My research program aims to provide a better understanding of southern forest ecosystems response to disturbance and perturbation and promote sustainable forest management practices. The program spans the subject fields of Forest Health & Dynamics, Silviculture, Fire Ecology & Management, Dendroecology, and Community Ecology and focuses on four research areas:
(1) determination of tree mortality patterns and their causes at stand and landscape scales;
(2) examination of the ecological consequences of invasive species;
(3) evaluating forest management impacts on biodiversity, regeneration, and structural complexity at multiple scales; and
(4) determination of wildfire and prescribed burning impacts on forest vegetation and fuel dynamics.
