2002 Symposium on Ecosystem Management Research

October 28, 2002

Co-sponsored by EMI and the SNRE McIntire-Stennis Program

Project Reports by Principal Investigators

Each of these presentations is available in a PowerPoint Presentation.

• Does biological diversity control ecosystem function?
  Don Zak

• Suburban ecosystem management: The perception of urban forests and their effects on people Ray DeYoung, Terry Brown and Tom Crow

• An integrated geoecosystem-remote sensing approach to ecosystem management of aspen-dominated forests in northern Lower Michigan? Kathleen Bergen and Burt Barnes

• Regeneration of Oak and Northern Hardwood Forests in Northwestern Lower Michigan Burt Barnes and Don Zak

• Analysis of temporal and spatial changes in Michigan's forests John Witter

• Assessing on-the-ground progress of ecosystem management projects Steve Yaffee, Jim Diana, Don Zak and Steve Brechin

New McIntire-Stennis Projects

Each of these presentations is available in a PowerPoint Presentation.

• Northern Michigan forest productivity across a complex landscape David Ellsworth and Kathleen Bergen

• Territory size and establishment in breeding forest songbirds: implications for forest management and conservation Emily Silverman and Kim Hall

• Effects of Beech Bark Disease and Silvicultural Management in Northern Hardwood Ecosystems: Tree Growth, Tree Regeneration, and Invertebrate Biodiversity John Witter and Jennifer Stoyenoff

• Forest successional processes in the E.S. George Reserve Yvette Perfecto and John Vandermeer

• Landscape ecology of native, invasive, red maple (Acer rubrum L.) Burt Barnes