Browsing Auburn University Graduate School by Author "Fan, Zhaofei"

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Chinese tallow seed viability, resprouting capacity, and leaf litter flammability: consequences for restoring coastal pine forests

Brubaker, Eric (2023-07-27)

Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) is an invasive tree that threatens the health and integrity of pine flatwoods and savannas along the USA Gulf of Mexico. These open forests historically experienced frequent, low-intensity ...

Developing a multiscale modeling framework to assess forest health risk based on the FIA data

Nepal, Sunil (2022-12-05)

Maintaining tree vigor and forest health is critical as forest health risks increase over time. Eastern US forests have been losing quality in recent decades due to forest health risks such as tree mortality and nonnative ...

Impacts of fire on Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) invasion in slash-longleaf pine flatwoods and savannas in the Gulf of Mexico coastal region, United States

Cheng, Nannan (2020-11-12)

The coastal area of the southeastern United States is historically wet pine savannas, prairie, and hardwoods. Many exotic species have invaded this area and become a serious threat to native forest ecosystems. Among those ...

Integrating multispectral imagery, airborne lidar and field inventory data for invasive species management in southern coastal areas of USA.

Thapa, Nisham (2022-12-05)

Invasive plant species have imposed severe threats to native ecosystems, worldwide. Among the well-established species, Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) and Chinese privet (Ligustrum sinense) are among the worst invasive ...

Mesophication in Southeastern U.S. forests: drivers of flammability and strategies for tree regeneration success

Lamounier Moura, Arthur (2025-04-30)

Decades of fire exclusion in historically fire-dependent forests across the southeastern U.S. have caused various ecological consequences, including the transition of open-structured forests to closed-canopy forests. This ...

Overstory management to regenerate longleaf pine and control invasive Chinese tallow in fire ecosystems

Poyner, Cameron (2017-04-17)

The native longleaf pine ecosystem is one of the most important, and depleted, ecosystems in the southeastern United States. Restoring this habitat is of major importance to land managers and conservationists alike. ...

Regional-scale Mapping of Canopy Height and Aboveground Biomass using ICESat-2 and Landsat-8 Data

Tiwari, Kasip (2022-12-02)

The Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite- 2 (ICESat-2), launched in September 2018, is a follow-on mission to ICESat, which operated from 2003 to 2009. While ICESat-2 observations do not provide full coverage, integrating ...

Towards More Accurate Tree Biomass Estimation and Projections: Tree Growth, Hardwood Competition, Prescribed Fire and Environmental Factors

Onyido, Favour (2024-12-03)

Estimating tree biomass is a common task in forest management, and generalized allometric equations are popular tools used for this estimation. However, the most accurate estimates come from site- and species-specific ...

Understanding the internal and external driving factors that impact specific gravity in Longleaf Pine through a spatial and temporal perspective

Schopen, Emma (2025-04-30) ETD File Embargoed

Specific gravity (SG, also called relative density) is a dimensionless quantity defined as the ratio of a substance's density (mass per unit volume) to the density of a given reference material. In forestry, wood SG is ...