Development and change in forest communities are strongly influenced by plant-soil interactions. The primary objective of this paper was to identify how forest soil characteristics vary along gradients of forest community composition in aspen-conifer forests to better understand the relationship between forest vegetation characteristics and soil processes. The study was conducted on the Fishlak...

1 In 1997, we ran two Malaise insect traps in each of four stands of wet forest in Costa Rica (two old-growth and two 20-year-old stands) and four stands of moist forest in Panama (old-growth, 20, 40 and 120-year-old stands). 2 Wet forest traps caught 2.32 times as many ichneumonoids as moist forest traps. The average catch per old-growth trap was 1.89 times greater than the average catch per s...

Forest planners in British Columbia are required to identify forests suitable for designation as Old-Growth Management Areas. However, the tools currently in use lack the ability to identify appropriate stands. In 2000, we examined the ecological attributes of older forest in the Robson Valley Forest District in eastcentral British Columbia. The purpose was to determine the old-growth habitat v...

Streamside management zones (SMZs) in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma are frequently established along headwater ephemeral and intermittent streams to protect water quality, provide wildlife habitat, and increase landscape diversity. To better understand the function of these riparian forest corridors, we characterized the tree density and composition, forest floor mass, and dow...

We investigated Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) habitatuse patterns by censusing a variety of forest stands at Redwood Experimental Forest in northwestern California. Murrelet activity levels were greatest 30 minutes before to 30 minutes after sunrise in May, June, and July. Surveys at fixed stations showed that during the breeding season, murrelets were present more often in old-gr...

One method of increasing forest carbon stocks that is often discussed is increasing stocking levels on existing forested lands. However, estimates of the potential increases in forest carbon sequestration as a result of increased stocking levels are not readily available. Using the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis data coupled with the Forest Vegetation Simulator, we estimate...

The effects of logging on ecosystem sustainability are controversial. Surprisingly, existing data are inadequate to allow a comprehensive evaluation of logging effects on biodiversity, composition, and productivity since appropriate comparisons of stands of similar ages and differing disturbance histories are rare. We addressed this issue using a study of 2000 plots in 80 southern boreal forest...

Aim To detect possible expansion of boreal forest stands in response to recent warming. Previous modelling studies have concluded that major shifts in vegetation patterns, including changes in boreal forest extent, could arise during the next two centuries under global warming scenarios. However, ®eld investigations of tree stands at ecotones have so far revealed little indication of stand resp...

1 Corresponding author: [email protected]; 715-346-4098 2 [email protected]; 541-737-3056 ABSTRACT: Aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands inside and outside Yellowstone National Park (YNP), Wyoming, USA, were compared to test whether the lack of overstory aspen recruitment observed in YNP extended to winter ranges of elk (Cervus elaphus) in adjacent national forests. Remote sensing and fi...