Dead Wood
The Afterlife of Trees
Ellen Wohl . PSUlib SD387.C63 W64 2022
p010 OSU old-growth H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest taught us value of dead wood in forests around 1980
p011 Mark Harmon orst.edu emeritus 2001 "Moving towards a new paradigm for woody detritus management" morticulture NSF 2015
- p024 Spruce seedling 8 inches tall in 10 years
- p025 matures 300 years, 3 foot trunk, can live 600 years
p025 meristematic stem cells
p025 xylem water transport tissue
p025 phloem nutrient transport tissue
- p026 Youngest wood carries water and nutrients,
p026 inner bark and sapwood remains alive, dead still useful, heartwood structural, retards infections
p033 Brown Creeper resembles tree bark
p034 nuthatch resin globules on nest entrance deter predators
p043 flammulated owls
p046 frazil ice irregular submillimeter crystals
p048 brook trout with half-swallowed vole ( 8 to 23 cm long )
p048 hyporheic zone sediment and porous space around steam, "river's liver
- p050 wood in stream looks untidy, habitat for many organisms
p052 Collembolans hexapods; not "insects" because mouthparts internal
p052 David George Haskell The Song of Trees .p95 rot is a detonation of possibility
p052 red backed voles within fallen trees
p053 shrews are Eulipotyphla not rodents
- p053 (some!) shrews are venomous
p056 Western Redcedar
p056 Queets River https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Peninsula
p057 Douglas-fir is pine family not true fir (hyphen is clue)
- p057 "That's why scientists prefer Latin names.
p058 Underplating hydrated ocean crust melt under continental crust
p061 olive-sided flycatcher aggressively defend 100 acre territories, chase away squirrels
- p063 western redcedar vegling clones, no genetic diversity
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