| Application of imaging spectroscopy to mapping canopy nitrogen in the forests of the central Appalachian Mountains using Hyperion and AVIRIS PA Townsend, JR Foster, RA Chastain, WS Currie IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41 (6), 1347-1354, 2003 | 187 | 2003 |
| A general Landsat model to predict canopy defoliation in broadleaf deciduous forests PA Townsend, A Singh, JR Foster, NJ Rehberg, CC Kingdon, ... Remote Sensing of Environment 119, 255-265, 2012 | 134 | 2012 |
| Spatial and temporal patterns of gap dominance by low-canopy lianas detected using EO-1 Hyperion and Landsat Thematic Mapper JR Foster, PA Townsend, CE Zganjar Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (5), 2104-2117, 2008 | 78 | 2008 |
| Predicting tree biomass growth in the temperate–boreal ecotone: Is tree size, age, competition, or climate response most important? JR Foster, AO Finley, AW D'amato, JB Bradford, S Banerjee Global change biology 22 (6), 2138-2151, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| Toward more robust projections of forest landscape dynamics under novel environmental conditions: embedding PnET within LANDIS-II A De Bruijn, EJ Gustafson, BR Sturtevant, JR Foster, BR Miranda, NI Lichti, ... Ecological Modelling 287, 44-57, 2014 | 73 | 2014 |
| New England and northern New York forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the New England Climate Change Response Framework project MK Janowiak, AW D'Amato, CW Swanston, L Iverson, FR Thompson, ... Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-173. Newtown Square, PA: US Department of Agriculture …, 2018 | 72 | 2018 |
| Looking for age-related growth decline in natural forests: unexpected biomass patterns from tree rings and simulated mortality JR Foster, AW D’Amato, JB Bradford Oecologia 175 (1), 363-374, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| Montane forest ecotones moved downslope in northeastern USA in spite of warming between 1984 and 2011 JR Foster, AW D'amato Global change biology 21 (12), 4497-4507, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| More than the sum of its parts: how disturbance interactions shape forest dynamics under climate change MS Lucash, RM Scheller, BR Sturtevant, EJ Gustafson, AM Kretchun, ... Ecosphere 9 (6), e02293, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| A synthetic aperture radar–based model to assess historical changes in lowland floodplain hydroperiod PA Townsend, JR Foster Water Resources Research 38 (7), 20-1-20-10, 2002 | 46 | 2002 |
| Mapping asynchrony between gypsy moth egg-hatch and forest leaf-out: Putting the phenological window hypothesis in a spatial context JR Foster, PA Townsend, DJ Mladenoff Forest ecology and management 287, 67-76, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Spatial dynamics of a gypsy moth defoliation outbreak and dependence on habitat characteristics JR Foster, PA Townsend, DJ Mladenoff Landscape ecology 28 (7), 1307-1320, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Maintenance of ecosystem nitrogen limitation by ephemeral forest disturbance: An assessment using MODIS, Hyperion, and Landsat ETM+ BE McNeil, KM de Beurs, KN Eshleman, JR Foster, PA Townsend Geophysical Research Letters 34 (19), 2007 | 33 | 2007 |
| Xylem traits, leaf longevity and growth phenology predict growth and mortality response to defoliation in northern temperate forests JR Foster Tree physiology 37 (9), 1151-1165, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Variable effects of climate on forest growth in relation to climate extremes, disturbance, and forest dynamics MS Itter, AO Finley, AW D'Amato, JR Foster, JB Bradford Ecological Applications 27 (4), 1082-1095, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Linking hyperspectral imagery and forest inventories for forest assessment in the Central Appalachians JR Foster, PA Townsend In: Yaussy, Daniel A.; Hix, David M.; Long, Robert P.; Goebel, P. Charles …, 2004 | 23 | 2004 |
| Harvesting influences functional identity and diversity over time in forests of the northeastern USA MT Curzon, AW D'Amato, S Fraver, BJ Palik, A Bottero, JR Foster, ... Forest Ecology and Management 400, 93-99, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth is questionable JR Foster, JI Burton, JA Forrester, F Liu, JD Muss, FM Sabatini, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (21), E86-E87, 2010 | 22 | 2010 |
| Comparison of EO-1 Hyperion to AVIRIS for mapping forest composition in the Appalachian Mountains, USA PA Townsend, JR Foster IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium 2, 793-795, 2002 | 21 | 2002 |
| Decadal changes in tree range stability across forests of the eastern US CW Woodall, JA Westfall, AW D'Amato, JR Foster, BF Walters Forest Ecology and Management 429, 503-510, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
Philip A. TownsendProfessor of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of WisconsinVerified email at wisc.edu
