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Measuring and modeling stream and air temperature relationships in a multiland use watershed of the central United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
A nested-scale experimental watershed study design approach was used in an urban watershed of the central U.S. to investigate stream water temperature (Tw) variability during water year's 2011, 2012, and 2013. Drought ...
The economic feasibility of woody biomass harvest practices in Missouri : the cost of harvesting tops and small diameter trees
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Woody biomass materials which include timber harvest residues, such as tree tops and small diameter trees, have the potential to be an important source of renewable energy. Their use as an energy feedstock or use as an ...
Social availability of woody biomass for renewable energy : Missouri non-industrial private forest landowners perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The importance of bioenergy, particularly woody biomass, continues to gain significance in Missouri. Although physical estimates of standing wood have been used to assess and project total above-ground woody biomass, these ...
The economic feasibility of an integrated woody biomass harvest in the Missouri Ozark Highlands
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Questions have risen in recent years regarding the impacts of biomass harvesting for renewable energy production and on the cost and efficiency of biomass harvesting using different harvest equipment configurations. Missouri ...
The Land Capability Potential Index: a decision support tool for the management of Missouri River floodplain habitat
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
The Land Capability Potential Index (LCPI) is a hydrogeomorphic model of potential flow-return interval and soil drainage developed as a decision support tool for the restoration and management of floodplain habitat on the ...
Modeling regeneration and early stand dynamics of Missouri Ozark forests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
Projecting the effects of silvicultural choices on forest regeneration has traditionally been difficult. In an effort to improve upon this, a collection of empirical models based on leading hypotheses and theories of tree ...
Juniper expansion in a prairie-forest transition region
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) is a highly adaptable native, north-American conifer that appears to have expanded from protected refugia to previously un-occupied land types likely in response to fire suppression ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...