ESRM 441 Landscape Ecology

Reading List

READING LIST 2006

REFERENCE TEXT

Franklin, J. F. and C. T. Dyrness. 1987. Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press.

OPTIONAL: Grossman, D. H., D. Faber-Langendoen, A. S. Weakley, M. Anderson, P. Bourgeron, R. Crawford, K. Goodin, S. Landaal, K. Metzler, K. Patterson, M. Pyne, M. Reid, and L. Sneddon. 1998. International classification of ecological communities: terrestrial vegetation of the United States. Volume I. The National Vegetation Classification System: development, status, and applications. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

For students with no prior ecology courses:

Kimmins, J.P. 1997. Forest Ecology: A Foundation for Sustainable Management. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Barnes, B.V. et al. 1998. Forest Ecology. Fourth Edition. Wiley, New York, NY.

Waring, R.H. and Running, S.W. 1998. Forest Ecosystems: Analysis at Multiple Scales. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.

WEEKLY REFERENCE LIST

Until September, this list reflects the reading for 2005.  An email will be sent before classes start confirming the reading list for 2006. Some changes may be made during the course.

Articles from ESA journals used by permission.

**Background reading

Week 1

**Franklin, J.F. and C.T. Dyrness. 1973. Forest zones of eastern Oregon and Washington. In: Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon. pp. 160-208.

 

Sept 29: Hessburg, P. F., J. K. Agee, and J. F. Franklin. 2005. Dry forests and wildland fires of the inland Northwest USA: contrasting the landscape ecology of the pre-settlement and modern eras. Forest Ecology and Management 211:117-139.

 

Richy J. Harrod, Bradner H. McRae, William E. Hartl. 1999. Historical stand reconstruction in ponderosa pine forests to guide silvicultural prescriptions. Forest Ecology and Management 114, 433-446.

 

Running, S. W. 2006. Is global warming causing more, larger wildfires? Science 313:926-927.

 

Westerling, A. L., H. G. Hidalgo, D. R. Cayan, and T. W. Swetnam. 2006. Warming and earlier spring increase  western U.S. forest wildfire activity. Science 313:940-943.

 

OPTIONAL (policy background): HR 1904, The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003

 

Week 2

**Franklin, J.F. and C.T. Dyrness. 1973. Environmental setting. In: Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon. pp. 1-43.

 

Oct 2: Waring, R.H. and J.F. Franklin. 1979. Evergreen coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. Science 204: 1380-1386. #

 

Oct 4: Lassoie, J.P., T.M. Hinckley, and C.G. Grier. 1985. Coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. In: B.F. Chabot, and H.A. Mooney (eds.) Physiological Ecology of North American Plant Communities pp. 127-161.#

 

Oct 6: McDowell, N., J.R. Brooks, S.A. Fitzgerald, & B.J. Bond, 2003. Carbon isotope discrimination and growth responses of old Pinus ponderosa trees to stand density reductions..#

 

INTERESTING, BUT NOT REQUIRED: Brooks J.R., F.C. Meinzer, R. Coulombe, & J. Gregg. 2002. Hydraulic redistribution of soil water during summer drought in two contrasting Pacific Northwest coniferous forests. Tree Physiology 22, 1107-1117.#

 

Week 3

**Franklin, J.F. and C.T. Dyrness. 1973. Forest zones of western Washington and northwestern Oregon. In: Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon. pp. 44-109.

 

Oct 9: : Agee, J.K and J. Kertis. 1988. Forest types of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex. Canadian Journal of Botany 65: 1520-1530. #

 

Oct 11: Donald McKenzie, David W. Peterson, David L. Peterson, Peter E. Thornton. 2003. Climatic and biophysical controls on conifer species distributions in mountain forests of Washington State. USA. Journal of Biogeography, 30,1093-1108.

 

Oct 13: Peterson, D. W. and D. L. Peterson. 2001. Mountain hemlock growth responds to climatic variability at annual and decadal time scales. Ecology 82:3330-3345.

 

BACKGROUND: Shaw, D.C., J.F. Franklin, K. Bible, J. Klopatek, E. Freeman, S. Greene, G.G. Parks. 2004. Ecological Setting of the Wind River Old- growth Forest. Ecosystems. 7: 427-439.#

 

Munger, T. T. 1930. Ecological aspects of the transition from old forests to new. Science 72:327-332.

 

Week 4

**Franklin, J.F. and C.T. Dyrness. 1973. Forest zones of western Washington and northwestern Oregon. In: Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon. pp. 110-129.

 

Oct 16: Franklin JF, TA Spies, R VanPelt, AB Carey, DA Thornburgh, DR Berg, DB Lindenmayer, ME Harmon, WS Keeton, DC Shaw, K Bible, J Chen. 2002. Disturbances and structural development of natural forest ecosystems with silvicultural implications, using Douglas-fir forests as an example.#

 

Oct 18: Keeton, WS and JF Franklin. 2005. Do remnant old-growth trees accelerate rates of succession in mature Douglas-fir forests? Ecological Monographs 75: 103-118.

 

Oct 20: : Winter, L.E. et al. 2001. Canopy disturbances over the lifetime of an old-growth Douglas-fir stand in the Pacific Northwest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 32: 1057-1070.

 

Antos, J. A., H. J. Guest, and R. Parish. 2005. The tree seedling bank in an ancient montane forest: stress toleraters in a productive habitat. Journal of Ecology

 

Week 5

Oct 23: Shainsky, L.J. and S.R. Radosevich. 1992. Mechanisms of competition between Douglas-fir and red alder seedlings. Ecology 73: 30-45.

 

Baumeister and Calloway 2006 Ecology 1816-1830.

 

Oct 25: Lutz, J. A. and C. B. Halpern. 2006. Tree mortality during early forest development: a long-term study of rates, causes and consequences. Ecological Monographs 76:257-275.

 

Halpern, C. B. 1988. Early successional pathways and the resistance and resilience of forest communities. Ecology 69:1703-1715.

 

Oct 27: Fastie, C. L. 1995. Causes and ecosystem consequences of multiple pathways of primary succession at Glacier Bay, Alaska. Ecology 76:1899-1916.

 

Week 6

Oct 30:  Van Pelt, R., T. C. O’Keefe, J. J. Latterell, and R. J. Naiman. 2006. Riparian forest stand development along the Queets River in Olympic National Park, Washington. Ecological Monographs 76:277-298.

 

Nov 1: Harcombe Wind and fire Forest Ecology and Management 2006

 

Nov 3: : Bonnet VH, AW Schoettle, WD Shepperd. 2005. Postfire environmental conditions influence the spatial pattern of regeneration for Pinus ponderosa. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:37-47. #

 

OPTIONAL: O’Conner J. E., M. A. Jones, and T. L. Haluska. 2003. Flood plain and channel dynamics of the Quinault and Queets Rivers, Washington, USA. Geomorphology 51:31-59.

 

Week 7

Nov 6: Weber, A, J Karst, B Gilbert, JP Kimmins. 2005. Thuja plicata exclusion in ectomycorrhiza-dominated forests: testing the role of inoculum potential of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Oecologica 143:148-156.

 

Nov 8: Hansen, E. M. and E. MN. Goheen. 2000. Phellinus weirii and other native root pathogens as determinants of forest structure and process in western North America. Annual Review of Phytopathology 38:515-539.

 

Holah, J. C., M. V. Wilson, and E. M. Hansen. 1997. Impacts of a native root-rotting pathogen on successional development of old-growth Douglas fir forests.  Oecologia 111:429-433.

 

 

Nov 10: HOLIDAY

 

Week 8

Nov 13: Sprugel, D.G. 1991. Disturbance, equilibrium, and environmental variability: what is ‘natural’ vegetation in a changing environment? Biological Conservation 58: 1-18.

 

Nov 15: Agee, J.K. 2003. Historical range of variability in eastern Cascades forests, Washington, USA. Landscape Ecology. 18:735-740. #

 

Nov 17: Gara, R.I., W.R. Littke, J.K. Agee, D.R. Geiszler, J.D. Stuart, and C.H. Driver. 1985. Influence of fires, fungi, and mountain pine beetles on development of a lodgepole pine forest in south-central Oregon. In: D.M. Baumgartner (ed.) Lodgepole Pine: The Species and Its Management. Proceedings of a Symposium, Washington State University Cooperative Extension, Pullman, WA, pp. 155-162. #

 

Week 9

**Franklin, J.F. and C.T. Dyrness. 1973. Forest zones of western Washington and northwestern Oregon. In: Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon. pp. 130-159.

 

Nov 20: Heyerdahl, E.K., Brubaker, L.B., and Agee, J.K. 2001. Factors controlling spatial variation in historical fire regimes: a multiscale example from the Interior West, USA. Ecology 82:660-678.

 

Van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1994. Spatial patterns of lightning strikes and fires in Yosemite National Park. Proceedings of the 12th conference on fire and forest meteorology 12:223-231.

 

Nov 22: Miller, E.A. and C.B. Halpern. 1998. Effects of environment and grazing disturbance on tree establishment in meadow of the central Cascade Range, Oregon, USA. Journal of Vegetation Science 9:265-282.

 

BACKGROUND: Examining large scale ecological impacts

The Composite Burn Index: Field Measurements

The Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR and dNBR): Satellite Measurements

 

Nov 24: HOLIDAY

 

Week 10

**Franklin, J.F. and C.T. Dyrness. 1973. Forest zones of western Washington and northwestern Oregon. In: Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis, Oregon. pp. 248-290.

 

Nov 27: Smith, D. W., R. O. Peterson, and D. B. Houston. 2003. Yellowstone after wolves. Bioscience 53:330-340.

 

Nov 29: Harcombe, P.A., S.E. Greene, M.G. Kramer, S.A. Acker, T.A., Spies, T. Valentine. 2004. The influence of fire and windthrow dynamics on a coastal spruce-hemlock forest in Oregon, SUA, based on aerial photographs spanning 40 years. Forest Ecology and Management 194, 71-82.#

 

Dec 1: Veblen TT, KS Hadley, EM Nel, T Kitzberger, M Reid, R Villalba, 1994. Disturbance regime and disturbance interactions in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest. Journal of Ecology. 82, 125-135. #

 

Week 11

Dec 5: Brubaker, L.B. 1988. Vegetation history and anticipating future climate change. In: J.K. Agee and D.R. Johnson (eds.) Ecosystem Management for Parks and Wilderness, pp. 41-62. 51: 31-59. #

 

Dec 7: Hansen, A. J., R. P. Neilson, V. H. Dale, C. H. Flather, L. R. Iverson, D. J. Currie, S. Shafer, R. Cook, and P. J. Bartlein. 2001. Global change in forests: responses of species, communities, and biomes. Bioscience 51:765-779.

 

Brubaker, L. B., P. M. Anderson, M. E. Edwards, and A. V. Lozkin. 2005. Beringia as a glacial refrugium for boreal trees and shrubs: new perspectives from mapped pollen data. Journal of Biogeography 32:833-848.

 

Dec 10: none

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Week 1

Jan 5:

Reading assignment:

Chapter 1 in Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice by Turner et al. (Turner)

Chapter 1 in Conserving Forest Biodiversity by Lindenmayer & Franklin (L&F)

 

Review: Franklin lecture notes on “Patches and patch types”. 

Week 2

Jan 8:

 

Reading assignment:

Section on “Edge Effects”, p. 36-39 in L&F

Chapter 6 (“Edges”) in “Management of wildlife and fish habitats in forests

             Of western Oregon and Washington” , E. Reade Brown (ed.), 1985. 

 

Jan 10:

Reading assignments:

Saunders, D. A., and R. J. Hobbs.  1991.  The role of corridors in conservation:

What do we know and where do we go?  Pages 321-327 in “Nature

                                       Conservation 2: The role of corridors.

 

Chapter 8 (networks and the matrix) in “Land Mosaics” by Richard T. T. Forman

 

Jan 12:

 

Reading assignments:

Chapter 4 (Causes of Landscape Pattern) in Landscape ecology (Turner et al.)

 

Swanson, F. et al.  BioScience article on geomorphic processes

 

Week 3

Jan 17:

Reading Assignment:

Cohen, Warren B., Kushla, John D., Ripple, William J., and Garman, Steven L.  1996.  An Introduction to Digital Methods in Remote Sensing of Forested Ecosystems: Focus on the Pacific Northwest, USA.  Environmental Management. Springer-Verlag New York. Vol. 20, No. 3

 

Jan 19:

Reading Assignment:

 

Week 4

Jan 22:

Reading assignment:

Chapter 2 (The critical concept of scale) from Turner, et al.

Chapter 5 (Quantifying landscape pattern) from Turner, et al

 

Optional reading:

Franklin et al. 2000.  Threads of continuity.  Conservation Biology in Action

 

Jan 24:

 

To Be Assigned

 

Jan 26:

Reading assignment:

Agee, James K.  1998.  The landscape ecology of western forest fire regimes. Northwest Science 72(special issue): 24-34.

 

Finney, Mark A.  2001.  Design of regular landscape fuel treatment patterns for

                          modifying fire growth and behavior.  Forest Science 47:219-228. 

 

Writing assignment (50 points):

                          To be assigned

 

 

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Week 5

Jan 29:

Reading assignment:

Chapter 2 (The critical concept of scale) from Turner, et al.

Chapter 5 (Quantifying landscape pattern) from Turner, et al

 

Feb 2:

Reading assignment:

Chapter 17 (The Golden Age that Never Was) from “The Third Chimpanzee” by

Jared Diamond.  HarperPerennial 1993 (HarperCollins 1992). 

 

Week 6

Feb 5:

Reading assignments:

Chapter 10 (Applied Landscape Ecology) in Turner, et al

 

Pages 25-31 in Lindenmayer and Franklin

 

Franklin, J. F., and R. T. T. Forman. 1987. “Creating landscape

patterns by forest cutting”.  Landscape Ecology 1:5-18.

 

Feb 7:

To Be Assigned

 

Feb 9:

 

Reading assignment:

Chapter 3 (Introduction to models) in Turner et al.

Chapter 6 (Neutral landscape models) in Turner et al.

 

 

Week 7

TO BE ASSIGNED

 

Week 8

Feb 21:

Reading assignment:

Benda, L., et al.  2004.  The network dynamics hypothesis: How channel networks structure riverine habitats.  BioScience 54:413-427.

                         

Ganio, L. M., C. E. Torgerson, and R. E. Gresswell.  2005.  A geostatistical approach for describing spatial pattern in stream networks.  Frontiers in

 

Week 9

Feb 26:

Reading assignment:

Chapter 3 from Lindenmayer and Franklin textbook.

Chapter 5 from Lindenmayer and Franklin textbook.

Feb 28:

Reading assignment:

Chapter 6 from Lindenmayer and Franklin textbook

Chapter 7 from Lindenmayer and Franklin textbook

Week 10

March 5:

TO BE PROVIDED

Optional reading assignment:

Chapter 15 (Case study 5: The Rio Condor Project) in Lindenmayer and Franklin textbook.

 

March 7:

 

Reading assignment:

Chapter 18 in Lindenmayer and Franklin textbook. 

 

READING LIST 2007

Reading Packet

Articles and course notes appear in the following order in the packet:

Cohen, Warren B., Kushla, John D., Ripple, William J., and Garman, Steven L.  1996.  An Introduction to Digital Methods in Remote Sensing of Forested Ecosystems: Focus on the Pacific Northwest, USA.  Environmental Management. Springer-Verlag New York. Vol. 20, No. 3

Franklin, Jerry F. 1994. Preserving biodiversity: species, ecosystems or landscapes? Ecological Applications 4(2): 202-205.

Tracy, C.R., and Brussard, P.F.  1994.  Preserving biodiversity: species in landscapes.  Ecological applications, 4(2), pp. 205-207. 

Franklin, Jerry F. 1994. Response (to Tracy and Brussard, same issue).  Ecological Applications 4(2): 208-209.

Franklin, J.F., and Forman, R.T.T. 1987.  Creating landscape patterns by forest cutting: ecological consequences and principles.  Landscape Ecology, vol. 1 no. 1 pp. 5-18.

Mladenoff, D.J., White, M.A., Pastor, J., and T.R. Crow.  1993.  Comparing spatial patterns in unaltered old-growth and disturbed forest landscapes.  Ecological Applications, 3(2), 1993, pp. 294-306. 

Ripple, W. J., G. A. Bradshaw, and T. A. Spies. 1991. Measuring forest landscape patterns in the Cascade Range of Oregon, USA. Biological Conservation 57:73-88.

Saunders, D. A., and R. J. Hobbs. 1991. The role of corridors in conservation: what do we know and where do we go? Pages 321-327 in "Nature Conservation 2: the role of corridors".  NSW, Australia: Surrey, Beatty, and Sons.        

COURSE NOTES: by Dr. Jerry Franklin. 

Logan, W.; Brown, E. R.; Longrie, D.; Herb, G.; Corthell, R.A.  1986.  “Edges”.  Ch. 6 in Brown, E. Reade.  1986.  “Management of wildlife and fish habitats in forests of western Oregon and Washington”. 

Forman, R.T.T. 1995.  “Networks and the matrix”.  Ch. 8 in Forman, R.T.T. 1995. “Land Mosaics: the ecology of landscapes and regions”.  [Cambridge, UK]: Cambridge University Press. 

Swanson, F.J.; Kratz, T.K.; Caine, N.; and R.G. Woodmansee.  1988.  Landform effects on ecosystem patterns and processes.  Bioscience Vol. 38 (2): 92-98. 

Franklin, J.F.,   Threads of continuity. 

Agee, J.K. 1998.  The landscape ecology of western forest fire regimes.  Northwest Science 72 (special issue): 24-34. 

Finney, M.A. 2001.  Design of regular landscape fuel treatment patterns for modifying fire growth and behavior. Forest Science 47:219-228.

Diamond, J. 1992.  “The Golden Age that never was”.  Ch. 17 in The Third Chimpanzee: the evolution and future of the human animal.  [New York, NY]: Harper-Collins.