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Applying knowledge of biological legacies to forest management

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Ecosystem research and forest management:

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Research history at HJA

HJA LTER instrumental in transitions in National Forest management

Partnerships in research and management

Understanding and managing complex ecosystems

Applications of basic research to management

Disturbance legacies and wood biomass

Research into the functions of dead wood in forests and streams

Wood decomposition research: 200 yr study

Dead wood, forest harvest and scaling up to regional carbon sequestration

Changes in forest harvest practices: providing for future live and dead wood

Biological legacies: Wood in streams and sources of new wood

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Research rapidly translated into riparian management guidelines

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International applications of HJA LTER research

Use of fire history and prescribed fire in forest management

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Summary

Biological legacies and Forest management

Experimental Watersheds H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest

Author: Sherri L. Johnson

E-mail: sjohnson@lternet.edu

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