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 2019
Effective enrichment of Zn from smelting wastewater via an integrated Fe coagulation and hematite precipitation method, Zhan Qu, Ting Su, Yu Chen, Xue Lin, Yang Yu, Xinfeng Xie, and et. al.
Overexpression of a developing xylem cDNA library in transgenic poplar generates high mutation rate specific to wood formation, James Rauschendorfer, Yordan Yordanov, Petre Dobrev, Radomira Vankova, Robert Sykes, Carsten Kulheim, and Victor Busov
Genomic signatures of extensive inbreeding in Isle Royale wolves, a population on the threshold of extinction, Jacqueline A. Robinson, Jannikke Raikkonen, Leah Vucetich, John A. Vucetich, Rolf O. Peterson, Kirk Lohmueller, and Robert Wayne
Dendrochronological investigation of the Knob Creek Cabin at President Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home, Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA, Maegen L. Rochner, Zachary A. Merrill, and Laura G. Smith
Plant functional group effects on peat carbon cycling in a boreal rich fen, Danielle L. Rupp, Evan Kane, Catherine Dieleman, Jason Keller, and Merritt Turetsky
Adaptation strategies and approaches for forested watersheds, P. Danielle Shannon, Christopher Swanston, Maria Janowiak, Stephen D. Handler, Kristen M. Schmitt, Leslie A. Brandt, and Patricia Butler-Leopold
Alternate trait‐based leaf respiration schemes evaluated at ecosystem‐scale through carbon optimization modeling and canopy property data, R. Q. Thomas, M. Williams, M. A. Cavaleri, J.‐F. Exbrayat, T. L. Smallman, and L. E. Street
A dated molecular perspective of eucalypt taxonomy, evolution and diversification, Andrew Thornhill, Michael Crisp, Carsten Kulheim, Kristy E. Lam, Leigh A. Nelson, David Yeates, and Joseph Miller
Adapting to climate change: guidance for the management of inland glacial lake fisheries, Ralph W. Tingley III, Craig Paukert, Greg G. Sass, Peter Jacobson, Gretchen Hansen, Abigail Lynch, and P. Danielle Shannon
Aquatic macrophytes are seasonally important dietary resources for moose, Keren B. Tischler, William J. Severud, Rolf O. Peterson, and Joseph K. Bump
Using annual Landsat imagery to identify harvesting over a range of intensities for non-industrial family forests, R Tortini, Audrey L. Mayer, T. Hermosilla, N Coops, and M. Wulder
Tooth fracture frequency in gray wolves reflects prey availability., Blaire Van Valkenburgh, Rolf O. Peterson, Douglas W Smith, Daniel R Stahler, and John A. Vucetich
Are current seedling demographics poised to regenerate northern US forests?, Lance A. Vickers, William H. McWilliams, Benjamin O. Knapp, Anthony W. D'Amato, Daniel C. Dey, Yvette L. Dickinson, and et al.
The value of argument analysis for understanding ethical considerations pertaining to trophy hunting and lion conservation, John A. Vucetich, Dawn Burnham, Paul J. Johnson, Andrew Loveridge, Michael Paul Nelson, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, and David W. Macdonald
Genome size variation within species of Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) and its wild ancestor sour jujube (Z. acidojujuba Cheng et Liu), Lihu Wang, Zhi Luo, Zhiguo Liu, Jin Zhao, Hairong Wei, Ping Liu, and Mengjun Liu
Morphological, cytological and nutritional changes of autotetraploid compared to its diploid counterpart in Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.), Lihu Wang, Zhi Luo, Lili Wang, Wenping Deng, Hairong Wei, Ping Liu, and Mengjun Liu
Restoration thinning impacts surface and belowground wood decomposition, Weiwei Wang, Deborah Page-Dumroese, Martin F. Jurgensen, Martin Jurgensen, Joanna Walitalo, Xiao Chen, and Yong Liu
Construction of a hierarchical gene regulatory network centered around a transcription factor, Hairong Wei
A novel approach to understanding bird communities using informed diversity estimates at local and regional scales in northern California and southern Oregon, Jared D. Wolfe, John D. Alexander, Jamie L. Stephens, and C. John Ralph
Soil warming effects on tropical forests with highly weathered soils, Tana E. Wood, Molly A. Cavaleri, Christian P. Giardina, Shafkat Khan, Jacqueline E. Mohan, Andrew T. Nottingham, Sasha C. Reed, and Martijn Slot
On the shoulders of giants: Continuing the legacy of large-scale ecosystem manipulation experiments in Puerto Rico, Tana E. Wood, Grizelle González, Whendee L. Silver, Sasha C. Reed, and Molly A. Cavaleri
Laboratory shear bond test for chip-seal under varying environmental and material conditions, Lingyun You, Dongzhao Jin, Zhanping You, Qingli Dai, Xinfeng Xie, Sarah Washko, and Samantha Cepeda
Stomatal density in Quercus petraea and Q. robur natural populations in Northern Turkey, Cengiz Yucedag, Jenneifer Sanders, Munkaila Musah, and Oliver Gailing
R-Loop Identification and Profiling in Plants., Pengyue Zhang, Yilong Feng, Hairong Wei, and Wenli Zhang
Co-expression analysis aids in the identification of genes in the cuticular wax pathway in maize., Jun Zheng, Cheng He, Yang Qin, Guifang Lin, Woojun D Park, Minghao Sun, Jian Li, Xiaoduo Lu, Chunyi Zhang, Cheng-Ting Yeh, Chathura J Gunasekara, Erliang Zeng, Hairong Wei, Patrick S Schnable, Guoying Wang, and Sanzhen Liu
Green synthesis of magnetic sodalite sphere by using groundwater treatment sludge for tetracycline adsorption, Suiyi Zhu, Yaqiong Wu, Zhan Qu, Leilei Zhang, Yang Yu, Xinfeng Xie, and et. al.
Works from 2018
The hydrologic role of urban green space in mitigating flooding (Luohe, China), Tian Bai, Audrey L. Mayer, William D. Shuster, and Guohang Tian
Nature for whom? How type of beneficiary influences the effectiveness of conservation outreach messages, Chelsea Batavia, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Julia A. Jones, John Vucetich, Hannah Gosnell, and Michael Paul Nelson
Methods to improve survival and growth of planted alternative species seedlings in black ash ecosystems threatened by emerald ash borer, Nicholas Bolton, Joseph Shannon, Joshua Davis, Matthew J. Van Grinsven, Nam Jin Noh, Shon Schooler, Randall K Kolka, Thomas Pypker, and Joseph Wagenbrenner
6.04 - Mapping peatlands in boreal and tropical ecoregions, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Sarah L. Endres, J. A. Graham, John A. Hribljan, Rodney Chimner, E. A. Lillieskov, and Matt Battaglia
Effects of habitat type change on taxonomic and functional composition of orchid bees (Apidae: Euglossini) in the Brazilian Amazon, Thaline F. Brito, Felipe A.L. Contrera, Colin Phifer, Jessie L. Knowlton, Leandro S. Brasil, Márcia M. Maués, and Daniel P. Silva
Sustainable forest bioenergy development strategies in Indochina: Collaborative effort to establish regional policies, Victor J. Bruckman, Maliwan Haruthaithanasan, Raymond O. Miller, Toru Terada, Anna-Katharina Brenner, Florian Kraxner, and David J. Flaspohler
Manipulation of growth and architectural characteristics in trees for increased woody biomass production, Victor B. Busov
Within-canopy experimental leaf warming induces photosynthetic decline instead of acclimation in two northern hardwood species, Kelsey R. Carter and Molly A. Cavaleri
A new method for restoring ditches in peatlands: ditch filling with fiber bales, Rodney Chimner, David Cooper, Marcie Bidwell, Anthony Culpepper, Kay Zillich, and Koren Nydick
Is success in detection of Agrilus planipennis related to forest edges?, Karen Cladas, Tara Lee Bal, and Andrew J. Storer
Effects of Experimental Soil Warming and Water Addition on the Transpiration of Mature Sugar Maple, Alex R. Collins, Andrew Burton, and Molly A. Cavaleri
Mangrove carbon assessment tool: Model development and sensitivity analysis, Zhaohua Dai, Carl C. Trettin, Steve Frolking, and Richard A. Birdsey
Mangrove carbon assessment tool: Model validation and assessment of mangroves in southern USA and Mexico, Zhaohua Dai, Carl C. Trettin, Steve Frolking, and Richard A. Birdsey
Gene network analysis of poplar root transcriptome in response to drought stress identifies a PtaJAZ3PtaRAP2.6-centered hierarchical network, Madhumita Dash, Yordan S. Yordanov, Tatyana Georgieva, Hairong Wei, and Victor Busov
JRmGRN: joint reconstruction of multiple gene regulatory networks with common hub genes using data from multiple tissues or conditions., Wenping Deng, Kui Zhang, Sanzhen Liu, Patrick X Zhao, Shizhong Xu, and Hairong Wei
Delineating and mapping riparian areas for ecosystem service assessment, Laura L. de Sosa, Helen C. Glanville, Miles R. Marshall, Sinan A. Abood, A. Prysor Williams, and Davey L. Jones
Compositional response of Amazon forests to climate change, Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, Timothy R. Baker, Kyle G. Dexter, Simon L. Lewis, Roel J.W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, Jhon del Aguila-Pasquel, and et. al.
Experimental evidence for selection against hybrids between two interfertile red oak species, Oliver Gailing and Ruhua Zhang
Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming, Angela V. Gallego-Sala, Dan J. Charman, Simon Brewer, Susan E. Page, I. Colin Prentice, Pierre Friedlingstein, Rodney A. Chimner, John Hribjlan, and et al.
Northern red oak regeneration: 25-year results of cutting and prescribed fire in Michigan oak and pine stands, Joshua J. Granger, David S. Buckley, Terry Sharik, John M. Zobel, William W. DeBord, Jason P. Hartman, Jason G. Henning, Tara L. Keyser, and Jordan M. Marshall
TGMI: an efficient algorithm for identifying pathway regulators through evaluation of triple-gene mutual interaction, Chathura J. Gunasekara, Kui Zhang, Wenping Deng, Laura E. Brown, and Hairong Wei
Kinetic analysis and thermodynamic simulation of alkali‐silica reaction in cementitious materials, Shuaicheng Guo, Qingli Dai, Liang Chang, Yun Hang Hu, Xinfeng Xie, Ruizhe Si, and Jiaqing Wang
Effectiveness of bare-root and gravel-culture shrubs used in wildlife habitat restoration on lakeshores in Northern Wisconsin, Daniel E. Haskell, Alex Bales, Christopher R. Webster, Michael W. Meyer, and David J. Flaspohler
High genomic diversity and candidate genes under selection associated with range expansion in eastern coyote (Canis latrans) populations, Elizabeth Heppenheimer, Kristin E. Brzeski, Joseph W. Hinton, Brent R. Patterson, Linda Y. Rutledge, Alexandra L. DeCandia, Tyler Wheeldon, Steven R. Fain, Paul A. Hohenlohe, Roland Kays, Bradley N. White, Michael J. Chamberlain, and Bridgett M. vonHoldt
High genomic diversity and candidate genes under selection associated with range expansion in eastern coyote (Canis latrans) populations, Elizabeth Heppenheimer, Kristin Brzeski, Joseph Hinton, Brent Patterson, Linda Rutledge, Alexandra L. DeCandia, and et. al.
Rediscovery of red wolf ghost alleles in canid population along the American Gulf Coast, Elizabeth Heppenheimer, Kristin Brzeski, Ron Wooten, William Waddell, Linda Y. Rutledge, Michael J. Chamberlain, and et. al.
Population genomic analysis of North American eastern wolves (Canic lycaon) support their conservation priority status, Elizabeth Heppenheimer, Ryan Harrigan, Linda Rutledge, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Alexandra L. DeCandia, Kristin Brzeski, and et. al.
Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition ameliorates the decline in tree growth caused by a drier climate., Inés Ibáñez, Donald R Zak, Andrew J Burton, and Kurt S Pregitzer
Avian community response to short-rotation Aspen forest management, Gina M. Jarvi, Jessie Knowlton, Colin Phifer, Amber Roth, Christopher R. Webster, and David J. Flaspohler
Shrimp ponds lead to massive loss of soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions in northeastern Brazilian mangroves, J. Boone Kauffman, Angelo F. Bernardino, Tiago O. Ferreira, Nicholas Bolton, Luiz Eduardo de O. Gomes, and Gabriel Nuto Nobrega
Infrared heater system for warming tropical forest understory plants and soils, Bruce Kimball, Auro M. Alonso-Rodriguez, Molly A. Cavaleri, Sasha Reed, Grizelle Gonzalez, and Tana E. Wood
Terrestrial Wetlands, Randall K Kolka, Carl Trettin, Wensu Tang, Ken Krauss, Sheel Bansal, Judith Drexler, Rodney Chimner, Evan S. Kane, and et. al.
Acclimation and adaptation components of the temperature dependence of plant photosynthesis at the global scale, Dushan P. Kumarathunge, Belinda E. Medlyn, John E. Drake, Mark G. Tjoelker, Kelsey Carter, Molly A. Cavaleri, and et al.
Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework project, Patricia Leopold, Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson III, Leslie A. Brandt, Stephen D. Handler, Danielle Shannon, Matt Kelly, and et. al.
Is Indonesian peatland loss a cautionary tale for Peru? A two-country comparison of the magnitude and causes of tropical peatland degradation, Erik Lilleskov, Kevin McCullough, Kristin Hergoualc'h, Dennis del Castillo Torres, Rodney Chimner, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, John A. Hribljan, John del Aquila Pasquel, and et. al.
A Temperature-Controlled, Conductive PANI@CNFs/MEO < inf> 2 MA/PEGMA Hydrogel for Flexible Temperature Sensors, Liu Liu, Sha Luo, Yan Qing, Ning Yan, Yiqiang Wu, Xinfeng Xie, and Feiyu Hu
Growth performance, organ-level ionic relations and organic osmoregulation of Elaeagnus angustifolia in response to salt stress, Zhengxiang Liu, Jiangfeng Zhu, Xiuyan Yang, Haiwen Wu, Qi Wei, Hairong Wei, and Huaxin Zhang
The Effect of poplar PsnGS1.2 overexpression on growth, secondary cell wall, and fiber characteristics in tobacco, Tingting Lu, Lulu Liu, Minjing Wei, Yingying Liu, Zianshang Qu, Chuanping Yang, Hairong Wei, and Zhigang Wei
Predicting Emerald Ash Borer, Agrilus Planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Landing Behavior on Unwounded Ash, Jordan M. Marshall, Melissa J. Porter, and Andrew J. Storer
Temperate and tropical forest canopies are already functioning beyond their thermal thresholds for photosynthesis, Alida C. Mau, Sasha C. Reed, Tana E. Wood, and Molly A. Cavaleri
Family forest owners and landscape-scale interactions: A review, Audrey L. Mayer
The response of boreal peatland community composition and NDVI to hydrologic change, warming, and elevated carbon dioxide, Mara Y. McPartland, Evan Kane, Michael J. Falkowski, Randall K. Kolka, Merritt R. Turetsky, Brian Palik, and Rebecca Montgomery
Analysis of environment-marker associations in American chestnut, Markus Müller, C. Dana Nelson, and Oliver Gailing
Temperature responses of carbon dioxide fluxes from coarse dead wood in a black ash wetland, Nam Jin Noh, Joseph Shannin, Nicholas Bolton, Joshua Davis, Matthew J. Van Grinsven, Thomas P. Pypker, Randall K. Kolka, and Joseph W. Wagenbrenner
Adaptation pathways: ecoregion and land ownership influences on climate adaptation decision-making in forest management, Todd A. Ontl, Chris Swanston, Leslie A. Brandt, Patricia Butler, Anthony W. D’Amato, Stephen D. Handler, Maria K. Janowiak, and P. Danielle Shannon
Climate change adaptation strategies and approaches for outdoor recreation, Daniel O'Toole, Leslie A. Brandt, Maria K. Janowiak, Danielle Shannon, Patricia Leopold, Stephen D. Handler, and et al.
Does persistent snowpack inhibit degradation of fecal stress indicators?, Grace Parikh, Christopher R. Webster, John A. Vucetich, John J. Durocher, and Joseph K. Bump
Transatlantic wood pellet trade demonstrates telecoupled benefits, Esther S. Parish, Anna J. Herzberger, Colin Phifer, and Virginia H. Dale
Incidental effects of cut-to-length harvest systems and residue management on populus tremuloides (Michx.) regeneration and yield, Michael I. Premer and Robert Froese
Spatiotemporal Variation of nutrient concentrations in the Upper Shule River Basin, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China, Hongzheng Pu, Yongjian Ding, Tianding Han, and Fengjing Liu
Uncovering discursive framings of the Bangladesh shipbreaking industry, S. M. Mizanur Rahman, Chelsea Schelly, Audrey L. Mayer, and Emma S. Norman
Factors affecting the distribution and abundance of autumn vagrant New World warblers in northwestern California and southern Oregon, C. John Ralph and Jared D. Wolfe
Auditory Displays for Take-Over in Semi-automated Vehicles, Erin Richie, Thomas Offer-Westort, Raghavendran Shankar, and Myounghoon Jeon
Nondestructive assessment of wood members in a viewing tower in Potawatomi State Park, Door County, Wisconsin, US, Robert Ross, Xiping Wang, and C. Adam Senalik
Examining the microclimate hypothesis in Amazonian birds: indirect tests of the ‘visual constraints’ mechanism, Cameron L. Rutt, Stephen R. Midway, Vitek Jirinec, Jared D. Wolfe, and Philip C. Stouffer
Water level controls on sap flux of canopy species in black ash wetlands, Joseph Shannon, Matthew Van Grinsven, Joshua Davis, Nicholas Bolton, Nam Jin Noh, Thomas Pypker, and Randall K Kolka
A genetic network mediating the control of bud break in hybrid aspen, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Jay P. Maurya, Abdul Azeez, Pal Miskolczi, Szymon Tylewicz, Katja Stojkovic, Nicolas Delhomme, Victor Busov, and Rishikesh P. Bhalerao
Vulnerability of forests of the Midwest and Northeast United States to climate change, Chris Swanston, Leslie A. Brandt, Maria K. Janowiak, Stephen D. Handler, Patricia Butler-Leopold, Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson, Todd A. Ontl, and P. Danielle Shannon
Genetic diversity and structure of natural Juglans regia L. populations in the southern Kyrgyz Republic revealed by nuclear SSR and EST-SSR markers, Nurlan Torokeldiev, M. Ziehe, Oliver Gailing, and R. Finkeldey
Response of black ash wetland gaseous soil carbon fluxes to a simulated emerald ash borer infestation, Matthew Van Grinsven, Joseph Shannon, Nicholas Bolton, Joshua Davis, Nam Jin Noh, Joseph Wagenbrenner, and et al.
Authority, cultural relativism and the principles of just conservation: Rejoinder to Pooley and Redpath (2018), John Vucetich, Dawn Burnham, Ewan A. Macdonald, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Silvio Marchini, Alexandra Zimmermann, and David W. Macdonald
Just conservation: What is it and should we pursue it?, John Vucetich, Dawn Burnham, Ewan A. Macdonald, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Silvio Marchini, Alexandra Zimmermann, and David W. Macdonald
Effect of forest thinning and wood quality on the short-term wood decomposition rate in a Pinus tabuliformis plantation, Weiwei Wang, Deborah Page-Dumroese, Martin Jurgensen, Joanne Tirocke, and Yong Liu
Vertical foraging shifts in Hawaiian forest birds in response to invasive rat removal, Erin E. Wilson Rankin, Jessie L. Knowlton, Daniel S. Gruner, David J. Flaspohler, Christian P. Giardina, Devin R. Leopold, Anna Buckardt, William C. Pitt, and Tadashi Fukami
Widespread antisense transcription of Populus genome under drought, Yinan Yuan and Su Chen
Works from 2017
Evidence of damage from exotic invasive earthworm activity was highly correlated to sugar maple dieback in the Upper Great Lakes region, Tara L. Bal, Andrew J. Storer, and Martin F. Jurgensen
Sustainable Development for Whom and How? Exploring the Gaps between Popular Discourses and Ground Reality Using the Mexican Jatropha Biodiesel Case, Aparajita Banerjee, Kathleen Halvorsen, Amarella Eastmond-Spencer, and Sam R. Sweitz
Quantitative trait locus mapping of Populus bark features and stem diameter, Roba Bdeir, Wellington Muchero, Yordan Yordanov, Gerald Tuskan, Victor B. Busov, and Oliver Gailing
Mapping peatlands in boreal and tropical ecoregions, L. L. Bourgeau-Chavez, S. L. Endres, J. A. Graham, J. A. Hribljan, R. A. Chimner, E. A. Lillieskov, and M. J. Battaglia
Integrating science and management to assess forest ecosystem vulnerability to climate change, Leslie A. Brandt, Patricia Butler, Stephen D. Handler, Maria K. Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, and Christopher W. Swanston
Forest reserves and riparian corridors help maintain orchid bee (Hymenoptera: Euglossini) communities in oil palm plantations in Brazil, Thaline F. Brito, Colin Phifer, Jessie L. Knowlton, Cynthia M. Fiser, Nia M. Becker, Fernanda C. Barros, Felipe A.L. Contrera, Márcia M. Maués, Leandro Juen, Luciano F.A. Montag, Christopher R. Webster, David J. Flaspohler, Marcos P.D. Santos, and Daniel P. Silva
Tropical rainforest carbon sink declines during El Niño as a result of reduced photosynthesis and increased respiration rates, Molly A. Cavaleri, Adam P. Coble, Michael G. Ryan, William L. Bauerle, Henry W. Loescher, and Steven F. Oberbauer
Multi-decadal Changes in Water Table Levels Alter Peatland Carbon Cycling, Rodney Chimner, Thomas G. Pypker, John A. Hribljan, Paul A. Moore, and James M. Waddington
Vertical leaf mass per area gradient of mature sugar maple reflects both height-driven increases in vascular tissue and light-driven increases in palisade layer thickness, Adam P. Coble and Molly A. Cavaleri