The department is recognized as a national leader for its
substantial contribution to research. The department's goal is
to identify and resolve important problems in the biology,
conservation, management, and use of forest and wildlife
resources through basic and applied research, and to disseminate
research results to the scientific community, resource-user
groups, and the general public. Forest and Wildlife Ecology
programs can be separated into several areas: - Forest Biology:
genetics, physiology, ecology and silviculture at the stand,
forest and landscape level, including impacts of global climatic
change on carbon dynamics, nutrient cycling, wildlife species
and communities and related phenomena in forest, grassland and
polar ecosystems. - Forest Management: biometrics, economics,
operations research with emphasis on forest sampling theory,
growth and yield modeling, artificial intelligence and
geographic information systems, and the production, consumption,
and trade activities that depend directly on