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Stewart B. Rood is affiliated with the University of Lethbridge in Canada. Their research primarily spans fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Soil Science.

The scientist's work centers on topics such as Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Tree-ring Climate Responses, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent publications by Stewart B. Rood highlight a range of research themes and collaborations. Notable papers include:

  • "See the forest and the trees: Effective machine and deep learning algorithms for wood filtering and tree species classification from terrestrial laser scanning," 2020, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • "Multiple processes contribute to methane emission in a riparian cottonwood forest ecosystem," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "Ecological Interfaces between Land and Flowing Water: Themes and Trends in Riparian Research and Management," 2020, Wetlands
  • "Evaluation of temporal consistency of snow depth drivers of a Rocky Mountain watershed in southern Alberta," 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • "How trees thrive in a dry climate: diurnal and seasonal hydrology and water relations in a riparian cottonwood grove," 2021, Tree Physiology

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, notably:

  • River Research and Applications
  • Ecohydrology
  • Wetlands
  • Hydrological Processes
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Throughout their career, Stewart B. Rood has collaborated with multiple co-authors, including:

  • Lawrence B. Flanagan
  • David Pearce
  • Gregory Egger
  • Oscar R. Zimmerman
  • Samuel G. Woodman

Best Publications

  • Streamflow requirements for cottonwood seedling recruitment—An integrative model

    John M. Mahoney;Stewart B. Rood

  • Collapse of riparian poplar forests downstream from dams in western prairies: Probable causes and prospects for mitigation

    Stewart B. Rood;John M. Mahoney

  • Managing river flows to restore floodplain forests

    Stewart B. Rood;Glenda M. Samuelson;Jeffrey H. Braatne;Chad R. Gourley

  • Ecophysiology of riparian cottonwoods: stream flow dependency, water relations and restoration.

    Stewart B. Rood;Jeffrey H. Braatne;Francine M. R. Hughes

  • Activation tagging of a dominant gibberellin catabolism gene (GA 2-oxidase) from poplar that regulates tree stature.

    Victor B. Busov;Richard Meilan;David W. Pearce;Caiping Ma

  • Declining summer flows of Rocky Mountain rivers: Changing seasonal hydrology and probable impacts on floodplain forests

    Stewart B. Rood;Jason Pan;Karen M. Gill;Carmen G. Franks

  • Flows for Floodplain Forests: A Successful Riparian Restoration

    Stewart B. Rood;Chad R. Gourley;Elisabeth M. Ammon;Lisa G. Heki

  • Branch sacrifice: cavitation-associated drought adaptation of riparian cottonwoods

    S.B. Rood;S. Patiño;K. Coombs;M.T. Tyree

  • COMPARATIVE TOLERANCES OF RIPARIAN WILLOWS AND COTTONWOODS TO WATER-TABLE DECLINE

    Nadine M. Amlin;Stewart B. Rood

  • Instream flows and the decline of riparian cottonwoods along the St. Mary River, Alberta

    Stewart B. Rood;John M. Mahoney;David E. Reid;Leslie Zilm

  • Allocation of River Flows for Restoration of Floodplain Forest Ecosystems: A Review of Approaches and Their Applicability in Europe

    Francine M. R. Hughes;Stewart B. Rood

  • Vulnerability to drought-induced cavitation of riparian cottonwoods in Alberta: a possible factor in the decline of the ecosystem?

    Melvin T. Tyree;Kimberley J. Kolb;Stewart B. Rood;Sandra Patiño

  • Gravel-bed river floodplains are the ecological nexus of glaciated mountain landscapes

    F. Richard Hauer;Harvey Locke;Victoria J. Dreitz;Mark Hebblewhite

  • Twentieth-century decline in streamflows from the hydrographic apex of North America

    Stewart B. Rood;G.M. Samuelson;J.K. Weber;K.A. Wywrot

  • Stomatal characteristics of riparian poplar species in a semi-arid environment

    David W Pearce;Sandra Millard;Douglas F Bray;Stewart B Rood

  • Initial cottonwood seedling recruitment following the flood of the century of the Oldman River, Alberta, Canada

    Stewart B. Rood;Andrea R. Kalischuk;John M. Mahoney

  • Abrupt downstream forest decline following river damming in southern Alberta

    Stewart B. Rood;Sig Heinze-Milne

  • Transgenic modification of gai or rgl1 causes dwarfing and alters gibberellins, root growth, and metabolite profiles in Populus

    Victor Busov;Richard Meilan;David W. Pearce;Stewart B. Rood

  • Response of a hybrid poplar to water table decline in different substrates

    John M. Mahoney;Stewart B. Rood

  • Photophysiology of the Elongated Internode (ein) Mutant of Brassica rapa: ein Mutant Lacks a Detectable Phytochrome B-Like Polypeptide

    Paul F. Devlin;Stewart B. Rood;David E. Somers;Peter H. Quail

  • A device for studying the influence of declining water table on poplar growth and survival.

    John M. Mahoney;Stewart B. Rood

  • Reversed-phase C18 high-performance liquid chromatography of acidic and conjugated gibberellins

    M. Koshioka;J. Harada;K. Takeno;M. Noma

  • Drought stress and recovery of riparian cottonwoods due to water table alteration along Willow Creek, Alberta

    Nadine M. Amlin;Stewart B. Rood

  • Azospirillum brasilense produces gibberellin in pure culture on chemically-defined medium and in co-culture on straw

    R.A. Janzen;S.B. Rood;J.F. Dormaar;W.B. McGill

  • Plant growth substances 1988

    Richard P. Pharis;Stewart B. Rood

  • Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities

    Stewart B. Rood

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Pharis
Richard P. Pharis University of Calgary
Chris Hopkinson
Chris Hopkinson University of Lethbridge
Lawrence B. Flanagan
Lawrence B. Flanagan University of Lethbridge
Steven H. Strauss
Steven H. Strauss Oregon State University
Paul H. Williams
Paul H. Williams University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas G. Whitham
Thomas G. Whitham Northern Arizona University
Janice E. K. Cooke
Janice E. K. Cooke University of Alberta
Melvin T. Tyree
Melvin T. Tyree Zhejiang Normal University
Dale G. Blevins
Dale G. Blevins University of Missouri
Derald G. Smith
Derald G. Smith University of Calgary

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