Browsing Department of Forestry (MU) by Thesis Advisor "He, Hong S."
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Climate change in the Missouri central hardwood region : consequences for forest landscapes, and management strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Climate change may result in a change in the tree species present within forests. The Missouri Central Hardwood Region represents one area where these ... -
Designing a LANDIS PRO harvest module and examining the effects of temporal resolution on simulation outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)The development and testing of forest landscape models is an ongoing process. This thesis documents a portion of this process working with the LANDIS PRO 7.0 forest landscape model in two parts. In the first chapter I ... -
Developing a stand density module in LANDIS to improve simulation realism of stand dynamics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)Long-term landscape modeling is dependent on various forest dynamics including large-scale disturbances, environmental effects, land management and stand-scale succession. The stand density module was designed for LANDIS ... -
Evaluation of the Private Forestland Ownership Paracelization and its effects on the forest landscape in the southeastern Missouri Ozarks
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)This study investigates the impacts of the forestland ownership parcelization on species composition, age structure and spatial pattern of the forest landscape. First, a computer model was developed to create ownership ... -
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 ... -
Linking ecological and social dimensions of Missouri landscapes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)A recent study by the Brookings Institution concluded that patterns of growth in Missouri are eroding the quality of life and rural heritage, and threatening the environment. Reversing these trends will require better ... -
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 error in vegetation mapping
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)Understanding the current distribution and structure of forest vegetation is important for designing forest management plans and prioritizing restoration at landscape scales. This project provides information on Random ... -
Simulating the effects of riparian zone delineation and management practices on landscape pattern and timber production
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2004)Best management practices (BMPs) are essential to giving the forest manager guidelines to follow that result in the least amount of negative impact on the forest landscape and corresponding riparian areas. The purpose of ... -
Spatial modeling of aboveground carbon dynamics of the U. S. central hardwood forest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Central Hardwood Forest (CHF) is one of the largest forested biomes in the United States and its aboveground carbon dynamics have both regional and global significances. Thus, the aboveground carbon dynamics of CHF are of ... -
Spatially explicit and stochastic forest landscape model of fire disturbance and succession
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)Fire disturbance plays an important role in shaping ecosystem dynamics and vegetation patterns in many forested landscapes. This dissertation is dedicated to the modeling of fire disturbance in spatially explicit and ... -
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 ... -
Validating Missouri landtype associations using tree species composition, forest structure, and productivity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)Missouri's Landtype Associations (LTAs) were delineated from 1995-1998, and are currently being used by natural resource managers, but these LTAs have never undergone a validation showing that they can encompass patterns ...