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David J. Mladenoff is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work encompasses several subfields, including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

Main topics covered by their research include:

  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Lichen and fungal ecology

David J. Mladenoff has published multiple papers with a focus on forest ecosystems, vegetation dynamics, and related ecological processes. Recent notable publications include:

  • The influence of land abandonment on forest disturbance regimes: a global review (2020) in Landscape Ecology
  • Effects of forest canopy gaps on the ground-layer plant community depend on deer: Evidence from a controlled experiment (2020) in Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Emergent properties of downed woody debris in canopy gaps: A response of the soil ecosystem to manipulation of forest structure (2020) in Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • The forests of the midwestern United States at Euro-American settlement: Spatial and physical structure based on contemporaneous survey data (2021) in PLoS ONE
  • 8000-year doubling of Midwestern forest biomass driven by population- and biome-scale processes (2022) in Science

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Jodi A. Forrester
  • Lili Perreault
  • Murray K. Clayton
  • Daniel L. Lindner
  • Shawn Fraver

Their research has appeared frequently in several publication venues, with multiple papers published in:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Ecosystems
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Best Publications

  • A Regional Landscape Analysis and Prediction of Favorable Gray Wolf Habitat in the Northern Great Lakes Region

    David J. Mladenoff;Theodore A. Sickley;Robert G. Haight;Adrian P. Wydeven

  • Design, development, and application of LANDIS-II, a spatial landscape simulation model with flexible temporal and spatial resolution

    Robert M. Scheller;James B. Domingo;Brian R. Sturtevant;Jeremy S. Williams

  • Comparing Spatial Pattern in Unaltered Old-Growth and Disturbed Forest Landscapes.

    David J. Mladenoff;Mark A. White;John Pastor;Thomas R. Crow

  • SPATIALLY EXPLICIT AND STOCHASTIC SIMULATION OF FOREST- LANDSCAPE FIRE DISTURBANCE AND SUCCESSION

    Hong S. He;David J. Mladenoff

  • An aggregation index (AI) to quantify spatial patterns of landscapes

    Hong S. He;Barry E. DeZonia;David J. Mladenoff

  • Sustainable Biofuels Redux

    G. Philip Robertson;Virginia H. Dale;Otto C. Doering;Steven P. Hamburg

  • Improved forest classification in the northern Lake States using multi-temporal Landsat imagery

    Peter T. Wolter;David J. Mladenoff;George E. Host;Thomas R. Crow

  • Predicting Human-Carnivore Conflict: a Spatial Model Derived from 25 Years of Data on Wolf Predation on Livestock

    Adrian Treves;Adrian Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Lisa Naughton-Treves;Elizabeth K. Harper;David J. Mladenoff

  • Homogenization of northern U.S. Great Lakes forests due to land use

    Lisa A. Schulte;David J. Mladenoff;Thomas R. Crow;Laura C. Merrick

  • LANDIS and forest landscape models

    David J. Mladenoff

  • Predicting gray wolf landscape recolonization: logistic regression models vs. new field data

    David J. Mladenoff;Theodore A. Sickley;Adrian P. Wydeven

  • Spatial simulation of forest succession and timber harvesting using LANDIS.

    Eric J. Gustafson;Stephen R. Shifley;David J. Mladenoff;Kevin K. Nimerfro

  • Design, behavior and application of LANDIS, an object-oriented model of forest landscape disturbance and succession.

    D. J. Mladenoff;H. S. He;W. L. Baker

  • Phenological differences in Tasseled Cap indices improve deciduous forest classification

    Caren C Dymond;David J Mladenoff;Volker C Radeloff

  • A forest growth and biomass module for a landscape simulation model, LANDIS: design, validation, and application

    Robert M. Scheller;David J. Mladenoff

  • Spatial Modeling of Forest Landscape Change: Approaches and Applications

    David J. Mladenoff;William L. Baker

  • A spatially interactive simulation of climate change, harvesting, wind, and tree species migration and projected changes to forest composition and biomass in northern Wisconsin, USA

    Robert M. Scheller;David J. Mladenoff

  • Dynamics of Nitrogen Mineralization and Nitrification in Hemlock and Hardwood Treefall Gaps

    David J. Mladenoff;David J. Mladenoff

  • Old-growth forest landscape transitions from pre-European settlement to present

    Mark A. White;David J. Mladenoff

  • Integrating Landscape and Metapopulation Modeling Approaches: Viability of the Sharp‐Tailed Grouse in a Dynamic Landscape

    H. Reşit Akçakaya;Volker C. Radeloff;David J. Mladenoff;Hong S. He

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong S. He
Hong S. He University of Missouri
Volker C. Radeloff
Volker C. Radeloff University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert M. Scheller
Robert M. Scheller North Carolina State University
Thomas R. Crow
Thomas R. Crow US Forest Service
Murray K. Clayton
Murray K. Clayton University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stith T. Gower
Stith T. Gower North Carolina State University
Eric J. Gustafson
Eric J. Gustafson US Forest Service
Lisa A. Schulte
Lisa A. Schulte Iowa State University
John W. Williams
John W. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey

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