Readings for Sept 10 to 24

Hi everyone,
The readings for next week are now uploaded. See you on Wednesday!
Nancy

Sept 10 Overview essays:
Mladenoff, David. “A Tale of Two Forests: The History of the Northern Forest and a Tribute to Forest Stearns.” Edited 2001 transcript of a keynote address given to open the Northern Forest Restoration Workshop at Northland College, Ashland WI October 2000.

Lisa A. Schulte, David J. Mladenoff, Thomas R. Crow, Laura C. Merrick, David T. Cleland, “Homogenization of northern U.S. Great Lakes forests due to land use,” Landscape Ecology 22 (2007) 1089-1103.

Sept 17 After the Ice: 11000 bp to 1650s
Cole, K. L. et al, “Historical landcover changes in the Great Lakes region,” Land Use History of North America (USGS 2003):
http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/chap6.html

Hotchkiss, S. C., R. Calcote, and E. A. Lynch. 2007. Response of vegetation and fire to Little Ice Age climate change: regional continuity and landscape heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology 22 Supl. 1: 25-41.

Margaret Davis, “Quaternary history and the stability of forest communities,” Ch. 10, pp 132-153 in D. C. West et al, eds, Forest Succession: Concepts and Application (Springer-Verlag, 1981).

Tom Webb III, E J Cushing and H. E, Wright Jr, “Holocene Changes in the Vegetation of the Midwest,” pp 142-165 in Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States, ed H E Wright, Jr, vol 2, The Holocene (U of MN Press, 1983). Optional background reading.

Sept 24: Old Growth and retrospective studies
Frelich, Lee, Meredith Cornett, and Mark White. “Controls and reference conditions in forestry: the role of old-growth and retrospective studies.” Journal of Forestry (2005): 339-344.

Frelich, Lee and Peter Reich. “Perspectives on development of definitions and values related to old-growth forests.” Environ. Rev. 11 (2003): s9-s22.

Frelich, Lee and Peter Reich, “Old Growth in the Great Lakes Region,” in Eastern Old Growth Forests, ed. Mary Byrd Davis, Washington, DC: Island Press, 1996.