Coarse Woody Debris in Southern United States Loblolly Pine Plantations: From Stand-Level to Regional Scales

Growth and Yield Relative to Competition for Loblolly Pine Plantations to Midrotation- A Southeastern United States Regional Study

Lohlollypine (Pinus taeda LJplantations were studied across 13 southeastern sites grown for 1.5 yr with near-complete control o f woody, herbaceous, and woody plus herbaceous components during the f irst 3-5 yr . This mult iple object ive experiment ( the COMProject) documents stand dynamics at the extreme corners o f the response surface that encompasses most compet i t ion condi t ions common...

Amount and distribution of coarse woody debris in pine ecosystems of north-western Spain, Russia and the United States

End-point diameter and total length coarse woody debris models for the United States

Coarsewoody debris (CWD)may be defined as dead and down trees of a certainminimum size that are an important forest ecosystem component (e.g., wildlife habitat, carbon stocks, and fuels). Due to field efficiency concerns, some natural resource inventories onlymeasure the attributes of CWDpieces at their point of intersection with a sampling transect (e.g., transect diameter) although measuremen...

Responses of Small Mammals to Coarse Woody Debris in a Southeastern Pine Forest

The importance of coarse woody debris (C?VD) to small mammals in a managed pine forest in South Carolina was tested experimentally during summer and autumn 1990 and winter and spring 1991-1994. Abundance and demographics of small mammals were compared between plots with abundant CWD created by a tornado (unsalvaged plots) and plots where tornado-created CWD had been removed (salvaged plots). Sp...

Regional variation in wood specific gravity of planted loblolly pine in the United States

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is the most important plantation species in the southeastern United States and specific gravity (SG) is its most important wood quality trait. Analysis of annual ring SG of breast height (1.37 m) increment cores from 3957 trees representing 147 plantations across the species natural range showed that ring SG increases with increasing age and varies significantly a...