeated fire in a young longleaf pine plantation
• Integrating forest stand projections with wildlife occupancy models to develop a decision support tool
• A mixed-effects height-diameter model for cottonwood in the Mississippi Delta
• Increased uniformity by planting clones will likely have a minimal effect on inventory costs
• Silviculture of varietal loblolly pine plantations: second year impacts of spacing and silvicultural treatments on varieties with differing crown ideotypes
• Best management practices for erosion control from bladed skid trails
• Low-cost regeneration techniques for mixed-species management – 20 years later
• Science delivery is a two-way street – development of the Consortium Of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists (CAFMS)
• The 3Ps of oak regeneration: planning, patience and persistence
• The 3 Ps of oak regeneration: planning, persistence, and patience
• Effect of simulated ice storm damage on loblolly pine tree and stand growth
• Controlling roadside noncrop pine in SE Oklahoma using selected glyphosate formulations with and without LI 700 and Milestone VM Plus
• Screening cut-stump control of Chinese tallowtree, sweetgum and yaupon with aminocyclopyrachlor

Citation

Butnor, John R., ed. 2012. Proceedings of the 16th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-156. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 393 p.