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5362
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8147
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2910

Overview

Susan Cordell is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as ecological modeling.

Their work addresses a variety of topics centered around ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, and plant and animal studies. Additional areas of focus include fire effects on ecosystems, Pacific and Southeast Asian studies, rangeland and wildlife management, and forest ecology and management.

Among their recent papers are:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world (2022, New Phytologist)
  • Hawai'i forest review: Synthesizing the ecology, evolution, and conservation of a model system (2021, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics)
  • Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity (2023, Communications Biology)

Susan Cordell frequently publishes in venues such as Forest Service Research Data Archive, Ecological Applications, Pacific Conservation Biology, Sustainability, and Pacific Science. Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors Christian P. Giardina, Amanda Uowolo, Rebecca Ostertag, Julian Dendy, and Creighton M. Litton.

Best Publications

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Planting Seedlings in Tree Islands Versus Plantations as a Large-Scale Tropical Forest Restoration Strategy

    Karen D. Holl;Rakan A. Zahawi;Rebecca J. Cole;Rebecca Ostertag

  • Using plant functional traits to restore Hawaiian rainforest

    Rebecca Ostertag;Laura Warman;Susan Cordell;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Physical dormancy in seeds of Dodonaea viscosa (Sapindales, Sapindaceae) from Hawaii

    Jerry M. Baskin;Barbara H. Davis;Carol C. Baskin;Sean M. Gleason

  • Effects of light, alien grass, and native species additions on hawaiian dry forest restoration

    Robert J. Cabin;Stephen G. Weller;David H. Lorence;Susan Cordell

  • Effects of microsite, water, weeding, and direct seeding on the regeneration of native and alien species within a Hawaiian dry forest preserve

    Robert J Cabin;Stephen G Weller;David H Lorence;Susan Cordell

  • Effects of non-native grass invasion on aboveground carbon pools and tree population structure in a tropical dry forest of Hawaii

    Creighton M. Litton;Creighton M. Litton;Darren R. Sandquist;Susan Cordell

  • Adjustment of structure and function of Hawaiian Metrosideros polymorpha at high vs. low precipitation

    W. K. Cornwell;R. Bhaskar;L. Sack;S. Cordell

  • Patterns of Primary Succession of Native and Introduced Plants in Lowland Wet Forests in Eastern Hawai‘i

    Naupaka Zimmerman;R. Flint Hughes;Susan Cordell;Patrick Hart

  • Ecosystem and Restoration Consequences of Invasive Woody Species Removal in Hawaiian Lowland Wet Forest

    Rebecca Ostertag;Susan Cordell;Jené Michaud;T. Colleen Cole

  • Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world.

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  • Native trees show conservative water use relative to invasive trees: results from a removal experiment in a Hawaiian wet forest

    Molly A. Cavaleri;Rebecca Ostertag;Susan Cordell;Lawren Sack

  • Non‐Native Grass Removal and Shade Increase Soil Moisture and Seedling Performance during Hawaiian Dry Forest Restoration

    Jarrod M. Thaxton;Jarrod M. Thaxton;Susan Cordell;Robert J. Cabin;Darren R. Sandquist

  • The impact of an invasive African bunchgrass (Pennisetum setaceum) on water availability and productivity of canopy trees within a tropical dry forest in Hawaii

    Susan Cordell;D. R. Sandquist

  • The Contemporary Scale and Context of Wildfire in Hawai'i

    Clay Trauernicht;Elizabeth Pickett;Christian P. Giardina;Creighton M. Litton

  • Evaluating barriers to native seedling establishment in an invaded Hawaiian lowland wet forest.

    Susan Cordell;Rebecca Ostertag;Barbara Rowe;Linda Sweinhart

  • A non-native invasive grass increases soil carbon flux in a Hawaiian tropical dry forest

    Creighton M. Litton;Darren R. Sandquist;Susan Cordell

  • Science Driven Restoration: A Candle in a Demon Haunted World—Response to Cabin (2007)

    Christian P. Giardina;Creighton M. Litton;Jarrod M. Thaxton;Susan Cordell

  • Forest structure in low-diversity tropical forests: a study of Hawaiian wet and dry forests.

    Rebecca Ostertag;Faith Inman-Narahari;Susan Cordell;Christian P. Giardina

  • Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees

    Daniel J. Johnson;Jessica Needham;Chonggang Xu;Elias C. Massoud

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca Ostertag
Rebecca Ostertag University of Hawaii at Hilo
Christian P. Giardina
Christian P. Giardina US Forest Service
Lawren Sack
Lawren Sack University of California, Los Angeles
Creighton M. Litton
Creighton M. Litton University of Hawaii at Manoa
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
Vojtech Novotny
Vojtech Novotny Czech Academy of Sciences

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