ORAL SESSIONS

Monday, June 20th Morning – Roanoke Ballroom

Plenary Session

Session Chair: Carolyn Copenheaver (ccopenhe@vt.edu)

Technician: Jake Slyder

8 AM – Conference welcome and announcements – Carolyn Copenheaver, 2011 NAFEW Chair

8:20-9:10AM Virginia’s forest: Ecology, management, and challenges - John R. Seiler (Virginia Tech)

9:10-10:00AM – Forest ecosystem responses to a rapidly changing environment: What can the past tell us about the future? – James M. Vose (USDA Forest Service)

10:00-10:20AM – BREAK

10:20-11:10 AM – Biodiversity response to the heterogeneity of global change: Regional climate, local competition, and interactions – James S. Clark (Duke University)

11:10-12:00PM – Climate change and climate feedbacks: The Russian boreal forest as an active participant in planetary climate change - Herman H. Shugart, Jr. & Jacquelyn K. Shuman (Uni. of Virginia)

12:00 – 12:10 – Announcement of 2013 North American Forest Ecology Workshop - Mike Saunders, 2013 NAFEW Chair

12:10-1:30PM -LUNCH

Monday, June 20th Afternoon – Washington Lecture Hall Organized Session: Climate Change Adaptation Session chairs: Jessica Halofsky (jhalo@uw.edu) and Steve McNulty (steve_mcnulty@ncsu.edu) Technician: Brent Sams 1:30-1:50 Adapting to changing fire regimes in the western United States Jessica Halofsky (Univ. of Washington), David L. Peterson (USDA Forest Service), & Morris C. Johnson (USDA Forest Service) 1:50-2:10 Climate change and hydrology in the southeast United States: Using the Water Supply and Stress Index model (WaSSI) - Steve McNulty (USDA Forest Service), Ge Sun (USDA Forest Service), & Peter Caldwell (USDA Forest Service) 2:10-2:30 Climate change and southern wildlife: Potential effects and management implications Susan C. Loeb (USDA Forest Service), Cathryn H. Greenberg (USDA Forest Service), Kathleen E. Franzreb, (USDA Forest Service), Timothy Baldwin (Alabama A&M Uni.), Craig Rudolph (USDA Forest Service), Daniel Saenz (USDA Forest Service), Paul B. Hamel (USDA Forest Service), and Roger W. Perry (USDA Forest Service) 2:30-2:50 A context for forest pathology and climate change in the northeastern United States Kevin T. Smith (USDA Forest Service) 2:50-3:10 Climate change and carbon management in forests of the western United States – Crystal L. Raymond (USDA Forest Service), Donald McKenzie (USDA Forest Service), & David L. Peterson (USDA Forest Service) 3:10-3:30 BREAK 3:30-3:50 Modeling mortality on long-term growth plots in Kentucky, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, USA, with consideration of the effects of future climate change – Daniel A. Yaussy (USDA Forest Service), Louis R. Iverson (USDA Forest Service), & Stephen N. Matthews (The Ohio State Uni.) 3:50-4:10 Adapt, move or die: Assessments of forest tree genetic degradation risk due to climate change - Kevin M. Potter (North Carolina State Uni.), Barbara S. Crane (USDA Forest Service), William Hargrove (USDA Forest Service), & Frank Koch (North Carolina State Uni.) 4:10- 4:30 Silvicultural responses to climate change: The role of uncertain future climates and other “known unknowns” – Andrew Park (University of Winnipeg) 4:30-4:50 Using dendrometer and dendroclimatology data to predict the growth response of Douglas-fir to climate change in the Pacific Northwest, USA – E. Henry Lee (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Peter Beedlow (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Ronald Waschmann (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), David Tingey (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Constance Burdick (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), & Alan Tepley (Uni. of Colorado) 4:50 – 5:10 One step at a time: Integrating climate change and adaptation into forest management – Maria K. Janowiak (Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science), Chris W. Swanston (USDA Forest Service), Patricia R. Butler (Northern Institute of Applied Climate Research), Linda R. Parker (USDA Forest Service), & Matthew St. Pierre (USDA Forest Service)

Monday, June 20th Afternoon – Wilson Room

Organized Session: Challenges to and from Forest Management from a Wildlife Perspective

Session chair: W. Mark Ford (wmford@vt.edu)

Technician: Jeff Feldhaus

1:30-1:50 Does wildlife habitat restoration fit into the paradigm of ecological restoration?

Gordon S. Warburton (North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission) & Kendrick C. Weeks (North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission)

1:50-2:10 Managed forests and conservation of terrestrial biodiversity in the southern United States – Darren A. Miller (Weyerhaeuser NR Company), T. Bently Wigley (National Council for Air and Stream Improvement), & Karl V. Miller (Uni. of Georgia)

2:10-2:30 Wildlife of young forests: The need and the challenge - Linda Ordiway (Ruffed Grouse Society) & Mike Zagata (Ruffed Grouse Society)

2:30-2:50 Challenges to implementing habitat management on privately owned forest lands in the southeast: Lessons learned from Extension programming – Christopher Moorman (North Carolina State Uni.) & Craig Harper (Uni. of Tennessee)

2:50-3:10 America’s longleaf: A landscape restoration initiative – Roel Lopez (Texas A&M Uni.)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 Restoration of fire-dependent natural communities on the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, Virginia – Carol Croy (USDA Forest Service)

3:50-4:10 Restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems in the central and southern Appalachians – Marek Smith (The Nature Conservancy), Sam Lindblom (The Nature Conservancy), Steve Croy (USDA Forest Service), Margit Bucher (The Nature Conservancy), Beth Buchanan (USDA Forest Service), Helen Mohr (USDA Forest Service), Josh Kelly (Wildlaw), Peter Bates (Western Carolina Uni.), Steve Simon (Ecological Modeling & Fire Ecology, Inc.), & Gary Kauffman (USDA Forest Service)

4:10-4:30 A focused look at the Appalachian Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs): Part of a new national effort toward conservation planning and delivery through science-management partnerships – Jean Brennan (US Fish & Wildlife Service)

Monday, June 20th Afternoon - Buck Mountain Room

Volunteer Session: Disturbance Ecology

Session chair: Steve Hallgren (steve.hallgren@okstate.edu)

Technician: Jake Beale

1:30-1:50 Impacts of repeated prescribed fire on pine litter decomposition and nutrient dynamics in uneven-aged loblolly pine stands – Hal O. Liechty (Uni. of Arkansas at Monticello)

1:50-2:10 The effect of top-kill by fire and clipping on sprouting of shortleaf pine x loblolly pine hybrids and their parent open-pollinated offspring – Curtis J. Lilly (Oklahoma State Uni.), Rodney E. Will (Oklahoma State Uni.), & Charles G. Tauer (Oklahoma State Uni.)

2:10-2:30 Effects of prescribed burning on standing and down dead woody material in upland oak forests – John A. Polo (Oklahoma State Uni.), Steve Hallgren (Oklahoma State Uni.), & David M. Leslie, Jr. (Oklahoma State Uni.)

2:30-2:50 National fire severity classes relate directly to tree mortality measured two years post-burn – Susan Hummel (USDA Forest Service)

2:50-3:10 Simulating fire hazard across landscapes through time: Integrating the Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) – Stephanie Hart (Uni. of Washington), Jessica Halofsky (Uni. of Washington), Morris Johnson (USDA Forest Service), Miles Hemstrom (USDA Forest Service), & Roger Ottmar (USDA Forest Service)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 Impact of industrial logging and natural stand-replacing disturbance on high-elevation boreal forest landscape dynamics (1950-2005) in eastern Canada – Yan G. Boucher (Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec) & Pierre Grondin (Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec)

3:50-4:10 The pioneer spirit: Range and factors influencing cyclic successional dynamics in Quebec’s boreal forest – Sandrine Gautier-Éthier (Université du Québec à Montréal), Alain Leduc (Université du Québec à Montréal), & Christian Messier (Université du Québec à Montréal)

4:10-4:30 Do differences in vegetation due to cattle grazing persist for 77 years in a virgin forest in northwestern Pennsylvania? – Todd Ristau (USDA Forest Service)

4:30-4:50 Complex factors causing white oak decline in southern Ohio – Robert P. Long (USDA Forest Service), Yilmaz Balci (Uni. of Maryland), & Annmarie Nagle (The Ohio State Uni.)

4:40-5:10 Productivity and species composition response to biomass removal and soil compaction in aspen-dominated forests of the Lake States – Miranda T. Curzon (Uni. of Minnesota), Anthony W. D’Amato (Uni. of Minnesota), & Brian J. Palik (USDA Forest Service)

Monday, June 20th Afternoon – Monroe Room

Organized Session: Forest Land Reclamation

Session chairs: Simon Landhäusser (Simon.Landhausser@ales.ualberta.ca) and Brad Pinno (brad.pinno@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca)

Technician: Beth Stein

1:30-1:50 Natural and anthropogenic revegetation of hard rock mine tailings – John Markham (Uni. of Manitoba), Sylvie Renault (Uni. of Manitoba), Christian Naguit (Uni. of Manitoba), & Ian Young (Uni. of Manitoba)

1:50-2:10 Transfer of live aspen roots as a reclamation technique: Effects of soil depth, root diameter, and fine root growth on root suckering ability – Julia Wachowski (Uni. of Alberta), Simon M. Landhäusser (Uni. of Alberta), and Victor J. Lieffers (Uni. of Alberta)

2:10-2:30 The influence of textural layering on forest productivity for coarse texture soil profiles – Julie D. Zettl (Uni. of Saskatchewan), Mingbin Huang (Uni. of Saskatchewan), S. Lee Barbour (Uni. of Saskatchewan), & Bing C. Si (Uni. of Saskatchewan)

2:30-2:50 New mine land reclamation strategy for forests in the mid-continent region: Preliminary findings – Jessica H. Johnston (Purdue Uni.), Phillip E. Pope (Purdue Uni.), Arthur P. Schwab (Purdue Uni.), Eileen J. Kladivko (Purdue Uni.), Douglas F. Jacobs (Purdue Uni.), Justin L. Schmal (Purdue Uni.), & Joshua L. Sloan (Purdue Uni.)

2:50-3:10 Assessing aspen seedling quality: A tradeoff between seedling size and reserve storage? – Simon M. Landhäusser (Uni. of Alberta), Victor J. Lieffers (Uni. of Alberta), Javier Rodriguez (Uni. of Alberta), Kaitlin M. Schott (Uni. of Alberta), & Brad D. Pinno (Canadian Forest Service)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 Inferring processes from stand characteristics and soil nutrient patterns in reclaimed boreal forests – Preston T. Sorenson (Uni. of Alberta), M. Derek MacKenzie (Uni. of Alberta), Sylvie A. Quideau (Uni. of Alberta),& Simon M. Landhäusser (Uni. of Alberta)

3:50-4:10 Forest land reclamation on Appalachian coal surface mines: Scientific background for current practices - Carl E. Zipper (Virginia Tech) & James A. Burger (Virginia Tech)

4:10-4:30 Long-term soil carbon accumulation in reclaimed mine soils as affected by overburden rock type and vegetation prescriptions – Nina Craig (Virginia Tech), Brian Strahm (Virginia Tech), James Burger (Virginia Tech), Whitney Nash (Virginia Tech), & W. Lee Daniels (Virginia Tech)

4:30-4:50 Intensive management of a woody biofuel plantation on a reclaimed Appalachian surface mine – Joshua S. Brinks (Smithsonian Institution), John M. Lhotka (Uni. of Kentucky), & Christopher D. Barton (Uni. of Kentucky)

Monday, June 20th Afternoon – Mill Mountain Room

Volunteer Session: Tree Architecture and Growth

Session Chair: Steve Chhin (chhin@msu.edu)

Technician: David Walker

1:30-1:50 Seasonal growth in a mixed deciduous forest assessed with manual band dendrometers – Geoffrey Parker (Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)

1:50-2:10 Relationship of precipitation timing to tree growth in the Alaskan taiga forest – John Yarie (Uni. of Alaska, Fairbanks), David Valetine (Uni. Alaska, Fairbanks), & Matt Robertson (Uni. Alaska, Fairbanks)

2:10-2:30 Structure, composition, and growth rate in northern red oak/eastern white pine-dominated mixed stands at the Massabesic Experimental Forest, southern Maine – Justin Waskiewicz (Uni. of Maine), Robert Seymour (Uni. of Maine), & Aaron Weiskittel (Uni. of Maine)

2:30-2:50 Stand and age structures of old-growth red pine forests in Minnesota: Examining the historical range of variability – Shawn Fraver (USDA Forest Service) & Brian Palik (USDA Forest Service)

2:50-3:10 Size inequality in effects of overstory trees on understory light in irregular Douglas-fir dominated stands – Phil Comeau (Uni. of Alberta) & Kyle Lochhead (Uni. of Alberta)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 The effects of stand and individual tree characteristics on height growth of sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) regeneration in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada – Kristen Waring (Northern Arizona Uni.), Natalie Angel (Northern Arizona Uni.), & Tabitha Graves (Northern Arizona Uni.)

3:50-4:10 Reconstructed height growth trajectories of white spruce following hardwood release – Diana Osika (Uni. of Alberta), Ken Stadt (Uni. of Alberta), Phil Comeau (Uni. of Alberta), & Dan MacIssac (Canadian Forest Service)

4:10-4:30 How stand productivity results from size- and competition-dependent growth and mortality – John P. Caspersen (Uni. of Toronto), Mark Vanderwel (Microsoft Research), Drew Purves (Microsoft Research), & Bill Cole (Ontario Forest Research Institute)

4:30 – 4:50 Analysis of tree sways and crown collisions for managed Pinus resinosa in southern Maine – Vincent Webb (Uni. of Connecticut) & Mark Rudnicki (Uni. of Connecticut)

5:50-5:10 The potential and kinetic energy of forest canopies – Andrew J. Larson (Uni. of Montana)

Tuesday, June 21st Morning – Wilson Room

Organized Session: Challenges to and from forest management from a wildlife perspective (II)

Session chair: John Edwards (jedwards@wvu.edu)

Technican: Brent Sams

8:30-8:50 Challenges of creating a new forest management program in Kentucky – Scott Freidhof (Kentucky Fish & Wildlife), Steve Bonney (Kentucky Fish & Wildlife), Chris Garland (Kentucky Fish & Wildlife),& Karen Waldrop (Kentucky Fish & Wildlife)

8:50-9:10 Forest management and neotropical migrant songbirds: The need for structural diversity in young and mature forests in the Appalachian Mountains – Todd Fearer (Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture) & Brian Smith (Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture)

9:10-9:30 Bats and forestry: Not echolocating the forest for the trees – Mark Ford (US Geological Survey), Joy O’Keefe (Indiana State Uni.), Matina Kalcounis Rüppell (Uni. North Carolina – Greensboro), Roger Perry (USDA Forest Service), Joshua Johnson (Uni. Maryland), Susan Loeb (USDA Forest Service), Darren Miller (Weyerhaeuser NR Company), Robert Brooks (USDA Forest Service), & Steven Castleberry (Uni. of Georgia)

9:30-9:50 A paradigm shifted: Red spruce restoration and the delisted Virginia northern flying squirrel – Shane C. Jones (USDA Forest Service), Thomas M. Shuler (USDA Forest Service), Kent S. Karriker (USDA Forest Service), Mark Ford (US Geological Survey), James S. Rentch (West Virginia Uni.) & Kenneth K. Sturm (US Fish and Wildlife Service)

9:50-10:10 BREAK

10:10 – 10:30 Wildlife responses to green tree retention in managed pine forests of the Great Lakes Region - Kevin Russell (Uni. of Wisconsin –Stevens Point) & Kori Hutchison (Uni. of Wisconsin – Stevens Point)

10:30-10:50 The relative impacts of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) herbivory and competition from invasive species on recruitment of native plant species in eastern deciduous forests – William J. McShea (Smithsonian Institution) & Norman A. Bourg (Smithsonian Institution)

10:50-11:10 Effects of stand establishment techniques on avian, small mammal, and plant communities in the Lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina – Vanessa R. Lane (Uni. of Georgia), Karl V. Miller (Uni. of Georgia), Steven B. Castleberry (Uni. of Georgia), Darren A. Miller (Weyerhaeuser NR Co.), T. Bentley Wigley (National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc.), Robert J. Cooper (Uni. of Georgia), Graham M. Marsh (Uni. of Georgia), & Rebecca L. Mihalco (USDA Wildlife Services)

11:10-11:30 Refining home range estimation techniques by incorporating patterns of local-scale resource use: The example of the boreal toad – Zachary L. Long (Lakehead Uni.) & Ellie E. Prepas (Lakehead Uni.)

Tuesday, June 21st Morning – Monroe Room

Volunteer Session: Forest Insects

Session chair: Timothy T. Work (work.timothy@uqam.ca)

Technician: David Walker

8:10-8:30 The effect of landscape configuration on forest insect outbreak dynamics: Insights from a simple host-parasitoid model – Josie Hughes (Uni. of Toronto), Christina Cobbold (Uni. of Glasgow), Barry Cooke (Canadian Forest Service), Greg Dwyer (Uni. of Chicago), Kyle Haynes (Uni. of Virginia), & Mario Pineda-Krch (Uni. of Alberta)

8:30-8:50 Linking form and function: Indicator species analysis as an approach for identifying bioindicators of decomposition along a forest-pasture gradient – Katherine O’Neil (Roanoke College), Harry Godwin (USDA Agricultural Research Service), & Jonathan Halvorson (USDA Agricultural Research Service)

8:50-9:10 Linking wood-associated beetles and fungi with wood decomposition rates in managed forests – Jenna Jacobs (Uni. du Québec à Montréal) & Timothy T. Work (Uni. du Québec à Montréal)

9:10-9:30 Limited effects of post-harvest biomass collection on litter invertebrates – Timothy T. Work (Uni. du Québec à Montréal), Simon Paradis (Uni. du Québec à Montréal), & Suzanne Brais (Uni. du Québec Abitibi-Témiscamingue)

9:30-9:50 Effects of hemlock logging on invertebrate and vegetation biodiversity in baseline and logged hemlock stands free of hemlock woolly adelgid – Erika Latty (Unity College), Alysa Remsburg (Unity College), Amy Arnett (Unity College), and Kathleen Dunckel (Unity College)

9:50-10:10 BREAK

10:10 – 10:30 Divergence in riparian communities experiencing eastern hemlock decline in the Central Appalachians – Katherine L. Martin (The Ohio State Uni.) & P. Charles Goebel (The Ohio State Uni.)

10:50-11:10 Influence of multiple defoliators on aspen mixedwood structural and successional development in the Upper Great Lakes region, USA – Michael R. Reinikainen (Uni. of Minnesota), Anthony W. D’Amato (Uni. of Minnesota), & Shawn Fraver (USDA Forest Service)

11:10-11:30 Effects of emerald ash borer on midwest and northeast United States forests: What do ash forests look like now and in the future? – Ryan D. DeSantis (Uni. of Missouri), Keith Moser (USDA Forest Service), Robert J. Huggett, Jr. (USDA Forest Service), Ruhong Li (USDA Forest Service), David N. Wear (USDA Forest Service), & Patrick D. Miles (USDA Forest Service)

11:30-11:50 Mountain pine beetle moves East: Responses of vegetation and below-ground dynamics to simulated mountain pine beetle red attack in a novel landscape – Anne C. McIntosh (Uni. of Alberta) & S. Ellen MacDonald (Uni. of Alberta)

Tuesday, June 21st Morning – Washington Lecture Hall

Organized Session: Ecological Insight from Long-Term Silvicultural Studies

Session chairs (working on behalf of the Society of American Foresters Forest Ecology Working Group): Brian Palik (bpalik@fs.fed.us) and Tony D’Amato (damato@umn.edu)

Technician: Jake Slyder

8:10-8:30 Ecological insights from long-term and large-scale silvicultural studies – Brian Palik (USDA Forest Service) & Tony D’Amato (Uni. of Minnesota)

8:30-9:10 Long-term, large-scale management experiments in the Pacific Northwest provide great opportunities to investigate emerging future issues – Klaus J. Puettman (Oregon State Uni.), Paul Anderson (USDA Forest Service), & Dede Olson (USDA Forest Service)

9:10-9:50 Use of long-term data in calibrating a model of northern hardwood stand dynamics – Craig G. Lorimer (Uni. of Wisconsin), Corey R. Halpin (Uni. of Wisconsin), Jacob J. Hanson (Uni. of Wisconsin), & Brian J. Palik (USDA Forest Service)

9:50-10:10 BREAK

10:10-10:50 Sixty years of experience managing shade-tolerant Acadian conifers: Can we really favor red spruce? – Robert S. Seymour (Uni. of Maine) & Laura S. Kenefic (USDA Forest Service)

10:50-11:10 Using long-term growth and yield data to address the effects of thinning on carbon stocks under extended rotation conditions in the southern Appalachian Highlands – Tara L. Keyser (USDA Forest Service) & Stanley J. Zarnoch (USDA Forest Service)

1:10-11:30 Ecological insights from long-term pine silvicultural experiments in the southeastern United States – Jason Vogel (Texas A & M Uni.), Timothy A. Martin (Uni. of Florida) & Eric J. Jokela (Uni. of Florida)

11:30-11:50 Looking back to inform the future: The effects of thinning and stand complexity on drought tolerance within Pinus resinosa systems – Anthony W. D’Amato (Uni. of Minnesota), John Bradford (US Geological Survey), Shawn Fraver (USDA Forest Service) & Brian J. Palik (USDA Forest Service)

Tuesday, June 21st Morning – Buck Mountain Room

Organized Session: Fire vs. Mesophication: Restoration and Management Challenges in Southeastern Pine Ecosystems

Session Chair: Mary Carrington (MCarrington@govst.edu)

Technician: Jeff Feldhaus

8:50-9:10 Natural stand-level disturbances as an impetus for restoring oak-shortleaf pine woodlands from fire-suppressed forests – Stephen Brewer (Uni. of Mississippi) & Jeffery Cannon (Uni. of Mississippi)

9:10-9:30 Effects of time since burning on saw palmetto flowering, fruiting, and pathogens – Mary Carrington (Governors State Uni.) & Jeffrey Mullahey (Uni. of Florida)

9:30-9:50 Restoration of a species-rich herbaceous wetland community using management to overcome a hardwood threshold and re-establish a fire feedback in the longleaf pine landscape – Katherine L. Martin (The Ohio State Uni.) & L. Katherine Kirkman (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center)

9:50-10:10 BREAK

10:10 – 10:30 A simulation study of forest dynamics and carbon sequestration under changing climate in the Gulf of Mexico region – Zhen Sui (Mississippi State Uni.) & Zhaofei Fan (Mississippi State Uni.)

10:50-11:10 Persistent effects of fire exclusion on future fires in southeastern pine ecosystems – Morgan Varner (Humboldt State Uni.), Eamon Engber (Humboldt State Uni.), Jesse Kreye (Uni. of Florida), Lenya Quinn-Davidson (Humboldt State Uni.)

11:10-11:30 Site quality as a framework for restoring southern pine plantations – Joan L. Walker (USDA Forest Service)

11:30-11:50 Silviculture in longleaf pine grasslands: Initial results from a long-term study examining legacies, fire, and recovery periods – Steven B. Jack (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center), Robert J. Mitchell (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center), Katherine Kirkman (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center), Noah A. Jansen (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center), Jason D. McGee (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center), & Melanie J. Kaeser (Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center)

Tuesday, June 21st Morning – Mill Mountain Room

Organized Session: American Chestnut & Southern Appalachian Forests

Session Chair: Brian McCarthy (mccarthy@ohio.edu)

Technician: John Peterson

8:30-8:50 Niche contraction and long-term decline of American chestnut in response to chestnut blight – Katie L. Burke (Uni. of Virginia)

8:50-9:10 The effects of weevil seed damage on germination, seedling vigor, and population growth of pure and hybrid American chestnut – Harmony J. Dalgleish (Purdue Uni.), John T. Shukle (Purdue Uni.), & Robert K. Swihart (Purdue Uni.)

9:10-9:30 Physiological responses of American chestnut to fertility and water availability – Jennifer A. Franklin (Uni. of Tennessee) & Christopher Miller (Office of Surface Mining)

9:30-9:50 Survival and growth of American chestnut on mined lands in Ohio – Brian C. McCarthy (Ohio Uni.), Keith Gilland (Ohio Uni.), Jenise Bauman (Miami Uni.), & Carolyn Keiffer (Miami Uni.)

9:50-10:10 BREAK

10:10-10:30 Decadal-scale demography of stump sprouts of American chestnut – Henry M. Wilbur (Uni. of Virginia)

10:30-10:50 The stature of Ozark chinquapin in the pre-blight forests of northwest Arkansas – Frederick Paillet (Uni. of Arkansas) & Chris Cerny (Uni. of Arkansas)

10:50-11:10 Forest communities along acid deposition, soil, and climate gradients of the Appalachian Trail – Juliana M. Quant (SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry), Martin Dovciak (SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry), Donald J. Leopold (SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry), & Gregory Lawrence (US Geological Survey)

11:10-11:40 The response of trillium populations to chronic herbivory and historic logging in the southern Appalachian Mountains – Michael A. Jenkins (Purdue Uni.), Christopher R. Webster (Michigan Technological Uni.), & Janet H. Rock (National Park Service)

11:40-12:00 The impact on black cohosh (Actaea racemosa L.) from experimental harvests – James Chamberlain (USDA Forest Service), Christine Small (Radford Uni.), & Derrick Matthews (Radford Uni.)

Tuesday, June 21st Afternoon – Buck Mountain Room

Organized Session on Mesophication of Eastern Oak Woodlands

Session Chair: Greg Nowacki (gnowacki@fs.fed.us)

Technician: Jake Slyder

1:30-1:50 Mesophication in the eastern United States: An overview – Gregory J. Nowacki (UDSA Forest Service) & Marc D. Abrams (Pennsylvania State Uni.)

1:50-2:10 Changes in fire regimes across the eastern United States – Cecil Frost (Uni. of North Carolina)

2:10-2:30 Fire history in the Southern Appalachian Mountains – Norman L. Christensen (Duke Uni.) & Kurt Fesenmeyer (Duke Uni.)

2:30-2:50 Drought and fire suppression lead to rapid directional change in xeric oak forests – Ryan D. DeSantis (Uni. of Missouri) & Stephen W. Hallgren (Oklahoma State Univ.)

2:50-3:10 Influence of overstory stand density on the ground layer in oak woodland communities: Insights from species and functional group attrition hypotheses – John B. Taft (Uni. of Illinois) & Karen Glennemeier (National Audubon Society)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 Implications of a predicted shift from upland oaks to red maple on forest mesophication via influences on hydrology, nutrient availability, and future flammability – Heather D. Alexander (Uni. of Florida) & Mary A. Arthur (Univ. of Kentucky)

3:50-4:10 The mesophytic seed bank and response to prescribed fire – Thomas M. Schuler (USDA Forest Service), Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy (USDA Forest Service), Mary Beth Adams (USDA Forest Service), & William M. Ford (Virginia Tech)

4:10 – 4:30 Effects of precipitation gradient on changes in oak forest structure and composition caused by fire suppression – Steve W. Hallgren (Oklahoma State Uni.) & Ryan D. DeSantis (Uni. of Missouri)

4:30-4:40 Strategies for preventing and reversing mesophication of mixed oak forests – Patrick Brose (USDA Forest Service) & Todd Ristau (USDA Forest Service)

Tuesday, June 21st Afternoon – Washington Lecture Hall

Organized Session on Forest Soils and Ecosystem Processes in a Changing Environment

Session Chairs: Tom Fox (trfox@vt.edu) and Brian Strahm (brian.strahm@vt.edu)

Technician: Jeff Feldhaus

1:30-1:50 Soil CO2 efflux in managed loblolly pine stands: Heterotrophic rates, autotrophic rates and the effects of management intensity – John R. Seiler (Virginia Tech)

1:50-2:10 The effects of willow (Salix spp.) grown as short rotation intensive culture on soil nutrient cycling and carbon storage in Canadian soils – Joel Ens (Uni. Saskatchewan), Richard Farrell (Uni. Saskatchewan), & Nicholas Bélanger (Uni. Québec à Montréal)

2:10-2:30 Fertilization effects on long-term nutrient availability in a southeastern U.S. loblolly pine plantation – L. Chris Kiser (Virginia Tech) & Thomas R. Fox (Virginia Tech)

2:30-2:50 Predicting response to forest fertilization in Douglas-fir plantations – Rob Harrison (Uni. of Washington), Kim Littke (Uni. of Washington), Dave Briggs (Uni. of Washington), & Eric Turnblom (Uni. of Washington)

2:50-3:10 The dirt on DIRT: Exploring controls on forest soil C quantity and quality – Richard D. Bowden (Allegheny College), Kate Lajtha (Oregon State Uni.), Susan E. Crow (Uni. Hawaii – Manoa), Alain F. Plante (Uni. of Pennsylvania), Jim LeMoine (Uni. of Michigan), Sarah J. Wurzbacher (Allegheny College), & Knute J. Nadelhoffer (Uni. Michigan)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 Effects of wildfire on the flux of particulate organic carbon and nitrogen from a coastal California watershed – Jeff A. Hatten (Mississippi State Uni.)

3:50-4:10 Forest floor properties across sharp compositional boundaries separating trembling aspen and jack pine stands in the southern boreal forest – Samuel Royer-Tardif (Uni. de Sherbrooke) & Robert L. Bradley (Uni. de Sherbrooke)

4:10-4:30 Disturbance and decoupling of belowground carbon and nitrogen cycles in a northern temperate forest - Lucas Nave (Uni. of Michigan), Knute Nadelhoffer (Uni. of Michigan), Jim LeMoine (Uni. of Michigan), Brady Hardiman (Ohio State Uni.), Jed Sparks (Cornell Uni.), Brian Strahm (Virginia Tech), Alexandria Munoz (New York Uni.), Chris Gough (Virginia Commonwealth Uni.), Chris Vogel (Uni. Michigan), & Peter Curtis (Ohio State Uni.)

4:30 – 4:50 Nitrogen cycling research at the Fernow Experimental Forest: Two steps forward, one step back? – Mary Beth Adams (USDA Forest Service)

4:50 – 5:10 Improving the mercury budget for the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge: Mercury abundance and concentration in standing and buried coarse woody debris – Catherine A. Lavagnino (Christopher Newport Uni.), Crystal R. Levenson (Christopher Newport Uni.), Jacqueline D. Roquemore (Christopher Newport Uni.), & Robert B. Atkinson (Christopher Newport Uni.)

Tuesday, June 21st Afternoon – Wilson Room

Volunteer Session on Applied Forest Ecology

Session Chair: Paul Rogers (p.rogers@aggiemail.usu.edu)

Technician: Beth Stein

1:30-1:50 The effects of thinning on maturation-phase Douglas-fir/western hemlock forests in the central Washington Cascades – Mark Swanson (Washington State Uni.) & Rebecca L. Greenwood (Washington State Uni.)

1:50-2:10 Tradeoffs between carbon stores and understory species diversity in coniferous forests after disturbance – Adrian Ares (Oregon State Uni.), Sara E. Mulford (Oregon State Uni.), & Klaus J. Puettmann (Oregon State Uni.)

2:10-2:30 Accelerating late successional forest structure? Thinning effects in young coniferous stands in western Oregon, USA – Erich K. Dodson (Oregon State Uni.), Adrian Ares (Oregon State Uni.), & Klaus J. Puettmann (Oregon State Uni.)

2:30-2:50 Growth response to fertilization and thinning in lodgepole pine: Linkage to N uptake, nutrient imbalances, and site quality – Bradley D. Pinno (Canadian Forest Service), Victor J. Lieffers (Uni. of Alberta), & Simon M. Landhäusser (Uni. of Alberta)

2:50-3:10 Seeing the forest for the heterogeneous trees: Modeling stand-scale resource distributions from tree-scale structure – Suzanne Boyden (Clarion Uni.), Rebecca Montgomery (Uni. of Minnesota), Peter Reich (Uni. of Minnesota), & Brian Palik (USDA Forest Service)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 Managing forests across ecosystems instead of political boundaries: A report from the North American Forest Commission Silviculture Working Group – Mary Ann Fajvan (USDA Forest Service), Joseph N. Anawati (Canadian Forest Service), & Victor E. Sosa Cedillo (National Forestry Commission of Mexico)

3:50-4:20 A functional framework for improving quaking aspen management in western North America – Paul C. Rogers (Utah State Uni.), Simon Landhäusser (Uni. of Alberta), Brad Pinno (Canadian Forest Service), & Ronald J. Ryel (Utah State Uni.)

4:20-5:00 Synchronizing silvicultural practices with forest succession: Is there an optimum time and place for oak regeneration? – David S. Buckley (Uni. of Tennessee), Terry L. Sharik (Utah State Uni.), Jason P. Hartman (Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources & Env.), & William W. Debord (US Dept. of the Interior)

5:00 – 5:40 Overcoming the barriers to the application of ecological knowledge to complex forestry problems – Phil Comeau (Uni. of Alberta), Klaus J. Puettmann (Oregon State Uni.), Suzanne Simard (Uni. of British Columbia), Dave Coates (British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands & Natural Resource Operations), & Ellen MacDonald (Uni. of Alberta)

Tuesday, June 21st Afternoon – Monroe Room

Volunteer Session on Tree Competition and Fertilization

Session Chair: Yan Boucher (Yan.boucher@mrnf.gouv.qc.ca)

Technician: Brent Sams

1:30-1:50 Analysis of competition in old-growth red pine forests in Minnesota: Linking stem-mapped and tree-ring data – Tuomas Aakala (Uni. of Minnesota), Shawn Fraver (USDA Forest Service), Anthony W. D’Amato (Uni. of Minnesota), & Brian J. Palik (USDA Forest Service)

1:50-2:10 Estimating growth impacts of edges in gap-based silvicultural systems – Mike R. Saunders (Purdue Uni.) & Justin E. Arseneault (Purdue Uni.)

2:10-2:30 Competitive status of underplanted eastern white pine in mesic hemlock-hardwood forests: Can gap-based restoration succeed? – Robert T. Fahey (The Morton Arboretum) & Craig G. Lorimer (Uni. of Wisconsin)

2:30-2:50 Fill-planting of Picea glauca in northeastern boreal mixedwoods: Can localized site preparation enhance seedling survival and growth? – Daniel Chalifour (Laval Uni.), Nelson Thiffault (Ministère des Ressources Naturelles et de la Faune du Québec), & Louis Bélanger (Laval Uni.)

2:50-3:10 Spruce mortality and competition in the mixedwood boreal forest – Andria Dawson (Uni. of Alberta)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 The effects of fertilizer type on loblolly pine seedling growth: Is one pellet better than two? – Rachel J. Collins (Roanoke College) & J. Brooks Crozier (Roanoke College)

3:50-4:10 Determination of nutrient limitation on trees growing in Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA) tree islands, Florida – Suresh Subedi (Florida International University) & Michael Ross (Florida International Uni.)

4:10-4:30 Impacts of managing loblolly pine plantations intercropped with switchgrass for biofuel production on long-term site productivity, carbon and nutrient cycling, water quality and wildlife – Eric Sucre (Weyerhaeuser NR Co.), Zakiya Leggett (Weyerhaeuser NR Co.), Jessica Homyack (Weyerhaeuser NR Co.), Jami Nettles (Weyerhaeuser NR Co.), & Darren Miller (Weyerhaeuser NR Co).

4:30 – 4:50 Intra-annual nutrient flux in Pinus taeda – Tim Albaugh (North Carolina State Uni.), Jose Stape (North Carolina State Uni.), Tom Fox (Virginia Tech), Rafael Rubilar (Uni. de Concepciό n), Lee Allen (North Carolina State. Uni.) & Jim Price (North Carolina State Uni.)

4:50-5:10 Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in seven biogeoclimatic zones of British Columbia – Ali A. Rahi (Uni. of British Columbia)

Tuesday, June 21st Afternoon – Mill Mountain Room

Volunteer Session on Spatial and Temporal Variation Within and Across Forests

Session Chair: Laura Hendrick (Laura.Hendrick@ncdenr.gov)

Technician: Jake Beale

1:30-1:50 Biogeography of south Florida tree islands and forest fragments – Michael S. Ross (Florida International Uni.), Jay P. Sah (Florida International Uni.), & Pablo Ruiz (Florida International Uni.)

1:50-2:10 A test of ecological succession hypotheses in boreal forests – Han Y. H. Chen (Lakehead Uni.) & Anthony R. Taylor (Lakehead Uni.)

2:10-2:30 Using LiDAR to monitor effects of forest restoration: An example from The Nature Conservancy’s Ellsworth Creek project – Liane Davis (The Nature Conservancy) & Van Kane (Uni. of Washington)

2:30-2:50 The role of silviculture in managing red oak for climatic resiliency – Sophan Chhin (Michigan State Uni.)

2:50-3:10 The effect of silviculture management on the spread of three invasive species – Mame S. Redwood (Ohio Uni.), Cynthia D. Hueber (USDA Forest Service) & Glenn R. Matlack (Ohio Uni.)

3:10-3:30 BREAK

3:30-3:50 Managing for resilient spatial patterns: From reference condition to silvicultural prescription – Derek J. Churchill (Uni. of Washington), Andrew Larson (Uni. of Montana), & Matt Dahlgreen (The Nature Conservancy)

3:50-4:10 Comparing fragmented forest edge structure of a managed and an old-growth stand before and after altered disturbance regimes – Robert C. Morrissey (Purdue Uni.), Michael A. Jenkins (Purdue Uni.), & Michael R. Saunders (Purdue Uni.)

4:10-4:30 Abundance of shrub and tree species in the balsam fir-yellow birch domain, under varying levels of landscape spatial heterogeneity – Rudiger Markgraf (Uni. du Québec à Montréal), Frédérik Doyon (Uni. du Québec en Outaouais) & Daniel Kneeshaw (Uni. du Québec à Montréal)

4:30 – 4:50 Assessing potential tree candidates for managed relocation in southern Manitoba – Carolyn Talbot (Uni. of Winnipeg) & Andrew D. Park (Uni. of Winnipeg)

4:50-5:10 Diversity, composition and abundance of riparian ground-layer plant assemblages in managed Boreal Plain watersheds: A 7-year experiment – Rebecca L. MacDonald (Lakehead Uni.), Han Y. H. Chen (Lakehead Uni.), Brian J. Palik (USDA Forest Service), & Ellie E. Prepas (Lakehead Uni.)

Thursday, June 23rd Morning – Mill Mountain Room

Volunteer Session: Regeneration

Session chair: John Peterson (jopeters@vt.edu)

Technician: Jeff Feldhaus

8:10-8:30 Root connections between trees and their impact on silvicultural responses – Annie DesRochers (Uni. of Quebec in Abitibi-Temiscamingue)

8:30-8:50 Near-term effects of experimental canopy gap and white-tailed deer exclosure treatments on tree seedling dynamics in a northern hardwood forest ecosystem – Julia I. Burton (Oregon State Uni.), David J. Mladenoff (Uni. of Wisconsin), Jodi A. Forrester (Uni. of Wisconsin), Murray K. Clayton (Uni. of Wisconsin)

8:50-9:10 Chemical brushing for forest vegetation management in British Columbia: Impact on species diversity, growth, and white pine weevil attack – Amalesh Dhar (Uni. of Northern British Columbia) & Christopher D.B. Hawkins (Yukon College)

9:10-9:30 Assessing clonal diversity of quaking aspen and the potential for clonal replacement – Richie Gardner (Utah State Uni.) & Karen Mock (Utah State Uni.)

9:30-9:50 Predicting growth dynamics of eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) advance regeneration under shelterwood harvests in Maine – Emma L. Schultz (Uni. of Maine) & Robert S. Seymour (Uni. of Maine)

9:50-10:10 BREAK

10:10 – 10:30 Regeneration ecology of alien species Quercus rubra L. (northern red oak) in southwestern Germany – Kelly C. Major (Laurentian Uni.), Peter Nosko (Nipissing Uni.), & Daniel Campbell (Laurentian Uni.)

10:50-11:10 Effects of stand structure and composition on the understory light environment in boreal mixedwoods – Valentin Reyes-Hernandez (Uni. of Alberta), Phil G. Comeau (Uni. of Alberta) & Alejandro Velazquez-Martinez (Colegio de Postgraduados Texcoco)

11:10-11:30 Assessing understory vegetation along an experimental hydrological gradient in the developing forests on tree islands – Jay P. Sah (Florida International Uni.) & Michael S. Ross (Florida International Uni.)

Thursday, June 23rd Morning – Buck Mountain Room

Volunteer Session: Applications of FIA data to forest ecology

Session chair: Phil Radtke (pradtke@vt.edu)

Technician: David Walker

8:30-8:50 Relationships between harvest of American ginseng and hardwood timber production – James Chamberlain (USDA Forest Service), Stephen Prisley (Virginia Tech), & Michael McGuffin (American Herbal Products Association)

8:50-9:10 Distribution of introduced plant species in the forests of the northeastern United States – Bethany Schulz (USDA Forest Service), Cassandra Olson (USDA Forest Service), W. Keith Moser (USDA Forest Service), & Katherine Johnson (USDA Forest Service)

9:10-9:30 Historical and current forest communities and densities in the Missouri Ozarks – Brice B. Hanberry (Uni. of Missouri), Hong S. He (Uni. of Missouri), John M. Kabrick (USDA Forest Service), & Brian J. Palik (USDA Forest Service)

9:30-9:50 Determining the impacts of southern yellow pine plantations on species evenness and richness in the Gulf Coastal Plain – Andrew J. Hartsell (USDA Forest Service)

9:50-10:10 BREAK

10:10 – 10:30 Combining tree demography and evolutionary history to detect potential climate change effects on regional forest biodiversity – Kevin M. Potter (North Carolina State Uni.) & Christopher W. Woodall (USDA Forest Service)

10:50-11:10 Site-species relationships from FIA data in southern Appalachian hardwoods – Philip J. Radtke (Virginia Tech), Henry McNab (USDA Forest Service) & Claudia Cotton (USDA Forest Service)

POSTER SESSIONS

Poster Session: Climate Change Adaptation 01 – Evidence for range contraction of eastern North American trees – Kai Zhu (Duke Uni.), James S. Clark (Duke Uni.) & Christopher W. Woodall (USDA Forest Service) 02 – Climatic sensitivity in a genetic plantation of hybrid pine in Michigan – Sophan Chhin (Michigan State Uni.) 03 – Forest management, climate change and water resources: Interactive effects on water yield across the flow regime – Charlene Kelly (Virginia Tech), Kevin McGuire (Virginia Tech), Chelcy Ford (USDA Forest Service), & James Vose (USDA Forest Service) 04 – Dendroclimatic response of sugar maple to tapping – Benjamin J. Beale (Virginia Tech) & Carolyn A. Copenheaver (Virginia Tech) 05 – Forest headwater stream characteristics as influenced by annual climate variability in the Coast Range and Western Cascade Range, Oregon, USA – Deanna H. Olson (USDA Forest Service), Julia I. Burton (Oregon State Uni.), & Klaus J. Puetmann (Oregon State Uni.) Poster Session: Challenges to and from Forest Management from a Wildlife Perspective 06 – Thinning impacts on the resilience of wildlife habitat quality under climate change in coniferous forests of western Oregon – Andrew R. Neill (Oregon State Uni.), Klaus J. Puettmann (Oregon State Uni.), & Adrian Ares (Oregon State Uni.) 07 – Effects of forest thinning on bird-vegetation relationships in young Douglas-fir forests – Sveta Yegorova (Oregon State Uni.), Matthew Betts (Oregon StateUni.), & Klaus Puettmann (Oregon State Uni.) Poster Session: Tree Architecture and Growth 08 – Size-dependent crown thinning in co-dominant and dominant trees: Temperate versus tropical – Eadaoin Quinn (Uni. of Toronto) 09 – Developing allometric leaf area models for intensively managed black walnut (Juglans nigra L.) plantations in Indiana – Christopher E. Zellers (Purdue Uni.) & Michael R. Saunders (Purdue Uni.) 10 – Validation of the Mixedwood Growth Model (MGM) – Phil Comeau (Uni. of Alberta), Mike Bokalo (Uni. of Alberta), Ken Stadt (Uni. of Alberta), & Stephen Titus (Uni. of Alberta) 11 – A software tool to measure forest canopy/tree crown transparency – Matthew F. Winn (USDA Forest Service) & Philip A. Araman (USDA Forest Service) Poster Session: Forest Insects 12 – Microinvertebrate assemblages as indicators of soil quality in intercropped loblolly-switchgrass systems – Jessica Pease (Roanoke College), Katherine O’Neill (Roanoke College), Harry Godwin (USDA ARS Appalchia Farming Systems Research Station), Zakiya Leggett (Weyerhaeuser Company), & Eric Sucre (Weyerhaeuser Company)

13 – Radial growth response of eastern hemlock to infestation of hemlock woolly adelgid – David M. Walker (Virginia Tech) & Carolyn A. Copenheaver (Virginia Tech) 14 – Effects of anthropogenic disturbance regimes on terrestrial gastropod communities in central and eastern Kentucky forests – Daniel Douglas (Eastern Kentucky Uni.), David Brown (Eastern Kentucky Uni.), & Neil Pederson (Columbia Uni.) Poster Session: Fire vs. Mesophication: Restoration in Southeastern Pine Ecosystems 15 – Longleaf pine restoration on state Natural Area preserves in southeast Virginia – Darren T. Loomis (Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation), Rick K. Myers (Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation), & Paul A. Clarke (Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation) 16 – Restoring Piedmont prairie and hardpan woodlands in Virginia: A decade of success at Difficult Creek Natural Area Preserve – Claiborne A. Woodall (Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation), Rick Myers (Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation), Chris Ludwig (Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation), & Bryan Wender (USDI National Park Service) Poster Session: Forest Soils and Ecosystem Processes in a Changing Environment

17 – Exploratory database analysis and predictive model development for nutrient export from forested landscapes – Nancy A. Serediak (Lakehead Uni.), Eleanor E. Prepas (Lakehead Uni.) & Gordon J. Putz (Uni. of Saskatchewan) 18 – Use of foliar calcium-to-strontium ratios to partition soil calcium sources of American beech on two sites in southern Quebec – Ching-Chih Chen (McGill Uni.) & Benoît Côté (McGill Uni.) 19 – Effect of nitrogen additions on water stress in red maple (Acer rubrum L.) – Mega A. Binti Abang (Uni. of Tennessee) & Jennifer A. Franklin (Uni. of Tennessee) 20 – Transforming Appalachian valley and ridge forest to residential lawn: Effects on soil carbon dynamics – Chad D. Campbell (Virginia Tech), John R. Seiler (Virginia Tech), & P. Eric Wiseman (Virginia Tech) 21 – The modern charcoal pile: A novel approach to utilizing forest biomass and sequestering carbon – Derek J. Churchill (Uni. of Washington), Daniel T. Schwartz (Uni. of Washington), Ken Faires (Uni. of Washington), Everett Isaac (Uni. of Washington), Jenny Knoth (Uni. of Washington), Greg Newbloom (Uni. of Washington), Michael Noon (Uni. of Washington), Ikechukwu Nwaneshiudu (Uni. of Washington), Jeffrey Richards (Uni. of Washington), Elliot Schmitt (Uni. of Washington), Maura Shelton (Uni. of Washington), Jonathan J. Tallman (Uni. of Washington), J.D.J. Tovey III (Uni. of Washington), Michael Tulee (Uni. of Washington), & Azra Vajvocic (Uni. of Washington) 22 – Impacts of woody biomass harvesting on carbon and nutrient stocks in aspen-dominated forests of northern Minnesota – Paul Klockow (Uni. of Minnesota), John Bradford (US Geological Survey), & Anthony D’Amato (Uni. of Minnesota) Poster Session: Applied Forest Ecology

23 - Thinning and riparian buffer configuration effects on coarse downed wood in headwater streams of coniferous forests in western Oregon – Adrian Ares (Oregon State Uni.), Deanna H. Olson (USDA Forest Service), & Klaus J. Puettmann (Oregon State Uni.) 24 – A process for comparing alternative management strategies – James L. Smith (The Nature Conservancy) 25 – Reorganization of understory diversity over three decades in an old-growth cool-temperate forest – Kerry D. Woods (Bennington College), David J. Hicks (Manchester College), & Jan Schultz (USDA Forest Service) Poster Session on Spatial and Temporal Variation Within and Across Forests 26 – Delimitation, ecological roles and management of large unharvested tracts of mature and overmature forests in the boreal zone of Québec, Canada – Yan G. Boucher ((Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec), Pierre Drapeau (Uni. du Québec à Montréal), & Alain Leduc (Uni. du Québec à Montréal) 27 – Determinants of pygmy sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA – Natalie Angell (Northern Arizona Uni.), Kristen Waring (Northern Arizona Uni.), & Roy St. Laurent (Northern Arizona Uni.) 28 – Vegetation of non-alluvial wetlands in the southern Piedmont – Stephanie D. Seymour (Uni, of North Carolina), Alan S. Weakley (Uni. of North Carolina), & Robert K. Peet (Uni. of North Carolina) 29 – A socioecological approach to researching forested landscapes in southern Appalachia – Sakura R. Evans (Uni. of Georgia), Jeremy Sullivan (Uni. of Georgia), Ted L. Gragson (Uni. of Georgia), & Cathy Pringle (Uni. of Georgia) 30 – Forests of Crowley’s Ridge in northeastern Arkansas – Harold S. Adams (Dabney S. Lancaster Community College), Adam W. Rollins (Lincoln Memorial Uni.), & Steven L. Stephenson (Uni. of Arkansas) 31 – The current status of Acer rubrum L. across Braun’s oak-chestnut association forest region – Anita K. Rose (USDA Forest Service) & James F. Rosson, Jr. (USDA Forest Service) 32 – Mapping the invasive species, Japanese spiraea, at Buffalo Mountain Natural Area Preserve – Jeffrey J. Feldhaus (Virginia Tech) & Carolyn A. Copenheaver (Virginia Tech) 33 - Quantifying Uncertainty in Ecosystem Studies (QUEST) – John Campbell (USDA Forest Service), Ruth Yanai (SUNY-ESF), Mark Green (Plymouth State Uni.), Doug Burns (US Geological Survey), Shannon LaDeau (Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies), Mary Beth Adams (USDA Forest Service), Don Buso (Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies), Mark Harmon (Oregon State Uni.), Trevor Keenan (Harvard Uni.), Carrie Rose Levine (SUNY-ESF), William H. McDowell (Uni. of New Hampshire), Jordan Parman (Uni. of Colorado), Stephen Sebestyen (USDA Forest Service), Jamie Shanley (US Geological Survey), James Vose (USDA Forest Service), & Mark Williams (Uni. of Colorado) 34 – A comparison of alpha diversity estimates between forest and non-forest areas in Virginia –Beth R. Stein (Virginia Tech) & Valerie A. Thomas (Virginia Tech)

Poster Session: Regeneration 35 – Spruce-fir forest regeneration after balsam woolly adelgid depredation in Great Smoky Mountains National Park – S. Douglas Kaylor (Uni. of Tennessee) & Jennifer A. Franklin (Uni. of Tennessee) 36 – Development and dynamics of young aspen-spruce mixedwood stands – Phil Comeau (Uni. of Alberta) & Mike Bokalo (Uni. of Alberta) 37 – Growth and competitive ability of red oak and sugar maple seedlings in soils from oak-and-pine-dominated forests – Kelly C. Major (Nipissing Uni.), Peter Nosko (Nipissing Uni.), & Jeffrey P. Dech (Nipissing Uni.) 38 – Oak regeneration efforts in the southern Appalachians – Greg Meade (The Nature Conservancy) 39 – The impact of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) herbivory on tree regeneration and growth in a mid-Atlantic temperate forest – Jennifer McGarvey (Smithsonian Institution), Norm Bourg (Smithsonian Institute), Jonathan Thompson (Smithsonian Institution), William McShea (Smithsonian Institution) & Xiaoli Shen (Smithsonian Institution) Poster Session: Applications of FIA data to forest ecology 40 - The status of forests across Braun’s oak-chestnut forest association region in the eastern USA – James F. Rosson, Jr. (USDA Forest Service) & Anita K. Rose (USDA Forest Service)