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Christopher W. Woodall

Christopher W. Woodall

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
11138
World Ranking
2852
National Ranking
1010

Overview

Christopher W. Woodall is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily encompasses environmental science, with a focus on forest ecology and management. This work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, environmental engineering, and ecology.

Woodall's recent publications cover a range of topics within forest ecology, carbon storage, and biodiversity. Notable papers include:

  • Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century, 2021, published in Science Advances
  • Release of coarse woody detritus-related carbon: a synthesis across forest biomes, 2020, published in Carbon Balance and Management
  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients, 2022, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East, 2022, published in Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • Structural and species diversity explain aboveground carbon storage in forests across the United States: Evidence from GEDI and forest inventory data, 2023, published in Remote Sensing of Environment

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Woodall include:

  • Anthony W. D'Amato
  • Grant M. Domke
  • Aaron R. Weiskittel
  • G.J. Nabuurs
  • Sergio de-Miguel

The venues where Woodall most frequently publishes encompass:

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

Woodall's core research topics include:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Best Publications

  • Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

    Kai Zhu;Christopher W. Woodall;James S. Clark

  • 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

  • Forest carbon storage: ecology, management, and policy

    Timothy J Fahey;Peter B Woodbury;John J Battles;Christine L Goodale

  • Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century

    Liang Xu;Sassan S. Saatchi;Sassan S. Saatchi;Yan Yang;Yifan Yu

  • An indicator of tree migration in forests of the eastern United States

    C. W. Woodall;C. M. Oswalt;J. A. Westfall;C. H. Perry

  • More than the sum of the parts: forest climate response from joint species distribution models

    James S. Clark;Alan E. Gelfand;Christopher W. Woodall;Kai Zhu

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

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

  • Woody detritus density and density reduction factors for tree species in the United States: a synthesis

    Mark E. Harmon;Christopher W. Woodall;Becky Fasth;Jay Sexton

  • Determining maximum stand density index in mixed species stands for strategic-scale stocking assessments

    Chris W. Woodall;Patrick D. Miles;John S. Vissage

  • Imputing forest carbon stock estimates from inventory plots to a nationally continuous coverage.

    Barry Tyler Wilson;Christopher W Woodall;Douglas M Griffith

  • Methods and equations for estimating aboveground volume, biomass, and carbon for trees in the U.S. forest inventory, 2010

    Christopher W. Woodall;Linda S. Heath;Grant M. Domke;Michael C. Nichols

  • Sampling protocol, estimation, and analysis procedures for the down woody materials indicator of the FIA program

    Christopher W. Woodall;Vicente J. Monleon

  • 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

  • Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration and turnover through life history

    Kai Zhu;Christopher W. Woodall;Souparno Ghosh;Alan E. Gelfand

  • Managed Forest Carbon Estimates for the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory, 1990-2008

    Linda S. Heath;James E. Smith;Kenneth E. Skog;David J. Nowak

  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

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  • Release of coarse woody detritus-related carbon: a synthesis across forest biomes.

    Mark E. Harmon;Becky G. Fasth;Misha Yatskov;Douglas Kastendick

  • Differences between standing and downed dead tree wood density reduction factors: A comparison across decay classes and tree species

    Mark E. Harmon;Christopher W. Woodall;Becky Fasth;Jay Sexton

  • A Call to Improve Methods for Estimating Tree Biomass for Regional and National Assessments

    Aaron R. Weiskittel;David W. MacFarlane;Philip J. Radtke;David L.R. Affleck

  • Applications of the United States Forest Inventory and Analysis dataset: A review and future directions

    Wade Travis Tinkham;Patrick Ryan Mahoney;Andrew T. Hudak;Grant M. Domke

  • Carbon concentration of standing and downed woody detritus: Effects of tree taxa, decay class, position, and tissue type

    Mark E. Harmon;Becky Fasth;Christopher W. Woodall;Jay Sexton

  • National inventories of down and dead woody material forest carbon stocks in the United States: Challenges and opportunities

    C.W. Woodall;L.S. Heath;J.E. Smith

  • The forests of Maine: 2003

    William H. McWilliams;Brett J. Butler;Laurence E. Caldwell;Douglas M. Griffith

  • Biodiversity in Dead Wood

    Christopher W. Woodall

Frequent Co-Authors

Grant M. Domke
Grant M. Domke US Forest Service
Anthony W. D'Amato
Anthony W. D'Amato University of Vermont
John W. Coulston
John W. Coulston US Forest Service
Shawn Fraver
Shawn Fraver University of Maine
Mark E. Harmon
Mark E. Harmon Oregon State University
James S. Clark
James S. Clark Duke University
Andrew N. Gray
Andrew N. Gray US Forest Service
Warren B. Cohen
Warren B. Cohen Oregon State University
Sassan Saatchi
Sassan Saatchi California Institute of Technology
Aaron R. Weiskittel
Aaron R. Weiskittel University of Maine

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