Welcome to PINEMAP
Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is one of three Coordinated Agriculture Projects awarded in 2011 by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
PINEMAP focuses on the 20 million acres of planted pine forests managed by private landowners in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal states from Virginia to Texas, plus Arkansas and Oklahoma. These forests provide critical economic and ecological services to U.S. citizens. Southeastern forests contain 1/3 of the contiguous U.S. forest carbon and form the backbone of an industry that supplies 16% of global industrial wood, 5.5% of the jobs, and 7.5% of the industrial economic activity of the region.
PINEMAP integrates research, extension, and education to enable southern pine landowners to manage forests to increase carbon sequestration; increase efficiency of nitrogen and other fertilizer inputs; and adapt forest managment approaches to increase forest resilience and sustainability under variable climates.
Project & News Updates
Interactive effects of nocturnal transpiration and climate change on the root hydraulic redistribution and carbon and water budgets of Southern US pine plantations
Deep root water uptake and hydraulic redistribution (HR) has been shown to play a major role in forest ecosystems during drought, but little is known about the impact of climate change, fertilization ...
Improved Loblolly Pines Better for the Environment, Study Finds
NC State Newsroom, April 17, 2012...
Creating Better Pine Forest Management for a Changing Climate
IFAS Research Florida Agricultural Experiment Station ...
Year 1 Annual Report
Download the PINEMAP year 1 annual report summarizing activities and accomplishments for the period of March 2011 through February ...
Future forests may soak up more carbon dioxide than previously believed, helping to buffer climate change
North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated. As a result, they could help slow the pace of ...
Publications
Effect of Harvest Residue Management on Tree Productivity and Carbon Pools during Early Stand Development in a Loblolly Pine Plantation.
Soil incorporation of postharvest forest floor or logging residues during site preparation increased mineral soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) concentration and had a differential effect on early ...
Interactive effects of nocturnal transpiration and climate change on the root hydraulic redistribution and carbon and water budgets of Southern US pine plantations
Deep root water uptake and hydraulic redistribution (HR) has been shown to play a major role in forest ecosystems during drought, but little is known about the impact of climate change, fertilization ...
Aspinwall, M.J., S.E. McKeand, J.S. King. 2012. Carbon sequestration from 40 years of planting genetically improved loblolly pine across the Southeast United States.
Aspinwall, M.J., S.E. McKeand, J.S. King. 2012. Carbon sequestration from 40 years of planting genetically improved loblolly pine across the Southeast United States. Forest Science ...
Sun et al. 2011. Upscaling key ecosystem functions across the conterminous U.S. by a water-centric ecosystem model
Sun, G., P. Caldwell, A. Noormets, E. Cohen, S.G. McNulty, E. Treasure, J.-C. Domec, Q. Mu, J. Xiao, R. John, and J. Chen. 2011a. Upscaling key ecosystem functions across the conterminous U.S. by ...
Sun et al. 2011. A general predictive model for estimating monthly ecosystem evapotranspiration
Sun, G., K. Alstad, J. Chen, S. Chen, C.R. Ford, G. Lin, C. Liu, N. Lu, S.G. McNulty, H. Miao, A. Noormets, J.M. Vose, B. Wilske, M. Zeppel, Y. Zhang, and Z. Zhang. 2011. A general predictive ...
