Forestry and Environmental Resources

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2016 journal article

Host Phenology and Leaf Effects on Susceptibility of California Bay Laurel to Phytophthora ramorum

PHYTOPATHOLOGY, 106(1), 47–55.

By: S. Johnston n, M. Cohen n, T. Torok n, R. Meentemeyer n & N. Rank n

MeSH headings : California; Phytophthora / physiology; Plant Diseases / microbiology; Plant Leaves / microbiology; Seasons; Umbellularia / microbiology
TL;DR: Results indicate that seasonal changes in susceptibility of U. californica significantly influence P. ramorum infection levels, and variability in host plant susceptibility contributes to disease establishment of the plant pathogen. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

High fitness costs of climate change-induced camouflage mismatch

ECOLOGY LETTERS, 19(3), 299–307.

author keywords: Camouflage; climate change; evolutionary adaptation; evolutionary rescue; fitness; molt phenology; natural selection; phenological mismatch; snow cover; snowshoe hare
MeSH headings : Animals; Climate Change; Food Chain; Hares / physiology; Longevity; Molting; Phenotype; Population Dynamics; Population Growth; Seasons; Selection, Genetic; Snow
TL;DR: It is concluded that evolutionary rescue will be critical for hares and other colour molting species to keep up with climate change and natural selection acting on wide individual variation in molt phenology might enable evolutionary adaptation to camouflage mismatch. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Genomic selection in maritime pine

PLANT SCIENCE, 242, 108–119.

author keywords: Linkage disequilibrium; Tree breeding; Genomic relationship; Bayesian regression; Pinus pinaster
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Bayes Theorem; Chromosomes, Plant / genetics; DNA, Plant / analysis; DNA, Plant / genetics; Genome, Plant / genetics; Genomics / methods; Genotype; Genotyping Techniques / methods; Linkage Disequilibrium; Models, Genetic; Phenotype; Pinus / genetics; Plant Breeding / methods; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Reproducibility of Results; Selective Breeding
TL;DR: The sensitivity analysis suggested that prior densities (variance explained by markers) had little or no discernible effect on posterior means (residual variance) in Bayesian prediction models. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
14. Life Below Water (OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Genetic architecture of growth traits in Populus revealed by integrated quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis and association studies

NEW PHYTOLOGIST, 209(3), 1067–1082.

By: Q. Du*, C. Gong*, Q. Wang*, D. Zhou*, H. Yang*, W. Pan*, B. Li n, D. Zhang*

author keywords: association genetics; epistatic networks; gene mapping; Populus reference genome; quantitative trait locus (QTL) dissection; transcriptome analysis
MeSH headings : Biomass; Chromosome Mapping; Epistasis, Genetic; Gene Expression Regulation, Plant; Gene Regulatory Networks; Genes, Plant; Genetic Association Studies; Genetic Linkage; Genome-Wide Association Study; Linkage Disequilibrium / genetics; Models, Genetic; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Plant Stems / genetics; Plant Stems / growth & development; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics; Populus / genetics; Populus / growth & development; Quantitative Trait Loci / genetics; Quantitative Trait, Heritable; Species Specificity
TL;DR: This study uses an integrated method of quantitative trait locus (QTL) dissection with a high-resolution linkage map and multi-gene association mapping to decipher the nature of genetic architecture of potential QTLs for growth traits in a Populus linkage population and a natural population. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger (Web of Science)
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Fraser fir somatic embryogenesis: high frequency initiation, maintenance, embryo development, germination and cryopreservation

NEW FORESTS, 47(3), 453–480.

By: G. Pullman*, K. Olson*, T. Fischer*, U. Egertsdotter*, J. Frampton* & K. Bucalo*

author keywords: Abies fraseri; Embryogenic tissue initiation; Conifer; Fraser fir; Somatic embryogenesis
TL;DR: A highly effective medium for initiation of embryogenic tissue from immature or mature seeds of Fraser fir that contains AL salts, brassinolide, paclobutrazol and abscisic acid is developed and culture cryopreservation and retrieval was demonstrated. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger (OpenAlex)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Differential Habitat Use or Intraguild Interactions: What Structures a Carnivore Community?

PLOS ONE, 11(1), e0146055.

By: M. Gompper*, D. Lesmeister*, J. Ray*, J. Malcolm* & R. Kays n

Ed(s): A. Reed

MeSH headings : Animal Distribution; Animals; Conservation of Natural Resources; Ecosystem; Forests; Models, Biological; Mustelidae / physiology; New York; Population Density; Raccoons / physiology; Ursidae / physiology
TL;DR: Assessing this carnivore community in New York's Adirondack landscape concludes that differential habitat use is more important than species interactions in maintaining the distribution and structure ofThis carnivore guild. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Bottom-up GGM algorithm for constructing multilayered hierarchical gene regulatory networks that govern biological pathways or processes

BMC BIOINFORMATICS, 17.

By: S. Kumari*, W. Deng*, C. Gunasekara*, V. Chiang n, H. Chen*, H. Ma*, X. Davis n, H. Wei*

author keywords: Multilayered gene regulatory network; Pathway; Microarray or RNA-seq data
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Arabidopsis / genetics; Arabidopsis / metabolism; Arabidopsis Proteins / genetics; Computational Biology / methods; Gene Regulatory Networks; Humans; Metabolic Networks and Pathways / genetics; Signal Transduction / genetics; Transcriptome
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Avian response to fire in pine–oak forests of Great Smoky Mountains National Park following decades of fire suppression

The Condor, 118(1), 179–193.

By: E. Rose n & T. Simons n

author keywords: fire suppression; differenced normalized burn ratio; fire severity; pine-oak forest; time since fire
TL;DR: This work combined avian point counts in burned and unburned areas with remote sensing indices of fire severity to infer temporal changes in bird occurrence for up to 28 years following fire, suggesting that no single fire management strategy will suit all species. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
14. Life Below Water (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, Crossref
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

A cross-biome synthesis of soil respiration and its determinants under simulated precipitation changes

GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY, 22(4), 1394–1405.

author keywords: apparent Q(10); aridity index; drought; meta-analysis; precipitation regime; soil moisture; soil temperature; wet
MeSH headings : Climate Change; Droughts; Rain; Soil / chemistry; Soil Microbiology; Temperature; Water / analysis
TL;DR: A global synthesis Rs data from studies that have manipulated precipitation in the field suggests that soil moisture and Rs tend to be more sensitive to increased precipitation in more arid areas and more responsive to decreased precipitation inMore humid areas. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
2. Zero Hunger (Web of Science)
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

1-Methylcyclopropene Improves Ethylene Tolerance of Unrooted Herbaceous Cuttings but Delays Adventitious Root Development in Angelonia, Calibrachoa, Impatiens, Portulaca, Sutera, and Verbena Cultivars

HORTSCIENCE, 51(2), 164–170.

By: W. Leatherwood, J. Dole*, B. Bergmann* & J. Faust

author keywords: ethephon; postharvest; propagation; rooting; storage
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Volunteer-run cameras as distributed sensors for macrosystem mammal research

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 31(1), 55–66.

author keywords: Camera traps; Cyberinfrastructure; Standard metadata; Citizen science; eMammal; Macrosystem
TL;DR: The eMammal program demonstrates that volunteer-based camera trapping can meet landscape scale spatial data needs, while also engaging the public in nature and science, and asserts that camera surveys can be effectively scaled to a macrosystem level through citizen science, but only after solving challenges of data and volunteer management. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Physico-Chemical Responses of Fraser Fir Induced by Balsam Woolly Adelgid (Homoptera: Adelgidae) Infestation

JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 51(1), 94–97.

By: E. Mester n, L. Lucia n, J. Frampton n & F. Hain n

author keywords: Adelges piceae; ion chromatography; Fraser fir; texture analysis
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

PHARMACEUTICAL OCCURRENCE IN GROUNDWATER AND SURFACE WATERS IN FORESTS LAND-APPLIED WITH MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER

ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY, 35(4), 898–905.

author keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Wastewater; Groundwater; Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
MeSH headings : Cities; Forests; Geography; Groundwater / chemistry; Household Products / analysis; North Carolina; Pharmaceutical Preparations / analysis; Wastewater / chemistry; Water Pollutants, Chemical / analysis
TL;DR: Results provide important documentation for pharmaceutical fate and transport in forest systems irrigated with municipal wastewater, a previously undocumented source of environmental entry. (via Semantic Scholar)
Sources: Web Of Science, ORCID
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 article

Macrosystems ecology: novel methods and new understanding of multi-scale patterns and processes

Fei, S., Guo, Q., & Potter, K. (2016, January). LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, Vol. 31, pp. 1–6.

author keywords: Macrosystems ecology; Macroecology; Macroscale; Scaling; Heterogeneity
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Local Ecological Knowledge and Fire Management: What Does the Public Understand?

JOURNAL OF FORESTRY, 114(1), 58–65.

By: J. Diaz n, T. Steelman n & B. Nowell n

author keywords: large wildfires; ecological systems; community resilience; education; fire management
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

High-density SNP assay development for genetic analysis in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster)

MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES, 16(2), 574–587.

By: C. Plomion*, J. Bartholome*, I. Lesur*, C. Boury*, I. Rodriguez-Quilon*, H. Lagraulet*, F. Ehrenmann*, L. Bouffier* ...

author keywords: linkage mapping; maritime pine; population genetics; single nucleotide polymorphism
MeSH headings : France; Genetic Variation; Genotyping Techniques / methods; Mediterranean Region; Pinus / classification; Pinus / genetics; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; Portugal; Sequence Analysis, DNA
TL;DR: How the validated SNPs could facilitate the identification of ecologically and economically relevant genes in this species is discussed, improving the understanding of the demography and selective forces shaping its natural genetic diversity, and providing support for new breeding strategies. (via Semantic Scholar)
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Evidence of biotic resistance to invasions in forests of the Eastern USA

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 31(1), 85–99.

author keywords: Big data; Biomass; FIA Program; Invasive plants; Macrosystems; Niche; Evolutionary diversity; Taxonomic diversity
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
15. Life on Land (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Evaluating atmospheric CO2 effects on gross primary productivity and net ecosystem exchanges of terrestrial ecosystems in the conterminous United States using the AmeriFlux data and an artificial neural network approach

AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY, 220, 38–49.

author keywords: Gross primary production; Net ecosystem change; Eddy flux tower; CO2; Artificial neural network
TL;DR: The study suggests that the spatially and temporally varied atmospheric CO 2 concentrations should be factored into carbon quantification when scaling eddy flux data to a region. (via Semantic Scholar)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Data, data everywhere: detecting spatial patterns in fine-scale ecological information collected across a continent

LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY, 31(1), 67–84.

By: K. Potter n, F. Koch*, C. Oswalt* & B. Iannone*

author keywords: Big data; Ecological monitoring; Hotspots; Invasive plants; Mountain pine beetle; Wildfire
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science)
15. Life on Land (Web of Science)
Source: Web Of Science
Added: August 6, 2018

2016 journal article

Climate Change Implications for Tropical Islands: Interpolating and Interpreting Statistically Downscaled GCM Projections for Management and Planning*

JOURNAL OF APPLIED METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY, 55(2), 265–282.

author keywords: Classification; Tropics; Ensembles; General circulation models; Interpolation schemes; Evapotranspiration
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
13. Climate Action (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 6, 2018

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