The Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem project is a integrated collaborative effort to examine ecosystem level response in as many dimensions as possible to standard forest management.

Missouri Department of Conservation

The School of Natural Resources

News

2008 MOFEP Workshop Announcement Program and Registration Form

2006 Annual Meeting Report Now Available 2006 Annual Meeting

New MOFEP Bibliography (1990-2006) Now Available MOFEP Bibliography

Need help with metadata? Check out the MOFEP-for-Dummies guide! How to Use the MOFEP Web Site

MOFEP Strategic PlanMOFEP Strategic Plan

Draft Model Now Available for  MOFEP Draft Model 2005

New Preliminary Agenda for  2005 Annual Meeting

2005 Annual Meeting Report 2005 Annual Meeting

New MOFEP Project Review Process guidelines available!! Proposal Guidelines

New MOFEP list server open for business! To contact all MOFEPers, e-mail: MOFEP List Server

New MOFEP Data accessibility guidelines available!! Guidelines.htm

New MOFEP Lichen publication available at http://mofep.mdc.mo.gov/Lichen-Grabner.pdf

An electronic copy of the August, 2002 lichen report written by Jeri Peck, Jenny Grabner, and Doug Ladd is now available.

MOFEP Web Site Open for business!! Visit http://mofep.mdc.mo.gov

Metadata and data from all the MOFEP projects is now submitted electronically. To view project metadata use the Metadata and Data Upload link to the left of the page. Visitors can use the UserID “Guest” and Password “Guest”. Only researchers associated with MOFEP can add/edit/delete metadata. To view data please contact the appropriate researcher.

MOFEP Annual Meeting Presentations Now Available!

• Small Mammals and Herpetofauna Rochelle Renken and Debby Fantz
• Snags and Tree Cavities Randy Jensen
• Landscape Modeling Steve Shifley, Z. Fan, F. Thompson III
• Economics and Tree Grading Tom Treiman, J. Dwyer
• Leaf Litter Arthropods Jan Weaver
• Oak Herbivore Fauna R. Marquis and R. Forkner
• Overstory Vegetation John Kabrick, R. Jensen, D. Larsen, S. Shifley
• Ground Vegetation Randy Jensen and J. Grabner
• Hard Mast M. Johanson, R. Jensen and M. Hubbard
• Soft Mast Dave Hamilton and D. Fantz
• Fire History Rich Guyette and D. Dey
• Data Management Julie Fleming and T. Treiman
• Stump Sprouts Dan Dey and R. Jensen
• Down Wood Steve Shifley and R. Jensen
• Forest Interior Birds Rick Clawson, J. Faaborg and P. Porneluzi
• Carbon Flux Jiquan Chen, Q. Li and D. Morehouse
• Armillaria Johann Bruhn, J. Mihail and J. Wetteroff, Jr.
• Effects of Harvesting on Water Quality J. Bowders,R. Mueller, D. Gwaze and K. Moser
• Statistical Analysis and Modeling of MOFEP Chong He, John Kabrick, Xiaquian Sun and Mike Wallendorf

MOFEP News and Articles on the Web

·         The invisible Forest by Jan Weaver, Life and death in a microscopic ecological community

·         Looking at Lichens by Doug Ladd, Part algae, part fungi, these organisms merit more than a casual glance.

·         Landscape Management System Silviculture Laboratory, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA with examples from MOFEP.

·         Ming, Xu, J. Chen, and B. Brookshire. 1997 Temperature and its variability in oak forests in the southeastern Missouri Ozarks

·         Ficklin, R. 1997. Reduction of timber production externalities by using an alternative harvesting

·         International Center for Tropical Ecology Newsletter - Vol. IV, No. 1 - November 1996.

·         BBird National Database.

·         Ecological Classification System (ECS)-ELT's

·         A Fungus Among Us

·         MOFEP News from Michigan Tech. University.

·         Timber Harvests Move Forest Study Into Next Phase

·         Missouri Conservationist

o        How Are The Frogs?

o        Forests in a Looking Glass

·         Ozarks Stream Geomorphology Project

Allied projects

·         Northeastern Area in Ecosystem Management - US Forest Service, State & Private Forestry

·         Northeastern Area - US Forest Service, State & Private Forestry

Last Updated: June 15, 2004

Please explore the links to the left to learn more about the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project.