Fire in eastern oak forests : delivering science to land managers : proceedings of a conference, November 15-17, 2005, Fawcett Center, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio / edited by Matthew B. Dickinson ; sponsors: USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area, State and Private Forestry [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Dickinson, Matthew, 1960-

United States. Forest Service. Northern Research Station

United States. State and Private Forestry. Northeastern Area

Series:

General technical report NRS ; P-1.

General technical report NRS ; P-1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oak--East (U.S.)--Congresses.

Oak.

Forest fires--East (U.S.)--Congresses.

Forest fires.

Forests and forestry--Fire management--East (U.S.)--Congresses.

Forests and forestry.

Forests and forestry--Fire management.

East United States.

Genre:

Congresses.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 303 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps

Other Title:

Delivering science to land managers

Place of Publication:

Newtown Square, PA : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, [2006]

Contents:

The paleoecology of fire and oaks in eastern forests / William A. Patterson III

Fire scars reveal variability and dynamics of eastern fire regimes / Richard P Guyette [and others]

Understanding the evidence for historical fire across eastern forests / Charles M. Ruffner

Oak composition and structure in eastern United States / W. Keith Moser

Why sustain oak forests? / David Wm. Smith

Ecological and ecophysiological attributes and responses to fire in eastern oak forests / Marc D. Abrams

Research efforts on fuels, fuel models and fire behavior in eastern hardwood forests / Thomas A. Waldrop [and others]

Soil fire, water, and wind: how the elements conspire in the forest context / Ralph E.J. Boerner

Responses of oak and other hardwood regeneration to prescribed fire: what we know as of 2005 / Patrick H. Brose, Thomas M. Schuler, and Jeffrey S. Ward

Fire and the Herbaceous layer of eastern oak forests / Todd Hutchinson

Do fire and insects interact in eastern forests? / Lynne K. Rieske-Kinney

Does fire affect amphibians and reptiles in eastern U.S. oak forests? / Rochelle B. Renken

Conservation Implications for neotropical migratory and game birds in oak-hardwood stands managed with shelterwood harvests and prescribed fire / J. Drew Lanham, Patrick H. Brose, and Patrick D. Keyser

Influence of fire on mammals in eastern oak forests / Patrick D. Keyser and W. Mark Ford

Prescribed fire: what influences public approval? / Sarah M. McCaffrey

Top ten smoke management questions for fire in eastern oak forests / Joseph J. Charney, Ann L. Acheson, and Andrea Stacy

Resistance of eastern hardwood stems to fire injury and damage / Kevin T Smith and Elaine Kennedy Sutherland

Fire and invasive exotic plant species in eastern oak communities: an assessment of current knowledge / Cynthia D. Huebner

Rx fire laws: tools to protect fire: the 'ecological imperative / Dale Wade [and others]

Growing a burning program: challenges and opportunities / Rex Mann

Overstory and seedling response to repeated fires in eastern Kentucky / Heather D. Alexander [and others]

Thermocouple probes in surface fires / Anthony S. Bova and Matthew B. Dickinson

Wildfire hazard mitigatigaton treatments applied above ground impact soil ecological properties in oak forest ecosystems / JenniferA. Brinkman and R.E.J. Boerner

Fire research in the pine barrens of New Jersey / Kenneth Clark [and others]

Effects of fuel reduction treatments on soil nitrogen transformation in the southeastern piedmont / T. Adam Coates [and others]

Use of wildand fire in Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Dana Cohen [and others]

Hardwood stem injury and mortality in surface fires / Matthew B. Dickinson and Anthony S. Bova

Vegetation response to prescribed fire across a moisture/productivity gradient in the Southern Appalachians / Katherine J. Elliott and James M. Voase

Oaks in presettlement fire landscapes of the southeast / Cecil Frost

Effects of Prescribed Burning on invasibility by non-native plant species in the Central Hardwoods Region / Lance Glasgow and Glenn Matlack

Fuel and fire dynamics in eastern mixed-oak forests / John B. Graham and Brian C. McCarthy

Using prescribed fire and mechanical thinning to improve the regenerative potential of oak species / Scott Holevoet and Charles Ruffner

Thinning and burning treatments influence within-canopy leaf traits in seven hardwood species in Ohio / Jyh-Min Chiang and Kim J. Brown

Estimating fire behavior from overhead imagery in eastern oak forests / Robert Kremens [and others]

Effects of silvicultural treatments on acorn weevil occurrence in mixed-oak forests / Jeffrey A. Lombardo and Brian C. McCarthy

Oak and maple stump sprout dynamics in response to thinning and burning "treatments in Southern Ohio / Robert P Long, David K. Apsley, and Joanne Rebbeck

Impacts of repeated prescribed fires on fuels in a Central Appalachian hardwood forest / Jessi E. Lyons [and others]

Factors influencing wildfire occurrence and distribution in eastern Kentucky / John K. Maingi and Mary C. Henry

Hardwood regeneration following prescribed fire and thinning in mixed-oak forests of Southeastern Ohio / Brian C. McCarthy and Matthew A. Albrecht

Soil respiration responses to temporal, topographic, and silvicultural factors in a southeastern Ohio Forest / Dawn R. McCarthy and Kim J. Brown

Changes in the stand structure and species composition of oak-dominated communities folowing a prescribed burn / Virginia L. McDaniel, Michael A. Jenkins, and Robert N. Klein

Experimental evaluation of fire history reconstruction using dendrochronology in white oak (quercus alba) / Ryan W. McEwan [and others]

Impact of fire on soil resource patterns in mixed-conifer forests in the southern cascade range of Northern California / Jessica Miesel, Carl Skinner, and Ralph Boerner

Avian community responses to prescribed burns and shelterwood harvests / Donald B. Miles, Henry Streby, and Dan Weber

Rehabilitation of an upland hardwood forest using prescribed fire and herbicide / Rebecca Montgomery [and others]

Altered disturbance regimes: demise of fire in the eastern United States / Gregory J. Nowacki and Robert A. Carr Lightning-initiated growing season fires characterized oak-dominated ecosystems of Southern Ohio / Sheryl M. Petersen and Paul B. Drewa

Use of temperature-sensitive paints as an index of heat output from fire / Joanne Rebbeck [and others]

Impact of fire, silvicultural manipulation, and microsite conditions on woody debris decay dynamics in a mixed-oak forest / Darrin L Rubino, Lindsey E. Hesch, and Brian C. McCarthy

Effects of forest management on soil seedbank species composition in a mixed-oak forest in southeastern Ohio / Lisa R. Schelling and Brian C. McCarthy

Oak-grassland restoration demonstration area project / Leslie M Smith and James R. McCoy

Integrated upland hardwood research in Arkansas Boston Mountains / Martin A. Spetich

Assigning fire regimes on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia / Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy

Influence of prescribed fire on stem girdling and mortality / Jeffrey S. Ward and Patrick H. Brose

Putting fire on the ground with prescribed burning associations / John R. Weir, Terrence G. Bidwell, and Chris M. O'Meilia

Fire research on the raccoon ecological management area / Daniel A. Yaussy [and others].

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 14, 2007).

"September 2006"--Title page verso

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Fire in eastern oak forests.

OCLC:

127119223

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