U.S. Department of Agriculture: Forest Service -- National Agroforestry Center
USDA Forest Service / UNL Faculty Publications
2022
Disturbance reduces fungal white-rot litter mat cover in a wet subtropical forest, D. Jean Lodge, Ashley E. Van Beusekom, Grizelle González, Mareli Sánchez-Julia, and Sarah Stankavich
2019
Hillslope Hydrology in Global Change Research and Earth System Modeling, Y. Fan, M. Clark, D. M. Lawrence, S. Swenson, L.E. Band, S. L. Brantley, P. D. Brooks, W. E. Dietrich, A. Flores, G. Grant, J.W. Kirchner, D. S. Mackay, J. J. McDonnell, P. C. D. Milly, P. L. Sullivan, C. Tague, H. Ajami, N. Chaney, A. Hartmann, P. Hazenberg, J. McNamara, J. Pelletier, J. Perket, E. Rouholahnejad‐Freund, T. Wagener, X. Zeng, E. Beighley, J. Buzan, M. Huang, B. Livneh, B. P. Mohanty, B. Nijssen, M. Safeeq, C. Shen, W. van Verseveld, J. Volk, and D. Yamazaki
Synthesizing Conservation Motivations and Barriers: What Have We Learned from Qualitative Studies of Farmers’ Behaviors in the United States?, Pranay Ranjan, Sarah P. Church, Kristin Floress, and Linda S. Prokopy
Habitat characteristics and selection by ornate box turtles in the Sandhills of South Dakota, Daniel W, Uresk and Alessandra Higa
2018
Ecological-economic assessment of the effects of freshwater flow in the Florida Everglades on recreational fisheries, Christina Estela Brown, Mahadev G. Bhat, Jennifer S. Rehage, Ali Mirchi, Ross Boucek, Victor Engel, Jerald S. Ault, Pallab Mozumder, David Watkins, and Michael Sukop
On-road emissions of ammonia: An underappreciated source of atmospheric nitrogen deposition, Mark E. Fenn, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Susan L. Schilling, Dena M. Vallano, Erika S. Zavaleta, Stuart B. Weiss, Connor Morozumi, Linda H. Geiser, and Kenneth Hanks
Improving Ecological Restoration to Curb Biotic Invasion—A Practical Guide, Qinfeng Guo, Dale G. Brockway, Diane L. Larson, Deli Wang, and Hai Ren
Short Communications: First tracking of individual American Robins (Turdus migratorius) across seasons, Alex E. Jahn, Susannah B. Lerman, Laura M. Phillips, Thomas B. Ryder, and Emily J. Williams
Biological Aspects of Mountain Pine Beetle in Lodgepole Pine Stands of Different Densities in Colorado, USA, Jose Negron
Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western U.S. forests, Malcolm P. North, Jens T. Stevens, David F. Greene, Michelle Coppoletta, Eric E. Knapp, Andrew M. Latimer, Christina M. Restaino, Ryan E. Tompkins, Kevin R. Welch, Rob A. York, Derek J.N. Young, Jodi N. Axelson, Tom N. Buckley, Becky L. Estes, Rachel N. Hager, Jonathan W. Long, Marc D. Meyer, Steven M. Ostoja, Hugh D. Safford, Kristen L. Shive, Carmen L. Tubbesing, Dana Walsh, Chhaya M. Werner, Peter Wyrsch, and Heather Vice
2017
Influence of reproduction cutting methods on structure, growth and regeneration of longleaf pine forests in flatwoods and uplands, Dale G. Brockway and Kenneth W. Outcalt
Are Northeastern U.S. forests vulnerable to extreme drought?, Adam P. Coble, Matthew A. Vadeboncoeur, Z. Carter Berry, Katie A. Jennings, Cameron D. McIntire, John L. Campbell, Lindsey E. Rustad, Pamela H. Temper, and Heidi Asbjornsen
Equivalence of live tree carbon stocks produced by three estimation approaches for forests of the western United States, Coeli M. Hoover and James E. Smith
Native and agricultural forests at risk to a changing climate in the Northern Plains, Linda A. Joyce, Gary Bentrup, Antony S. Cheng, Peter Kolb, Michele Schoeneberger, and Justin Derner
Shape indexes for semi-automated detection of windbreaks in thematic tree cover maps from the central United States, Greg C. Liknes, Dacia M. Meneguzzo, and Todd A. Kellerman
Residential building energy conservation and avoided power plant emissions by urban and community trees in the United States, David J. Nowak, Nathaniel Appleton, Alexis Ellis, and Eric Greenfield
Interactions between white-tailed deer density and the composition of forest understories in the northern United States, Matthew B. Russell, Christopher W. Woodall, Kevin M. Potter, Brian F. Walters, Grant M. Domke, and Christopher M. Oswalt
An artificial neural network for real-time hardwood lumber grading, Edward Thomas
QUANTIFYING FISH HABITAT ASSOCIATED WITH STREAM SIMULATION DESIGN CULVERTS IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN, A. Timm, D. Higgins, J. Stanovick, R. Kolka, and S. Eggert
2016
Assessing intra- and inter-regional climate effects on Douglas-fir biomass dynamics in Oregon and Washington, USA, David M. Bell and Andrew N. Gray
Improving the precision of dynamic forest parameter estimates using Landsat, Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Randolph H. Wynne, and Valerie A. Thomas
Getting farming on the agenda: Planning, policymaking, and governance practices of urban agriculture in New York City, Lindsay K. Campbell
Burrowing herbivores alter soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a semi-arid ecosystem, Argentina, Kenneth L. Clark, Lyn C. Branch, Jose L. Hierro, and Diego Villarreal
Refined forest land use classification with implications for United States national carbon accounting, John W. Coulston, Christopher W. Woodall, Grant M. Domke, and Brian F. Walters
If you build it, will they come?, Geoffrey H. Donovan, Lee K. Cerveny, and Demetrios Gatziolis
Using an epiphytic moss to identify previously unknown sources of atmospheric cadmium pollution, Geoffrey H. Donovan, Sarah E. Jovan, Demetrios Gatziolis, Igor Burstyn, Yvonne L. Michael, Michael C. Amacher, and Vicente J. Monleon
Pronghorn Habitat Suitability in the Texas Panhandle, Nathan P. Duncan, Samantha S. Kahl, Shawn S. Gray, Christopher J. Salice, and Richard D. Stevens
Effects of riparian zone buffer widths on vegetation diversity in southern Appalachian headwater catchments, Katherine J. Elliott and James M. Vose
Loss of aboveground forest biomass and landscape biomass variability in Missouri, US, Brice B. Hanberry, Hong S. He, and Stephen R. Shifley
Examining heterogeneity and wildfire management expenditures using spatially and temporally descriptive data, Michael S. Hand, Matthew P. Thompson, and David E. Calkin
Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Paul F. Hessburg, Thomas A. Spies, David A. Perry, Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor, Peter M. Brown, Scott L. Stephens, Andrew J. Larson, Derek J. Churchill, Nicholas A. Povak, Peter H. Singleton, Brenda McComb, William J. Zielinski, Brandon M. Collins, R. Brion Salter, John J. Keane, Jerry F. Franklin, and Greg Riegel
High elevation watersheds in the southern Appalachians: Indicators of sensitivity to acidic deposition and the potential for restoration through liming, Jennifer D. Knopp, James M. Vose, William A. Jackson, Katherine J. Elliott, and Stan Zarnoch
Predicting cannabis cultivation on national forests using a rational choice framework, Frank H. Koch, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Geoffrey H. Donovan, Everett A. Hinkley, and John M. Chase
Improved bulk density of bamboo pellets as biomass for energy production, Zhijia Liu, Bingbing Mi, Zehui Jiang, Benhua Fei, Zhiyong Cai, and Xing'e Liu
Contributing factors for drought in United States forest ecosystems under projected future climates and their uncertainty, Charles H. Luce, James M. Vose, Neil Pederson, John Campbell, Connie Millar, Patrick Kormos, and Ross Woods
A forest vulnerability index based on drought and high temperatures, David Mildrexler, Zhiqiang Yang, Warren B. Cohen, and David M. Bell
Invasibility of three major non-native invasive shrubs and associated factors in Upper Midwest U.S. forest lands, W. Keith Moser, Zhaofei Fan, Mark H. Hansen, Michael K. Crosby, and Shirley X. Fan
Review of broad-scale drought monitoring of forests: Toward an integrated data mining approach, Steven P. Norman, Frank H. Koch, and William W. Hargrove
Riparian trees and aridland streams of the southwestern United States: An assessment of the past, present, and future, D. Max Smith and Deborah M. Finch
Semiochemicals in the Natural History of Southern Pine Beetle Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann and Their Role in Pest Management, B. T. Sullivan
Conditions inside fisher dens during prescribed fires; what is the risk posed by spring underburns?, Craig M. Thompson and Kathryn L. Purcell
Pyrodiversity promotes avian diversity over the decade following forest fire, Morgan W. Tingley, Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez, Robert L. Wilkerson, Christine A. Howell, and Rodney B. Siegel
Global synthesis of the classifications, distributions, benefits and issues of terracing, Wei Wei, Die Chen, Lixin Wang, Stefani Daryanto, Liding Chen, Yang Yu, Yonglong Lu, Ge Sun, and Tianjiao Feng
Ecosystem Services of Woody Crop Production Systems, Ronald S. Zalesny Jr., John A. Stanturf, Emile S. Gardiner, James H. Perdue, Timothy M. Young, David R. Coyle, William L. Headlee, Gary S. Bañuelos, and Amir Hass
2015
Monthly land cover-specific evapotranspiration models derived from global eddy flux measurements and remote sensing data, Yuan Fang, Ge Sun, Peter Caldwell, Steven G. McNulty, Asko Noormets, Jean-Christophe Domec, John King, Zhiqiang Zhang, Xudong Zhang, Guanghui Lin, Guangsheng Zhou, Jingfeng Xiao, and Jiquan Chen
Alternative timing of carbaryl treatments for protecting lodgepole pine from mortality attributed to mountain pine beetle, Christopher J. Fettig, A Steve Munson, and Kenneth E. Gibson
Biological invasion hotspots: a trait-based perspective reveals new sub-continental patterns, Basil V. Iannone III, Kevin M. Potter, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew M. Liebhold, Bryan C. Pijanowski, Christopher M. Oswalt, and Songlin Fei
Wildland fire deficit and surplus in the western United States, 1984–2012, Sean A. Parks, Carol Miller, Marc-André Parisien, Lisa M. Holsinger, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, and John Abatzoglou
Long-term droughtiness and drought tolerance of eastern US forests over five decades, Matthew P. Peters, Louis R. Iverson, and Stephen N. Matthews
Contrasting effects of insect exclusion on wood loss in a temperate forest, Michael D. Ulyshen, Terence L. Wagner, and Joseph E. Mulrooney
Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis, James M. Vose, James S. Clark, Charles H. Luce, and Toral Patel-Weynand
Importance of succession, harvest, and climate change in determining future composition in U.S. Central Hardwood Forests, Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson III, Jacob S. Fraser, Brice B. Hanberry, and William D. Dijak
Scarification and gap size have interacting effects on northern temperate seedling establishment, John L. Willis, Michael B. Walters, and Kurt W. Gottschallk
2014
The Integrated Restoration and Protection Strategy of USDA Forest Service Region 1: A Road Map to Improved Planning, Patrick Bourgeron, Hope Humphries, Chip Fisher, Barry Bollenbacher, and Keith Reynolds
Measuring soil frost depth in forest ecosystems with ground penetrating radar, John R. Butnor, John L. Campbell, James B. Shanley, and Stanley J. Zarnoch
A spatial risk assessment of bighorn sheep extirpation bygrazing domestic sheep on public lands, Tim E. Carpenter, Victor L. Coggins, Clinton McCarthy, Chans S. O'Brien, Joshua M. O'Brien, and Timothy J. Schommer
Changing forest water yields in response to climate warming: results from long-term experimental watershed sites across North America, Irena F. Creed, Adam T. Spargo, Julia A. Jones, Jim M. Buttle, Mary B. Adams, Fred D. Beall, Eric G. Booth, John L. Campbell, Dave Clow, Kelly Elder, Mark B. Green, Nancy B. Grimm, Chelcy Miniat, Patricia Ramlal, Amartya Saha, Stephen Sebestyen, Dave Spittlehouse, Shannon Sterling, Mark W. Williams, Rita Wrinkler, and Huaxia Yao
Quantitative analysis of woodpecker habitat using high-resolution airborne LiDAR estimates of forest structure and composition, James E. Garabedian, Robert McGaughey, Stephen E. Reutebuch, Bernard R. Parresol, John C. Kilgo, Christopher E. Moorman, and M. Nils Peterson
Landscape Evaluation and Restoration Planning, Paul F. Hessburg, R. Brion Salter, Keith M. Reynolds, James D. Dickinson, William L. Gaines, and Ricky J. Harrod
Temporal fluctuation scaling in populations and communities, Michael Kalyuzhny, Yishai Schreiber, Rachel Chocron, Curtis H. Flather, Ronen Kadmon, David A. Kessler, and Nadav M. Shnerb
Recovery of Wolverines in the Western United States: Recent Extirpation and Recolonization or Range Retraction and Expansion?, Kevin S. Mckelvey, Keith B. Aubry, Neil J. Anderson, Anthony P. Clevenger, Jeffrey P. Copeland, Kimberley S. Heinemeyer, Robert M. Iman, John R. Squires, John S. Waller, Kristine L. Pilgrim, and Michael K. Schwartz
Chapter 8: Adapting to Climate Change, Constance I. Miller, Christopher W. Swanson, and David L. Peterson
Tree and forest effects on air quality and human health in the United States, David J. Nowak, Satoshi Hirabayashi, Allison Bodine, and Eric Greenfield
A New Metric for Quantifying Burn Severity: The Relativized Burn Ratio, Sean A. Parks, Gregory K. Dillon, and Carol Miller
Nitrogen and carbon dynamics in prairie vegetation strips across topographical gradients in mixed Central Iowa agroecosystems, Marlin Perez-Suarez, Michael J. Castellano, Randall Kolka, Heidi Asbjornsen, and Matthew J. Helmers
Performance of species richness estimators across assemblage types and survey parameters, Gordon C. Reese, Kenneth R. Wilson, and Curtis H. Flather
Modeling respiration from snags and coarse woody debris before and after an invasive gypsy moth disturbance, Heidi J. Renninger, Nicholas Carlo, Kenneth L. Clark, and Karina V.R. Schäfer
Tree-ring stable isotopes record the impact of a foliar fungal pathogen on CO2 assimilation and growth in Douglas-fir, Brandy J. Saffell, Frederick C. Meinzer, Steven L. Voelker, David C. Shaw, J. Renée Brooks, Barbara Lachenbruch, and Jennifer McKay
Managing Carbon, Kenneth E. Skog, Duncan C. McKinley, Richard A. Birdsey, Sarah J. Hines, Christopher W. Woodall, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, and James M. Vose
Housing development erodes avian community structure in U.S. protected areas, Eric M. Wood, Anna M. Pidgeon, Volker C. Radeloff, David Helmers, Patrick D. Culbert, Nicholas s. Keuler, and Curtis H. Flather
2013
One world, many pathogens!, Kerry O. Britton and Andrew M. Liebhold
Keeping it wild: Mapping wilderness character in the United States, Steve Carver, James Tricker, and Peter Landres
The Influence of Vertical and Horizontal Habitat Structure on Nationwide Patterns of Avian Biodiversity, Patrick D. Culbert, Volker C. Radeloff, Curtis H. Flather, Josef M. Kellndorfer, Chadwick D. Rittenhouse, and Anna M. Pidgeon
Evaluating population connectivity for species of conservation concern in the American Great Plains, Samuel A. Cushman, Erin L. Landguth, and Curtis H. Flather
Interactions between an injected polydnavirus and per os baculovirus in gypsy moth larvae, V. D'Amico, J.D. Podgwaite, R. Zerillo, P. Taylor, and R. Fuester
A COMPARISON OF DEM-BASED INDEXES FOR TARGETING THE PLACEMENT OF VEGETATIVE BUFFERS IN AGRICULTURAL WATERSHEDS, Mike Dosskey, Zeyuan Qiu, and Yang Kang
Morphology, gas exchange, and chlorophyll content of longleaf pine seedlings in response to rooting volume, copper root pruning, and nitrogen supply in a container nursery, R. Kasten Dumroese, Shi-Jean Susana Sung, Jeremiah R. Pinto, Amy Ross-Davis, and D. Andrew Scott
Wildlife Population and Harvest Trends in the United States A Technical Document Supporting the Forest Service 2010 RPA Assessment, Curtis H. Flather, Michael S. Knowles, Martin F. Jones, and Carol Schilli
Interpretation of gypsy moth frontal advance using meteorology in a conditional algorithm, K. L. Frank, P. C. Tobin, H. W. Thistle Jr., and Laurence S. Kalkstein
Transferring site information for black walnut from native woodlands in southeastern Kansas USA to identify sites for agroforestry practices, Wayne A. Geyer and Felix Ponder Jr
Bird response to fire severity and repeated burning in upland hardwood forest, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Thomas A. Waldrop, Joseph Tomcho, Ross J. Phillips, and Dean Simon
A national approach for integrating wildfire simulation modeling into Wildland Urban Interface risk assessments within the United States, Jessica R. Haas, David E. Calkin, and Matthew P. Thompson
Riparian vegetation communities change rapidly following passive restoration at a northern Utah stream, Nate Hough-Snee, Brett B. Roper, Joseph M. Wheaton, Phaedra Budy, and Ryan L. Lokteff
Soil carbon and nitrogen content and stabilization in mid-rotation, intensively managed sweetgum and loblolly pine stands, Kurt H. Johnson, Lisa J. Samuelson, Felipe G. Sanchez, and Robert J. Eaton
Climatic niche, ecological genetics, and impact of climate change on eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.): Guidelines for land managers, Dennis G. Joyce and Gerald E. Rehfeldt
Climate Change and North American Rangelands: Assessment of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies, Linda A. Joyce, David D. Briske, Joel R. Brown, H. Wayne Polley, Bruce A. McCarl, and Derek W. Bailey
Using urban forest assessment tools to model bird habitat potential, Susannah B. Lerman, Keith H. Nislow, David J. Nowak, Stephen DeStefano, and David Todd Jones-Farrand
Carbon storage and sequestration by trees in urban and community areas of the United States, David J. Nowak, Eric J. Greenfield, Robert E. Hoehn, and Elizabeth Lapoint
Modeling harvest and biomass removal effects on the forest carbon balance of the Midwest, USA, Scott D. Peckham, Stith T. Gower, Charles H. Perry, Barry T. Wilson, and Kirk M. Stueve
Development History and Bibliography of the U.S. Forest Service Crown-Condition Indicator for Forest Health Monitoring, KaDonna C. Randolph
Relationships between climate, radial growth and wood properties of mature loblolly pine in Hawaii and a northern and southern site in the southeastern United States, Lisa J. Samuelson, Thomas L. Eberhardt, Stan M. Bartkowiak, and Kurt H. Johnson
Stand- and landscape-scale selection of large trees by fishers in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Idaho, Michael K. Schwartz, Nicholas J. DeCesare, Benjamin S. Jimenez, Jeffrey P. Copeland, and Wayne E. Melquist
A Wildfire Risk Assessment Framework for Land and Resource Management, Joe H. Scott, Matthew P. Thompson, and David E. Calkin
Forest recovery patterns in response to divergent disturbance regimes in the Border Lakes region of Minnesota (USA) and Ontario (Canada), Brian R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Peter T. Wolter, Patrick M.A. James, Marie-Josée Fortin, and Philip A. Townsend
Changes in Forest Structure, Fuels and Potential Fire Behaviour Since 1873 in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA, Alan H. Taylor, Anna M. Vandervlugt, R. Stockton Maxwell, Robert M. Beaty, Catherine Airey, and Carl N. Skinner
A polygon-based modeling approach to assess exposure of resources and assets to wildfire, Matthew P. Thompson, Joe Scott, Jeffrey D. Kaiden, and Julie W. Gilbertson-Day
Decomposition and nitrogen dynamics of 15N‑labeled leaf, root, and twig litter in temperate coniferous forests, Tiff L. van Huysen, Mark E. Harmon, Steven S. Perakis, and Hua Chen
Turbidity and suspended-sediment changes from stream-crossing construction on a forest haul road in West Virginia, USA, Jingxin Wang, Pamela J. Edwards, and Frederica Wood
Simulating avian species and foraging group responses to fuel reduction treatments in coniferous forests, Angela M. White, Elise F. Zipkin, Patricia N. Manley, and Matthew D. Schlesinger
Integrating biodiversity and drinking water protection goals through geographic analysis, James D. Wickham and Curtis H. Flather