Concurrent
Sessions Description
Silviculture
for changing objectives including conservation, restoration, and/or
intensified timber production
This session will emphasize new approaches to silviculture
that address ecological goals, such as restoration or wildlife
habitat improvement, intensive timber management goals or integration
of multiple goals.
Co-Leaders: Brian Palik, NC Research Station, USDA Forest Service
and David Coates, BC Ministry of Forestry
Dynamic natural and managed forests
and landscapes: implications for conserving biodiversity
This session will focus on the dynamics of forests and landscapes
and the problem of maintaining biological diversity in forest
types (especially old-growth or semi-open forests) that change
gradually or episodically from natural processes such as succession,
wind, and fire or have been altered by direct or indirect human
influences.
Co-leaders: Michael Wimberly, Warnell School of Forest Resources,
University of Georgia and Steve Friedman, Department of Forestry,
Michigan State University
Biotic influences: invasives, pathogens and
herbivory
This session will emphasize how biotic impacts from invasive
plants and animals, diseases, herbivory by insects and other animals
are changing forest structure, composition and processes.
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
This session emphasizes riparian forest dynamics and influences
of forests and forest management on streams and other water bodies
and approaches to providing for desired riparian functions in
watersheds influenced by human activities.
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
This session focuses on comparing and evaluating different
approaches and tools to use in sustaining, measuring, and to monitoring
biological diversity including species and ecosystem processes.
Included are comparison of fine (species) and coarse (ecosystem)
filter approaches and evaluation of indicators.
Co-Leaders:
Richard “Holt” Holthousen, RM Research Station, USDA
Forest Service and Karen Beazley, School for Resource and Environmental
Studies, Dalhousie University
Hidden diversity and process: belowground systems
and canopies
This session focuses on recent findings about the diversity
and function of forest canopies and belowground systems and the
linkages between them and human influences.
Co-leaders: Rick Meinzer, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest
Service and Shannon Berch, BC Ministry of Forests
Development
of ecosystem cycles: baselines and anthropogenic change
This session focuses on species-level to global scale drivers
of biogeochemical (e.g., carbon, nitrogen) and hydrologic cycles
in forests, the alteration of forests by direct and indirect human
actions, and consequences for ecosystem pattern and function.
Co-leaders: Steven Perakis, USGS-FRESC and Jana Compton, US
EPA, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory
Inventory, monitoring and change detection
This session will focus on new developments in applications
of national and regional systems and indicators for assessing
biodiversity, disturbances, air quality effects, and urban-wildland
interface. Emphasis will be on applications rather than methods.
Approaches will include forest plots and remote sensing and focus
on a wide spectrum of indicators including soils, canopies, lichens,
fungi, disturbance, arthropods, and understory vegetation.
Co-leaders: Paul Rogers, RM Research Station, USDA Forest Service
and Chris Woodall, NC Research Station, USDA Forest Service
