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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Rehabilitating Degraded Hardwood Stands on a Bottomland Terrace Site with Overstory Removal and Oak Enrichment Planting: 14-Year Results

  AUTHORS: Matthew G. Olson, Shaik Hossain, Kyle Cunningham, Matthew H. Pelkki, Chris Stuhlinger

  KEYWORDS: Southern USA Hardwoods, Supplemental Planting, Nuttall Oak, Quercus texana

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Forestry, Vol.8 No.4, September 12, 2018

  ABSTRACT: Exploitative harvesting can lower stand quality in the short term and diminish forest productivity over the long term. In 2003, a rehabilitation experiment was installed in a southern hardwood stand on a bottomland terrace site, degraded by periodic exploitative cutting, to test the effectiveness of overstory removal and oak enrichment planting for improving stand quality and composition. Overstory removal treatments included clearcutting, stand improvement partial cutting, and an uncut control. Overstory treatment units were either planted with Nuttall oak (Quercus texana) seedlings or not planted. We revisited this study in 2017 to assess the outcome of oak enrichment planting across levels of overstory removal. Results in year 14 indicated poor survival of planted oaks under all overstory removal treatments (14% - 24%) and minimal height growth (0.3 m in 13 years) in areas treated with partial cutting and in uncut areas. Growth performance of planted oaks was significantly enhanced by clearcutting (p