Influence of environment, disturbance, and ownership on forest vegetation of coastal Oregon

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-33

  Ohmann, Janet L ^a   Gregory, Matthew J ^b   Spies, Thomas A ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity indicators; Disturbance effects; Down wood; Forest ownership; Gradient analysis; Hardwoods; Land cover change; Legacy trees; Old growth; Predictive vegetation mapping; Regional conservation planning; Snags

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDOWNERSHIP; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ECOSYSTEM; OREGON; OWNERSHIP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

COAST RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 34247140068     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2007)017[0018:IOEDAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Beers, T. W., P. E. Dress, and L. C. Wensel. 1966. Aspect transformation in site productivity research. Journal of Forestry 64:691-692.
2. Black, A. E., P. Morgan, and P. F. Hessburg. 2003. Social and biophysical correlates of change in forest landscapes of the Interior Columbia Basin, USA. Ecological Applications 13:51-67.
3. Burley, F. W. 1988. Monitoring biological diversity for setting priorities in conservation. Pages 227-230 in E. O. Wilson, editor. Biodiversity. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
4. Burnett, K. M., G. H. Reeves, D. J. Miller, S. Clarke, K. Vance-Borland, and K. Christiansen. 2007. Distribution of salmon-habitat potential relative to landscape characteristics and implications for conservation. Ecological Applications 17:66-80.
5. Cohen, W. B., T. A. Spies, R. J. Alig, D. R. Oetter, T. K. Maiersperger, and M. Fiorella. 2002. Characterizing 23 years (1972-95) of stand replacement disturbance in western Oregon forests with Landsat imagery. Ecosystems 5:122-137.
6. Crow, T. R., G. E. Host, and D. J. Mladenoff. 1999. Ownership and ecosystem as sources of spatial heterogeneity in a forested landscape, Wisconsin, USA. Landscape Ecology 14:449-463.
7. Daubenmire, R. F. 1968. Plant communities. Harper-Row, New York, New York, USA.
8. Flather, C. H., K. R. Wilson, D. J. Dean, and W. C. McComb. 1997. Identifying gaps in conservation networks: of indicators and uncertainty in geographic analysis. Ecological Applications 7:531-452.
9. Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team. 1993. Forest ecosystem management: an ecological, economic, and social assessment. Joint publication of the U.S. Forest Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., USA.
10. Hansen, A. J., T. A. Spies, F. J. Swanson, and J. L. Ohmann. 1991. Conserving biodiversity in managed forests. BioScience 41:382-392.
11. Harmon, M. E., J. F. Franklin, F. J. Swanson, P. Sollins, S. V. Gregory, J. D. Lattin, N. H. Anderson, S. P. Cline, N. G. Aumen, J. R. Sedell, G. W. Lienkaemper, K. Cromack, and K. W. Cummins. 1986. Ecology of coarse woody debris in temperate ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research 15:133-302.
12. Hunter, M. L., Jr. 1991. Coping with ignorance: the coarse-filter strategy for maintaining biodiversity. Pages 266-281 in K. A. Kohm, editor. Balancing on the brink of extinction. Island Press, Covelo, California, USA.
13. Impara, P. C. 1997. Spatial and temporal patterns of fire in the forests of the Central Oregon Coast Range. Dissertation. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
14. Jenks, G. F. 1967. The data model concept in statistical mapping. International Yearbook of Cartography 7:186-190.
15. Johnson, K. N., P. Bettinger, J. D. Kline, T. A. Spies, M. Lennette, G. Lettman, B. Garber-Yonts, and T. Larsen. 2007. Simulating forest structure, timber production, and socioeconomic effects in a multi-owner province. Ecological Applications 17:34-47.
16. Kauth, R. J., and G. S. Thomas. 1976. The tasseled cap - a graphic description of the spectral-temporal development of agricultural crops as seen by Landsat. Pages 4B-41-4B-50 in Proceedings of the symposium on machine processing of remotely sensed data. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
17. Lindenmayer, D. B., and J. F. Franklin. 2002. Conserving forest biodiversity: a comprehensive multiscaled approach. Island Press, Washington, D.C., USA.
18. Lindenmayer, D. B., C. R. Margules, and D. B. Botkin. 2000. Indicators of biodiversity for ecologically sustainable forest management. Conservation Biology 14:941-950.
19. Lovett-Doust, J., and K. Kuntz. 2001. Land ownership and other landscape-level effects on biodiversity in southern Ontario's Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve. Landscape Ecology 16:743-755.
20. Margules, C. R., I. D. Cresswell, and A. O. Nicholls. 1994. A scientific basis for establishing networks of protected areas. Pages 327-350 in P. L. Forey, C. J. Humphries, and R. I. Vane-Wright, editors. Systematics and conservation evaluation. Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK.
21. Max, T. A., H. T. Schreuder, J. W. Hazard, D. O. Oswald, J. Teply, and J. Alegria. 1996. The Pacific Northwest Region vegetation inventory and monitoring system. Research Paper PNW-RP-493. USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon, USA.
22. McComb, W. C., M. T. McGrath, T. A. Spies, and D. Vesely. 2002. Models for mapping potential habitat at landscape scales: an example using northern spotted owls. Forest Science 48:203-216.
23. Mladenoff, D. J., M. A. White, J. Pastor, and T. R. Crow. 1993. Comparing spatial pattern in unaltered old-growth and disturbed forest landscapes. Ecological Applications 3:294-306.
24. Nature Conservancy. 1982. Natural Heritage Program operations manual. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
25. Neitlich, P. N., and B. McCune. 1997. Hotspots of epiphytic lichen diversity in two young managed forests. Conservation Biology 11:172-182.
26. Noss, R. F., and L. D. Harris. 1986. Nodes, networks, and MUMs: preserving diversity at all scales. Environmental Management 10:299-309.
27. Ohmann, J. L., and M. J. Gregory. 2002. Predictive mapping of forest composition and structure with direct gradient analysis and nearest neighbor imputation in coastal Oregon, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:725-741.
28. Ohmann, J. L., and T. A. Spies. 1998. Regional gradient analysis and spatial pattern of woody plant communities of Oregon forests. Ecological Monographs 68:151-182.
29. Palmer, M. 1993. Putting things in even better order: the advantages of canonical correspondence analysis. Ecology 74:2215-2230.
30. Pierce, K. B., T. R. Lookingbill, and D. L. Urban. 2005. A simple method for estimating potential relative radiation (PRR) for landscape-scale vegetation analysis. Landscape Ecology 20:137-147.
31. Radeloff, V. C., R. B. Hammer, P. R. Voss, A. E. Hagen, D. R. Field, and D. J. Mladenoff. 2001. Human demographic trends and landscape level forest management in the northwest Wisconsin Pine Barrens. Forest Science 47:229-241.
32. Roberts, M. R., and F. S. Gilliam. 1995. Patterns and mechanisms of plant diversity in forested ecosystems: implications for forest management. Ecological Applications 5:969-977.
33. Rose, C. L., B. G. Marcot, T. K. Mellen, J. L. Ohmann, K. L. Waddell, D. L. Lindley, and B. Schreiber. 2001. Decaying wood in Pacific Northwest forests: concepts and tools for habitat management. Pages 580-612 in D. H. Johnson and T. A. O'Neil, managing directors. Wildlife-habitat relationships in Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon, USA.
34. Rubin, T. 1990. Analysis of radar texture with variograms and other simplified descriptors. Pages 185-195 in Proceedings, image processing '89. Sparks, Nevada. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Falls Church, Virginia, USA.
35. Santiago Declaration. 1995. The Montreal process: criteria and indicators for the conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests. Canadian Forest Service, Hull, Quebec, Canada.
36. Scott, J. M., F. Davis, B. Csuti, R. Noss, B. Butterfield, C. Groves, H. Anderson, S. Caicco, F. D'erchia, T. C. Edwards, Jr., J. Ulliman, and R. G. Wright. 1993. Gap analysis: a geographic approach to protection of biological diversity. Wildlife Monographs 123:1-41.
37. Scott, J. M., F. W. Davis, R. G. McGhie, R. G. Wright, C. Groes, and J. Estes. 2001. Nature reserves: do they capture the full range of America's biological diversity? Ecological Applications 11:999-1007.
38. Spies, T. A. 1991. Plant species diversity and occurrence in young, mature, and old-growth Douglas-fir stands in western Oregon and Washington. Pages 111-121 in L. F. Ruggiero, K. B. Aubry, A. B. Carey, and M. H. Huff, technical coordinators. Wildlife and vegetation of unmanaged Douglas-fir forests. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-285. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon, USA.
39. Spies, T. A., J. F. Franklin, and T. B. Thomas. 1988. Coarse woody debris in Douglas-fir forests of western Oregon and Washington. Ecology 69:1689-1702.
40. Spies, T. A., B. C. McComb, R. S. H. Kennedy, M. T. McGrath, K. Olsen, and R. J. Pabst. 2007. Potential effects of forest policies on terrestrial biodiversity in a multi-ownership province. Ecological Applications 17:48-65.
41. Stanfield, B. J., J. C. Bliss, and T. A. Spies. 2002. Land ownership and landscape structure: a spatial analysis of sixty-six Oregon (USA) Coast Range watersheds. Landscape Ecology 17:685-697.
42. ter Braak, C. J. F., and I. C. Prentice. 1988. A theory of gradient analysis. Advances in Ecological Research 18:271-313.
43. ter Braak, C. J. F., and P. Smilauer. 2002. CANOCO reference manual and CanoDraw for Windows user's guide: software for canonical community ordination (version 4.5). Microcomputer Power, Ithaca, New York, USA.
44. Thornton, P. E., and S. W. Running. 1999. An improved algorithm for estimating incident daily solar radiation from measurements of temperature, humidity, and precipitation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 93:211-228.
45. Thornton, P. E., S. W. Running, and M. A. White. 1997. Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain. Journal of Hydrology 190:214-251.
46. Turner, M. G., D. N. Wear, and R. O. Flamm. 1996. Land ownership and land-cover change in the Southern Appalachian Highlands and the Olympic Peninsula. Ecological Applications 6:1150-1172.
47. USDA NRCS. 2002. The PLANTS database, version 3.5. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. 〈hwww.plants.usda.gov〉
48. Van Deusen, P. C. 1997. Annual forest inventory statistical concepts with emphasis on multiple imputation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27:379-384.
49. Wimberly, M. C., and J. L. Ohmann. 2004. A multi-scale assessment of human and environmental constraints on forest land cover change on the Oregon (USA) coast range. Landscape Ecology 19:631-646.
50. Wimberly, M. C., and T. A. Spies. 2001. Influences of environment and disturbance on forest patterns in coastal Oregon watersheds. Ecology 82:1443-1459.
51. Wimberly, M. C., T. A. Spies, C. J. Long, and C. Whitlock. 2000. Simulating historical variability in the amount of old forests in the Oregon Coast Range. Conservation Biology 14:167-180.