The KEL Restoration Project

FOREST RESTORATION PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT FOR THE SOUTHERN PINE BEETLE AND OTHER INVASIVE PEST SPECIES

Publications

Waldron, J.D., R.N. Coulson, M.D. Tchakerian, C.W. Lafon, D.M. Cairns, and K.D. Klepzig. 2005. Utilizing a Landscape Scale Model of Forest Disturbance and Succession for Forest Decision-Making in the Southern Appalachians. Papers and Proceedings of the Applied Geography Conferences 28: 160-169.
Waldron, J.D., C.W. Lafon, R.N. Coulson, D.M. Cairns, M.D. Tchakerian, A. Birt, and K.D. Klepzig. 2007. Simulating the Impacts of Southern Pine Beetle and Fire on Pine Dynamics on Xeric Southern Appalachian Landscapes. Applied Vegetation Science 10:53-64.
Lafon, C.W., J.D. Waldron, D. M. Cairns, M.D. Tchakerian, R.N. Coulson, and K.D. Klepzig. 2007. Modeling the Effects of Fire on the Long-term Dynamics and Restoration of Yellow Pine and Oak Forests in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Restoration Ecology. (In press).
Waldron, J.D. , R.N. Coulson, D.M. Cairns, C.W. Lafon, M.D. Tchakerian, Weimin Xi, K.D. Klepzig, and A.G. Birt. 2007. Evaluating the Impact of Invasive Species in Forest Landscapes: the southern pine beetle and the hemlock woolly adelgid. In USDA Forest Service. The Encyclopedia of Forest Environmental Threats. (In press).
Xi, Weimin, J.D. Waldron, R.N. Coulson, M.D. Tchakerian, D.M. Cairns, C.W. Lafon, A. G. Birt, and K.D. Klepzig. 2007. Landscape Modeling for Forest Restoration: Concepts and Applications. In the Proceedings of the IUFRO International Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration. (In press). An oral presentation will be given in the IUFRO International Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration, May 14-16, 2007 at Seoul, Korea.
Cairns, D.M., C.W. Lafon, Waldron, J.D, .M.D. Tchakerian, R.N. Coulson, K.D. Klepzig, A.G. Birt, and Weimin Xi. 2007. Landscape Pattern and Process in Simulated Southern Pine Beetle Outbreaks. To be submitted to Landscape Ecology.
Waldron, J.D., Weimin Xi, C.W. Lafon, D.M. Cairns, M.D. Tchakerian, R.N. Coulson and K.D. Klepzig. 2007. Predicting Impacts of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Forest Composition in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. An oral presentation will be given in the 2007 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 17-21 2007, San Francisco, California, USA.
Cairns et al. 2007. Insect Herbivory Structures Forest Landscapes. To be submitted to Geography Compass.
Xi et al. 2007. An Integrated Approach to Map Forest Conditions in Southern Appalachians. To be submitted to Ecological Restoration. A poster will be given in Annual Meeting of US-IALE that will be held April 9-13, 2007 at Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Xi et al. 2007. Modeling Ecological Restoration Effects on Yellow Pine Forests Following Southern Pine Beetle Infestation in Southern Appalachians. To be submitted to Ecological Applications. An oral presentation will be given in the ESA/SER Joint Annual Meeting that will be held August 5-10, 2007 at San Jose, California, USA.
Coulson et al. 2007. How to restore forest landscape damaged by Southern Pine Beetle? To be submitted as a book chapter of 'Forest Landscape Restoration' edited by John A. Stanturf.
Wang et al. 2007. Characterizing Southern Pine Beetle infestation by integrating multi-source remote sensing and GIS data.

On-line Presentations

Modeling Impacts of Southern Pine Beetle on Southern Appalachian Landscapes (Waldron et al. 2005)
Evaluating the Impact of Invasive Species in Forest Landscapes: the southern pine beetle and the hemlock woolly adelgid (Waldron et al. 2006)

On-line Databases

LANDIS Tools and Extensions

LANDISVIEW: (A Visualization & Analytical Tool). For further information about LANDISVIEW development, contact Weimin Xi (xi@tamu.edu).
LANDIS-II Bark Beetle Disturbance Extension is in working progress in collaboration with the Forest Landscape Ecology Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the USFS North Central Research Station in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.

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Last modified on Nov 27 2006