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Conservation payments to reduce tropical deforestation and degradation : evidence from the Ecuadorian Andes to the Amazon basin
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Payment for Environmental Services (PES) are market-based policy instruments. Which compensate private resource managers financially for the environmental ...
Investigating soil carbon, nitrogen and respiration across an intra-urban gradient in mid-Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Carbon (C) storage by urban soils is an attractive option to reduce atmospheric CO2. However, C dynamics are complicated by the gradient of land use and vegetation assemblages associated with urban development. Soil total ...
A stream physical habitat assessment in an urbanizing watershed of the Central U.S.A.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Longitudinal variations in aquatic biological habitat in a watershed (frequently associated with land-use in mixed-land-use watersheds) can be quantified by means of a physical habitat assessment (PHA). PHA indices include ...
Effects of biochar on yield and nitrogen nutrition of warm-season biomass grasses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Majority of the global energy supply depends on fossil fuel sources such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas. However, energy production by these sources has significant environmental impacts such as air and water pollution, ...
Modeling the financial impact of management decisions on loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Located primarily in the southeastern United States, Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) is a variety of Southern yellow pine that is often planted by non-industrial private landowners seeking a beneficial long-term investment ...
Ambrosia beetle habitat use, host use, and influence on early wood colonizing microbes in an oak-hickory forest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Knowledge of how exotic ambrosia beetles influence microbe communities and how forest characteristics affect ambrosia beetle abundance will improve ...
Quantifying riparian canopy energy attenuation and stream temperature using an energy balance approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Forested riparian buffers play an important role in modulating stream water quality, including temperature. Few studies have quantified the relationship between stream temperature and canopy cover in the climatologically ...
Fuel management considerations in Caribbean pine forests of the mountain pine ridge of Belize, Central America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Situated within the Maya Mountains of Central America, the Mountain Pine Ridge (MPR) ecosystem encompasses approximately 76,000ha (107,000 acres) within the country of Belize. Dominated by Caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea), ...
Quantifying suspended sediment loading in a mid-Missouri urban watershed using laser particle diffraction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
Midwestern streams and rivers of the United States are known for high suspended sediment concentrations (SSC), which is also one of the leading sources of water impairment. Unfortunately, there is a lack of understanding ...
Large-scale forest landscape model, design, validation, and application in management of oak decline
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Forest landscape models (FLMs) have increasingly become important tools for exploring forest landscape changes by predicting forest vegetation dynamics over large spatial scales. However, two challenges confronting FLMs ...
Macroinvertebrate assemblage composition along a longitudinal multiple-land-use gradient in a midwestern stream
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Land use changes often alter hydrogeomorphology and hydrologic flow regimes, which can adversely impact stream aquatic biota. Hinkson Creek Watershed (HCW, 231km2) located in Boone County, central Missouri, is comprised ...
Modeling historic, current, and available aboveground forest biomass along the Missouri River corridor
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This research presents the culmination of statistical, landscape, and geospatial analyses that examine the geographic dynamics of aboveground forest biomass (AFB) within the Missouri River corridor, Missouri USA. The ...
Quantifying bottomland hardwood forest and agricultural grassland evapotranspiration in floodplain reaches of a mid Missouri stream
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Bottomland hardwood forests (BHF) play an important role in floodplain dynamics, particularly along urban streams where flood mitigation is critical to protecting human life and property. Enhanced evapotranspiration (ET) ...
Long-term effects of a prescribed fire regime on tree seedling density in an oak-hickory woodland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The massive of oak-hickory forests and woodlands, in combination with the decline of dominant overstory oaks, is becoming an important management issue in the Central Hardwoods Region. Suppression of understory-tolerant ...
Woody biomass availability for energy : a perspective from non-industrial private forest landowners in the U.S. Great Lakes states
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners control 58% of all forests in the U.S. Great Lakes States consisting of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. A regional assessment of the availability of woody biomass for ...
Urban sprawl in the state of Missouri : current trends, driving forces, and predicted growth on Missouri's natural landscape
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Missouri reflects a full range of sprawl characteristics that include large metropolitan centers, which led growth in 1980s, and smaller metropolitan and rural areas, which led growth in 1990s. In order to study the ...
Timber product value loss due to prescribed fire caused injuries in red oak trees
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Prescribed fire is used for a variety of land management tasks in sites containing merchantable sized red oak trees with sparse information on how it affects lumber product values. We analyzed how fire related injuries ...
Tropical forest conservation Ecuador's Socio Bosque Program
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Ecuador experienced a deforestation rate, for the period between 2005 and 2010, of 186,448 ha/year. Thus, Ecuador is among the countries with the highest ...
Site quality factors affecting Acer saccharum, Quercus rubra and Quercus alba abundance and height growth rates in young even-aged stands located in central Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Sugar maple importance has been increasing in Missouri's forest for the previous several decades. Managers have little information to guide them with selecting silviculture treatments for managing this increasingly important ...
Quantifying urban stormwater suspended sediment particle size class distribution in the central U.S.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Stormwater samples were analyzed from 17 urban monitoring sites (n=272) during spring 2011 to better understand urban land use suspended sediment contributions to receiving water bodies in central Missouri, USA. Samples ...