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2010

Sun, G.; Noormets, A.; Gavazzi, M.J.; McNulty, S.G.; Chen, J.; Domec, J.-C. King, J.S.; Amatya, D.M.; Skaggs, R.W. 2010. Energy and water balance of two contrasting loblolly pine plantations on the lower coastal plain of North Carolina, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 259: 1299-1310. (PDF)

Yemshanov, D., F.H. Koch, Y. Ben-Haim, and W.D. Smith. 2010. Robustness of risk maps and survey networks to knowledge gaps about a new invasive pest. Risk Analysis 30(2):261-276. (PDF)

Baker, B., H. Diaz, W. Hargrove, and F. Hoffman. 2010. Use of the Köppen-Trewartha climate classification to evaluate climatic refugia in statistically derived ecoregions for the People’s Republic of China. Climatic Change 98:113-131. (PDF)

Noormets, A., M.J. Gavazzi, S.G. McNulty, J.-C. Domec, G. Sun, J.S. King, and J. Chen. 2010. Response of carbon fluxes to drought in a coastal plain loblolly pine forest. Global Change Biology 16:272-287. (PDF)

Qian, H. and Q. Guo. 2010. Linking biotic homogenization to habitat type, invasiveness and growth form of naturalized alien plants in North America. Diversity and Distributions 16:119-125. (PDF)

Wickham, J.D., K.H. Riitters, T.G. Wade, and P. Vogt. 2010. A national assessment of green infrastructure and change for the conterminous United States using morphological image processing. Landscape and Urban Planning 94:186-195. (PDF)

Xiao, J., Q. Zhuang, B.E. Law, J. Chen, D.D. Baldocchi, D.R. Cook, R. Oren, A.D. Richardson, S. Wharton, S. Ma, T. A. Martin, S.B. Verma, A.E. Suyker, R.L. Scott, R.K. Monson, M. Litvak, D.Y. Hollinger, G. Sun, K.J. Davis, P.V. Bolstad, S.P. Burns, P.S. Curtis, B.G. Drake, M. Falk, M.L. Fischer, D.R. Foster, L. Gu, J.L. Hadley, G.G. Katul, R. Matamala, S. McNulty, T.P. Meyers, J.W. Munger, A. Noormets, W.C. Oechel, K.T. Paw U, H.P. Schmid, G. Starr, M.S. Torn, S.C. Wofsy. 2010. A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Remote Sensing of Environment 114:576-591. (PDF)

2009

Ambrose, M.J. and B.L. Conkling (eds.). 2009. Forest health monitoring 2006 national technical report. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-117, Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 118 p. (PDF)

Aronson, E.L. and S.G. McNulty. 2009. Appropriate experimental ecosystem warming methods by ecosystem, objective, and practicality. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149:1791-1799. (PDF)

Bechtold, W.A., K.C. Randolph, and S.J. Zarnoch. 2009. The power of FIA Phase 3 Crown-Indicator variables to detect change. In: McWilliams, Will; Moisen, Gretchen; Czaplewski, Ray, comps. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium 2008; October 21-23, 2008; Park City, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 21 p. (PDF)

Blate, G.M., L.A. Joyce, J.S. Littell, S.G. McNulty, C.I. Millar, S.C. Moser, R.P. Neilson, K. O’Halloran, and D.L. Peterson. 2009. Adapting to climate change in United States national forests. Unasylva 60(231/232):57-62. (PDF)

Coulston, J.W., F.H. Koch, W.D. Smith, and F.J. Sapio. 2009. Developing survey grids to substantiate freedom from exotic pests. In: McRoberts, R.E., G.A. Reams, P.C. Van Deusen, and W.H. McWilliams (eds.). Proceedings of the 8th Annual USDA-FS Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium; 2006 October 16-19; Monterey, CA. Gen. Tech. Report WO-79. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 408 p. (PDF)

DeForest, J.L., J. Chen, and S.G. McNulty. 2009. Leaf litter is an important mediator of soil respiration in an oak-dominated forest. International Journal of Biometeorology 53:127-134. (PDF)

Domec, J.-C., A. Noormets, J.S. King, G. Sun, S.G. McNulty, M.J. Gavazzi, J.L. Boggs, and E.A. Treasure. 2009. Decoupling the influence of leaf and root hydraulic conductances on stomatal conductance and its sensitivity to vapour pressure deficit as soil dries in a drained loblolly pine plantation. Plant, Cell & Environment 32:980-991. (PDF)

Dvorak, W.S., K.M. Potter, V.D. Hipkins, and G.R. Hodge. 2009. Genetic diversity and gene exchange in Pinus oocarpa, a Mesoamerican pine with resistance to the pitch canker fungus (Fusarium circinatum). International Journal of Plant Sciences 170(5):609-626. (PDF)

Fitzpatrick, M.C. and W.W. Hargrove. 2009. The projection of species distribution models and the problem of non-analog climate. Biodiversity and Conservation 18:2255-2261. (PDF)

Guo, H., A. Noormets, B. Zhao, J. Chen, G. Sun, Y. Gu, B. Li, and J. Chen. 2009. Tidal effects on net ecosystem exchange of carbon in an estuarine wetland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149:1820-1828. (PDF)

Guo, Q. 2009. Interactive effects of diversity and biomass on productivity: insights from succession. Pages 58-73 in Wu, J. and J. Yang (eds), Lectures in Modern Ecology (IV): Theory and Applications. Higher Education Press and Springer, Beijing. (PDF)

Hargrove, W.W., J.P. Spruce, G.E. Gasser, and F.M. Hoffman. 2009. Toward a national early warning system for forest disturbances using remotely sensed canopy phenology. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 75:1150-1156. (PDF)

Joyce, L.A., G.M. Blate, S.G. McNulty, C.I. Millar, S. Moser, R.P. Neilson, and D.L. Peterson. 2009. Managing for multiple resources under climate change: National forests. Environmental Management 44:1022-1032. (PDF)

Koch, F.H., D. Yemshanov, D.W. McKenney, W.D. Smith. 2009. Evaluating critical uncertainty thresholds in a spatial model of forest pest invasion risk. Risk Analysis 29(9):1227-1241. (PDF)

Lorimer, C.G., D.J. Porter, M.A. Madej, J.D. Stuart, S.D. Veirs, Jr., S.P. Norman, K.L. O'Hara, and W.J. Libby. 2009. Presettlement and modern disturbance regimes in coast redwood forests: Implications for the conservation of old-growth stands. Forest Ecology and Management 258:1038-1054. (PDF)

McNulty, S. 2009. Protecting your forest from climate change. Forest Landowner, May/June. (PDF)

Michener, W.K., K.L. Bildstein, A. McKee, R.R. Parmenter, W.W. Hargrove, D. McClearn, and M. Stromberg. 2009. Biological field stations: Research legacies and sites for serendipity. BioScience 59(4):300-310. (PDF)

Qi, S., G. Sun, Y. Wang, S.G. McNulty, and J.A.M. Myers. 2009. Streamflow response to climate and landuse changes in a coastal watershed in North Carolina. Transactions of the ASABE 52:739-749. (PDF)

Randolph, K., W.A. Bechtold, R.S. Morin, and S.J. Zarnoch. 2009. From detection monitoring to evaluation monitoring--A case study involving crown dieback in northern white-cedar. In: McWilliams, Will; Moisen, Gretchen; Czaplewski, Ray, comps. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium 2008; October 21-23, 2008; Park City, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 13 p. (PDF)

Riitters, K., P. Vogt, P. Soille, C. Estreguil. 2009. Landscape patterns from mathematical morphology on maps with contagion. Landscape Ecology 24:699-709. (PDF)

Riitters, K.H., J.D. Wickham, and T.G. Wade. 2009. An indicator of forest dynamics using a shifting landscape mosaic. Ecological Indicators 9:107-117. (PDF)

Schulz, B.K., W.A. Bechtold, and S.J. Zarnoch. 2009. Sampling and Estimation Procedures for the Vegetation Diversity and Structure Indicator. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-781. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 53 p. (PDF)

Sun, G., J. Sun, and G. Zhou. 2009. Water and carbon dynamics in selected ecosystems in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 149:1789-1790. (PDF)

Thompson, I., Mackey, B., McNulty, S., Mosseler, A. (2009). Forest Resilience, Biodiversity, and Climate Change. A synthesis of the biodiversity/resilience/stability relationship in forest ecosystems. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal. Technical Series no. 43, 67 pages. (PDF)

Vogt, P., J.R. Ferrari, T.R. Lookingbill, R.H. Gardner, K.H. Riitters, and K. Ostapowicz. 2009. Mapping functional connectivity. Ecological Indicators 9:64-71. (PDF)

Wade, T.G., J.D. Wickham, N. Zaccarelli, and K.H. Riitters. 2009. A multi-scale method of mapping urban influence. Environmental Modelling and Software 24:1252-1256. (PDF)

Wang, J., H. Ren, L. Yang, D. Li, and Q. Guo. 2009. Soil seed banks in four 22-year-old plantations in South China: Implications for restoration. Forest Ecology and Management 258:2000-2006. (PDF)

Westfall, J.A., W.A. Bechtold, and K.C. Randolph. 2009. Tree Crown Indicator. In: Westfall, J.A. (ed.). FIA national assessment of data quality for forest health indicators. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-53. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 80 p. (PDF)

Wilske B., N. Lu, L.Wei, S. Chen, T. Zha, C. Liu, W. Xu, A. Noormets, J. Huang, Y. Wei, J. Chen, Z. Zhang, J. Ni, G. Sun, K. Guo, S. McNulty, R. John, X. Han, G. Lin, and J. Chen. 2009. Poplar plantation has the potential to alter the water balance in semiarid Inner Mongolia. Journal of Environmental Management 90:2762-2770. (PDF)

Worley Firley, S. 2009. Congongrass invades the South. Compass, September. (PDF)

Worley Firley, S. 2009. Forests and future water stress in the Southeast. Forest Landowner, May/June. (PDF)

Yemshanov, D., F.H. Koch, D.W. McKenney, M.C. Downing, and F. Sapio. 2009. Mapping invasive species risks with stochastic models: A cross-border United States-Canada application for Sirex noctilio Fabricius. Risk Analysis 29(6):868-884. (PDF)

Yemshanov, D., D.W. McKenney, J.H. Pedlar, F.H. Koch, and D. Cook. 2009. Towards an integrated approach to modelling the risks and impacts of invasive forest species. Environmental Reviews 17:163-178. (PDF)

2008

Ambrose, M.J., B.L. Conkling, K.H. Riitters, and J.W. Coulston. 2008. The forest health monitoring national technical reports: examples of analyses and results from 2001-2004. Science Update SRS-018. United States Department of Agriculture, Southern Research Station. (PDF)

Boggs, J.L., G. Sun, W. Summer, S.G. McNulty, W. Swartley, and E. Treasure. 2008. Effectiveness of streamside management zones on water quality: pretreatment measurements. In: Proceedings of 2008 American Water Resources Association Summer Specialty Conference on Riparian Ecosystem and Buffers: Working at the Water’s Edge. June 30-July 2, 2008. Virginia Beach, VA. (PDF)

Coulston, J.W., F.H. Koch, W.D. Smith, and F.J. Sapio. 2008. Invasive forest pest surveillance: survey development and reliability. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38(9):2422-2433. (PDF)

Domec, J.-C., B. Lachenbruch, F.C. Meinzer, D.R. Woodruff, J.M. Warren, K.A. McCulloh. 2008. Maximum height in a conifer is associated with conflicting requirements for xylem design. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105(33):12069-12074. (PDF)

Efroymson, R.A., M.J. Peterson, C.J. Welsh, D.L. Druckenbrod, M.G. Ryon, J.G. Smith, W.W. Hargrove, N.R. Giffen, W.K. Roy, and H.D. Quarles. 2008. Investigating habitat value to inform contaminant remediation options: Approach. Journal of Environmental Management 88: 1436-1451. (PDF)

Efroymson, R.A., M.J. Peterson, N.R. Giffen, M.G. Ryon, J.G. Smith, W.W. Hargrove, W.K. Roy, C.J. Welsh, D.L. Druckenbrod, and H.D. Quarles. 2008. Investigating habitat value to inform contaminant remediation options: Case Study. Journal of Environmental Management 88: 1452-1470. (PDF)

Guo, Q. and A. Symstad. 2008. A two-part measure of degree of invasion for cross-community comparisons. Conservation Biology 22: 666-672. (PDF)

Jones, K.B., C.E. Edmonds, E.T. Slonecker, J.D. Wickham, A.C. Neale, T.G. Wade, K.H. Riitters, and W.G. Kepner. 2008. Detecting changes in riparian habitat conditions based on patterns of greenness change: a case study from the upper San Pedro River Basin, USA. Ecological Indicators 8:89-99. (PDF)

Keller, M., D.S. Schimel, W.W. Hargrove, and F.M. Hoffman. 2008. A continental strategy for the National Ecological Observatory Network. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(5): 282-284. (PDF)

Koch, F.H. and W.D. Smith. 2008. Spatio-temporal analysis of Xyleborus glabratus (Coleoptera: Circulionidae: Scolytinae) invasion in eastern U.S. forests. Environmental Entomology 37(2):442-452. (PDF)

McNulty, S.G. 2008. Uwharrie National Forest Case Study. In: Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources: Appendix A. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. [Julius, S.H., J.M. West (eds.), J.S. Baron, B. Griffith, L.A. Joyce, P. Kareiva, B.D. Keller, M.A. Palmer, C.H. Peterson, and J.M. Scott (Authors)]. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA. pp. A26-A29. (PDF)

Noormets, A., S.G. McNulty, J.L. DeForest, G. Sun, Q. Li, and J. Chen. 2008. Drought during canopy development has lasting effect on annual carbon balance in a deciduous temperate forest. New Phytologist 179(3):818-828. (PDF)

Ostapowicz, K., P. Vogt, K.H. Riitters, J. Kozak, and C. Estreguil. 2008. Impact of scale on morphological spatial pattern of forest. Landscape Ecology 23(9):1107-1117. (PDF)

Potter, K.M. From genes to ecosystems: Measuring evolutionary diversity and community structure with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. Proceedings of the 2008 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium, Will McWilliams, Gretchen Moisen, and Ray Czaplewski, comps. Park City, Utah, Oct. 21-23, 2008. RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, Colorado: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 1 CD. (PDF)

Potter, K.M., W.S. Dvorak, B.S. Crane, V.D. Hipkins, R.M. Jetton, W.A. Whittier, and R. Rhea. 2008. Allozyme variation and recent evolutionary history of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in the southeastern United States. New Forests 35:131-145. (PDF)

Potter, K.M., J. Frampton, S.A. Josserand, and C.D. Nelson. 2008. Genetic variation and population structure in Fraser fir (Abies fraseri): A microsatellite assessment of young trees. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:2128-2137. (PDF)

Pyzoha, J.E., T.J. Callahan, G. Sun, C.C. Trettin, and M. Miwa. 2008. A conceptual hydrologic model for a forested Carolina bay depressional wetland on the Coastal Plain of South Carolina, USA. Hydrological Processes 22(14):2689-2698. (PDF)

Ren, H., S. Jian, H. Lu, Q. Zhang, W. Shen, W. Han, Z. Yin, and Q. Guo. 2008. Restoration of mangrove plantations and colonisation by native species in Leizhou bay, South China. Ecological Research 23: 401-407. (PDF)

Ren, H., Z.A. Li, Q. Guo, and Q. Wang. 2008. Bioenergy: Future direction of China's energy and environment integrated strategy? Ambio 37:136-138. (PDF)

Ricklefs, R.E., Q. Guo, and H. Qian. 2008. Growth form and distribution of introduced plants in their native and non-native ranges in Eastern Asia and North America. Diversity and Distribution 14: 381-386. (PDF)

Sun, G., S. Liu, Z. Zhang, and X. Wei. 2008. Forest hydrology in China: Introduction to the featured collection. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(5):1073-1075. (PDF)

Sun, G., A. Noormets, J. Chen, and S.G. McNulty, S.G. 2008. Evapotranspiration estimates from eddy covariance towers and hydrologic modeling in managed forests in Northern Wisconsin, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148:257-267. (PDF)

Sun, G., S.G. McNulty, J.A. Moore Myers, and E.C. Cohen. 2008. Impacts of multiple stresses on water demand and supply across the southeastern United States. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(6):1441-1457. (PDF)

Sun, G., C. Zuo, S. Liu, M. Liu, S.G. McNulty, and J.M. Vose. 2008. Watershed evapotranspiration increased due to changes in vegetation composition and structure under a subtropical climate. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(5):1164-1175. (PDF)

U.S. EPA. Predicting Future Introductions of Nonindigenous Species to the Great Lakes (Final Report). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-08/066F, 2008. (PDF)

Note: William Hargrove is one of the authors of the above report.

Wang, S., Z. Zhang, G. Sun, S.G. McNulty, H. Zhang, J. Li, and M. Zhang. 2008. Long-term streamflow response to climatic variability in the Loess Plateau, China. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(5):1098-1107. (PDF)

Wei, X., G. Sun, S. Liu, H. Jiang, G. Zhou, and L. Dai. 2008. The forest-streamflow relationship in China: A 40-year retrospect. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(5):1076-1085. (PDF)

Wickham, J.D., K.H. Riitters, T.G. Wade, C. Homer. 2008. Temporal change in fragmentation of continental US forests. Landscape Ecology 23:891-898. (PDF)

Wickham, J.D., T.G. Wade, and K.H. Riitters. 2008. Detecting temporal change in watershed nutrient yields. Environmental Management 42:223-231. (PDF)

Williams, C.L., W.W. Hargrove, M. Leibman, and D.E. James. 2008. Agro-ecoregionalization of Iowa using multivariate geographical clustering. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 123: 161-174. (PDF)

Worley Firley, S. 2008. How much forest carbon is lost after a major hurricane? Compass, October. (PDF)

Xiao, J., Q. Zhuang, D.D. Baldocchi, B.E. Law, A.D. Richardson, J. Chen, R. Oren, G. Starr, A. Noormets, S. Ma, S.B. Verma, S. Wharton, S.C. Wofsy, P.V. Bolstad, S.P. Burns, D.R. Cook, P.S. Curtis, B.G. Drake, M. Falk, M.L. Fischer, D.R. Foster, L. Gu, J.L. Hadley, D. Y. Hollinger, G.G. Katul, M. Litvak, T.A. Martin, R. Matamala, S. McNulty, T.P. Meyers, R.K. Monson, J.W. Munger, W.C. Oechel, K.T. Paw U., H.P. Schmid, R.L. Scott, G. Sun, A.E. Suyker, and M.S. Torn. 2008. Estimation of net ecosystem carbon exchange for the conterminous United States by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 148:1827-1847. (PDF)

Zaccarelli, N., I. Petrosillo, G. Zurlini, and K.H. Riitters. Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale mismatches in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes. Ecology and Society 13(1):26. (PDF)

Zhang, Z., S. Wang, G. Sun, S.G. McNulty, H. Zhang, J. Li, M. Zhang, E. Klaghofer, and P. Strauss. 2008. Evaluation of the MIKE SHE model for application in the Loess Plateau, China. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 44(5):1108-1120. (PDF)

Zhou, G., G. Sun, X. Wang, C. Zhou, S.G. McNulty, J.M. Vose, D.M. Amatya. 2008. Estimating forest ecosystem evapotranspiration at multiple temporal scales with a dimension analysis approach. Journal of the American Water Resource Association 44(1):208-221. (PDF)

Zurlini, G., I. Petrosillo, N. Zaccarelli, and K. Riitters. 2008. Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes. In: Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security. I. Petrosillo et al. (eds.). Springer-Verlag. pp. 383-398. (PDF)

2007

Ambrose, M.J. and B.L. Conkling, eds. 2007. Forest health monitoring: 2005 national technical report. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-104. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 76 p. (PDF)

Bechtold, W., B. Tkacz, and K. Riitters. 2007. The historical background, framework, and the application of forest health monitoring in the United States. In: Proceedings of the international symposium on forest health monitoring; 2007 January 30-31; Seoul; Republic of Korea. Available from Korea Forest Conservation Movement (sansarang@kfcm.or.kr): 19-40. (PDF)

Boggs, J.L., S.G. McNulty, and L.H. Pardo. 2007. Changes in conifer and deciduous forest foliar and forest floor chemistry and basal area tree growth across a nitrogen (N) deposition gradient in the northeastern US. Environmental Pollution 149:303-314. (PDF)

Du, X., Q. Guo, X. Gao, K. Na. 2007. Seed rain, soil seed bank, seed loss and regeneration of Castanopsis fargesii (Fagaceae) in a subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest. Forest Ecology and Management 238: 212-219. (PDF)

Thurow, R.F., B.E. Rieman, D.C. Lee, P.J. Howell, and R.D. Perkinson. 2007. Distribution and status of redband trout in the interior Columbia river basin and portions of the Klamath river and great basins. In: Redband Trout: Resilience and Challenge in a Changing Landscape. Oregon Chapter, American Fisheries Society. R.K. Schroeder and J.D. Hall (eds.). pp. 1-19. (PDF)

Guo, Q. 2007. The diversity-biomass-productivity relationships in grassland management and restoration. Basic and Applied Ecology 8: 199-208. (PDF)

Li, H. and S.G. McNulty. 2007. Uncertainty analysis on simple mass balance model to calculate critical loads for soil acidity. Environmental Pollution 149:315-326. (PDF)

McLaughlin, S.B., S.D. Wullschleger, and G. Sun. 2007. Interactive effects of ozone and climate on tree growth and water use in a southern Appalachian forest in the USA. New Phytologist 174:109-124. (PDF)

McLaughlin, S.B., S.D. Wullschleger, G. Sun, and M. Nosal. 2007. Interactive effects of ozone and climate on water use, soil moisture content and streamflow in a southern Appalachian forest in the USA. New Phytologist 174:125-136. (PDF)

McNulty, S.G., E.C. Cohen, J.A. Moore Myers, T.J. Sullivan, and H. Li. 2007. Estimates of critical acid loads and exceedances for forest soils across the conterminous United States. Environmental Pollution 149:281-292. (PDF)

Paoletti, E., A. Bytnerowicz, C. Andersen, A. Augustaitis, M. Ferretti, N. Grulke, M.S. Gunthardt-goerg, J. Innes, D. Johnson, D. Karnosky, J. Luangjame, R. Matyssek, S. McNulty, G. Muller-Starck, R. Musselman, K. Percy. 2007. Impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems - emerging research needs. The Scientific World Journal 7(S1):1-8. (PDF)

Pardo, L.H., S.G. McNulty, J.L. Boggs, and S. Duke. 2007. Regional patterns in foliar ¹⁵N across a gradient of nitrogen deposition in the northeastern US. Environmental Pollution 149:293-302. (PDF)

Riitters, K. and C. Estreguil, eds. 2007. International research to monitor sustainable forest spatial patterns: proceedings of the 2005 IUFRO World Congress symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–e106. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 29 p. (PDF)

Riitters, K.H., P. Vogt, P. Soille, J. Kozak, and C. Estreguil. 2007. Neutral model analysis of landscape patterns from mathematical morphology. Landscape Ecology 22:1033-1043. (PDF)

Schomaker, M.E., S.J. Zarnoch, W.A. Bechtold, D.J. Latelle, W.G. Burkman, and S.M. Cox. 2007. Crown-condition classification: a guide to data collection and analysis. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-102. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 78 p. (PDF)

Vogt, P., K.H. Riitters, M. Iwanowski, C. Estreguil, J. Kozak, and P. Soille. Mapping landscape corridors. Ecological Indicators 7:481-488. (PDF)

Wickham, J.D., K.H. Riitters, T.G. Wade, M. Coan, and C. Homer. 2007. The effect of Appalachian mountaintop mining on interior forest. Landscape Ecology 22:179-187. (PDF)

Wickham, J.D., K.H. Riitters, T.G. Wade, and J.W. Coulston. 2007. Temporal change in forest fragmentation at multiple scales. Landscape Ecology 22:481-489. (PDF)

Zaccarelli, N., K.H. Riitters, I. Petrosillo, and G. Zurlini, G. 2007. Indicating disturbance content and context for preserved areas. Ecological Indicators 8:841-853. (PDF)

Zurlini, G., K.H. Riitters, N. Zaccarelli, and I. Petrosoillo. 2007. Patterns of disturbance at multiple scales in real and simulated landscapes. Landscape Ecology 22:705-721. (PDF)

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