Soil properties and growth of swamp white oak and pin oak on bedded soils in the lower Missouri River floodplain

2005 ◽  
Vol 204 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 315-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Kabrick ◽  
Daniel C. Dey ◽  
J.W. Van Sambeek ◽  
Michael Wallendorf ◽  
Michael A. Gold
Keyword(s):  
Soil Properties ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
White Oak ◽  
River Floodplain ◽  
Swamp White Oak

Comparing the Missouri Gravel Bed and a Wood Chip Production Method for Tree Growth

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelby Fite ◽  
Liza Holmes ◽  
Elden LeBrun
Keyword(s):  
Wood Chip ◽  
Production Method ◽  
White Oak ◽  
Gravel Bed ◽  
System A ◽  
Nursery Production ◽  
Quercus Bicolor ◽  
Root Stock ◽  
Swamp White Oak ◽  
Bare Root

Tree root defects from current nursery production practices influence short- and long-term tree performance and survivability. The Missouri Gravel Bed (MGB) system, a production method using gravel as a substrate, has been used to prevent many of these defects from occurring. MGB production involves planting bare root stock into a bed of gravel with frequent drip irrigation in order to produce a root system with relatively few defects. MGB production methods have also been purported to allow for summer transplanting of many species, as opposed to traditional dormant transplanting.Because gravel has low water- and nutrient-holding capacity, biochar (5% by volume) was incorporated into one plot as a possible means of improving both water- and nutrient-holding capacity over gravel alone. Wood chip mulch was also investigated as a growing substrate in place of the gravel in a growing system. In 2015, three species, Quercus bicolor (swamp white oak), Taxodium distichum (baldcypress), and Tilia cordata (littleleaf linden), were studied in pea gravel (PG), biochar-amended pea gravel (BC), and wood chip mulch bed (MB) growing environments. Very few differences occurred over the growing season with above- or belowground parameters indicating that the minimal-to-no-cost, more readily available substrate of wood chip mulch should be considered in these growing systems.

Early responses of sapwood of Quercus bicolor to mechanical injury

1970 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 683-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Wardell ◽  
J. H. Hart
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Injury ◽  
Annual Rings ◽  
Triphenyl Tetrazolium Chloride ◽  
White Oak ◽  
Tetrazolium Chloride ◽  
Starch Grains ◽  
Quercus Bicolor ◽  
Swamp White Oak ◽  
Ray Parenchyma Cells ◽  
Extraneous Material

The response of sapwood of swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor Willd.) to mechanical injury was studied over a 28-day period. In cells within 0.5 cm of a wound stimulus, starch grains disappeared and cells were unable to reduce the vital stain, triphenyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC), 8 to 10 days after mechanical injury. Extraneous material and tannins began to accumulate 10 to 12 days after mechanical injury. Nuclei began to disintegrate 12 to 14 days after mechanical injury, but some persisted throughout the period of investigation.With increasing distance from the cambium, starch grains disappeared from ray parenchyma. Cells in the annual rings of sapwood adjacent to the heartwood were unable to reduce TTC. Nuclei were present in all annual rings of sapwood but were lacking in heartwood. Tannins appeared at the heartwood boundary and accumulated in the heartwood.With respect to the criteria used, this investigation indicates that formation of discoloration in sapwood and conversion of sapwood to heartwood appear similar.

INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL MINE SOIL PROPERTIES ON WHITE OAK SEEDLING GROWTH

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 1029-1041
Author(s):  
J. M. Showalter ◽  
◽  
J. A. Burger ◽  
C. E. Zipper ◽  
J. M. Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
Soil Properties ◽  
Seedling Growth ◽  
Mine Soil ◽  
White Oak ◽  
Physical Chemical

scholarly journals Influence of Mine Soil Properties on White Oak Seedling Growth: A Proposed Mine Soil Classification Model

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia M. Showalter ◽  
James A. Burger ◽  
Carl E. Zipper ◽  
John M. Galbraith ◽  
Patricia F. Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Seedling Growth ◽  
Tree Growth ◽  
Tree Height ◽  
Soil Classification ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Slope Aspect ◽  
Mine Soil ◽  
White Oak

Abstract Appalachian landowners are becoming increasingly interested in restoring native hardwood forest on reclaimed mined land. Trees are usually planted in topsoil substitutes consisting of blasted rock strata, and reforestation attempts using native hardwoods are often unsuccessful due to adverse soil properties. The purpose of this study was to determine which mine soil properties most influence white oak (Quercus alba L.) seedling growth, and to test whether these properties are reflected adequately in a proposed mine soil classification model developed for application in field assessments of mine soil suitability for reforestation. Seventy-two 3-year-old white oaks were randomly selected across a reclaimed site in southwestern Virginia that varied greatly in spoil/site properties. Tree height was measured and soil samples adjacent to each tree were analyzed for physical, chemical, and biological properties. Our proposed mined land classification model used rock type, compaction, and slope aspect as mapping criteria. Tree height, ranging from 15.2 to 125.0 cm, was regressed against mine soil and site properties. Mapping units were not well correlated with differences in tree height. Microbial biomass, pH, exchangeable potassium, extractable inorganic nitrogen, texture, aspect, and extractable phosphorous accounted for 52% of the variability in tree growth. The regression model shows that white oaks were most successful on northeast-facing aspects, in slightly acidic, sandy loam, fertile mine soils that are conducive to microbial activity. Nutrient availability, although found to be highly influential on tree growth, was not adequately represented in the classification model. We recommend that pH be included as a classification criterion, because it was correlated with all nutrient variables in the regression model.

QUERCUS BICOLOR, SWAMP WHITE OAK

2014 ◽  
pp. 1307-1308
Author(s):  
Henry John Elwes ◽  
Augustine Henry
Keyword(s):  
White Oak ◽  
Quercus Bicolor ◽  
Swamp White Oak

scholarly journals Loss of Potential Aquatic-Terrestrial Subsidies Along the Missouri River Floodplain

Ecosystems ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff S. Wesner ◽  
David L. Swanson ◽  
Mark D. Dixon ◽  
Daniel A. Soluk ◽  
Danielle J. Quist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Missouri River ◽  
River Floodplain ◽  
Terrestrial Subsidies

scholarly journals Forty Years of Vegetation Change on the Missouri River Floodplain

BioScience ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Carter Johnson ◽  
Mark D. Dixon ◽  
Michael L. Scott ◽  
Lisa Rabbe ◽  
Gary Larson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vegetation Change ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
River Floodplain
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