Sugar maple ecology and health: proceedings of an international symposium

Abstract

Contains 28 papers and abstracts on sugar maple history and ecology; recent sugar maple declines; nutrient and belowground dynamics in northeastern forests; and interactions of forest health with biotic and abiotic stressors.

Titles contained within Sugar maple ecology and health: proceedings of an international symposium

• Sugar maple: its characteristics and potentials
• Sugar maple: abundance and site relationships in the pre- and post- settlement forest
• History of sugar maple decline
• A ten-year regional assessment of sugar maple mortality
• Spatial relationships between sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh), sugar maple decline, slope, aspect, and atmospheric deposition in northern Pennsylvania
• Factors associated with rapid mortality of sugar maple in Pennsylvania
• Impact of forest liming on growth, vigor, and reproduction of sugar maple and associated hardwoods
• Sugar maple seedling anatomy and element localization at forest sites with differing nutrient levels
• Factors contributing to sugar maple decline along topographic gradients on the glaciated and unglaciated Allegheny Plateau
• Influence of geologic and pedologic factors on health of sugar maple on the Allegheny Plateau
• Foliar chemistry of sugar maple: a regional view
• Nutritional factors associated with decline in Canada
• Trends in growth rates of Vermont sugar maples from 1953-1992 in relation to stand nutrition
• Foliar nutrient analysis of sugar maple decline: retrospective vector diagnosis
• Root dynamics and nutrient allocation in sugar maple
• Mechanisms of base-cation depletion by acid deposition in forest soils of the northeastern U.S.
• Changes in base cations in forest floors
• Response of northern hardwood forests to nutrient perturbation
• Soil water and xylem chemistry in declining sugar maple stands in Pennsylvania
• Role of climate in the dieback of northern hardwoods
• The effects of defoliation and thinning on the dieback, mortality, and growth of sugar maple in the Tug Hill Region of New York
• Relationship between foliar chemistry and insect performance: the forest tent caterpillar
• Nitrogen addition affects leaf nutrition and photosynthesis in sugar maple in a nutrient-poor northern Vermont forest
• Markers of environmental stress in forest trees
• Integrating the role of stressors through carbohydrate dynamics
• Widespread sugar maple decline and regeneration failure in the Adirondacks
• Relationships between stream acid anion-base cation chemistry and watershed soil types on the Allegheny high plateau
• Effects of CaCl₂ and AlCl₃ additions on sugar maple fine roots and exchangeable ions in rhizosphere and bulk soils of a northern hardwood forest

Citation

Horsley, Stephen B.; Long, Robert P.; eds. 1999. Sugar maple ecology and health: proceedings of an international symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-261. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 120 p.