Background
Information Page
DecAID and Related Papers Available
The following papers have been presented and published or are in press. Copies are available on this page.
Since the preparation of some of these papers, however, some components of DecAID have changed. This list of amenda provides edits and changes you should know about before you use some of these papers.
An overview of DecAID Advisor:
Marcot, B. G., and J. L. Ohmann. 2006. If a tree falls in the woods, who will measure it? DecAID decayed wood advisor. Science Findings (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Jonathan Thompson, Science Writer) 83(May):1-5.
Read it here.
A summary of the overall DecAID modeling objectives appears
in:
Marcot, B. G., K. Mellen, J. L. Ohmann, K. L. Waddell, E. A. Willhite, B. B. Hostetler, S. A. Livingston, C. Ogden, and T. Dreisbach. In press. DecAID -- work in progress on a decayed wood advisory model for Washington and Oregon forests. Research Note PNW-RN-xxx. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland OR.The statistical basis for DecAID is presented in:
Read it here.
Marcot, B. G., J. L. Ohmann, and K. Mellen. In prep. The statistical basis for the DecAID decayed wood management advisory model. USDA Forest Service. Portland, OR. Unpublished. (has been revised and submitted)An overview of the DecAID approach was provided in:
Read it here. (162KB PDF format)
Mellen, K., B. G. Marcot, J. L. Ohmann, K. L. Waddell, E. A. Willhite, B. B. Hostetler, S. A. Livingson, and C. Ogden. 2002. DecAID: a decaying wood advisory model for Oregon and Washington. (pp. 527-533) In: W. F. Laudenslayer, Jr, P. J. Shea, B. E. Valentine, C. P. Weatherspoon, and T. E. Lisle (Ed.). Proceedings of the Symposium on The Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests, 2-4 November 1999, Reno, Nevada. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.The wildlife component of DecAID was described in:
Read it here. (PDF format)
Marcot, B. G., K. Mellen, S. A. Livingston, and C. Ogden. 2002. The DecAID advisory model: wildlife component. (pp. 561-590) In: P. J. Shea, W. F. Laudenslayer, Jr, B. Valentine, and C. P. Weatherspoon (Eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on The Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests, Reno, Nevada. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.Bird-snag relations were discussed in:
Read it here. (PDF format)
Saab, V., R. Brannon, J. Dudley, L. Donohoo, D. Vanderzanden, V. Johnson, and H. Lachowski. 2002. Selection of fire-created snags at two spatial scales by cavity-nesting birds. In: P. J. Shea, W. F. Laudenslayer, Jr, B. Valentine, and C. P. Weatherspoon (Eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on The Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests, Reno, Nevada. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.The forest inventory summaries were described in:
Read it here. (PDF format)
Ohmann, J. L., and K. L. Waddell. 2002. Regional patterns of dead wood in forested habitats of Oregon and Washington. (pp. 535-560) In: W. F. Laudenslayer, Jr, P. J. Shea, B. E. Valentine, C. P. Weatherspoon, and T. E. Lisle (Ed.). Proceedings of the Symposium on The Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests, 2-4 November 1999, Reno, Nevada. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.An ecological functional basis for managing wood decay for wildlife was described in:
Read it here. (PDF format)
Marcot, B. G. Submitted. An ecological functional basis for managing decaying wood for wildlife. (pp. 895-910) In: P. J. Shea, W. F. Laudenslayer, Jr, B. Valentine, and C. P. Weatherspoon (Eds.). Proceedings of the Symposium on The Ecology and Management of Dead Wood in Western Forests, Reno, Nevada. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181.
Read it here. (PDF format)
