Publications (2007-2009): Forest Health Monitoring
Ambrose, M.J.; Conkling, B.L. (eds.). 2009. Forest health monitoring 2006 national technical report. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-XXX, Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. In press.
Bechtold, W.A.; Randolph, K.C.; Zarnoch, S.J. 2009. The power of FIA Phase 3 crown-indicator variables to detect change. In: McWilliams, W.; Moisen, G.; Czaplewski, R., comps. 2008. 2008 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium; October 1-23, 2008. Park City, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 1 CD. In press.
Conkling, B.L. (ed.). 2009. Forest health monitoring 2007 national technical report. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-xxx, Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. In press.
Coulston, J.W.; Koch, F.H.; Smith, W.D.; Sapio, F.J. 2009. Developing survey grids to substantiate freedom from exotic pests. Proceedings of the 8th Annual USDA-FS Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium, October 16-19, 2006, Monterey, CA. In press.
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.
Koch, F.H., and J.W. Coulston. 2009. Modeling current climate conditions for forest pest risk assessment. Pye, J.M.; Rauscher, H.M.; Sands, Y.; Lee, D.C.; Beatty, J.S. (eds.). Advances in Threat Assessment and their Application to Forest and Rangeland Management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW xxx. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Station & Southern Research Station. In press.
Koch, F.H.; Coulston, J.W.; Smith, W.D.; Sapio, F.J. 2009. Developing surveys with known reliability for recently discovered forest pests. In: Proceedings of the IUFRO International Forest Biosecurity Conference. Rotorua, New Zealand, March 16-20, 2009.
Koch, F.H.; Smith, W.D. 2009. Representing human-mediated pathways in forest pest risk mapping. Pye, J.M.; Rauscher, H.M.; Sands, Y.; Lee, D.C.; Beatty, J.S. (eds.). Advances in Threat Assessment and their Application to Forest and Rangeland Management. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW xxx. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Station & Southern Research Station. In press.
Koch, F.H., D. Yemshanov, D.W. McKenney, and W.D. Smith. 2009. Evaluating critical uncertainty thresholds in a spatial model of forest pest invasion risk. Risk Analysis. In press.
Potter, K.M.; Conkling, B.L. (eds). 2009. Forest health monitoring 2008 national technical report. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-xxx, Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. In press.
Randolph, K,C.; Bechtold, W.A,; Zarnoch, S.J. 2009. From detection monitoring to evaluation monitoring—a case study involving crown dieback among northern white cedar. In: McWilliams, W.; Moisen, G.; Czaplewski, R., comps. 2008. 2008 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium; October 1-23, 2008. Park City, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 1 CD. In press.
Riitters, K., P. Vogt, P. Soille, and C. Estreguil. 2009. Landscape patterns from mathematical morphology on maps with contagion. Landscape Ecology 24:699-709.
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.
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.
Stolte K.W.; Conkling, B.L.; Fulton, S.; Bradley, P. (eds.). 2009. State of Forests in the Mid-Atlantic Region. United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. General Technical Report SRS-xxx. In press.
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.
Wade, T.G., J.D. Wickham, N. Zacarelli, and K.H. Riitters. 2009. A multi-scale method of mapping urban influence. Environmental Modelling and Software 24:1252-1256.
Westfall, J.A.; Bechtold, W.A.; Randolph, K.C. 2009. An assessment of measurement repeatability for the national tree crown indicator. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-xxx. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. In press.
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.
Yemshanov, D., D.W. McKenney, J.H. Pedlar, F.H. Koch, and D. Cook. 2009. Towards an integrated approach to modeling the risks and impacts of invasive forest species. Environmental Reviews. In press.
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.
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.
Holmes, T. and W.D. Smith. 2008. Linking sudden oak death risk with spatial economic value transfer. In: Frankel, Susan J.; Kliejunas, John T.; Palmieri, Katharine M., tech. coords. 2008. Proceedings of the sudden oak death third science symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-214, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 491 p.
Jetton, R.M.; W.A. Whittier; W.S. Dvorak; K.M. Potter. 2008. Status of ex situ conservation efforts for eastern and Carolina hemlock in the southeastern United States. Pp. 81-89 In: Onken, B.; Reardon, R., eds., Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. FHTET-2008-01. Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 299 p.
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.
Josserand, S.A., K.M. Potter, C.S. Echt, and C.D. Nelson. 2008. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana). Molecular Ecology Resources 6:65-68.
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.
Koch, F. H.; Smith, W.D. 2008. Mapping sudden oak death risk nationally using host, climate, and pathways data. In: Frankel, Susan J.; Kliejunas, John T.; Palmieri, Katharine M., tech. coords. 2008. Proceedings of the sudden oak death third science symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-214, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 491 p.
McKelvey, S.; Koch, F.H; Smith, W.D. 2008. Predicting movement of nursery hosts using a linear network model. In: Frankel, Susan J.; Kliejunas, John T.; Palmieri, Katharine M., tech. coords. In: Proceedings of the sudden oak death third science symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-214, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 491 p.
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.
Potter, K.M. 2008. From genes to ecosystems: Measuring evolutionary diversity and community structure with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data. In: McWilliams, W.; Moisen, G.; Czaplewski, R., comps. 2008. 2008 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium; October 1-23, 2008. Park City, UT. Proc. RMRS-P-56CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 1 CD.
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.
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.
Wickham, J.D., K.H. Riitters, T.G. Wade, and C. Homer. 2008. Temporal change in fragmentation of continental US forests. Landscape Ecology 23:891-898.
Wickham, J.D., T.G. Wade, and K.H. Riitters. 2008. Detecting temporal change in watershed nutrient yields. Environmental Management 42:223-231.
Zaccarelli, N., I. Petrosillo, G. Zurlini, and K.H. Riitters. 2008?. Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale mismatches in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes. Ecology and Society 13(1):26.
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.
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.
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.
McShea, W.J., W.M. Healy, P. Devers, T. Fearer, F.H. Koch, D. Stauffer, and J. Waldon. 2007. Forestry matters: the current decline of oaks will impact wildlife in hardwood forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 71(5):1717-1728.
Riitters, K.H. 2007. Forest fragmentation research identified by the U.S. 2003 national assessment for the Montreal Process. P 4-8 In: Riitters and Estreguil (eds), 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.
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.
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.
Riitters, K.H.; Wickham, J.D. 2007. Concepts and methods for interdisciplinary land-cover pattern assessment. Pp. 811-812 in Jongmann et al (eds), Proceedings of the IALE World Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 2007.
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.
Smith, G.C.; Smith, W.D.; Coulston, J.W. 2007. Ozone biomonitoring sampling and estimation. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-20. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 34 p.
Vogt, P., K.H. Riitters, M. Iwanowski, C. Estreguil, J. Kozak, and P. Soille. Mapping landscape corridors. Ecological Indicators 7:481-488.
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.
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.
Wickham, J.D., Wade, T.G., and K.H. Riitters. 2007. Land-cover change and its impact on nutrient export variance. Pp. 807 in Jongmann et al (eds), Proceedings of the IALE World Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 2007.
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.
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.
Zaccarelli, N. Petrosillo, I. Zurlini, G., and K. Riitters. 2007. Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale effects as a template for environmental security assessment in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes. Pp. 823-824 in Jongmann et al (eds), Proceedings of the IALE World Congress, Wageningen, The Netherlands, July 2007.
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