Teakettle Publications and Presentations

 

North, M., P. Stine, K. O'Hara, W. Zielinski and S. Stephens.  In press.  An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests.  USDA Forest Service, PSW-GTR. (87 meg file including figures)

Presentations and papers/Sierra Ecosystem Mgmt Strategy final2 with figures.pdf

North, M.  2009.  Forest management strategies for fuels reduction and sensitive species habitat under changing climate conditions.  Talk at Lake Tahoe Conference on Global Climate Change.

Presentations and papers/North Tahoe GCC talk final.ppt

Recent Publications (not on the Teakettle DVD)

Meyer, M., D. Kelt, and M. North.  2007.  Effects of burning and thinning on lodgepole chipmunks (Neotamias speciosus) in the Sierra Nevada, California.  Northwestern Naturalist 88: 61-72.  Presentations and papers/Burning and thinning effects on chipmunks Northwestern Naturalist.pdf

Meyer, M., M. North, A. Gray, and H. Zald.  2007.  Influence of soil thickness on stand characteristics in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest.  Plant and Soil 294: 113-123. Presentations and papers/Soil thickness in Plant and Soil Meyer et al.pdf

Hurteau, M., H. Zald. and M. North.  2007.  Species-specific response to climate reconstruction in upper-elevation mixed-conifer forests of the western Sierra Nevada , California , USA .  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 1681-1691.  Presentations and papers/Hurteau et al final.pdf

North, M., J. Innes, and H. Zald.  2007.  Comparison of thinning and prescribed fire restoration treatments to Sierran mixed-conifer historic conditions.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 331-342. Presentations and papers/Fire and thinning restoration versus historical CJFR.pdf

Plamboeck, A.H., T.E. Dawson, L.M. Egerton-Warburton, M. North, T.D. Bruns and J.I. Querejeta.  2007.  Water transfer via ectomycorrhizal fungal hyphae to conifer seedlings.  Mycorrhiza 17: 439-447.  Presentations and papers/Water transfer via mycorr Plamboeck et al.pdf

Meyer, M.D., M.P. North and D.A. Kelt.  2007.  Nest tress of northern flying squirrels in Yosemite National Park, California.  The Southwestern Naturalist 52: 157-161. Presentations and papers/Flying squirrel nest tree in Yosemite Meyer et al Southwestern Naturalist.pdf

Publications:

Innes, J., M. North and N. Williamson.  2006. Effect of thinning and prescribed fire restoration treatments on woody debris and snag dynamics in a Sierran old-growth, mixed-conifer forest.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36(12): 3183-3193.  Presentations and papers/Innes et al final 06 64.pdf

Wayman, R. and M. North.  2007.  Initial response of a mixed-conifer understory community to burning and thinning restoration treatments.  Forest Ecology and Management 239: 32-44.Presentations and papers/Initial response of mixed conifer understory Wayman and North FEM.pdf

Meyer, M., D. Kelt, and M. North. 2007.   Microhabit associations of northern flying squirrels in burned and thinned stands of the Sierra Nevada .  American Midland Naturalist 157: 202-211.Presentations and papers/Microhabitat of flying squirrel in burned thinned Meyer et al.pdf

North, M. and A. Rosenthal.  2006.  Restoring forest health:  Fire and thinning effects on mixed-conifer forests.  USDA PSW Science Perspective 7.  Presentations and papers/Restoring Forest Health Science Perspective7.pdf

Oakley, B., M. North and J. Franklin.  2006.  Facilitative and competitive effects of a N-fixing shrub on white fir saplings.  Forest Ecology and Management 233: 100-107.

Concilio, A., R. Soung, S. Ma, M. North, and J. Chen.  2006.  Soil respiration response to experimental disturbances over three years.  Forest Ecology and Management 228: 82-90.

Concilio, A., S. Ma, Q. Li, J. LeMoine, J. Chen, M. North, D. Moorhead, and R. Jensen .  2005.  Soil respiration response to prescribed burning and thinning in mixed conifer and hardwood forests.  Can. J. Forest Research. 35: 1581-1591. Presentations/Soil respiration at Teakettle and Ozarks after treatments.pdf

Hanson, C. and M. North.  2006.  Post-fire epicormic branching in Sierra Nevada Abies concolor (white fir).  International Journal of Wildland Fire 15:31-35.  Presentations/Epicormic branching Hanson and North.pdf

Izzo, A., J. Agbowo and T. Bruns.  2005.  Detection of plot-level changes in ectomycorrhizal communities across years in an old-growth mixed-conifer forest.  New Phytologist 166:  619-630 Presentations/Ectomycorrhizae associated with mixed conifer.ppt

Izzo, A., M. Canwright, and T.D. Bruns.  2006.  The effects of heat treatments on ectomycorrhizal resistant propagules and their ability to colonize bioassay seedlings. Mycologia Research 110: 196-200.  Presentations/IzzoMycolRes06.pdf

Izzo, A., D.T. Nuygen, T.D. Bruns.  2006.  Spatial structure and richness of ectomycorrhizal fungi colonizing bioassay seedlings from resistant propagules in a Sierra Nevada forest: comparisons using two hosts that exhibit different seedling establishment patterns.  Mycologia 98: 374-383. Presentations and papers/Spatial structure richness ECM Teakettle.pdf

Ma, S., J. Chen, M. North, H. Erickson, M. Bresee, and J. Le Moine. 2004. Short-term effects of experimental treatments on soil respiration in an old-growth, mixed-conifer forest. Environmental Management 33(1): 148-159. Presentations/Soil respiration in response to burn thin at Teakettle.pdf

Maloney, P. and D. Rizzo.  2002.  Dwarf mistletoe-host interactions in mixed-conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada.  Phytopathology 92: 597-602. FS manuscripts/Dwarf mistletoe host interactions.pdf

Meyer, M.D., M.P. North, and D.A. Kelt.  2005.  Fungi in the diets of northern flying squirrels and lodgepole chipmunks in the Sierra Nevada.  Can. J. Zool. 83: 1581-1589. Presentations/Fungi in squirrel and chipmunk diets final CJZ.pdf

Meyer, M. D., and M. North.  2005.  Truffle abundance in riparian and upland forests of California ’s southern Sierra Nevada . Canadian Journal of Botany 83: 1015-1020. FS manuscripts/Meyer and North Can J Botany article.pdf

Meyer, M., D. Kelt, and M. North.  2005.  Nest trees of the northern flying squirrels in the Sierra Nevada. J. of Mammalogy 86: 285-290. FS manuscripts/Flying squirrel nest trees.pdf

Meyer, M., M. North, and D. Kelt.  2005.  Short-term effects of fire and forest thinning on truffle abundance and consumption by Neotamias speciosus in the Sierra Nevada of California. Can J. For. Res. 35: 1061-1070. FS manuscripts/Fire and thinning effects on truffles.pdf

North, M., B. Oakley , R. Fiegener, A. Gray and M. Barbour.  2005.  Influence of light and soil moisture on Sierran mixed-conifer understory communities.  Plant Ecology 177: 13-24. FS manuscripts/Mixed conifer understory Plant Ecol.pdf

North, M., B. Oakley , J. Chen, H. Erickson, A. Gray, A. Izzo, D. Johnson, S. Ma, J. Marra, M. Meyer, K. Purcell, T. Rambo, B. Roath, D. Rizzo, T. Schowalter.  2002.  Vegetation and ecological characteristics of mixed-conifer and red-fir forests at the Teakettle Experimental Forest.  USFS General Technical Report, PSW-GTR-186. (Warning: 12 meg file size)   Presentations and papers/Vegetation and ecological characteristics.pdf

North, M., J. Chen, B. Oakley , B. Song, M. Rudnicki, and A. Gray.  2004.   Forest stand structure and pattern of old-growth western hemlock/Douglas-fir and mixed-conifer forest.  Forest Science 50 (3): 299-311. Presentations/Canopy structure of Wind River and Teakettle.pdf

Oakley, B., M. North, J. Franklin, B. Hedlund, and J. Staley.  2004.  Diversity and distribution of Frankia strains symbiotic with Ceanothus in California .  Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70:  6444-6452. Presentations/Frankia diversity.pdf

Oakley B, M. North, and J. Franklin.  2003 The effects of fire on soil nitrogen associated with patches of the actinorhizal shrub Ceanothus cordulatus. Plant and Soil 254: 35-46. Presentations/Ceanothus and frankia response to fire.pdf

     

    Forest Science 51(3) issue devoted to Teakettle Research

Introduction to the Special Issue on Sierran Mixed-Conifer Research
pp. 185-186(2)
Authors: North, Malcolm; Chen, Jiquan

Influence of Fire and El Niño on Tree Recruitment Varies by Species in Sierran Mixed Conifer
pp. 187-197(11)
Authors: North, Malcolm; Hurteau, Matthew; Fiegener, Robert; Barbour, Michael

Stand Conditions Associated with Tree Regeneration in Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests
pp. 198-210(13)
Authors: Gray, Andrew N.; Zald, Harold S. J.; Kern, Ruth A.; North, Malcolm

Effects of Vegetation Patches on Soil Nutrient Pools and Fluxes within a Mixed-Conifer Forest
pp. 211-220(10)
Authors: Erickson, Heather E.; Soto, Patricia; Johnson, Dale W.; Roath, Brent; Hunsaker, Carolyn

Biophysical Controls on Soil Respiration in the Dominant Patch Types of an Old-Growth, Mixed-Conifer Forest
pp. 221-232(12)
Authors: Ma, Siyan; Chen, Jiquan; Butnor, John R.; North, Malcolm; Euskirchen, Eugénie S.; Oakley, Brian

Canopy Arthropod Assemblages in Four Overstory and Three Understory Plant Species in a Mixed-Conifer Old-Growth Forest in California
pp. 233-242(10)
Authors: Schowalter, Timothy D.; Zhang, Yanli

Hypogeous Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Species on Roots and in Small Mammal Diet in a Mixed-Conifer Forest
pp. 243-254(12)
Authors: Izzo, Antonio D.; Meyer, Marc; Trappe, James M.; North, Malcolm; Bruns, Thomas D.

Soil Arthropod Responses to Different Patch Types in a Mixed-Conifer Forest of the Sierra Nevada
pp. 255-265(11)
Authors: Marra, James L.; Edmonds, Robert L.

Patterns of Mortality in an Old-Growth Mixed-Conifer Forest of the Southern Sierra Nevada, California
pp. 266-275(10)
Authors: Smith, Thomas F.; Rizzo, David M.; North, Malcolm

Outreach:  

The Teakettle Restoration Project.  Powerpoint slides for a talk at USFS Restoring Fire Adapted Ecosystems, Feb. 6-8, 2007, Reno, NV. Presentations and papers/Malcolm North Regional silviculture meeting Reno 2007.ppt

Restoring Sierra Nevada Forests and Their Plant Communities.  California Native Plant Society.  Presentations/CNPS Placerville talk.ppt

Restoring Forest Health:  Fire and thinning effects on mixed-conifer forests.  PSW Science Perspectives 7.  2006. Presentations/Presentations/sp007_singlePG.pdf  

The Teakettle Experiment: A Brief Overview and Summary.  

                Powerpoint: Presentations/Teakettle Brief Overview.ppt    

                    PDF: Presentations/Teakettle Brief Overview.pdf

 The Teakettle Experiment: Fire and Thinning Effects on Mixed-Conifer Ecosystems. 

                Powerpoint: Presentations/Teakettle Results for Forest Managers.ppt    

                PDF: Presentations/Teakettle Results for Forest Managers.pdf

DVD "Fire and Forest Health"  Request a copy on the Teakettle homepage 

Results from the Teakettle Experiment:

Powerpoint presentations presented at the 2004 Ecological Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon

Different effects of thinning and burning on Sierran mixed-conifer ecosystems by Malcolm North     Presentations/Fire and thinning effects on mixed-conifer ecosystems.ppt  

Effects of silvicultural and prescribed fire treatments on coarse woody debris dynamics in a Sierran old-growth, mixed-conifer forest by Jim Innes and Malcolm North     Presentations/CWD dynamics.ppt  

 Within-stand Interactions of Forest Structure and Microclimate Variability in an Old-Growth, Mixed-Conifer Forest by Siyan Ma, Malcolm North,  Jiquan Chen, Stephen Mather, Martin Jurgensen, and Brian Oakley. Presentations/Forest Structure and Microclimate.ppt

 Effects of Experimental Burning and Thinning on Soil Respiration and Belowground Characteristics by Soung-Ryoul Ryu, Amy Concilio, Jiquan Chen, Deborah Neher, Siyan Ma and Malcolm North     Presentations/Soil respiration and root dynamics.ppt

 Changes in forest structure, spatial pattern and composition from prescribed fire and thinning in Sierra mixed conifer by Malcolm North, Jim Innes and Brian Oakley     Presentations/Changes in structure, spatial pattern and composition from fire and thinning.ppt

Disturbance Effects on Soil Respiration at Two Sites by Amy Concilio, Siyan Ma, Qinglin Li, Jim LeMoine, Jiquan Chen, Malcolm North, Daryl Moorhead, and Randy Jensen     Presentations/Soil respiration following disturbance in California and Missouri.ppt

 Near term response of surface soil nitrogen cycling and pools to forest clearing and burning by Heather Erickson     Presentations/Soil nitrogen response to fire and thinning.ppt

 Forests, fungi, and small mammals: the impact of fire and forest thinning on truffle production and consumption by Marc Meyer, Malcolm North and Doug Kelt     Presentations/Forests, fungi and small mammals.ppt

 Tree Regeneration Strategies in Response to Burning and Thinning Restoration Treatments in a Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forest by Harold Zald and Andy Gray Presentations/Regeneration response to fire and thinning.ppt