ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

COS 149 - Forest management

Friday, August 10, 2007: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
K, San Jose McEnery Convention Center
8:00 AM
A Landscape Restoration Plan for the South Willapa Bay Conservation Area
Derek J. Churchill, University of Washington; Andrew J. Larson, University of Montana; Kevin Cedar, Woodland Creek Consulting; David N. Rolph, The Nature Conservancy; Tom Kollasch, Nature Conservancy
8:40 AM
Reporting the forest ecological integrity of northeastern national parks
Geraldine Tierney, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry; Brian R. Mitchell, National Park Service; Don Faber-Langendoen, NatureServe; James P. Gibbs, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
9:00 AM
The influences of forest floor management and soil mixing on N availability and microbial biomass
Jose L. Zerpa, North Carolina State University; H. Lee Allen, North Carolina State University; Jennifer Phelan, North Carolina State University; Robert G. Campbell, Weyerhaeuser, Co.
9:40 AM
9:50 AM
Residual-tree mortality following partial harvesting in the boreal forest of Ontario: Rate, time course, and spatial predictors
Hilary C. Thorpe, University of Toronto; Sean C. Thomas, University of Toronto; John P. Caspersen, University of Toronto
10:10 AM
Understory plant response to alternative forestry practices in northern hardwood-conifer forests
Kimberly J. Smith, University of Vermont; William S. Keeton, University of Vermont; Mark Twery, USDA Forest Service
10:30 AM
The response of native plant species to mechanical fuel reduction treatments
Kyle E. Merriam, USDA Forest Service; Jon E. Keeley, U.S. Geological Survey; Jan L. Beyers, Pacific Southwest Research Station