Funded Research Projects: Forest Ecology

The Forest Ecology interest group covers a broad spectrum of topics in forest biology and environmental science, with basic and applied research in a diversity of fields including aquatic-terrestrial interactions, conservation biology (see also the Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture interest group), ecological modeling, ecophysiology, ecosystem studies, entomology, fire ecology, forest community ecology, genetics, global climate change, landscape ecology, paleoecology, pathology, and soils and nutrient cycling. Fern
 
Alternatives to methyl bromide USDA-PAW Project work plan: Forest tree nurseries

An ecological restoration experiment in the Cedar River Municipal Watershed

Calculation of carbon budgets in shaded Tsuga heterophylla and Abies amabilis

Characterization of fuelbeds and fire potentials in forest landscapes

Climate change and conservation planning

Climate impacts on burn severity

Compositional analysis along an elevational gradient in the eastern Cascades

Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in water and fish in the Cedar River Watershed

Consequences of conifer encroachment for mountain meadows: A long-term, landscape-scale analysis of vegetation change in the Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon

Coordination of protocol reviews for long-term inventory and monitoring in the Pacific West Region

Eastside Forest Health Forum

Effectiveness monitoring of Salmon Recovery Board funded restoration projects

Effects of fire management on carbon sequestration in Sequoia Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks

Establishing permanent sample plots in stands originating from the 1921 blow in the Olympic Experimental State Forest

Fuel and fire hazard assessment at the USFS Savannah River Site using the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS)

Integration of fuels, fires, and vegetation software tools to improve assessments of landscape-scale fire hazard

Large Plot Network Site at Yosemite National park

Linkages between habitat quality and spring chinook spawning site selection in the Yakima River

Long-term responses of vegetation to variable-retention harvests in the Pacfic Northwest

Predicting effects of climate change on natural disturbance in forests: Alternative futures in Olympic National Park

Promoting tree regeneration in stem exclusion forests of the Olympic Peninsula

Response of meadow vegetation to experimental tree removal and prescribed fire

Southwest climate change assessment

Spectral mixture analysis of ASTER images to estimate forest biomass and habitat

Studies of forest understory dynamics at HJA-LTER

Sustainable range management of RDX and TNT by phytoremediation with engineered plants

Vegetation responses to experimental restoration treatments in a western Cascade meadow

Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Western mountain ecosystems

Wildland Fuel and Fire Management in a Changing Climate