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Characterizing the impact of climatic and price anomalies on agrosystems in the northwest United States
(2020-01-15)We present an analysis of the sensitivity of three key crops (alfalfa, barley and winter wheat) produced in the northwestern United States to climatic and agricultural market anomalies using widely used standardized indices. ... -
Crown architecture, crown leaf area distribution, and individual tree growth efficiency vary across site, genetic entry, and planting density
(2020-02)We examined crown architecture and within crown leaf area distribution effects on Pinus taeda L. growth in North Carolina (NC), Virginia (VA), and Brazil (BR) to better understand why P. taeda can grow much better in Brazil ... -
Wetness index based on landscape position and topography (WILT): Modifying TWI to reflect landscape position
(2020-02-01)Water and land resource management planning benefits greatly from accurate prediction and understanding of the spatial distribution of wetness. The topographic wetness index (TWI) was conceived to predict relative surface ... -
The Effects of Cost-Share Participant Experience on Forest Buffer Retention
(2020-09)Forest conservation buffers provide ecosystem services such as soil and water conservation, wildlife habitat, and clean air. This research studied the experiences and intentions of participants in forest buffer contract ... -
How Perceptions of Trust, Risk, Tap Water Quality, and Salience Characterize Drinking Water Choices
(MDPI, 2021-03-18)Provision of safe drinking water by water utilities is challenged by disturbances to water quality that have become increasingly frequent due to global changes and anthropogenic impacts. Many water utilities are turning ... -
A Model to Estimate Leaf Area Index in Loblolly Pine Plantations Using Landsat 5 and 7 Images
(MDPI, 2021-03-17)Vegetation indices calculated from remotely sensed satellite imagery are commonly used within empirically derived models to estimate leaf area index in loblolly pine plantations in the southeastern United States. The data ... -
A novel application of small area estimation in loblolly pine forest inventory
(2020-04)Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is one of the most widely planted tree species globally. As the reliability of estimating forest characteristics such as volume, biomass and carbon becomes more important, the necessary ... -
A reference genome assembly and adaptive trait analysis of Castanea mollissima 'Vanuxem,' a source of resistance to chestnut blight in restoration breeding
(2020-07-23)Forest tree species are increasingly subject to severe mortalities from exotic pests, pathogens, and invasive organisms, accelerated by climate change. Such forest health issues are threatening multiple species and ecosystem ... -
Long-term changes in masticated woody fuelbeds in northern California and southern Oregon, USA
(2020-06-05)Mechanical mastication is a fuels treatment that shreds midstorey trees and shrubs into a compacted woody fuel layer to abate fire hazards in fire-prone ecosystems. Increased surface fuel loading from mastication may, ... -
Elucidation of resistance signaling and identification of powdery mildew resistant mapping loci (ClaPMR2) during watermelon-Podosphaera xanthii interaction using RNA-Seq and whole-genome resequencing approach
(2020-08-20)Watermelon is an important vegetable crop and is widely cultivated in USA with an approximate global production of >100 million tons. Powdery mildew (PM) caused by Podosphaera xanthii is a major production-limiting factor ... -
Organo-mineral interactions and soil carbon mineralizability with variable saturation cycle frequency
(2020-10-01)The response of mineral-stabilized soil organic carbon (SOC) to environmental change is a source of uncertainty in the understanding of SOC cycling. Fluctuating wet-dry cycles and associated redox changes in otherwise ... -
Forest composition, fuel loading, and soil chemistry resulting from 50 years of forest management and natural disturbance in two southeastern Coastal Plain watersheds, USA
(2020-10-01)Globally, prescribed fire, harvesting, and understory mastication, alone and in combination, are common forest management practices. Timber commodities, wildlife habitat, wildfire fuel reduction, soil conservation, and ... -
Auxiliary information resolution effects on small area estimation in plantation forest inventory
(2020-10)In forest inventory, traditional ground-based resource assessments are often expensive and time-consuming forcing managers to reduce sample sizes to meet budgetary and logistical constraints. Small area estimation (SAE) ... -
Predictive modeling of bedrock outcrops and associated shallow soil in upland glaciated landscapes
(2020-10-15)Identifying the areal extent of bedrock outcrops and shallow soils has important implications for understanding spatial patterns in vegetation composition and productivity, stream chemistry gradients, and hydrologic and ... -
Divergent controls on carbon concentration and persistence between forests and grasslands of the conterminous US
(2020-12)Variation in soil organic C (%OC) concentration has been associated with the concentration of reactive Fe- and Al-oxyhydroxide phases and exchangeable Ca, with the relative importance of these two stabilizing components ... -
Watershed studies at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: Building on a long legacy of research with new approaches and sources of data
(2021-01)The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) was established in 1955 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service out of concerns about the effects of logging increasing flooding and erosion. To address this issue, ... -
Clothianidin decomposition in Missouri wetland soils
(2021-01)Neonicotinoid pesticides can persist in soils for extended time periods; however, they also have a high potential to contaminate ground and surface waters. Studies have reported negative effects associated with neonicotinoids ... -
Legacy effects of non-native Cytisus scoparius in glacial outwash soils: Potential impacts to forest soil productivity in western Washington
(2021-02-01)Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link) is a highly competitive, nonnative, leguminous shrub species of major concern in coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco var. menziesii) forests of the Pacific ... -
Patterns and predictors of soil organic carbon storage across a continental-scale network
(2021-01-30)The rarity of rapid campaigns to characterize soils across scales limits opportunities to investigate variation in soil carbon stocks (SOC) storage simultaneously at large and small scales, with and without site-level ... -
Complementarity increases production in genetic mixture of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) throughout planted range
(ESA, 2020-09-01)Increased genotypic diversity has been associated with increased biomass production in shortrotation tree species. Increasing the genotypic diversity of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) in an attempt to increase productivity ...
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