Ecological Forecasting Initiative 2025 Poster

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May 22, 2025

I presented a poster on some ongoing work that uses tree ring data and forest inventory data at the Ecological Forecasting Initiative Conference at Virginia Tech last week!

This work outlines some options we are considering for data assimilation of forest inventory measurements into a tree growth model that estimated on ~16,000 cored trees in the North Eastern US.

Check out my poster below:

References:

  1. Smith, R. B., Hornbeck, J. W., Federer, C. A., J, P., Krusic, J., & Jr..Krusic, P. J. (1990). Regionally averaged diameter growth in New England forests. Res. Pap. NE-637. Radnor, PA: US. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 26 p., 637. https://doi.org/10.2737/NE-RP-637
  2. Hornbeck, J. W., Smith, R. B., & Federer, C. A. (1988). Growth trends in 10 species of trees in New England, 1950–1980. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 18(10), 1337–1340. https://doi.org/10.1139/x88-206
  3. Canham, C. D., Murphy, L., Riemann, R., McCullough, R., & Burrill, E. (2018). Local differentiation in tree growth responses to climate. Ecosphere, 9(8), e02368. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2368
  4. Evans, M. E. K., DeRose, R. J., Klesse, S., Girardin, M. P., Heilman, K. A., Alexander, M. R., Arsenault, A., Babst, F., Bouchard, M., Cahoon, S. M. P., Campbell, E. M., Dietze, M., Duchesne, L., Frank, D. C., Giebink, C. L., Gómez-Guerrero, A., García, G. G., Hogg, E. H., Metsaranta, J., … GaytÁn, S. A. V. (2022). Adding Tree Rings to North America’s National Forest Inventories: An Essential Tool to Guide Drawdown of Atmospheric CO2. BioScience, 72(3), 233–246. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab119
  5. Heilman, K. A., Dietze, M. C., Arizpe, A. A., Aragon, J., Gray, A., Shaw, J. D., Finley, A. O., Klesse, S., DeRose, R. J., & Evans, M. E. K. (2022). Ecological forecasting of tree growth: Regional fusion of tree-ring and forest inventory data to quantify drivers and characterize uncertainty. Global Change Biology. 28: 2442-2460., 28, 2442–2460. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16038