A5064720369- Forest Management and Policy
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Forest ecology and management
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Automated Road and Building Extraction
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Archaeology and Natural History
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
The Nature Conservancy
2022-2024
University of New Hampshire
2016-2023
University of New Hampshire at Manchester
2016-2023
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
2020
State Street (United States)
2014-2017
Purdue University West Lafayette
2014
As the need to address climate change grows more urgent, policymakers, businesses, and others are seeking innovative approaches remove carbon dioxide emissions from atmosphere decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors. Forests can play a role in reducing atmospheric carbon. However, there is disagreement over whether forests most effective when left alone versus managed for sustainable harvesting wood product production. Cross-laminated timber at forefront of mass movement, which enabling designers,...
Infestations of trees by woody climbing plants (i.e., lianas) are common and increasing in an estimated 250 Mha the 1 billion hectares mixed-species tropical temperate forest subjected to selective logging. Cutting lianas that impede growth future crop (FCTs) these forests would sequester carbon at low cost increase timber yields. We estimate application this treatment five liana-infested FCTs per hectare across selectively logged result 0.8 PgCO2 additional removals liberated over 30 years...
<title>Abstract</title> Improved forest management (IFM) practices are recognized as high-impact, low-cost natural climate solutions. Unfortunately, leakage accounting often relies on limited analysis and ad hoc reasoning, leading to integrity concerns underinvestment in IFM. This study proposes an alternative data-intensive, dynamic economic-ecological modeling approach with global applicability. Results show how varies by IFM project type, location, timeframe, implementation rate....
The application of silviculture has major implications for forest health, stocking levels, and landowners’ long-term economic interests, yet little information exists about what treatments are applied across the landscape. We developed a classification tree that uses objective inventory data to classify harvests into one twelve harvest types, based on pre- post-harvest size distribution, quality. Results indicate exploitative like commercial clearcutting high-grading may be more common than...
We analyzed over 8 decades of change in forest composition (represented by species proportion basal area) and size class from more than 400 permanent plots located on the Bartlett Experimental Forest White Mountains New Hampshire. These data represent one longest-term landscape-scale records based North America. elevation class, land type indicating assumed successional direction (grouped into coniferous deciduous), inventory period within managed unmanaged portions forest. An ongoing shift...
The next major eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreak is likely to begin impacting the forests of northeastern US over few years. More than 4.7 million ha forest and 94.8 Mg carbon in (Picea spp.) balsam fir (Abies balsamea) are at risk. Vegetation shifts at-risk stands occur as a direct result mortality caused by through post-outbreak salvage harvest operations designed minimize economic impact. Management interventions have short-term long-term consequences for...
The capacity of forests to store carbon, combined with time-tested approaches managing forests, make a useful tool for atmospheric carbon mitigation. primary goals this study are determine the amount unrealized mitigation available from Improved Forest Management (IFM) in Acadian New England northeastern U.S., and demonstrate how can feasibly be attained. This used Vegetation Simulator (FVS) model impacts IFM practices articulated by Forestry Foundation on storage Forest. Our results,...
American chestnut ( Castanea dentata ) was a dominant species in eastern North America prior to the importation of blight. In light recent efforts restore viable populations forests, an increased understanding its association with other co‐occurring, disturbance‐adapted oak is necessary. We evaluated crown architecture and leaf morphology juvenile red Quercus rubra assess potential differences establishment strategies both species. also investigated nonstructural carbohydrate reserves whole...
Forest disturbances, such as an eastern spruce budworm ( Choristoneura fumiferana ) outbreak, impact the strength and persistence of forest carbon sinks. Salvage harvests are a typical management response to widespread tree mortality, but decision salvage mortality has large implications for fate stocks (including harvested wood products) in near long terms. In this study, we created decision-support models harvesting based on after outbreak. We used lasso regression determine which stand...
To estimate the potential and realized carbon emission reductions from implementation of reduced-impact logging (RIL) in Indonesia, we compiled emissions data 15 concessions Kalimantan 10 Papuan provinces. Committed were collected for harvested timber as well collateral damage caused by felling, skidding, clearing haul roads log yards. Emissions expressed mean ± standard error per cubic meter harvested, area Mg (i.e., ‘Carbon Impact Factor’) 1.30 0.15 C m−3, 27.52 4.44 ha−1, 6.88 0.84 Mg−1,...
Abstract Globally, improved forest management (IFM) practices are recognized as powerful, low-cost natural climate solutions, but carbon leakage may reduce project efficacy, and uncertainty about the impact of result in underinvestment management. While some protocols deduct predicted impacts before issuing credits, methods rates applied extrapolated from a small amount evidence. This paper applies data-driven approach to quantify project-level at regional global scales. We use dynamic...