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Overview

Anthony W. D'Amato is a researcher affiliated with the University of Vermont in the United States, specializing in environmental science with a focus on forest ecosystems and management. The primary areas of their research encompass global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, insect science, and atmospheric science.

Their work covers diverse topics related to forest ecology and management, including fire effects on ecosystems, forest management and policy, ecological and vegetation dynamics, forest biodiversity studies, forest insect ecology, and plant water relations as well as carbon dynamics.

Recent publications by Anthony W. D'Amato include:

  • Building on the last "new" thing: exploring the compatibility of ecological and adaptation silviculture, 2020, Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Low stand density moderates growth declines during hot droughts in semi-arid forests, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Operationalizing forest-assisted migration in the context of climate change adaptation: Examples from the eastern USA, 2022, Ecosphere
  • Identifying trade-offs and opportunities for forest carbon and wildlife using a climate change adaptation lens, 2022, Conservation Science and Practice
  • Mixedwood silviculture in North America: the science and art of managing for complex, multi-species temperate forests, 2021, Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Frequent co-authors include Brian J. Palik, Christopher W. Woodall, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Peter W. Clark, and Robert A. Slesak, reflecting collaborative work that spans multiple studies and projects in forest ecology and management.

Anthony W. D'Amato's research has appeared in several key publication venues with multiple contributions, including:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Journal of Forestry
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Ecosphere

Their focus on forest ecosystems often intersects with practical forest management strategies in response to environmental challenges such as climate change, drought, and biodiversity conservation.

Best Publications

  • The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States.

    James S. Clark;Louis Iverson;Christopher W. Woodall;Craig D. Allen

  • Effects of thinning on drought vulnerability and climate response in north temperate forest ecosystems

    Anthony W. D'Amato;John B. Bradford;Shawn Fraver;Shawn Fraver;Brian J. Palik

  • Recognizing trade‐offs in multi‐objective land management

    John B Bradford;Anthony W D'Amato

  • Forest management for mitigation and adaptation to climate change: Insights from long-term silviculture experiments

    Anthony W. D'Amato;John B. Bradford;Shawn Fraver;Brian J. Palik

  • Density‐dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought

    Alessandra Bottero;Alessandra Bottero;Anthony W. D'Amato;Anthony W. D'Amato;Brian J. Palik;John B. Bradford

  • Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

    Andreas Sommerfeld;Cornelius Senf;Cornelius Senf;Brian Buma;Anthony W. D’Amato

  • Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: A National Experiment in Manager-Scientist Partnerships to Apply an Adaptation Framework

    Linda M. Nagel;Brian J. Palik;Michael A. Battaglia;Anthony W. D'Amato

  • Quantifying carbon stores and decomposition in dead wood: A review

    Matthew B. Russell;Shawn Fraver;Tuomas Aakala;Jeffrey H. Gove

  • Competition amplifies drought stress in forests across broad climatic and compositional gradients

    Kelly E. Gleason;John B. Bradford;Alessandra Bottero;Anthony W. D'Amato

  • Multi-year ecosystem response to hemlock woolly adelgid infestation in southern New England forests

    David A. OrwigD.A. Orwig;Richard C. CobbR.C. Cobb;Anthony W. D’AmatoA.W. D’Amato;Matthew L. KizlinskiM.L. Kizlinski

  • Challenges facing gap-based silviculture and possible solutions for mesic northern forests in North America

    Christel C. Kern;Julia I. Burton;Patricia Raymond;Anthony W. D'Amato

  • Threats to North American forests from southern pine beetle with warming winters

    Corey Lesk;Ethan Coffel;Anthony W. D’Amato;Kevin Dodds

  • Residence Times and Decay Rates of Downed Woody Debris Biomass/Carbon in Eastern US Forests

    Matthew B. Russell;Christopher W. Woodall;Shawn Fraver;Anthony W. D’Amato

  • Regeneration responses to gap size and coarse woody debris within natural disturbance-based silvicultural systems in northeastern Minnesota, USA

    Nicholas W. Bolton;Anthony W. D’Amato

  • Understory vegetation in old-growth and second-growth Tsuga canadensis forests in western Massachusetts

    Anthony W. D’Amato;Anthony W. D’Amato;Anthony W. D’Amato;David A. Orwig;David Russell Foster

  • Climate remains an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the eastern United States.

    Neil Pederson;Anthony W. D'Amato;James M. Dyer;David R. Foster

  • Tree growth and competition in an old‐growth Picea abies forest of boreal Sweden: influence of tree spatial patterning

    Shawn Fraver;Anthony W. D'Amato;John B. Bradford;Bengt Gunnar Jonsson

  • Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Landscape

    David Foster;John Aber;Charles Cogbill;Clarisse Hart

  • Shifting conceptions of complexity in forest management and silviculture

    Robert T. Fahey;Brandon C. Alveshere;Julia I. Burton;Anthony W. D'Amato

  • Minnesota forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework project

    Stephen Handler;Matthew J. Duveneck;Louis Iverson;Emily Peters

  • Influence of competition and age on tree growth in structurally complex old-growth forests in northern Minnesota, USA

    Tuomas Aakala;Shawn Fraver;Anthony W. D’Amato;Brian J. Palik

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Palik
Brian J. Palik US Forest Service
Shawn Fraver
Shawn Fraver University of Maine
John B. Bradford
John B. Bradford United States Geological Survey
Christopher W. Woodall
Christopher W. Woodall US Forest Service
Grant M. Domke
Grant M. Domke US Forest Service
David R. Foster
David R. Foster Harvard University
David A. Orwig
David A. Orwig Harvard University
David J. Mladenoff
David J. Mladenoff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Klaus J. Puettmann
Klaus J. Puettmann Oregon State University
Louis R. Iverson
Louis R. Iverson US Forest Service

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