The shortage and low diversity of coarse dead wood in managed forests are major threats to wood living organisms. Increasing harvest of slash and stumps for biofuel may further decrease the amounts of dead wood. The aim of this thesis was to predict the impact of forest fuel harvest on lichen diversity in a managed forest landscape. First, lichen diversity was compared between the stem and slas...

A system of nonlinear biomass component equations was developed for slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm. var. elliottii) trees using an econometric approach in which endogenous right-hand-side variables were included some equations. The fitted to data from 306 sampled the southeastern United States with weighted two-stage (2SLS) and three-stage (3SLS) least squares full information maximum-likel...

Groundwater levels and associated water quality parameters were studied in a young slash pine ( Pinus elliottii Engelm.) plantation following ditching, fertilization, and herbicide application. Drainage ditches surrounding each watershed significantly lowered groundwater levels up to 45 m from the ditch for mean and high water table conditions. Drainage ditches were not deep enough to signifkan...

The complete annotated genome sequence of Bacillus megaterium bacteriophage Slash is described here. Several key features related to morphogenesis, replication/recombination, DNA metabolism, and lysis are described. Slash also encodes a homolog of SleB, a germination-specific cell wall amidase.

Efforts to develop genetic marker based approaches to breeding forest trees began in the late 1980s. Approaches based on first generation of markers, allozymes, were not feasible due to the very limited number of markers (<50). The first DNA-based markers, RFLPs, brought more hope as moderately dense genetic maps could be constructed to scan the genome and map quantitative trait loci (QTLs). Th...