Growth responses of mature loblolly pine to dead wood.manipulations.
Abstract
Large-scale manipulations of dead wood in mature Pinus taeda L. stands in the southeastern United States included a major one-time input of logs (fivefold increase in log volume) created by felling trees onsite, annual removals of all dead wood above >10 cm in diameter and >60 cm in length, and a reference in which no manipulations took place. We returned over a decade later to determine how these treatments affected tree growth using increment cores. There were no significant differences in tree density, basal area or tree diameters among treatments at the time of sampling. Although tree growth was consistently higher in the log-input plots and lower in the removal plots, this was true even during the 5 year period before the experiment began. When growth data from this initial period were included in the model as a covariate, no differences in post-treatment tree growth were detected. It is possible that treatment effects will become apparent after more time has passed, however.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- USDA Forest Service-Savannah River, New Ellenton, SC
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; USDOE EM Office of Program and Site Support (EM-50)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1043234
- Report Number(s):
- 12-11-P
Journal ID: ISSN 0378-1127; FECMDW; TRN: US201216%%636
- DOE Contract Number:
- AI09-00SR22188
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal Name:
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 275; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0378-1127
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 09 BIOMASS FUELS; 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; PINES; REMOVAL; SAMPLING; TREES; WOOD; Biomass; Coastal plain; Dendrochronology; Productivity; Sustainability; Tree rings
Citation Formats
Ulyshen, Michael D, Horn, Scott, and Hanula, James L. Growth responses of mature loblolly pine to dead wood.manipulations.. United States: N. p., 2012.
Web. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.007.
Ulyshen, Michael D, Horn, Scott, & Hanula, James L. Growth responses of mature loblolly pine to dead wood.manipulations.. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.007
Ulyshen, Michael D, Horn, Scott, and Hanula, James L. 2012.
"Growth responses of mature loblolly pine to dead wood.manipulations.". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.007.
@article{osti_1043234,
title = {Growth responses of mature loblolly pine to dead wood.manipulations.},
author = {Ulyshen, Michael D and Horn, Scott and Hanula, James L},
abstractNote = {Large-scale manipulations of dead wood in mature Pinus taeda L. stands in the southeastern United States included a major one-time input of logs (fivefold increase in log volume) created by felling trees onsite, annual removals of all dead wood above >10 cm in diameter and >60 cm in length, and a reference in which no manipulations took place. We returned over a decade later to determine how these treatments affected tree growth using increment cores. There were no significant differences in tree density, basal area or tree diameters among treatments at the time of sampling. Although tree growth was consistently higher in the log-input plots and lower in the removal plots, this was true even during the 5 year period before the experiment began. When growth data from this initial period were included in the model as a covariate, no differences in post-treatment tree growth were detected. It is possible that treatment effects will become apparent after more time has passed, however.},
doi = {10.1016/j.foreco.2012.03.007},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1043234},
journal = {Forest Ecology and Management},
issn = {0378-1127},
number = 1,
volume = 275,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012},
month = {Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012}
}