Mapping the future of southern pine management in a changing world.

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  Virginia Tech M.S. student Brett Heim uses a LI-COR 6200 to measure soil respiration underneath a throughfall exclusion structure at the Virginia Tier III site. Photo courtesy of John Seiler.

  
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  PINEMAP field researchers Geoffrey Lokuta and Joshua Cucinella use a LI-COR LI-8100A instrument to measure soil respiration at the PINEMAP Tier III site in Taylor County, FL. Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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  Tier III throughfall exclusion and fertilization site under construction in Taliaferro County, Georgia. Photo courtesy of Leslie Boby.

  
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  Throughfall exclusion structures under construction at PINEMAP Tier III site in Buckingham County, Virginia. Photo courtesy of Andy Laviner.

  
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  Maxwell Wightman, PINEMAP graduate student, shows participants how to use a homemade clinometer to measure tree height. Photo courtesy of Jessica Ireland.

  
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  Throughfall exclusion structures visible in a November 2012 Google Earth image of the Tier III site in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.

  
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  Leaf level gas exchange being measured on clonal loblolly pine at the cross carbon site installed by the U.S. Forest Service and Meadwestvaco. Photo Courtesy of John Seiler.

  

PINEMAP Collaborators

Universities

University of Florida | Alcorn State University | University of Georgia | Auburn University | Mississippi State University | North Carolina A & T University | North Carolina State University |
Oklahoma State University | Texas A & M University | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Virginia State University

University-Corporate-Governmental Research Cooperatives

Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program | Cooperative Tree Improvement Program | Forest Biology Research Cooperative | Forest Modeling Research Cooperative |
Forest Productivity Cooperative | Plantation Management Research Cooperative | Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium | Western Gulf Forest Tree Improvement Program

Other

U.S. Forest Service | Southern Regional Extension Forestry | Southeast Climate Consortium | Additional Supporters

The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project (PINEMAP) is a Coordinated Agricultural Project funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Award #2011-68002-30185.

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