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National Forest Health Monitoring Research Team
The National Forest Health Monitoring Research Team (FHM) is the national research center for the U.S. Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring Program. The team's mission is to sustain and enhance forest ecosystems and the benefits they provide.
The FHM team produces National assessments of forest health status and trends and conducts research aimed at improving those assessments over time. FHM scientists specialize in statistics and modeling, forest biometrics, ecological assessment, and landscape ecology; their work is coordinated with other national and international research and assessment programs.
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Forest Health Monitoring Team Staff
Bill Bechtold, Research Forester, FHM Team Leader
Kurt Riitters, Landscape Ecologist
William Smith, Biometrician
Kenneth Stolte, Research Ecologist
Valerie Cooper, Financial Assistant
North Carolina State University Cooperators:
Fred Cubbage, Professor
Barbara Conkling, Research Assistant Professor
Kevin Potter, Research Assistant Professor
Frank Koch, Research Assistant Professor
Mark Ambrose, Research Assistant
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Recent Publications
- Spatio-temporal analysis of Xyleborus glabratus (Coleoptera: Circulionidae: Scolytinae) invasion in eastern US forests (PDF)
- The Forest Health Monitoring National Technical Reports: Examples of Analyses and Results from 2001 - 2004
- Forest Health Monitoring: 2005 National Technical Report
- Crown-condition classification: A guide to data collection and analysis (PDF)
- Digital photography for urban street tree crown condition (PDF)
- The effect of Appalachian mountaintop mining on interior forest (PDF)
- The historical background, framework, and application of forest health monitoring in the United States (PDF)
- Indicating disturbance content and context for preserved areas (PDF)
- Landscape-scale prediction of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae (Homoptera: Adelgidae), infestation in the southern Appalachian mountains (PDF)
- Mapping landscape corridors (PDF)
- Mapping spatial patterns with morphological image processing (PDF)
- Neutral model analysis of landscape patterns from mathematical morphology (PDF)
- Ozone Bioindicator Sampling and Estimation (PDF)
- Patterns of disturbance at multiple scales in real and simulated landscapes (PDF)
- Temporal change in forest fragmentation at multiple scales (PDF)
