Proceedings of the 19th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

Abstract

The 19th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference was held in Blacksburg, VA, March 14–16, 2017. This conference provided a forum for silviculturists, researchers, and practitioners to exchange the latest research information on the ecology and management of southern forests. Of the 70 oral presentations and 55 posters presented during the conference, 56 papers and 16 poster abstracts were submitted for these proceedings. The papers cover 15 topics, which include Oak Silviculture, Invasive Species, Disturbance and Damaging Agents, Forest Mensuration and Modeling, Pine Bark Beetle, Loblolly Pine Fertilization, Afforestation, Long-Term Silvicultural Studies, Bottomland Silviculture, Forest Soils and Best Management Practices, Loblolly Pine: Density & Competition Control, Shortleaf Pine Silviculture, Longleaf Pine Silviculture, Ecophysiology, and Fire. Papers and abstracts from oral and poster presentations provide managers with the latest research from universities, government agencies, and natural resource agencies.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 19th biennial southern silvicultural research conference

• Residual effects of mechanical site preparation on soil compaction in oak (Quercus spp.) plantings
• Crop tolerance of oak seedlings in herbaceous weed control applications using indaziflam
• Implications of frequent high intensity fire on the long-term stability of oak barrens, woodlands, and savannas
• Preliminary comparisons of herbicides and application procedures to promote size of advanced oak and yellow-poplar reproduction after harvest
• Radial growth responses of upland oaks following recurrent restoration treatments in northern Mississippi
• Plant community response to the management of an invasive tree
• Preliminary financial evaluation of management regimes controlling Chinese privet in loblolly pine stands
• Agalinis - A root parasite on loblolly pine
• A comparison of two groups of yield plots representative of loblolly pine plantations in the southeastern United States
• Comparison of two diameter-based measures for estimation of stand carrying capacity
• If survival matters, should regeneration studies have more replications?
• Biogeochemical hotspots around bark-beetle killed trees
• Restoring ponderosa pine in the Davis Mountains of west Texas: impacts of planting practices on seedling survival
• Characterizing tree morality after extreme drought and insect outbreaks in the southern Sierra Nevada
• Growth of young pine stands with fertilization alone versus fertilization plus vegetation control
• Soil retention and subsequent uptake of nitrogen 2 years following operational rates of fertilization in loblolly pine
• Effects of annual fertilization and competition control treatments on loblolly pine growth through age 25.
• Vegetation control options for improving afforestation of a retired sod farm in central Arkansas
• Hardwood establishment on compacted mine tailings after subsoiling and native ground cover seeding
• Understanding carbon sink-source relationships in seed orchard loblolly pine ramets
• Understanding the fertilization and irrigation response of seed orchard loblolly pine
• Experimental forests of the Southern Research Station: highlights of foundational silviculture studies
• Contribution of silviculture to loblolly pine growth and yield in the souutheastern United States: A meta-analysis
• Superior pines revisited: a plus-tree progeny test on the Crossett Experimental Forest at a half-century
• Effects of gap size on natural regeneration in a pine-hardwood stand a quarter century after harvest
• A preliminary synthesis of growth data for bottomland hardwood species commonly planted in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
• A comparison of Nuttall oak establishment methods using improved and unimproved seedlings, seedling treatments, and site preparation intensity in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
• Silvicultural and genetic influences on planted cypress productivity
• An Economic analysis of even-and uneven-aged management in bottonland hardwood forests of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
• Performance of eastern cottonwood and hybrid poplars on alluvial and upland sites in the south
• Modeling potential erosion differences of small tributaries in managed stands in the Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
• Overstory tree mortality and wounding after thinning and prescribed fire in mixed pine-hardwood stands
• Restoration of shortleaf pine in the southern United States--strategies and tactics
• Effects of ice damage on growth and survival of shortleaf pine trees
• Restoration of longleaf pine in the southern United States: a status report
• Causes and costs of bole wounds in hardwoods—a synopsis of the literature
• Patterns of overstory mortality in a shelterwood- burn central Appalachian forest
• Early impacts of fire and canopy gaps on seedling and sapling layers: evidence for reversing mesophication? In: Kirschman, Julia E., comp
• A computer program to predict the quality of longleaf pine seed crops
• Within-tree variability in wood quality parameters for mature longleaf pine
• Alternative collection methods for red spruce (Picea rubens) cones

Citation

Kirschman, Julia E., comp. 2018. Proceedings of the 19th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e-Gen. Technical Report SRS-234. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 444 p