Explore a selection of works produced by the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University.
On November 20, 2019 the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science became the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science.
Works from 2016
Summertime surface O3 behavior and deposition to tundra in the Alaskan Arctic, Brie Van Dam, Detlev Helmig, Paul V. Doskey, and Samuel J. Oltmans
Planning the future’s forests with assisted migration, Mary I. Williams and R. Kasten Dumroese
Works from 2015
Variables associated with nest survival of Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora Chrysoptera) among vegetation communities commonly used for nesting, Kyle R. Aldinger, Theron M. Terhune, Petra B. Wood, David A. Buehler, Marja H. Bakermans, John L. Confer, David J. Flaspohler, Jeffrey L. Larkin, John P. Loegering, Katie L. Percy, Amber Roth, and Curtis G. Smalling
Assessing site availability of aspen and northern hardwoods for potential feedstock development in Michigan: A case study, Sara Alian and Ann Maclean
A systems biology approach identifies new regulators of poplar root development under low nitrogen., Madhumita Dash, Yordan S Yordanov, Tatyana Georgieva, Sapna Kumari, Hairong Wei, and Victor Busov
Have we been successful? Monitoring horizontal forest complexity for forest restoration projects, Yvette L. Dickinson, Kristen Pelz, Emma Giles, and Josh Howie
Biogeochemical research priorities for sustainable biofuel and bioenergy feedstock production in the Americas, Hero Gollany, Brian Titus, D. Andrew Scott, Heidi Asbjornsen, Sigrid Resh, Rodney Chimner, Donald Kaczmarek, Luiz Leite, Ana Ferreira, Kenton Rod, Jorge Hilbert, Marcelo Galdos, and Michelle Cisz
Risk assessment of soil erosion by application of remote sensing and GIS in Yanshan Reservoir catchment, China, Yangfang Hu, Guohang Tian, Audrey L. Mayer, and Ruizhen He
Bioenergy and Biodiversity: Key lessons from the Pan American region, Keith L. Kline, Fernanda Silva Martinelli, Audrey L. Mayer, Rodrigo Medeiros, Camila Ortolan F. Oliveira, Gerd Sparkovek, Arnaldo Walter, and Lisa A. Venier
LegumeIP: An Integrative Platform for Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics of Model Legumes, Jun Li, Hairong Wei, Tingsong Liu, Xinbin Dai, and Patrick Xuechun Zhao
Family legacies and community networks shape private forest management in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan (USA), Jennifer Lind-Riehl, Shelly Jeltema, Margaret Morrison, Garbriela Shirkey, Audrey L. Mayer, Mark Rouleau, and Richelle Winkler
Biology in environmental management, Audrey L. Mayer
Spatial patterns of forest values for bioenergy production in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Audrey L. Mayer and Ashma Vaidya
Evaluation of the potential use of a systemic insecticide and girdled trees in area wide management of the emerald ash borer, Rodrigo Mercader, Deborah McCullough, Andrew J. Storer, John Bedford, Robert Heyd, Therese Poland, and Steven Katovich
How social ties influence metal resource flows in the Bangladesh ship recycling industry, S.M. Mizanur Rahman and Audrey L. Mayer
Wood decay by Chlorociboria aeruginascens (Nyl.) Kanouse (Helotiales, Leotiaceae) and associated basidiomycete fungi, Dana Richter and Jessie Glaeser
Diversifying student demographics in forestry and related natural resources disciplines, Terry Sharik
Undergraduate enrollment in natural resource programs in the United States: Trends, drivers, and implications for the future of natural resource professions, Terry Sharik, Robert J. Lilieholm, Wanda Lindquist, and William W. Richardson
Broad and local-scale patterns of exotic earthworm functional groups in forests of National Wildlife Refuges of the Upper Midwest, USA, Lindsey M. Shartell, R. Gregory Corace III, Andrew J. Storer, and Daniel Kashian
Standardizing social responsibility via ISO 26000: Empirical insights from the forest industry, Anne Toppinen, Aino Virtanen, Audrey L. Mayer, and Anni Tuppura
Using an OBCD approach and Landsat TM data to detect harvesting on nonindustrial private property in Upper Michigan, Riccardo Tortini, Audrey L. Mayer, and Pieralberto Maianti
Spatial patterning and floral synchrony among trillium populations with contrasting histories of herbivory, Christopher R. Webster, Michael A. Jenkins, and Aaron J. Poznanovic
Works from 2014
Forest health detectives, Tara Bal
Nutrient stress predisposes and contributes to sugar maple dieback across its northern range: a review, Tara L. Bal, Andrew J. Storer, Martin F. Jurgensen, Paul V. Doskey, and Michael Amacher
Nutrient stress predisposes and contributes to sugar maple dieback across its northern range: a review, Tara L. Bal, Andrew J. Storer, Martin F. Jurgensen, Paul V. Doskey, and Michael C. Amacher
A review of methods for mapping and prediction of inventory attributes for operational forest management, Kimberley D. Brosofske, Robert Froese, Michael J. Falkowski, and Asim Banskota
Are riparian bur oak phreatophytic? A stable water isotope study in Homestead National Monument, Nebraska, Rodney Chimner and Sigrid Resh
Landscape restoration of a forest with a historically mixed-severity fire regime: What was the historical landscape pattern of forest and openings?, Yvette L. Dickinson
The effect of long-term water table manipulations on dissolved organic carbon dynamics in a poor fen peatland, John A. Hribljan, Evan S. Kane, Thomas G. Pypker, and Rodney Chimner
A practical approach for translating climate change adaptation principles into forest management actions, Maria K. Janowiak, Christopher W. Swanston, Linda M. Nagel, Leslie A. Brandt, Patricia Butler, Stephen D. Handler, Danielle Shannon, Louis R. Iverson, Stephen N. Matthews, Anantha Prasad, and Matthew P. Peters
Water flows toward power: Socioecological degradation of Lake Urmia, Iran, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Audrey L. Mayer, and Emma S. Norman
Teaching interdisciplinary sustainability science teamwork skills to graduate students using in-person and web-based interactions, Jessie Knowlton, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Robert Handler, and Michael O'Rourke
Land sparing versus land sharing: How might biodiversity and bioenergy coexist?, Audrey L. Mayer
Information and entropy theory for the sustainability of coupled human and natural systems, Audrey L. Mayer, Richard P. Donovan, and Christopher W. Pawlowski
Sustainable natural resource policies developed through the participatory approach, Audrey L. Mayer and Ashma Vaidya
Sustainability of the selection system in northern hardwood forests, Nan C. Pond, Robert Froese, and Linda M. Nagel
Mosaic stunting in bareroot Pinus banksiana seedlings is unrelated to colonization by mycorrhizal fungi, Lynette Potvin, Martin F. Jurgensen, R. Kasten Dumroese, Dana Richter, and Deborah Page-Dumroese
Wood colorization through pressure treating: The potential of extracted colorants from spalting fungi as a replacement for woodworkers’ aniline dyes, Sara C. Robinson, Eric Hinsch, Genevieve Weber, Kristina Leipus, and Daniel Cerney
How much is enough? Minimal responses of water quality and stream biota to partial retrofit stormwater management in a suburban neighborhood, Allison H. Roy, Lee K. Rhea, Audrey L. Mayer, William D. Shuster, Jake J. Beaulieu, Matthew E. Hopton, Matthew A. Morrison, and Ann St. Amand
Piecing together the fragments—Select papers from the ninth North American forest ecology workshop, Michael R. Saunders, Michael A. Jenkins, Charles H. Michler, and Christopher R. Webster
Remembering Burt Barnes, Terry Sharik
Patterns of tree distribution within small communities of the Sudanian Savanna-Sahel, Sarah J. Sterling and Blair D. Orr
Does ungulate foraging behavior in forest canopy gaps produce a spatial subsidy with cascading effects on vegetation?, Betsy Tahtinen, Bryan D. Murray, Christopher R. Webster, Catherine S. Tarasoff, and Andrew Burton
Post-fire bedload sediment delivery across spatial scales in the interior western United States, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner and Peter R. Robichaud
Variation in wood density and carbon content of tropical plantation tree species from Ghana, Daniel Yeboah, Andrew Burton, Andrew J. Storer, and Emmanuel Opuni-Frimpong
Works from 2013
Cost analysis of forest biomass supply chain logistics, Dalia Abbas, Robert Handler, Dennis Dykstra, Bruce Hartsough, and Pasi Lautala
Comparing leaching of different copper oxide nanoparticles and ammoniacal copper salt from wood, Xiaochu Ding, Martha Barajas Meneses, Soha Albukhari, Dana Richter, Laurent M. Matuana, and Patricia Heiden
A morphometric model to predict the sex of virginia rails (Rallus limicola), Auriel M.V. Fournier, Mark C. Sheildcastle, Anthony C. Fries, and Joseph K. Bump
Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of biofuels: evidence from developing nations, Kathleen Halvorsen
Acclimation and soil moisture constrain sugar maple root respiration in experimentally warmed soil, Mickey P. Jarvi and Andrew J Burton
Open top chambers and infrared lamps: A comparison of heating efficacy and CO2/CH4 dynamics in a Northern Michigan Peatland, C. P. Johnson, Thomas G. Pypker, John A. Hribljan, and Rodney Chimner
Spatial and temporal deforestation dynamics of Zagros forests (Iran) from 1972 to 2009, Azad Henareh Khalyani and Audrey L. Mayer
Rapid prototyping energy management system for a single shaft parallel hybrid electric vehicle using hardware-in-the-loop simulation, Yang Li, Pushkar Agashe, Zicheng Ge, and Bo Chen
ForestSim model of impacts of smallholder dynamics: forested landscapes of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Audrey L. Mayer and Mark Rouleau
Interoperability of Landsat and DMC imagery for continuous detection and quantification of nonindustrial forest harvests in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, Audrey L. Mayer, Riccardo Tortini, and Pieralberto Maianti
The stand: Revisiting a central concept in forestry, Kevin L. O'Hara and Linda M. Nagel
Shifting environmental controls on CH4 fluxes in a sub-boreal peatland, Thomas G. Pypker, P. A. Moore, John A. Hribljan, and Rodney Chimner
How social ties influence resource flow: A case study on the Bangladesh ship-breaking industry, S. M. M. Rahmann and Audrey L. Mayer
Use of the participatory approach to develop sustainability assessments for natural resource management, Ashma Vaidya and Audrey L. Mayer
CSR and competitive advantage through an ISO 26000 lens: comparison between forest industry in North America and Europe, Aino A. Virtanen, Anne Toppinen, and Audrey L. Mayer
Genetic networks involved in poplar root response to low nitrogen, Hairong Wei, Yordan Yordanov, Sapna Kumari, Tatyana Georgieva, and Victor Busov
Inland wetland mineral soils, Kimberly P. Wickland, Alex V. Krusche, Randall K. Kolka, Ayaka W. Kishimoto-Mo, Rodney Chimner, Stephen M. Ogle, and Nalin Srivastava
Preparing for climate change: Forestry and assisted migration, Mary I. Williams and R. Kasten Dumroese
The student-citizen and study abroad, Roger Williams, Thomas Kuzmic, and Blair D. Orr
Works from 2012
Chronic N deposition alters root respiration‐tissue N relationship in northern hardwood forests, Andrew Burton, Julie Jarvey, Mickey P. Jarvi, Donald Zak, and Kurt Pregitzer
Riparian tree growth response to drought and altered streamflow along the dolores river, colorado, Adam P. Coble and Thomas E. Kolb
Sphagnum Ecophysiology of Restored, Drained, and Pristine Boreal Spruce Swamp Forests, Laura Kangas, Liisa Maanavilja, Tomáš Hájek, Eija Juurola, Rodney Chimner, and Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Classification of Landsat images based on spectral and topographic variables for land-cover change detection in Zagros forests, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Michael J. Falkowski, and Audrey L. Mayer
Deforestation and landscape structure changes related to socioeconomic dynamics and climate change in Zagros forests, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Audrey L. Mayer, and Michael J. Falkowski
Ecological indicators for protection impact assessment at two scales in the Bozin and Marakhil protected area, Iran, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Audrey L. Mayer, Christopher R. Webster, and Michael J. Falkowski
Relationships between soil compaction and harvest season, soil texture, and landscape position for aspen forests, Randy Kolka, Aaron Steber, Ken Brooks, Charles H. Perry, and Matt Powers
Long term study of greenhouse gases influence on epicuticular waxes of Populus tremuloides Michx, Blanka Mañkovská, Július Oszlányi, and David F. Karnosky
Principles of sustainability from ecology, Audrey L. Mayer
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS AND CASE STUDIES: Building Green Infrastructure via Citizen Participation: A Six-Year Study in the Shepherd Creek (Ohio), Audrey L. Mayer, William D. Shuster, Jake J. Beaulieu, Matthew E. Hopton, Lee K. Rhea, Allison H. Roy, and Hale W. Thurston
Peer influence of non-industrial private forest owners in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jillian R. Schubert and Audrey L. Mayer
Efficacy of treatments against garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) and effects on forest understory plant diversity, Lindsey M. Shartell, Linda M. Nagel, and Andrew J. Storer
Effects of seedbed density on seedling morphological characteristics of four broadleaved species, C. Yücedaǧ and O. Gailing
Canopy rainfall storage capacity as affected by sub-alpine grassland degradation in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China, Kailiang Yu, Thomas G. Pypker, Richard F. Keim, Ning Chen, Yingbo Yang, Shuqing Guo, Wenjin Li, and Gang Wang
Works from 2011
Ash phloem reduction models vary among species and growing conditions, Tara L. Bal, Andrew J. Storer, and Laura Nagel
Conventional Wisdoms of Woody Biomass Utilization on Federal Public Lands, Dennis R. Becker, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Dalia Abbas, Kathleen Halvorsen, Pamela Jakes, and Cassandra Moseley
A theoretical, multidisciplinary view of catastrophic regime change, J. G. Brida, Audrey L. Mayer, C. McCord, and L. F. Punzo
Effects of six chemical deicers on larval wood frogs (Rana sylvatica), Meagan L. Harless, Casey Huckins, Jacqualine B. Grant, and Thomas G. Pypker
Effects of protection on amount and structure of forest cover at two scales in Bozin and Marakhil protected area, Iran, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Audrey L. Mayer, and Michael J. Falkowski
Restoring oak regeneration after overgrazing and fire in Zagros forests, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Audrey L. Mayer, and Manouchehr Namiranian
Decreased rainfall interception balances increased transpiration in exotic ponderosa pine plantations compared with native cypress stands in Patagonia, Argentina, Julian A. Licata, Thomas G. Pypker, Mariana Weigandt, Michael H. Unsworth, Javier E. Gyenge, María Elena Fernández, Tomás M. Schlichter, and Barbara J. Bond
A predictive model for detection of Agrilus planipennis (Col., Buprestidae) larvae in girdled ash (Fraxinus spp.), J. M. Marshall, Andrew J. Storer, I. Fraser, and V. C. Mastro
Addendum to: A predictive model for detection of Agrilus planipennis (Col., Buprestidae) larvae in girdled ash (Fraxinus spp.), J. M. Marshall, Andrew J. Storer, I. Fraser, and V. C. Mastro
Analyzing effective protection for roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) habitat in Iranian Zagros forests at two scales, Audrey L. Mayer and Azad Henareh Khalyani
Grass trumps trees with fire, Audrey L. Mayer and Azad Henareh Khalyani
Use of remote sensing to support forest and wetlands policies in the USA, Audrey L. Mayer and Ricardo D. Lopez
Modeling the impacts of communication among nonindustrial private forest owners on forested landscapes, Audrey L. Mayer, Mark D. Rouleau, Mackenzie T. Roeser, and Jillian R. Schubert
Stimulating spalting in sugar maple using sub-lethal doses of copper, Sara C. Robinson, Peter Laks, and Dana Richter
Management of urban hydrology via citizen participation – a six-year study in the Shepherd Creek (Ohio, USA), William D. Shuster, Jake J. Beaulieu, Audrey L. Mayer, Margaret Morrison, Lee K. Rhea, Allison H. Roy, and Hale W. Thurston
The Occurrence and Morphology of a Lateral Metatarsal Splint Bone in Moose (Alces alces), William J. Silvia, Rolf O. Peterson, William F. Silvia, John A. Vucetich, and Alexander W. Silvia
A comparison of two open source LiDAR surface classification algorithms, Wade T. Tinkham, Hongyu Huang, Alistair M. S. Smith, Rupesh Shrestha, Michael J. Falkowski, Andrew T. Hudak, and et al.
Boundary genes in regulation and evolution of secondary growth, Yordan S. Yordanov and Victor Busov
Effects of cracking and sowing time on germination of Styrax officinalis L. seeds, Cengiz Yücedaǧ
Works from 2010
Parcel-based classification of agricultural crops via multitemporal Landsat imagery for monitoring habitat availability of western burrowing owls in the Imperial Valley agro-ecosystem, Michael J. Falkowski and Jeffrey A. Manning
Tom Turner. Roadless rules: The struggle for the last wild forests, Kathleen Halvorsen
Partitioning hydrologic contributions to an 'old-growth' riparian area in the Huron Mountains of Michigan, USA, Randall K. Kolka, Christian P. Giardina, Jason D. McClure, Alex Mayer, and Martin Jurgensen