Proceedings, 1995 meeting of the Northern Global Change Program; 1995 March 14-16; Pittsburgh, PA. : Introduction/Environmental Change

Abstract

Contains articles presented at the 1995 Northern Global Change Program meeting on the following topics: monitoring and predicting regional environmental change, responses of northern tree species to regional stress, responses of ecosystem processes to regional stress, forest and landscape responses to regional stress and management activities, human-forest interactions and regional change, an integrated national model of the effects of global change on U.S. Forests, and boreal forest and global change.

Titles contained within Proceedings, 1995 meeting of the Northern Global Change Program; 1995 March 14-16; Pittsburgh, PA. : Introduction/Environmental Change

• The northern global change research program
• Delineation of climate regions in the Northeastern United States
• Enhancement of regional wet deposition estimates based on modeled precipitation inputs
• Effects of calcium fertilization and acid mist on calcium concentration and cold tolerance of red spruce needles
• Ozone-induced accelerated foliar senescence: implications for toxicity and compensation
• Root growth and respiration of aspen in response to ozone and elevated carbon dioxide
• Effects of ozone and CO₂ on the growth and physiology of aspen
• Interacting effects of ozone and CO₂ on growth and physiological processes in northern forest trees
• The chronic response of yellow-poplar and eastern white pine to ozone and elevated carbon dioxide: three-year summary
• Effects of carbon dioxide enrichment on response of pitch pine grown at different nutrient levels to aluminum
• Elevated CO₂ compensates for water stress in northern red oak
• Modeling impacts of CO₂, ozone, and climate change on tree growth
• Ozone exposure, uptake, and response of different-sized black cherry trees
• Water use in forest canopy black cherry trees and its relationship to leaf gas exchange and environment
• Effects of elevated CO₂ and ozone on phenolic glycosides of trembling aspen
• Variable performance of outbreak defoliators on aspen clones exposed to elevated CO₂ and O₃
• Genetic aftereffects of increased temperature in Larix
• Physiological and genotypic responses of central hardwood species to allelochemicals, other stresses, and their interactions
• The Howland Integrated Forest Study (HIFS) - ecosystem research on atmospheric influences governing forest function
• Biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur at the Howland Integrated Forest Study site, Howland, Maine
• Elemental cycling response of an Adirondack subalpine spruce-fir forest to atmospheric and environmental change
• Internal uptake and assimilation of gaseous nitric acid by western forest tree species
• Climatic and pollution influences on ecosystem processes in northern hardwood forests
• Effects of elevated CO₂ and shade on the decomposition of senesced tree foliage: impacts on microbial activity
• Effects of elevated CO₂ and shade on the decomposition of senesced tree foliage: impacts on the growth and survival of treehole mosquitoes
• Cation depletion in New England forests
• Aluminum mobilization and calcium depletion in the forest floor of red spruce forests in the northeastern United States
• Calcium status of the forest floor in red spruce forests of the northeastern U.S. - past, present and future
• Putrescine: a marker of stress in red spruce trees
• Long-term changes in the acidity of a dekalb forest soil in the mid-region of the Susquehanna River Watershed
• Experimental soil warming effects on C, N, and major element cycling in a low elevation spruce-fir forest soil
• Soil respiration and net N mineralization along a climate gradient in Maine
• Increasing soil temperature in a northern hardwood forest: effects on elemental dynamics and primary productivity
• Microhabitat effects of litter temperature and moisture on forest-floor invertebrate communities
• Effects of acidic precipitation on leaf decomposition rates, microbial biomass, and leaf pack macroinvertebrates in six streams on the Allegheny plateau of West Virginia
• Leaf litter processing in West Virginia mountain streams: effects of temperature and stream chemistry
• Leaf litter decomposition and elemental change in three Appalachian mountain streams of different pH
• Methane evolution from Minnesota Peatlands
• Nutrient cycling in aggrading forests: 50 years of research at Pack Forest, New York
• Relative nitrogen mineralization and nitrification potentials in relation to soil chemistry in oak forest soils along a historical deposition gradient
• Mortality patterns in oak forests along a climatic and acid deposition gradient
• Thirty-three year changes in above- and below-ground biomass in northern hardwood stands in Vermont
• Evaluation of methodology for detecting/predicting migration of forest species
• Growth responses of white oak and black oak to drought stress across gradients of acid deposition and microclimate
• Assessing the ability of plants to respond to climatic change through distribution shifts
• Overview of current research on atmospheric interactions with wildland fires
• Synoptic circulation and temperature pattern during severe wildland fires
• Atmospheric mesoscale simulations of regional wildland fire episodes: looking for weather-related factors and scales of interaction
• Spatial patterns in carbon storage in a lake states' landscape
• Carbon storage in managed forests of the northern Great Lake States
• Temperature and earthworm effects on C and N dynamics in oak stands along an urban-rural land use gradient
• Preparation of Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) and State Soil Geographic Data Base (STATSGO) data for global change research in the Eastern United States
• Regeneration attributes of tree species in the central hardwoods type
• Herbivorous insects and climate change: potential changes in the spatial distribution of forest defoliator outbreaks
• Predicting the effects of tropospheric ozone on forest productivity in the Northeastern U.S.
• Catalog of long-term research conducted within the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station
• Carbon balance of the Alaskan boreal forest
• An energy balance model for forest canopies: a case study
• Temporal and spatial trends of fluxes and concentrations of CO₂ above and within the canopy at Howland, Maine: preliminary results
• Dynamics of calcium concentration in stemwood of red spruce and Siberian fir

Citation

Hom, John; Birdsey, Richard; O''Brian, Kelly; eds. 1996. Proceedings, 1995 meeting of the Northern Global Change Program; 1995 March 14-16; Pittsburgh, PA. : Introduction/Environmental Change. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-214. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 238 p.