David E. Hibbs

Professor
Community Ecology, Silviculture

301K Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331

• Office: 301K Richardson Hall
• Phone: 541-737-6077
• Fax: 541-737-1393

• B.S., 1972, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
• M.S., 1976, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Ph.D., 1978, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• FS 545 Forest Community Ecology
• FS 599 Fire Ecology

My interests focus in forest community ecology and extend into the application of ecology: silviculture. I have worked in both tropical and temperate forest systems. Current research is focused on ecological processes in riparian areas (Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research (CFER)) and management of red alder (Hardwood Silviculture Cooperative). I have had a finger into projects on scale-effects on plant diversity controls, controls in low-growing communities and the autecology of Willamette Valley savanna tree species.

1. Western Environmental Consultants/BPA, "Testing and demonstrating vegetation management strategies to obtain stable low-growing plant communities on BPA rights-of-way," 1999-2004, $215,054.
2. USDI, “CFER: Cooperative Forest Ecosystem Research,” 1997 to indefinite, $650,000/yr (Co-PIs: Hayes, Edge). Within the CFER program, most of my work is on the ecology of riparian zones.
3. Hardwood Silviculture Cooperative, Director, $55,000 per annum, 1987 to present.