Joseph E. Means
Oregon State University
15 Papers
161 Citations
Joseph E. Means is an academic researcher from Oregon State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forest floor & Lidar. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 15 publications. Previous affiliations of Joseph E. Means include United States Department of Agriculture & United States Forest Service.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Predicting forest stand characteristics with airborne scanning lidar
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the feasibility of predicting characteristics of forest stands with lidar data in a university-industry partnership and found that the data can be used to predict the stand characteristics of height, basal area, and volume quite well.
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Biomass and nutrient content of Douglas-fir logs and other detrital pools in an old-growth forest, Oregon, U.S.A.
TL;DR: Logs, forest floor, and mineral soil were sampled and measured, and snags were measured, in a 450-year-old Douglas-fir stand, and C, N, and K were lost through time; Ca and Mg increased; and P and Na increased then decreased, showing no net change.
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Assessing alternative allometric algorithms for estimating leaf area of Douglas-fir trees and stands.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared five algorithms for estimating leaf area per tree and stand-level LAI in stands dominated by Douglas-fir in the western central Oregon Cascades.
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Comparison of decomposition models using wood density of Douglas-fir logs
TL;DR: Logs of Pseudotsugamenziesii (Mirb.) Franco that had been on the ground for up to 313 years were grouped into five decay classes that ranged from 1, essentially undecayed, to 5, soft and incorporated into the forest floor but still identifiable.
Influence of climate on radial growth and cone production in subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) and mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared 30 years of cone production records for subalpine fir (Abieslasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.) and mountain hemlock (Tsugamertensiana (Bong.) Carr.) in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon were compared with basal area increment and weather records to determine relationships among weather, radial growth, and cone crop.
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