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John A. Stanturf

John A. Stanturf

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Ecology and Evolution

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48
Citations
9075
World Ranking
4219
National Ranking
1468

Overview

John A. Stanturf is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research focus lies primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to the study of global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, soil science, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work spans several main topics related to forest ecosystems and management. These include forest management and policy, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues for John A. Stanturf's research include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Forests
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John A. Stanturf are:

  • Forest landscape restoration: state of play, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • Forest landscape restoration: building on the past for future success, 2021, Restoration Ecology
  • Tamm Review: Influence of forest management activities on soil organic carbon stocks: A knowledge synthesis, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Forest Landscape Restoration-What Generates Failure and Success?, 2020, Forests
  • Scaling up forest landscape restoration in Canada in an era of cumulative effects and climate change, 2020, Forest Policy and Economics

John A. Stanturf collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Kalev Jõgiste
  • Marek Metslaid
  • Andres Kiviste
  • Lee E. Frelich
  • Ahto Kangur

Best Publications

  • Trends in global wildfire potential in a changing climate

    Yongqiang Liu;John Stanturf;Scott Goodrick

  • Tamm Review: Influence of forest management activities on soil organic carbon stocks: A knowledge synthesis

    Mathias Mayer;Cindy E. Prescott;Wafa E.A. Abaker;Laurent Augusto

  • Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function

    John A. Stanturf;Brian J. Palik;R. Kasten Dumroese

  • Achieving Restoration Success: Myths in Bottomland Hardwood Forests

    John A. Stanturf;Stephen H. Schoenholtz;Callie Jo Schweitzer;James P. Shepard

  • Future U.S. wildfire potential trends projected using a dynamically downscaled climate change scenario

    Yongqiang Liu;Scott L. Goodrick;John A. Stanturf

  • Ecology and silviculture of poplar plantations

    John A. Stanturf;Cees van Oosten;Daniel A. Netzer;Mark D. Coleman

  • Disturbance and coastal forests: a strategic approach to forest management in hurricane impact zones

    John A. Stanturf;Scott L. Goodrick;Kenneth W. Outcalt

  • Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests

    John A Stanturf;Palle Madsen

  • Leaf Litter Decomposition and Nutrient Dynamics in Four Southern Forested Floodplain Communities

    Terrell T. Baker;B. Graeme Lockaby;William H. Conner;Calvin E. Meier

  • Restoring bottomland hardwood ecosystems in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

    John A. Stanturf;Emile S. Gardiner;Paul B. Hamel;Margaret S. Devall

  • Forest Restoration Paradigms

    John Stanturf;Brian J. Palik;Mary I. Williams;R. Kasten Dumroese

  • Post-hurricane forest damage assessment using satellite remote sensing

    Wanting Wang;John J. Qu;Xianjun Hao;Yongqiang Liu

  • Forest landscape restoration - What generates failure and success?

    Markus Höhl;Vianny Ahimbisibwe;John A. Stanturf;Peter Elsasser

  • Implementing forest landscape restoration under the Bonn Challenge: a systematic approach

    John A. Stanturf;Michael Kleine;Stephanie Mansourian;John Parrotta

  • Considerations for restoring temperate forests of tomorrow: forest restoration, assisted migration, and bioengineering

    R. Kasten Dumroese;Mary I. Williams;John A. Stanturf;J. Bradley St. Clair

  • Afforestation of Marginal Agricultural Land in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley, U.S.A.

    John A. Stanturf;Callie J. Schweitzer;Emile S. Gardiner

  • Silvicultural systems for southern bottomland hardwood forests.

    James S. Meadows;John A. Stanturf

  • Forest landscape restoration: state of play.

    John A. Stanturf;Stephanie Mansourian

  • Forest landscape restoration: increasing the positive impacts of forest restoration or simply the area under tree cover?

    Stephanie Mansourian;John A. Stanturf;Mercy Afua Adutwumwaa Derkyi;Vera Lex Engel

  • Productivity of Southern Pine Plantations: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here?

    John A. Stanturf;Robert C. Kellison;F.S. Broerman;Stephen B. Jones

  • Analysis of forest naturalness and tree mortality patterns in Estonia

    Diana Laarmann;Henn Korjus;Allan Sims;John A. Stanturf

  • Hemiboreal forest: natural disturbances and the importance of ecosystem legacies to management.

    Kalev Jõgiste;Kalev Jõgiste;Henn Korjus;John A. Stanturf;Lee E. Frelich

  • Forest landscape restoration: integrating natural and social sciences

    John Stanturf;David Lamb;Palle Madsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Wimberly
Michael C. Wimberly University of Oklahoma
William H. Conner
William H. Conner Clemson University
Melvin L. Warren
Melvin L. Warren US Forest Service
Magnus Löf
Magnus Löf Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
David Lamb
David Lamb University of New England
Joseph J. O'Brien
Joseph J. O'Brien US Forest Service
Lee E. Frelich
Lee E. Frelich University of Minnesota
Daniel C. Dey
Daniel C. Dey US Forest Service
Brian J. Palik
Brian J. Palik US Forest Service
Mark D. Coleman
Mark D. Coleman University of Idaho

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