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30
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4831
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8318
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2748

Overview

Mark Schulze is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions across several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and atmospheric science.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to plant water relations and carbon dynamics, fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, tree-ring climate responses, forest management and policy, urban heat island mitigation, and species distribution and climate change.

Frequent coauthors associated with Mark Schulze include Christopher J. Still, Adam Sibley, David M. Bell, Julia Jones, and Gerald Page.

The main publication venues for Mark Schulze's work include New Phytologist, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Nature, Forest Ecology and Management, and Tree Physiology.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Mark Schulze are:

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition, 2021, Nature
  • Imaging canopy temperature: shedding (thermal) light on ecosystem processes, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Sustainability of Brazilian forest concessions, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Causes of widespread foliar damage from the June 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome: more heat than drought, 2023, Tree Physiology
  • Temporal consistency of undercanopy thermal refugia in old-growth forest, 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Best Publications

  • Positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests

    Mark A. Cochrane;Ane Alencar;Mark D. Schulze;Carlos M. Souza

  • Fire as a recurrent event in tropical forests of the eastern Amazon: effects on forest structure, biomass, and species composition.

    Mark A. Cochrane;Mark D. Schulze

  • Reexamining fire suppression impacts on brushland fire regimes

    Jon E. Keeley;C. J. Fotheringham;Marco Morais

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Spatial models reveal the microclimatic buffering capacity of old-growth forests

    Sarah J. K. Frey;Adam S. Hadley;Sherri L. Johnson;Mark Schulze

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • A Comparison of the Phyllostomid Bat Assemblages in Undisturbed Neotropical Forest and in Forest Fragments of a Slash-and-Burn Farming Mosaic in Petén, Guatemala1

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  • Fake legal logging in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Pedro H. S. Brancalion;Danilo R. A. de Almeida;Edson Vidal;Paulo G. Molin

  • Forest Fires in the Brazilian Amazon

    Mark A. Cochrane;Mark D. Schulze

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

  • How rare is too rare to harvest? Management challenges posed by timber species occurring at low densities in the Brazilian Amazon

    Mark Schulze;James Grogan;R. Matthew Landis;Edson Vidal

  • Evaluating ipê (Tabebuia, Bignoniaceae) logging in Amazonia: Sustainable management or catalyst for forest degradation?

    Mark Schulze;James Grogan;Chris Uhl;Marco Lentini

  • Pan-tropical prediction of forest structure from the largest trees

    Jean François Bastin;Ervan Rutishauser;James R. Kellner;Sassan Saatchi

  • Technical and financial analysis of enrichment planting in logging gaps as a potential component of forest management in the eastern Amazon

    Mark Schulze;Mark Schulze

  • What loggers leave behind: Impacts on big-leaf mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) commercial populations and potential for post-logging recovery in the Brazilian Amazon

    James Grogan;Stephen B. Jennings;R. Matthew Landis;Mark Schulze

  • Adaptation of a spatially explicit individual tree-based growth and yield model and long-term comparison between reduced-impact and conventional logging in eastern Amazonia, Brazil

    Denis Valle;Paul Phillips;Edson Vidal;Mark Schulze

  • Beyond reaping the first harvest: management objectives for timber production in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Daniel J. Zarin;Mark D. Schulze;Edson Vidal;Marco Lentini

  • Imaging canopy temperature: shedding (thermal) light on ecosystem processes.

    Christopher J. Still;Bharat Rastogi;Bharat Rastogi;Gerald F. M. Page;Dan M. Griffith

  • The Impact of Annual and Seasonal Rainfall Patterns on Growth and Phenology of Emergent Tree Species in Southeastern Amazonia, Brazil

    James Grogan;Mark Schulze;Mark Schulze

  • Canopy dynamics in unlogged and logged forest stands in the eastern Amazon

    Mark Schulze;Mark Schulze;Johan Zweede

  • A Model for comparing reduced impact logging with conventional logging for an Eastern Amazonian Forest

    Alexander J. Macpherson;Alexander J. Macpherson;Mark D. Schulze;Douglas R. Carter;Edson Vidal;Edson Vidal

  • Sustainability of Brazilian forest concessions

    Plinio Sist;Camille Piponiot;Milton Kanashiro;Marielos Pena-Claros

  • Forest certification in Amazonia: standards matter

    Mark Schulze;James Grogan;Edson Vidal

  • Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamic of closed canopy tropical forests.

    M. A. Cochrane;A. Alencar;M. D. Schulze;C. M. Souza

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick A. Jansen
Patrick A. Jansen Wageningen University & Research
Jürgen Homeier
Jürgen Homeier University of Göttingen
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Serge A. Wich
Serge A. Wich Liverpool John Moores University
Christopher J. Still
Christopher J. Still Oregon State University
Simone A. Vieira
Simone A. Vieira State University of Campinas
Rhett D. Harrison
Rhett D. Harrison World Agroforestry, Zambia
Francesco Rovero
Francesco Rovero University of Florence
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pascal Boeckx
Pascal Boeckx Ghent University

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