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Conference Description:
Our appreciation of
the dynamics of forest ecosystems has increased dramatically in
recent years. Forests are in transition from past climates, disturbance,
and human activities. Increasing human influences on fire regimes,
forest stand development, forest land use patterns, pathogens,
and global ecosystem cycles are likely to accelerate rates of
change. Perceptions of forest ecosystems are changing as well.
Emphasis on stability, equilibrium, and predictability in ecology
has broadened to incorporate conceptual models based on non-equilibrium,
chaos, complexity, and uncertainty. Researchers are finding ways
to understand the dynamism of ecosystems and communicate insights
to managers and the public. Managers are seeking to apply policies
that may be based on unrealistic assumptions about ecosystem stability
and predictability. The workshop will explore recent advances
in the science and management of dynamic forests and human influences.
Objective:
To foster dialogue
about current issues in basic and applied forest ecology research
among researchers, academicians and managers.
Plenary Session:
"Trying to understand
forest dynamics in space and time"
Dr. Kenneth Lertzman - Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British
Columbia, Canada
"Looking up and
looking out: implications of human impacts on forest canopies"
Dr. Nalini Nadkarni - The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
"Advances in Understanding
Forest-Stream Interactions: Implications for Management"
Dr. Robert Naiman - University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
"Emerging forest
diseases: native and exotic pathogens as drivers of ecosystem
change"
Dr. David Rizzo - University of California, Davis, California
Keynote speaker:
"What natural
can mean if change is natural"
Dr. Daniel Botkin - University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Papers will be presented
for the following sessions:
- Biotic
influences: invasives, pathogens and herbivory
Co-Leaders: Steve Radosevich, Department of Forest Science,
Oregon State University and Catherine Parks, PNW Research Station,
USDA Forest Service
- Riparian
ecosystems and land-water interactions
Co-Leaders: Sherri Johnson, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest
Service and Pat Shafroth, Fort Collins Science Center, USGS
- Strategies
and indicators of management for biodiversity - coarse to fine
filter approaches
Co-Leaders: Richard “Holt” Holthousen, RM Research
Station, USDA Forest Service and Karen Beazley, School for Resource
and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Hidden diversity and process: belowground systems and canopies
Co-Leaders: Rick Meinzer, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest
Service and Shannon Berch, BC Ministry of Forests
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Development of ecosystem cycles: baselines and anthropogenic
change
Co-Leaders: Steven Perakis, USGS-FRESC and Jana Compton, US
EPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
- Inventory,
monitoring and change detection
Co-Leaders: Paul Rogers, RM Research Station, USDA Forest Service
and Chris Woodall, NC Research Station, USDA Forest Service
Sponsors:
Society of American
Foresters, Ecological Society of America, USDA Forest Service
PNW Research Station, Oregon State University College of Forestry,
USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, Bureau of
Land Management, USFS-Region 6, IUFRO Working party on Old Growth
and Forest Reserves.
Members of Local Steering Committee:
Thomas Spies, Co-Chair,
USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station, tspies@fs.fed.us, 541-750-7354
Klaus Puettmann, Co-Chair, Oregon State University, Klaus.Puettmann@orst.edu,
541-737-8974
Mike Cloughesy, Oregon
State University, michael.cloughesy@orst.edu, 541-737-1605
John Cissel, Bureau of Land Management,
Tom DeMeo, US Forest Service, Region 6, tdemeo@fs.fed.us ,503-808-2963
Sarah Greene, USFS PNW Research Station, sgreene@fs.fed.us, 541-750-7360
Mark Harmon, Oregon State University Mark.Harmon@orst.edu, 541-737-8455
Rebecca Kennedy, USFS PNW Research Station, Rebecca.Kennedy@orst.edu,
541-750-7262
Randy Molina, USFS PNW Research Station, Randy.Molina@orst.edu,
541-750-7391
Patricia Muir, Oregon State University, muirp@bcc.orst.edu, 541-737-1745
Janet Ohmann, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station, johmann@fs.fed.us,
541-750-7487
Steve Perakis, USGS, FRESC, sperakis@usgs.gov, 541-758-8786
Paul Ringold, USEPA, ringold@mail.cor.epa.gov, 541-754-4565
