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Louis R. Iverson

Louis R. Iverson

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
64
Citations
17671
World Ranking
1853
National Ranking
679

Overview

Louis R. Iverson is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research focuses on a range of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering.

Their main research topics cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Iverson has contributed to multiple papers published in various academic journals. Significant recent publications include:

  • Combining US and Canadian forest inventories to assess habitat suitability and migration potential of 25 tree species under climate change, 2020, Diversity and Distributions
  • Mapping Forest Composition with Landsat Time Series: An Evaluation of Seasonal Composites and Harmonic Regression, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Spring phenological variability promoted by topography and vegetation assembly processes in a temperate forest landscape, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Forest inventory and analysis data in action: Examples from eastern national forests, 2022, Trees Forests and People
  • Defining landscape-level forest types: application of latent Dirichlet allocation to species distribution models, 2022, Landscape Ecology

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Forest Service Research Data Archive, Diversity and Distributions, Remote Sensing, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, and Landscape Ecology.

Collaborations are an important aspect of Iverson's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Anantha Prasad
  • Stephen N. Matthews
  • David L. Peterson
  • Bryce T. Adams
  • John Pedlar

Best Publications

  • Newer Classification and Regression Tree Techniques: Bagging and Random Forests for Ecological Prediction

    Anantha M. Prasad;Louis R. Iverson;Andy Liaw

  • Modelling topographic potential for erosion and deposition using GIS

    Helena Mitasova;Louis R. Iverson

  • PREDICTING ABUNDANCE OF 80 TREE SPECIES FOLLOWING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES

    Louis R. Iverson;Anantha M. Prasad

  • Estimating potential habitat for 134 eastern US tree species under six climate scenarios

    Louis R. Iverson;Anantha M. Prasad;Stephen N. Matthews;Matthew Peters

  • Global change in forests: responses of species, communities, and biomes

    Andrew J. Hansen;Ronald P. Neilson;Virginia H. Dale;Curtis H. Flather

  • 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

  • A GIS-derived integrated moisture index to predict forest composition and productivity of Ohio forests (U.S.A.)

    Louis R. Iverson;Martin E. Dale;Charles T. Scott;Anantha Prasad

  • How fast and far might tree species migrate in the eastern United States due to climate change

    Louis R. Iverson;M. W. Schwartz;Anantha M. Prasad

  • Land-use changes in Illinois, USA: The influence of landscape attributes on current and historic land use

    Louis R. Iverson

  • Potential changes in tree species richness and forest community types following climate change

    Louis R. Iverson;Anantha M. Prasad

  • Placing Forestry in the Assisted Migration Debate

    John H. Pedlar;Daniel W. McKenney;Isabelle Aubin;Tannis Beardmore

  • PREDICTING EXTINCTIONS AS A RESULT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

    Mark W. Schwartz;Louis R. Iverson;Louis R. Iverson;Anantha M. Prasad;Stephen N. Matthews;Stephen N. Matthews;Stephen N. Matthews

  • Urban forest cover of the Chicago region and its relation to household density and income

    Louis R. Iverson;Elizabeth A. Cook

  • Issues related to the detection of boundaries

    M.-J. Fortin;R.J. Olson;S. Ferson;L. Iverson

  • Potential redistribution of tree species habitat under five climate change scenarios in the eastern US

    Louis R. Iverson;Anantha M. Prasad

  • Rates and patterns of deforestation in the Philippines: application of geographic information system analysis

    Dawning S. Liu;Dawning S. Liu;Louis R. Iverson;Louis R. Iverson;Sandra Brown

  • Thinning, fire, and oak regeneration across a heterogeneous landscape in the eastern U.S.: 7-year results

    Louis R. Iverson;Todd F. Hutchinson;Anantha M. Prasad;Matthew P. Peters

  • Modeling potential future individual tree-species distributions in the eastern United States under a climate change scenario: a case study with Pinus virginiana

    Louis R. Iverson;Anantha Prasad;Mark W. Schwartz

  • Geographical distributions of carbon in biomass and soils of tropical Asian forests

    Sandra Brown;Louis R. Iverson;Anantha Prasad;Dawning Lui

  • Prescribed fire effects on the herbaceous layer of mixed-oak forests

    Todd F. Hutchinson;Ralph E.J. Boerner;Steve Sutherland;Elaine Kennedy Sutherland

Frequent Co-Authors

Anantha Prasad
Anantha Prasad US Forest Service
Stephen N. Matthews
Stephen N. Matthews The Ohio State University
Christopher W. Swanston
Christopher W. Swanston US Forest Service
Mark W. Schwartz
Mark W. Schwartz University of California, Davis
Frank R. Thompson
Frank R. Thompson US Forest Service
Sandra A. Brown
Sandra A. Brown University of California, San Diego
Anthony W. D'Amato
Anthony W. D'Amato University of Vermont
Charles H. Luce
Charles H. Luce US Forest Service
Paul J. Hanson
Paul J. Hanson Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University

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