Aging in Pacific Northwest forests: A selection of recent research

Tree Physiology

Volumn 22, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 73-76

  Bond, Barbara J ^a   Franklin, Jerry F ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aboveground net productivity; Canopy; Carbon isotope; Chronosequence; Douglas fir; Ecosystem; Eddy covariance; Old growth

Indexed keywords

AGING; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; STAND STRUCTURE;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII;

ARTICLE; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; TREE; UNITED STATES;

FORESTRY; OREGON; TREES; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0036010302     PISSN: 0829318X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/treephys/22.2-3.73     Document Type: Short Survey

References (28)

1. Trends in bole biomass accumulation, net primary production and tree mortality in Pseudotsuga menziesii forests of contrasting age
2. Needle anatomy changes with increasing tree age in Douglas-fir
3. The canopy water relations of old-growth Douglas-fir trees
4. Biophysical controls of carbon flows in three successional Douglas-fir stands based on eddy-covariance measurements
5. Managing for mature habitat in production forests of western Oregon and Washington
6. 13C of ecosystem respiration across a coniferous forest chronosequence in the Pacific Northwest
7. Scientific basis for new perspectives in forests and streams
8. Aboveground net primary production decline with stand age: Potential causes
9. Conserving biodiversity in managed forests: Lessons from natural forests
10. Water limitations to carbon exchange in old-growth and young ponderosa pine stands
11. The role of epicormic shoot production in maintaining foliage in old Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir) trees
12. Successional changes in live and dead wood carbon stores: Implications for net ecosystem productivity
13. Belowground carbon pools and processes in different age stands of Douglas-fir
14. Response of old-growth conifers to reduction in stand density in western Oregon forests
15. Douglasfir forests: Managing for timber and mature-forest habitat
16. Canopy light transmittance in Douglas-fir-western hemlock stands
17. Canopy and hydraulic conductance in young, mature and old Douglas-fir trees
18. Hydraulic limits to tree height and tree growth
19. Age-related decline in forest productivity: Patterns and process
20. Influrence of tree size on shoot structure and physiology of Pinus contorta and Pinus aristata
21. Old growth forest dynamics in the Douglas-fir region of western Oregon and Washington
22. The diversity and maintenance of old growth forests
23. Leaf area index of an old-growth Douglas-fir forest estimated from direct structural measurements of the canopy
24. Photosynthetic differences between saplings and adult trees: An integration of field results by meta-analysis
25. Use of a physiological process model with forestry yield tables to set limits on annual carbon balances
26. Challenges of measuring forest floor organic matter dynamics: Repeated measures from a chronosequence
27. Evidence of reduced photosynthetic rates in old trees