When a tree falls: Controls on wood decay predict standing dead tree fall and new risks in changing forests

Tree mortality from fires, bark beetles, and timber harvest during a hot and dry decade in the western United States (2003–2012)

(2017) Logan T Berner et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Coarse woody decay rates vary by physical position in tropical seasonal rainforests of SW China

(2017) Zewei Song et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Look Down to See What’s Up: A Systematic Overview of Treefall Dynamics in Forests

(2017) Jessie C. Buettel et al.   Forests

Greenhouse trace gases in deadwood

(2016) K. R. Covey et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

When a Tree Dies in the Forest: Scaling Climate-Driven Tree Mortality to Ecosystem Water and Carbon Fluxes

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Does clear-cut harvesting accelerate initial wood decomposition? A five-year study with standard wood material

(2016) L. Finér et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Snag dynamics in northern hardwood forests under different management scenarios

(2016) Karin S. Fassnacht et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Climate and wood quality have decayer-specific effects on fungal wood decomposition

(2016) Parvathy Venugopal et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The effect of treefall gaps on the understorey structure and composition of the tropical dry forest of Nizanda, Oaxaca, Mexico: implications for forest regeneration

(2016) Yanus A. Dechnik-Vázquez et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Burning the legacy? Influence of wildfire reburn on dead wood dynamics in a temperate conifer forest

(2016) Daniel C. Donato et al.   Ecosphere

Factors affecting fall down rates of dead aspen (Populus tremuloides) biomass following severe drought in west-central Canada

(2015) Edward H. Ted Hogg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mark-recapture estimation of snag standing rates in Northern Arizona mixed-conifer and ponderosa pine forests

(2015) Joseph L. Ganey et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide

(2015) Amy C. Bennett et al.   Nature Plants

Residence Times and Decay Rates of Downed Woody Debris Biomass/Carbon in Eastern US Forests

(2014) Matthew B. Russell et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Progressive, idiosyncratic changes in wood hardness during decay: Implications for dead wood inventory and cycling

(2014) Brad Oberle et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs

(2014) Katherina A. Pietsch et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size

(2014) N. L. Stephenson et al.   NATURE

Persistent reduced ecosystem respiration after insect disturbance in high elevation forests

(2013) David J. P. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How will aspen respond to mountain pine beetle? A review of literature and discussion of knowledge gaps

(2013) Kristen A. Pelz et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration and turnover through life history

(2013) Kai Zhu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estimation of snag carbon transfer rates by ecozone and lead species for forests in Canada

(2012) A. B. Hilger et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Assessing and modeling snag survival and decay dynamics for the primary species in the Acadian forest of Maine, USA

(2012) Matthew B. Russell et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Cascading impacts of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes

(2012) Steven L Edburg et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

THE ROLE OF FIRE-RETURN INTERVAL AND SEASON OF BURN IN SNAG DYNAMICS IN A SOUTH FLORIDA SLASH PINE FOREST

(2012) John D. Lloyd et al.   Fire Ecology

Mineralization rates and factors influencing snag decay in four North American boreal tree species

(2011) Virginie A. Angers et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Comparing field- and model-based standing dead tree carbon stock estimates across forests of the US

(2011) C. W. Woodall et al.   FORESTRY

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative studies on the in-ground and above-ground durability of European oak heartwood (Quercus petraea Liebl. and Quercus robur L.)

(2010) C. Brischke et al.   European Journal of Wood and Wood Products

Non-destructive assessment of internal decay in three hardwood species of northeastern North America using sonic and electrical impedance tomography

(2010) N. J. Brazee et al.   FORESTRY

Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest

(2010) MICHAEL MICHAELIAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fungal growth on a common wood substrate across a tropical elevation gradient: Temperature sensitivity, community composition, and potential for above-ground decomposition

(2010) Courtney L. Meier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum

(2009) Jerome Chave et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

(2009) WILLIAM K. CORNWELL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Physiographically sensitive mapping of climatological temperature and precipitation across the conterminous United States

(2008) Christopher Daly et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Human fatalities from wind-related tree failures in the United States, 1995–2007

(2008) Thomas W. Schmidlin   NATURAL HAZARDS