Christopher W Woodall
Biographic Data
| ID | 4291147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher W Woodall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher W |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodall |
| SIGNATURE | WOODALL C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Research Station |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8076-6214 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Paris and net-zero ledgers: Restoring trust in US forest climate solutions via tree-centric digital MRV architecture
Evaluating the current status of agriculture-driven deforestation across jurisdictional scales in the United States using foundational, federal datasets
Foundational forest and land-use change monitoring programs, with their statistical rigor and long-term baselines, are increasingly important to inform emerging global agricultural and forest commodity trade policies such as the European Union regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The EUDR requires national-scale information on deforestation prevalence as one component of deforestation risk assessments, with additional traceability an…
Making the US national forest inventory spatially contiguous and temporally consistent
Signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to annually report economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals, including the forest sector. National forest inventory (NFI) is considered the main source of data for reporting forest carbon stocks and changes to UNFCCC. However, NFI samples are often collected asynchronously across regions in intervals of 5–10 years or sub-sampled annually, both…
Decadal dead wood biomass dynamics of coterminous US forests
Due to global change, temperate forests are expected to face growing threats to forest health (e.g. insects/disease) and increasing probabilities of severe disturbances (e.g. wildfires), which may result in amplified tree mortality against a backdrop of a changing climate and associated ecosystem/atmospheric feedbacks (i.e. increased rates of dead wood decay/combustion). Despite these expectations, we lack a fundamental understanding of current f…
Defining and assessing urban forests to inform management and policy
The context in which trees and forests grow in cities is highly variable and influences the provision of ecological, social, and economic benefits. Understanding the spatial extent, structure, and composition of forests is necessary to guide urban forest policy and management, yet current forest assessment methodologies vary widely in scale, sampling intensity, and focus. Current definitions of the urban forest include all trees growing in the ur…
Using matrix models to estimate aboveground forest biomass dynamics in the eastern USA through various combinations of LiDAR, Landsat, and forest inventory data
The ability to harmonize data sources with varying temporal, spatial, and ecosystem measurements (e.g. forest structure to soil organic carbon) for creation of terrestrial carbon baselines is paramount to refining the monitoring of terrestrial carbon stocks and stock changes. In this study, we developed and examined the short- (5 years) and long-term (30 years) performance of matrix models for incorporating light detection and ranging (LiDAR) str…
Evaluating the influence of spatial resolution of Landsat predictors on the accuracy of biomass models for large-area estimation across the eastern USA
Aboveground biomass (AGB) estimates for regional-scale forest planning have become cost-effective with the free access to satellite data from sensors such as Landsat and MODIS. However, the accuracy of AGB predictions based on passive optical data depends on spatial resolution and spatial extent of target area as fine resolution (small pixels) data are associated with smaller coverage and longer repeat cycles compared to coarse resolution data. T…
Phasmid Thinking: On Georges Didi-Huberman’s Method
This article is an attempt to circumscribe Georges Didi-Huberman’s inimitable practice of theory. It argues that Didi-Huberman’s ethics of looking represents a decided shift away from the traditional position of the critic as a dispassionate, objective observer. A Copernican revolution looms, which inverts the Kantian one: no longer are things adapting to their conceptual scheme, no longer is it the adaequatio rei ad intellectum, but its opposite…
Implications of land-use change on forest carbon stocks in the eastern United States
Given the substantial role that forests play in removing CO _2 from the atmosphere, there has been a growing need to evaluate the carbon (C) implications of various forest management and land-use decisions. Although assessment of land-use change is central to national-level greenhouse gas monitoring guidelines, it is rarely incorporated into forest stand-level evaluations of C dynamics and trajectories. To better inform the assessment of forest s…
Refined forest land use classification with implications for United States national carbon accounting
When is One Core per Tree Sufficient to Characterize Stand Attributes? Results of a Pinus ponderosa Case Study
Increment cores are invaluable for assessing tree attributes such as inside bark diameter, radial growth, and sapwood area. However, because trees accrue growth and sapwood unevenly around their pith, tree attributes derived from one increment core may not provide sufficient precision for forest management/research activities. To assess the variability in a tree's inside bark radius, sapwood radius, and 10-year radial growth estimated by tree cor…
Assessment of Forest Fuel Loadings in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Quantification of the downed woody materials that comprise forest fuels has gained importance in Caribbean forest ecosystems due to the increasing incidence and severity of wildfires on island ecosystems. Because large-scale assessments of forest fuels have rarely been conducted for these ecosystems, forest fuels were assessed at 121 US Department of Agriculture forest service inventory plots on Puerto Rico, Vieques, and the US Virgin Islands. Re…
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
Assessment of Forest Fuel Loadings in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Quantification of the downed woody materials that comprise forest fuels has gained importance in Caribbean forest ecosystems due to the increasing incidence and severity of wildfires on island ecosystems. Because large-scale assessments of forest fuels have rarely been conducted for these ecosystems, forest fuels were assessed at 121 US Department of Agriculture forest service inventory plots on Puerto Rico, Vieques, and the US Virgin Islands. Re…
Daily Life in Ancient Rome
When is One Core per Tree Sufficient to Characterize Stand Attributes? Results of a Pinus ponderosa Case Study
Increment cores are invaluable for assessing tree attributes such as inside bark diameter, radial growth, and sapwood area. However, because trees accrue growth and sapwood unevenly around their pith, tree attributes derived from one increment core may not provide sufficient precision for forest management/research activities. To assess the variability in a tree's inside bark radius, sapwood radius, and 10-year radial growth estimated by tree cor…
Assessment of Forest Fuel Loadings in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
Quantification of the downed woody materials that comprise forest fuels has gained importance in Caribbean forest ecosystems due to the increasing incidence and severity of wildfires on island ecosystems. Because large-scale assessments of forest fuels have rarely been conducted for these ecosystems, forest fuels were assessed at 121 US Department of Agriculture forest service inventory plots on Puerto Rico, Vieques, and the US Virgin Islands. Re…
Refined forest land use classification with implications for United States national carbon accounting
Implications of land-use change on forest carbon stocks in the eastern United States
Given the substantial role that forests play in removing CO _2 from the atmosphere, there has been a growing need to evaluate the carbon (C) implications of various forest management and land-use decisions. Although assessment of land-use change is central to national-level greenhouse gas monitoring guidelines, it is rarely incorporated into forest stand-level evaluations of C dynamics and trajectories. To better inform the assessment of forest s…
Using matrix models to estimate aboveground forest biomass dynamics in the eastern USA through various combinations of LiDAR, Landsat, and forest inventory data
The ability to harmonize data sources with varying temporal, spatial, and ecosystem measurements (e.g. forest structure to soil organic carbon) for creation of terrestrial carbon baselines is paramount to refining the monitoring of terrestrial carbon stocks and stock changes. In this study, we developed and examined the short- (5 years) and long-term (30 years) performance of matrix models for incorporating light detection and ranging (LiDAR) str…
Evaluating the influence of spatial resolution of Landsat predictors on the accuracy of biomass models for large-area estimation across the eastern USA
Aboveground biomass (AGB) estimates for regional-scale forest planning have become cost-effective with the free access to satellite data from sensors such as Landsat and MODIS. However, the accuracy of AGB predictions based on passive optical data depends on spatial resolution and spatial extent of target area as fine resolution (small pixels) data are associated with smaller coverage and longer repeat cycles compared to coarse resolution data. T…
Phasmid Thinking: On Georges Didi-Huberman’s Method
This article is an attempt to circumscribe Georges Didi-Huberman’s inimitable practice of theory. It argues that Didi-Huberman’s ethics of looking represents a decided shift away from the traditional position of the critic as a dispassionate, objective observer. A Copernican revolution looms, which inverts the Kantian one: no longer are things adapting to their conceptual scheme, no longer is it the adaequatio rei ad intellectum, but its opposite…
Defining and assessing urban forests to inform management and policy
The context in which trees and forests grow in cities is highly variable and influences the provision of ecological, social, and economic benefits. Understanding the spatial extent, structure, and composition of forests is necessary to guide urban forest policy and management, yet current forest assessment methodologies vary widely in scale, sampling intensity, and focus. Current definitions of the urban forest include all trees growing in the ur…
Decadal dead wood biomass dynamics of coterminous US forests
Due to global change, temperate forests are expected to face growing threats to forest health (e.g. insects/disease) and increasing probabilities of severe disturbances (e.g. wildfires), which may result in amplified tree mortality against a backdrop of a changing climate and associated ecosystem/atmospheric feedbacks (i.e. increased rates of dead wood decay/combustion). Despite these expectations, we lack a fundamental understanding of current f…
Making the US national forest inventory spatially contiguous and temporally consistent
Signatories to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to annually report economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals, including the forest sector. National forest inventory (NFI) is considered the main source of data for reporting forest carbon stocks and changes to UNFCCC. However, NFI samples are often collected asynchronously across regions in intervals of 5–10 years or sub-sampled annually, both…
Beyond Paris and net-zero ledgers: Restoring trust in US forest climate solutions via tree-centric digital MRV architecture
Evaluating the current status of agriculture-driven deforestation across jurisdictional scales in the United States using foundational, federal datasets
Foundational forest and land-use change monitoring programs, with their statistical rigor and long-term baselines, are increasingly important to inform emerging global agricultural and forest commodity trade policies such as the European Union regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The EUDR requires national-scale information on deforestation prevalence as one component of deforestation risk assessments, with additional traceability an…
Environmental Science (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Agroforestry (6 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Forest management (6 works) · Forest Management and Policy (6 works) · Forest Inventory (5 works) · Forestry (5 works) · Fire effects on ecosystems (4 works)