[Forest-list] 2014-06-01 NRMI: This Issue: World Pine Plantations and Some Other Good Things.

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2014-06-01**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/World Pine Plantations/**//*and Some Other Good Things.

*BUT FIRST, WON'T YOU PLEASE HELP? Legacy Regression Programs Sought -- 
*/(This is a repeat request of one we made last July) -- /Dr. Tim 
Gregoire, Yale University, writes*. /"/*/In 1958, Lew Grosenbaugh 
published a USDA Forest Service Occasional Paper 158 with the title "The 
elusive formula of best fit: a comprehensive new machine program 
<http://archive.org/stream/occasionalpapers15sout/occasionalpapers15sout_djvu.txt>". 
It was advertising a new service: a regression program written in 
Fortran to run on the IBM 704 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It 
would fit all possible regressions and could accommodate up to 9 
"independent" variables and a maximum of 500 observations. This was 
superseded in 1967 by REX--Fortran-4 System, that Lew wrote about in 
USDA Forest Service Research paper PSW-44. 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_rp044/psw_rp044.pdf> Then 
concurrent with his ongoing development of 3P sampling, he developed 
"STX--Fortran-4 Program for estimates of tree populations from 3P 
sample-tree-measurements". 
<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fs.fed.us%2Fpsw%2Fpublications%2Fdocuments%2Fpsw_rp013%2Fpsw_rp013.pdf&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNErAE73w11lTeRGeMFJNvl-RWs17w> An 
early reference is USDA Forest Service Research Paper PSW-13, Revised, 
published in 1967. Lew would famously, or infamously, install STX on 
university mainframes in person and without the aid of the local 
computer technicians. I believe Harold Burkhart recalls when he did so 
at Virginia Tech. Later, Jim Space put out STXMOD. I wonder whether 
there are any legacy versions of these programs still around./ If you 
can assist, please contact Tim at timothy.gregoire at yale.edu 
<mailto:timothy.gregoire at yale.edu>.

*WORLD PINE PLANTATIONS *-- In April I had a request for information on 
the world's pine plantations for wood use. Here are some sites that may 
be of interest.

Berger. Ricardo.1995? *Pine plantations management in southern Brazil: 
Problems and Opportunities* 
<http://www.unece.lsu.edu/ebusiness/documents/2013Mar/sc13_16.pdf>. 9 p.

Borders, Bruce E. ; Bailey, Robert L.1997? *Loblolly Pine - Pushing the 
Limits of Growth.* 
<http://warnell.forestry.uga.edu/service/library/wsfr-02/wsfr-02.pdf>17 p.

Brown, Chris; Ball, James. 2000? *World view of plantation grown wood* 
<http://www.fao.org/forestry/4596-0bc06e1b1190f66bb48651bfd756f37fd.pdf>. FAO. 
12 p.

Castel, T.; et al. 2000. *Retrieval biomass of a large Venezuelan pine 
plantation using JERS-1 SAR data* 
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=860531&isnumber=18663&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fstamp%2Fstamp.jsp%3Ftp%3D%26arnumber%3D860531%26isnumber%3D18663>. 
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. 
IEEE 2000 International.1 (1): 396,398

Digital Globe. N.d. *An effective mapping solution for Australia's pine 
plantations.* 
<http://www.digitalglobe.com/sites/default/files/DG-AUSPINE-CS-WEB.pdf>2 p.

Editor. 2012. *Pine vs Fynbos* 
<http://www.saforestrymag.co.za/articles/detail/pine_vs_fynbos>. SA Forestry

Fox, Thomas R. et al. 2007.*The Development of Pine Plantation 
Silviculture in the Southern United States.* 
<http://rothforestry.com/Resources/Fox%20et%20al.%202007.pdf>**Journal 
of Forestry. 11 p.

Gholz, Henry L. et al. 1997. *The Use of Remote Sensing in the Modeling 
of Forest Productivity* 
<http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-011-5446-8>. Springer. 326 p.

Gómez-Aparicio, Lorena et al, 2009?*Are pine plantations valid tools for 
restoring Mediterranean forests? An assessment along gradients of 
climatic conditions, stand density and distance to seed sources* 
<http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/41296/1/Are%20pine%20plantations%20valid%20tools%20for%20restoring.pdf>. 
48 p.

Gorham, Bruce; Cothren, Jackson. N.d. *Pine Plantation Mapping in the 
Boston Mountains* 
<http://cast.uark.edu/home/research/geomatics/remote-sensing/pine-plantation-mapping.html>.

Gupta. Rajan Kumar et al. 2011. *Mapping of Forest Plantations in Forest 
Research Institute, Dehradun Using Aerospace Remote Sensing.* 
<http://www.academia.edu/865994/Mapping_of_Forest_Plantations_in_Forest_Research_Institute_Dehradun_Using_Aerospace_Remote_Sensing>**

Heo, Joon, et al. 2006. *Quality improvement of loblolly pine (/Pinus 
taeda/) plantation inventory GIS using Shuttle Radar Topography Mission 
(STRM) and the National Elevation Dataset (NED* 
<http://grslab.yonsei.ac.kr/paper/international/4.pdf>). Forest Ecology 
and Management 233 61--68

KC, B.; Stainback, G. A. 2013? *Financial analysis of Chir pine 
plantations for carbon offsets, timber and resin in Nepal.* 
<http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/BANKO/article/download/9193/7507> 
Banko Janakari 22(2): 3-10

Mead, D.J. 2013. *Sustainable management of /Pinus radiata/ plantations* 
<http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3274e/i3274e.pdf>. FAO Forestry Paper 
No. 170. Rome, FAO. 246 p.

Moorhead, David J. et al. 2002. *Opportunities for intensive pine 
plantation management* <http://www.bugwood.org/intensive/98-002.html>. 
Bugwood.

Navarro-González, Irene Antonio et al. 2013. *The weight of the past: 
land-use legacies and recolonization of pine plantations by oak trees* 
<http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/12-0459.1>. Ecological 
Applications 23:1267--1276. Abstract.

Ovando, Paola et al. 2009. *Landowner benefits from replacing Eucalyptus 
stands with Stone pine plantations in Huelva, Spain* 
<http://www.academia.edu/1437205/Landowner_benefits_from_replacing_Eucalyptus_stands_with_Stone_pine_plantations_in_Huelva_Spain>. 
XIII World Forestry Congress. First page.

*Pine Plantations Continue to Spread* 
<http://www.newsoffuture.com/pine_plantations_continue_to_spread_future_forestry.html>. 
News of Future.

PINEMAP 2012. *Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and 
Adaptation Project. Mapping the future of southern pine management in a 
changing world*. 
<http://www.pinemap.org/reports/annual-reports/Year1AnnualReport.pdf>Year 1 
Annual Report. 148 p.

Rauscher, H. Michael; Johnsen, Kurt, eds. 2004. *Southern forest 
science: past, present, and future.* 
<http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/gtr/gtr_srs075.pdf?>Gen. Tech. Rep. 
SRS-75. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 
Southern Research Station. 394 p.

Shoemaker, Douglas A. 2005. *Remote sensing and simulation to estimate 
forest productivity in southern pine plantations.* 
<http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/fbrc/docs/students/Shoemaker2005.pdf>**Thesis. 
77 p.

Stone, C. et al. 2004. *Application of Multispectral Imagery to the 
Management of Pine Plantation Condition and Productivity* 
<http://www.fwpa.com.au/sites/default/files/PN02.1906%20Full%20Report.pdf>. 
Forest & Wood Products Research and Development Corporation. 64 p.

Tomimura, Chisato. 2008. *Natural Succession in Caribbean Pine 
Plantations in Sri Lanka* 
<http://environment.yale.edu/tri/uploads/Tomimura.pdf>. 9 p.

Whiffen, H. et al. 2000. *Using 30-meter satellite data to estimate 
basal areas of intensively managed loblolly pine stands* 
<http://pmrc.uga.edu/TR2000-6.pdf>. 6 p.

*SOME PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Garcia, Oscar. 2014. *A generic approach to spatial individual-based 
modelling and simulation of plant communities. 
<http://www.mcfns.com/index.php/Journal/article/view/6_36>*Mathematical 
and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences 6(1). Abstract. 
 From Oscar Garcia, IFL

Rinaudo, Tony. 2014. *World Vision aid worker sees forests without trees 
<http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/onairhighlights/world-vision-aid-worker-sees-forests-without-trees/1307300>*. 
Radio Australia.

Sagl, Guenther et al. 2014. *Mapping collective human activity in an 
urban environment based on mobile phone data. 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230406.2014.888958#.U15SlthOXq4> 
*Cartography and Geographic Information Science 41(3): 272-285.

Sanz-Menéndez, Luis; Cruz-Castro, Laura. 2002. *Coping with 
environmental pressures: Public Research Organizations responses to 
funding crisis 
<http://www.heip-link.net/sites/default/files/dt-0219e.pdf>*. Unidad de 
Políticas Comparadas (CSIC) Working Paper 02-19. 25 p.

Shifley, Stephen et al. 2014. *Five Anthropogenic Factors That Will 
Radically Alter Forest Conditions and Management Needs in the Northern 
United States 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2014/nrs_2014_shifley_001.pdf>.* 
Forest Science, April. From Dan Lund.

Singleton, Alex. 2013. *A GIS approach to modelling CO_2 emissions 
associated with the pupil-school commute 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13658816.2013.832765#.U15Rg9hOXq4>*. 
International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 28(2): 256-273.

Song, Xiao-Peng et al. 2013. *Integrating global land cover products for 
improved forest cover characterization: an application in North America 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2013.856959#.U15SCthOXq4>*. 
International Journal of Digital Earth.

Staedter, Tracy. 2014. *Innovative Axe Chops Through Wood Like It's 
Butter 
<http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/innovative-axe-chops-through-wood-like-its-butter-140417.htm>. 
*My son, Dan, alerted me to this. Just thought some of you may have an 
interest. Unfortunately or fortunately, my wood-splitting days are long, 
long gone.

Steer, Andrew. 2014. *Fresh hope for the world's forests 
<http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/404093/fresh-hope-for-the-world-s-forests>* 
. Bangkok Post.

Straub, Christoph et al. 2013. *Assessment of Cartosat-1 and WorldView-2 
stereo imagery in combination with a LiDAR-DTM for timber volume 
estimation in a highly structured forest in Germany 
<http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/86/4/463.abstract>*. 
Forestry 86(4): 463-473. Abstract.

Strickland, Eliza. 2014. *Google Earth Engine Brings Big Data to 
Environmental Activism. 
<http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/google-earth-engine-brings-big-data-to-environmental-activism>* 
IEEE Spectrum. From Artur Gil, Applied GIS RS List.

Sudarshana, Padmini, et al. Eds. 2012. *Tropical Forests 
<https://www.cbd.int/undb/countries/hr/undb-hr-tropical.forests.pdf>*. 
In Tech. 388 p.

Svyatoslav S. et al. 2014. *Assessment of forest cover in Russia by 
combining a wall-to-wall coarse-resolution land-cover map with a sample 
of 30 m resolution forest maps. 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01431161.2014.883099#.U15NZthOXq4>* 
International Journal of Remote Sensing 35(7): 2671-2692.

Swan, M., et al. 2014. *Detecting mammals in heterogeneous landscapes: 
implications for biodiversity monitoring and management 
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-013-0604-3#page-1>*. 
Biodivers. Conserv. 23(2):343-355. Page 1.

Tedder, Michelle, J. et al. 2013. *Classification and mapping of the 
composition and structure of dry woodland and savanna in the eastern 
Okavango Delta 
<http://www.koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/1100/1513>*, KOEDOE

Teuscher, Miriam et al. 2013. *Forest inventories are a valuable data 
source for habitat modelling of forest species: an alternative to 
remote-sensing data 
<http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/86/2/241.full>*. Forestry 86 
(2): 241-253

Tiede, Dirk. 2014. *A new geospatial overlay method for the analysis and 
visualization of spatial change patterns using object-oriented data 
modeling concepts. 
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15230406.2014.901900#.U15UeNhOXq4>* 
Cartography and Geographic Information Science 41(3): 227-236.

USFS. 2014. *Five anthropogenic factors that will radically alter 
northern forests in 50 years 
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140417191738.htm>*. 
ScienceDaily. 17 April. From Dan Lund.

Van Horlick, Tim C. 2014 *Planting the world to combat global warming*. 
See Website (wait for video's to upload) www.vhmulcher.net 
<http://www.vhmulcher.net>

Venter, O., et al. 2013. *Acting optimally for biodiversity in a world 
obsessed with REDD+. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12018/pdf>* Conserv. 
Lett. 6(6):410-417.

Westinga, Eduard et al. 2013. *A comparison of fine resolution census 
and image-based national forest inventories: a case study of Rwanda, 
<http://forestry.oxfordjournals.org/content/86/4/453.abstract>* Forestry 
86(4):453-461. Abstract.

Xie, Y. 2008. *Remote sensing imagery in vegetation mapping: a review 
<http://jpe.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/1/9.full>*. J Plant Ecol 1 (1): 
9-23.

Zellweger, F., et al. 2014. *Improved methods for measuring forest 
landscape structure: LiDAR complements field-based habitat assessment. 
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-013-0600-7#page-1>* 
Biodivers. Conserv. 23(2):289-307.Page 1.

Zhou, G.Y., et al. 2014. *Substantial reorganization of China's tropical 
and subtropical forests: based on the permanent plots 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12385/pdf>*. Global 
Change Biol. 20(1):240-250.

Zhu, K., et al. 2014. *Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration 
and turnover through life history 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24014498>*. Global Change Biol. 
20(1):251-264. Abstract.

*KEEPING UP-TO-DATE -- PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS.*See 
also 
http://botany.si.edu/puhttps://www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm 
<http://botany.si.edu/puhttps:/www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm>, 
http://scholar.google.com/, and**Directory of Open Access Journals. 
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals. 
<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.%5C>

Garcia, Oscar. 2014. *siplab - Spatial Individual-Plant Simulation. *R 
software for individual-tree modelling. 
http://forestgrowth.unbc.ca/siplab. From Oscar Garcia, IFL

*Updated Biomass Biblio,*Tim Gregoire (Yale University) has updated his 
biomass bibliography (1944-Present with 411 entries) and has added one 
on Randomized Branch Sampling (32 entries). Tim has dozens of other 
biblios available as pdf on 
http://environment.yale.edu/profile/gregoire/bibliographies organized 
into three categories: Sampling, Forestry and Ecology, and Statistics.

*WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC*. -- See also: 
http://www.gfis.net, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and 
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/.

*MOVING AHEAD -- OPPORTUNITIES*-- See also: Scholarships-Positions 
<http://scholarship-positions.com/>, Forestry, Arboriculture, 
Agriculture, Agronomy & Natural Resource Management Jobs at 
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/forest.htm, Riley Guide to Agriculture, 
Forestry, & Farming Jobs http://www.rileyguide.com/agric.html, Finding 
Your Dream Job in Natural Resources http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/, 
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/index.html The Job Seekers Guide for 
International and Environmental Careers 
_http://timresch.net/ejobs/index.htm _and Scholarship Listing 
_http://www.scholarshiplisting.com/_.

*Forester (Biometrician)*-- USDA Forest Service. Portland, Oregon, USA. 
Closes 9 June 2014. See Job Announcement Number:14-0657-23776DP-LS. 
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/PrintPreview/370440500. From Charles 
Scott, USFS.

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*Pay It Forward/-- Cheers, Gyde/*

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