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John A. Stanturf is affiliated with the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Estonia. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. Stanturf's work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, soil science, and atmospheric science.

The main topics covered in their publications 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 coauthors collaborating with Stanturf include Kalev Jõgiste, Marek Metslaid, Andres Kiviste, Lee E. Frelich, and Ahto Kangur.

Stanturf has published in several recurrent academic venues such as Forest Ecology and Management, Forests, Restoration Ecology, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, and the Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences.

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

  • Forest landscape restoration: state of play, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • Forest landscape restoration: building on the past for future success, 2021, Restoration Ecology

Additional highly cited papers relevant to their field of study authored by others but related to similar thematic concerns are:

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fine Root Productivity and Dynamics on a Forested Floodplain in South Carolina

    Terrell T. Baker;William H. Conner;B.Graeme Lockaby;John A. Stanturf

  • Recognizing and Overcoming Difficult Site Conditions for Afforestation of Bottomland Hardwoods

    John A. Stanturf;William H. Conner;Emile S. Gardiner;Callie Jo Schweitzer

  • Fire in southern forest landscapes

    John A. Stanturf;Dale D. Wade;Thomas A. Waldrop;Deborah K. Kennard

  • Eucalyptus beyond its native range: environmental issues in exotic bioenergy plantations.

    John A. Stanturf;Eric D. Vance;Thomas R. Fox;Matias Kirst

  • Woody biomass from short rotation energy crops.

    R.S. Zalesny;M.W. Cunningham;R.B. Hall;J. Mirck

  • What Is Forest Landscape Restoration

    David Lamb;John Stanturf;Palle Madsen

  • Adaptive measures: integrating adaptive forest management and forest landscape restoration

    Peter Spathelf;John Stanturf;Michael Kleine;Robert Jandl

  • Response of soil microbial community composition and function to a bottomland forest restoration intensity gradient

    Michael S. Strickland;Michael S. Strickland;Mac A. Callaham;Emile S. Gardiner;John A. Stanturf

  • Forest landscape restoration: integrating natural and social sciences

    John Stanturf;David Lamb;Palle Madsen

  • Effects of Forest Regrowth and Urbanization on Ecosystem Carbon Storage in a Rural-Urban Gradient in the Southeastern United States

    Chi Zhang;Hanqin Tian;Shufen Pan;Mingliang Liu

  • Social Vulnerability and Ebola Virus Disease in Rural Liberia.

    John A. Stanturf;Scott L. Goodrick;Melvin L. Warren;Susan Charnley

  • Biomass feedstock production systems: economic and environmental benefits

    Mark D. Coleman;John A. Stanturf

  • A goal-oriented approach to forest landscape restoration

    John Stanturf;Palle Madsen;David Lamb

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee E. Frelich
Lee E. Frelich University of Minnesota
Mac A. Callaham
Mac A. Callaham US Forest Service
Donato Chiatante
Donato Chiatante University of Insubria
Laurent Augusto
Laurent Augusto INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada
Lars Vesterdal
Lars Vesterdal University of Copenhagen
Yann Nouvellon
Yann Nouvellon University of Montpellier
Douglass F. Jacobs
Douglass F. Jacobs Purdue University West Lafayette
Gabriella S. Scippa
Gabriella S. Scippa University of Molise
Jean-Paul Laclau
Jean-Paul Laclau Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement

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