Dynamics and management of Alaska boreal forest: An all-aged multi-species matrix growth model

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 260, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 491-501

  Liang, Jingjing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Forest dynamics; Mortality; Permafrost; Recruitment; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VOLUMES; ARTIFICIAL REGENERATION; BOREAL FORESTS; CUTTING CYCLES; DIVERSITY; FINANCIAL RETURNS; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH MODELS; MANAGED FOREST; MANAGEMENT REGIME; MATRIX; MATRIX GROWTH; MULTI-SPECIES; NET PRESENT VALUE; PERMANENT SAMPLE PLOTS; STAND DIVERSITY; STAND-GROWTH MODEL; TIMBER PRODUCTION; WILDLIFE SPECIES;

DYNAMICS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HARVESTING; HEATING; MANAGEMENT; PERMAFROST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

REFORESTATION;

BOREAL FOREST; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY MODELING; GROWTH MODELING; HARVESTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMAFROST; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REGENERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TIMBER;

BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FORESTS; HARVESTING; HEATING; MORTALITY; PERMAFROST; RECRUITMENT; REFORESTATION; SENSITIVITY;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954176618     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.04.040     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Alaska, S.o., 2001. Chapter 2. Forestwide Management Policies. Tanana Valley State Forest Management Plan Revision, 2001. Alaska Division of Forestry, Fairbanks, p. 14.
2. Alaska, S.o., 2007. Alaska Economic Performance Report 2007, Alaska Office of Economic Development, Anchorage, AK.
3. Alaska, S.o., 2009. Sample Timber Sale Contract. State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry, Fairbanks.
4. Boltz F., Carter D.R. Multinomial logit estimation of a matrix growth model for tropical dry forests of eastern Bolivia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 2006, 36:2623-2632.
5. Bonan G.B. A computer model of the solar radiation, soil moisture, and soil thermal regimes in boreal forests. Ecological Modelling 1989, 45:275-306.
6. Bonan G.B., Shugart H.H. Environmental factors and ecological processes in boreal forests. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1989, 20:1-28.
7. Buongiorno J., Michie B.R. A matrix model of uneven-aged forest management. Forest Sciences 1980, 26:609-625.
8. Chapin F.S.I., Oswood M.W., Cleve K.V., Viereck L.A., Verbyla D.L. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest 2006, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
9. Chevan A., Sutherland M. Hierarchical partitioning. American Statistician 1991, 45:90-96.
10. Cressie N.A.C. Statistics for Spatial Data 1993, J. Wiley, New York, p. 900.
11. Curtis, R.O., 1983. Procedures for Establishing and Maintaining Permanent Plots for Silvicultural and Yield Research. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Portland, OR.
12. Farr W.A. Growth and Yield of Well-Stocked White Spruce Stands in Alaska 1967, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Portland, OR.
13. Fresco N., Chapin F.S. Assessing the Potential for Conversion to Biomass Fuels in interior Alaska 2009, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
14. Gregory R.A., Haack P.M. Growth and Yield of Well-Stocked Aspen and Birch Stands in Alaska 1965, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Forest Experiment Station, Juneau, AK.
15. Helfferich D. Birch: white gold in the boreal forest. Agroborealis 2003, 35:4-5.
16. Hollingsworth J. Early Height Growth Patterns of Planted White Spruce Seedlings in Interior Alaska 2002, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks.
17. Lei X., Lu Y. Information entropy measures for stand structural diversity: joint entropy. Forestry Studies in China 2004, 6:12-15.
18. Liang J., Buongiorno J., Monserud R.A. Bootstrap simulation and response surface optimization of management regimes for Douglas-fir/western hemlock stands. Forest Sciences 2006, 52:579-594.
19. Liang J., Buongiorno J., Monserud R.A., Kruger E.L., Zhou M. Effects of diversity of tree species and size on forest basal area growth, recruitment, and mortality. Forest Ecology and Management 2007, 243:116-127.
20. Liang J., Buongiorno J., Monserud R.A. Growth and yield of all-aged Douglas-fir/western hemlock stands: a matrix model with stand diversity effects. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 2005, 35:2369-2382.
21. Lin C.R., Buongiorno J., Prestemon J., Skog K. Growth Model for Uneven-Aged Loblolly Pine Stands. Simulations and Management Implications 1998, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI.
22. Lindh C.J. An Excellent Assessment of The Domestic Market for Alaska Wood Products 1979, Division of Economic Enterprise, Department of Commerce and Economic Development, Juneau, AK.
23. Little E.L. Checklist of United States trees (native and naturalized) 1979, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook, Washington, DC.
24. Mac Nally R. Regression and model-building in conservation biology, biogeography and ecology: The distinction between - and reconciliation of - 'predictive' and 'explanatory' models. Biodiversity and Conservation 2000, 9(5):655-671.
25. Mac Nally R., Walsh C. Hierarchical partitioning public-domain software. Biodiversity Conservation 2004, 13:659-660.
26. Malone T., Liang J., Packee E.C. Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory 2009, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
27. Mendoza G.A., Setyarso A. A transition matrix forest growth-model for evaluating alternative harvesting schemes in Indonesia. Forest Ecology and Management 1986, 15:219-228.
28. Monserud R.A. Evaluating forest models in a sustainable forest management context. Forest Biometry, Modelling and Information Sciences (FBMIS) 2003, 1:35-47.
29. Namaalwa J., Eid T., Sankhayan P. A multi-species density-dependent matrix growth model for the dry woodlands of Uganda. Forest Ecology and Management 2005, 213:312-327.
30. Parrent D. Preliminary Feasibility Assessment for High Efficiency, Low Emission Wood Heating in Tok, Alaska 2008, Juneau Economic Development Council, Juneau, AK.
31. Perala D.A. Populus tremuloides. Silvics of North America: 2, Hardwoods. Agriculture Handbook 1990, 555-569. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington, DC. R.M. Burns, B.H. Honkala (Eds.).
32. Phelps J.E. Emerging Industry in Alaska's Boreal Forests: a hurting timber industry takes on a new edge. Alaska Business Monthly 2005, (October).
33. Picard N., Banak L.N., Namkosserena S., Yalibanda Y. The stock recovery rate in a Central African rain forest: an index of sustainability based on projection matrix models. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 2010, 39:2138-2152.
34. Rao C.R. Linear Statistical Inference and its Applications 1973, John Wiley, New York, p. 626.
35. Rushforth K. Conifers 1987, Christopher Helm, London, UK.
36. Shannon C.E. A mathematical theory of communication. Bell Syst. Tech. J. 1948, 27:379-423.
37. Stage A.R., Salas C. Interaction of elevation, aspect, and slope in models of forest species composition and productivity. Forest Sciences 2007, 53:486-492.
38. Tobin J. Estimation of relationships for limited dependent variables. Econometrica 1958, 26:24-36.
39. Van Cleve K., Dyrness C.T. Introduction and overview of a multidisciplinary research project: the structure and function of a black spruce (Picea mariana) forest in relation to other fire-affected taiga ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 1983, 13:695-702.
40. Wilmking M., Juday G.P. Longitudinal variation of radial growth at Alaska's northern treeline-recent changes and possible scenarios for the 21st century. Global and Planetary Change 2005, 47:282-300.
41. Wurtz T.L., Ott R.A., Maisch J.C. Timber harvest in interior Alaska. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest 2006, 302-308. Oxford University Press, New York, NY. F.S. Chapin, M.W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, D.L. Verbyla (Eds.).
42. Zhou M., Buongiorno J. Forest landscape management in a stochastic environment, with an application to mixed loblolly pine-hardwood forests. Forest Ecology and Management 2006, 223:170-182.
43. Zhou M., Buongiorno J. Space-time modeling of timber prices. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 2006, 31:40-56.