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Ecology and Silviculture of Northern Lake States Forests Research Focus
Much of our research examines questions related to forest management in the matrix, as well as larger scale questions about landscape pattern and response to management. Major themes of our research include:
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![[image:] This figure shows the spectrum model of landscape management. With the spectrum model, a landscape contains intensive production forests, colored yellow in the figure, and ecological reserves, colored blue in the figure. These conditions are embedded within a forest matrix that is managed in various ways to conserve biological diversity and manage for timber, such that the matrix color grades from blue to yellow. Click to view higher resolution version of image.](../local-resources/images/spectrum2.jpg "This figure shows the spectrum model of landscape management. With the spectrum model, a landscape contains intensive production forests, colored yellow in the figure, and ecological reserves, colored blue in the figure. These conditions are embedded within a forest matrix that is managed in various ways to conserve biological diversity and manage for timber, such that the matrix color grades from blue to yellow. Click to view higher resolution version of image.")
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February 15, 2005