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 2015
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
Fertility-dependent effects of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities on white spruce seedling nutrition, Alistair J.H. Smith, Lynette R. Potvin, and Erik A. Lilleskov
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
Elevated CO2 and O3 effects on ectomycorrhizal fungal root tip communities in consideration of a post-agricultural soil nutrient gradient legacy, Carrie Andrew and Erik A. Lilleskov
Long-term water table manipulations alter peatland gaseous carbon fluxes in Northern Michigan, Drew M. Ballantyne, John A. Hribljan, Thomas G. Pypker, and Rodney Chimner
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
Developing and Evaluating Rapid Field Methods to Estimate Peat Carbon, Rodney Chimner, Cassandra A. Ott, Charles H. Perry, and Randall K. Kolka
Are riparian bur oak phreatophytic? A stable water isotope study in Homestead National Monument, Nebraska, Rodney Chimner and Sigrid Resh
Converging patterns of vertical variability in leaf morphology and nitrogen across seven Eucalyptus plantations in Brazil and Hawaii, USA, Adam P. Coble, Alisha Autio, Molly A. Cavaleri, Dan Binkley, and Michael G. Ryan
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
Chronic nitrogen additions suppress decomposition and sequester soil carbon in temperate forests, S. D. Frey, S. Ollinger, K. Nadelhoffer, R. Bowden, E. Brzostek, A. J. Burton, B. A. Caldwell, S. Crow, C. L. Goodale, A. S. Grandy, A. Finzi, M. G. Kramer, K. Lajtha, J. LeMoine, M. Martin, W. H. McDowell, R. Minocha, J. J. Sadowsky, P. H. Templer, and K. Wickings
Genetic rescue in Isle Royale wolves: genetic analysis and the collapse of the population, Philip W. Hedrick, Rolf O. Peterson, Leah Vucetich, Jennifer R. Adams, and John A. Vucetich
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
Pop's Pipes: Poplar gene expression data analysis pipelines, Xiang Li, Chathura J. Gunasekara, Yufeng Guo, Hang Zhang, Liang Lei, Sermsawat Tunlaya-Anukit, Victor Busov, Vincent Chiang, Hairong Wei, and Hairong Wei
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
A Migratory Ungulate Facilitates Cross-Boundary Nitrogen Transport in Forested Landscapes, Bryan D. Murray, Christopher R. Webster, and Joseph K. Bump
Enhanced accumulation of fatty acids and triacylglycerols in transgenic tobacco stems for enhanced bioenergy production, Akula Nookaraju, Shashank K. Pandey, Takeshi Fujino, Ju Young Kim, Mi Chung Suh, and Chandrashekhar P. Joshi
Improving regeneration of mahogany: Techniques for vegetative propagation of four African mahogany species using leafy stem cuttings, Sandra A. Owusu, Emmanuel Opuni-Frimpong, and Charles Antwi-Boasiako
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
Forest Diversity and Structure Surrounding Vernal Pools in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan, USA, Wilfred Previant and Linda M. Nagel
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
DR5 as a reporter system to study auxin response in Populus, Yiru Chen, Yordan S. Yordanov, Cathleen Ma, Steven Strauss, and Victor Busov
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
The Role of Wood Ants (Formica rufa group) in Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics of a Boreal Norway Spruce Forest Ecosystem, Leena Finér, Martin Jurgensen, Timo Domisch, Jouni Kilpeläinen, Seppo Neuvonen, Pekka Punttila, Anita C. Risch, Mizue Ohashi, and Pekka Niemelä
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
Genetic mapping of EST-derived simple sequence repeats (EST-SSRs) to identify QTL for leaf morphological characters in a Quercus robur full-sib family, Oliver Gailing, Catherine Bodénès, Reiner Finkeldey, Antoine Kremer, and Christophe Plomion
Socioeconomic and environmental impacts of biofuels: evidence from developing nations, Kathleen Halvorsen
Dendroclimatic signals deduced from riparian versus upland forest interior pines in North Karelia, Finland, Samuli Helama, Birgitte W. Arentoft, Olivier Collin-Haubensak, Mike Hyslop, Charlotte K. Brandstrup, Hanna M. Mäkelä, Qin Hua Tian, and Rob Wilson
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
Improved recombinant cellulase expression in chloroplast of tobacco through promoter engineering and 5′ amplification promoting sequence, Sera Jung, Dae Seok Lee, Yeon Ok Kim, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, and Hyeun Jong Bae
Influence of surface water mineral nutrition on the plasticity of Sarracenia purpurea in Sphagnum fens, marl wetlands, and sand savannahs, Jennifer M. Karberg and Margaret R. Gale
Spatial and temporal deforestation dynamics of Zagros forests (Iran) from 1972 to 2009, Azad Henareh Khalyani and Audrey L. Mayer
Genetic structure of Quercus rubra L. and Quercus ellipsoidalis E. J. Hill populations at gene-based EST-SSR and nuclear SSR markers, Jennifer F. Lind and Oliver Gailing
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
Productivity, pest tolerance and carbon sequestration of Khaya grandifoliola in the dry semi-deciduous forest of Ghana: A comparison in pure stands and mixed stands, E. Opuni-Frimpong, S. M. Opoku, A. J. Storer, A. J. Burton, and D. Yeboah
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
The effects of several commercial wood coatings on the deterioration of biological pigments in wood exposed to UV light, Sara C. Robinson, Daniela Tudor, Yasmin Mansourian, and Paul A. Cooper
Predicting exotic earthworm distribution in the northern Great Lakes region, Lindsey M. Shartell, Erik A. Lilleskov, and Andrew J. Storer
Identification, characterization of an AP2/ERF transcription factor that promotes adventitious, lateral root formation in Populus, Dalila Trupiano, Yordan Yordanov, Sharon Regan, Richard Meilan, Timothy Tschaplinski, Gabriella Stefania Scippa, and Victor Busov
Poor Odors, Strength, and Persistence Give Their Rewards to Mutilla europaea Visiting Dangerous Wasp Nests, Alessia Uboni and M. Cristina Lorenzi
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
Genetic variation and differentiation in Juniperus excelsa M. Bieb. populations in Turkey, Cengiz Yücedaǧ and Oliver Gailing
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
An ecoregional context for forest management on national wildlife refuges of the Upper Midwest, USA, R. Gregory Corace, Lindsey M. Shartell, Lisa A. Schulte, Wayne L. Brininger, Michelle K.D. McDowell, and Daniel M. Kashian
Synergistic interactions between Glomus mosseae and Bradyrhizobium japonicum in enhancing proton release from nodules and hyphae, Xiaodong Ding, Xinhua Sui, Fang Wang, Junhua Gao, Xinhua He, Fusuo Zhang, Juncheng Yang, and Gu Feng
Leaf morphological and genetic differentiation between Quercus rubra L. and Q. ellipsoidalis E.J. Hill populations in contrasting environments, Oliver Gailing, Jennifer Lind, and Erik Lilleskov
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
Compliance with wetland mitigation standards in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA, Andrew Kozich and Kathleen Halvorsen
Long term study of greenhouse gases influence on epicuticular waxes of Populus tremuloides Michx, Blanka Mañkovská, Július Oszlányi, and David F. Karnosky
Evaluating the efficacy of non-invasive genetic methods and estimating wolf survival during a ten-year period, F. Marucco, L. M. Vucetich, R. O. Peterson, J. R. Adams, and J. A. Vucetich
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
Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.), Madhav Pandey, Oliver Gailing, Hans H. Hattemer, and Reiner Finkeldey
Association of Pinus banksiana Lamb. and Populus tremuloides Michx. seedling fine roots with Sistotrema brinkmannii (Bres.) J. Erikss. (Basidiomycotina), Lynette R. Potvin, Dana Richter, Martin Jurgensen, and R. Kasten Dumroese
Peer influence of non-industrial private forest owners in the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Jillian R. Schubert and Audrey L. Mayer
Exotic Earthworm Communities within Upland Deciduous Forests of National Wildlife Refuges in the Upper Midwest, Lindsey M. Shartell, R. Gregory Corace, and Andrew J. Storer
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
The causes and consequences of partial prey consumption by wolves preying on moose, John A. Vucetich, Leah Vucetich, and Rolf O. Peterson
Anthropogenic N Deposition Increases Soil C Storage by Decreasing the Extent of Litter Decay: Analysis of Field Observations with an Ecosystem Model, Kyle A. Whittinghill, William S. Currie, Donald R. Zak, Andrew J Burton, and Kurt S. Pregitzer
Contributions of algae to GPP and DOC production in an Alaskan fen: Effects of historical water table manipulations on ecosystem responses to a natural flood, Kevin H. Wyatt, Merritt R. Turetsky, Allison R. Rober, Danilo Giroldo, Evan S. Kane, and R. Jan Stevenson
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