Decay of aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) wood in moist and dry boreal, temperate, and tropical forest fragments

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 588-597

  González, Grizelle ^a   Gould, William A ^a   Hudak, Andrew T ^b   Hollingsworth, Teresa Nettleton ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOISTURE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ISOPTERA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 59049102215     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-37.7.588     Document Type: Conference Paper

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49. Acknowledgments: This research was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program project entitled: "Landscape fragmentation and forest fuel accumulation: effects of fragment size, age and climate" (JFSP Project Number 01-1-3-37). Grizelle Gonzalez was also supported by grant DEB-0218039 from the National Science Foundation to the Institute of Tropical Ecosystem Studies, University of Puerto Rico (UPR), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Forest Service (USDA-FS), International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) as part of the Long-Term Ecological Research Program in the Luquillo Experimental Forest. Research at IITF is done in collaboration with UPR. We would like to thank María M. Rivera, Humberto Robles, Verónica Cruz, Marcos Rodríguez, Ivan Vicens, Adriana Quijano, Gloriveé Carrero, Matthew Anderson, Alberto García, Juan L. Ramirez, and Andrés Fernández for tremendous help in the lab and the field. Kasey Prestwich, Curtis Kvamme, and KC Murdock helped with fieldwork in Idaho, Washington, and Minnesota. Jamie Hollingsworth and Brian Charlton of the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research program (BNZ-LTER) were instrumental at establishing the sites and retrieving samples from the field in Alaska. Humberto Robles and Elias Iglesias performed the wood compression test. We thank María M. Rivera for entry and quality control of the data. Maya Quiñones prepared figure 1, and help with the digital interpretation of forest fragment sizes. We thank Ariel E. Lugo and Deborah J. Lodge for kindly commenting on an earlier version of this manuscript.