Publications
Publications Relating to BANR
Feedstock Supply
- Chung, W., Evangelista, P., Anderson, N., Vorster, A., Han, H., Poudel, K., Sturtevant, R. (2017). Estimating Aboveground Tree Biomass for Beetle-Killed Lodgepole Pine in the Rocky Mountains of Northern Colorado. Forest Science. doi: 10.5849/FS.2016-065
- Long, J. and R. Lawrence. 2016. Mapping percent mortality due to mountain pine bark-beetle damage. Forest Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.15-046
- Stovall, A., Vorster, A., Anderson, R., Evangelista, P., Shugart, H. (2017). Non-destructive aboveground biomass estimation of coniferous trees using terrestrial LiDAR. Remote Sensing of Environment. 200, 31-42. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.013
- Vorster, A.G., Evangelista, P.H., Stohlgren, T.J., Kumar, S., Rhoades, C.C., Hubbard, R.M., Cheng, A.S., Elder, K. (2017). Severity of a mountain pine beetle outbreak across a range of stand conditions in Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado, United States. Forest Ecology and Management. 389, 116–126. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.021
- Young, N.E., Anderson, R.S., Chignell, S.M., Vorster, A.G., Lawrence, R., Evangelista, P.H. (2017). A survival guide to Landsat preprocessing. Ecology 98, 920–932. doi:10.1002/ecy.1730
Feedstock Logistics & Processing
- Anderson, N., Bergman, R., & Page-Dumroese, D. (2016). A Supply Chain Approach to Biochar Systems. In V. Bruckman, E. Apaydın Varol, B. Uzun, & J. Liu (Eds.), Biochar: A Regional Supply Chain Approach in View of Climate Change Mitigation (pp. 23-24). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316337974.003
- Anderson, N., and D. Mitchell. 2016. Forest operations and biomass logistics to improve efficiency, value and sustainability. BioEnergy Research, Special Issue on USDA Biomass and Bioenergy Research, 9:518–533.
- Becker, R., R. Keefe, and N. Anderson. 2017. Use of real-time GNSS-RF data to characterize the swing movements of forestry equipment. Forests 8(2): 44.
- Chung, W., Evangelista, P., Anderson, N., Vorster, A., Han, H., Poudel, K., Sturtevant, R. (2017). Estimating Aboveground Tree Biomass for Beetle-Killed Lodgepole Pine in the Rocky Mountains of Northern Colorado. Forest Science. doi: 10.5849/FS.2016-065
- Jacobson, R., R.F. Keefe, Smith, A.M.S., Laninga, T.J., Inman, D., Metlen, S. Saul, D.A., and S.M. Newman. 2016. Multi spatial analysis of forest residue utilization for bioenergy. Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining 10.1002/bbb.1659
- Kim, Y., W. Chung, H. Han, and N. Anderson. 2017. The effect of downed-trees on harvesting productivity and costs in beetle-killed stands. Accepted by Forest Science.
System Performance & Sustainability
- Beeton, T. A., and K. A. Galvin. (2017) Wood-based bioenergy in western Montana: the importance of understanding path dependence and local context for resilience. Ecology and Society 22(2):9. DOI: 10.5751/ES-09157-220209
- Foster EJ, Hansen N, Wallenstein M, Cotrufo MF (2016) Biochar and manure amendments impact soil nutrients and microbial enzymatic activities in a semi-arid irrigated maize cropping system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 233, 404-414.
- Hood, P.R., K.N. Nelson, C.C. Rhoades, and D.B. Tinker. (2017) The effect of post-mountain pine beetle salvage treatments on fuel loads and fuel moisture dynamics in Colorado lodgepole pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 390: 80-88.
- Pressler Y, Foster E., Cotrufo M.F., Moore J. (2017) Coupled biochar amendment and limited irrigation strategies do not affect a degraded soil food web in a maize agroecosystem, compared to the native grassland. Global Change Biology Bioenergy. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12429
- Ramlow, M. and Cotrufo, M.F. (2017) Woody biochar's greenhouse gas mitigation potential across fertilized and unfertilized agricultural soils and soil moisture regimes. GCB Bioenergy. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12474
- Ramlow, M., C.M.H. Keske and M.F. Cotrufo. (2016) Biochar in Colorado. Colorado State University Extension. Crop Series|Soil. Fact sheet N.0.509
- Rhoades C.C., Hubbard R.M., Elder K. (2017) A Decade of Streamwater Nitrogen and Forest Dynamics after a Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak at the Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado. Ecosystems 20:380-392. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-0027-6.
- Rhoades C.C., Minatre K.L., Pierson D.N., Fegel T.S., Cotrufo M.F., Kelly E.F. (2017) Examining the Potential of Forest Residue-Based Amendments for Post-Wildfire Rehabilitation in Colorado, USA. Scientifica 2017:10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/4758316.
Education
Section coming soon!
Extension & Outreach, Health & Safety
- Ramlow, M., C.M.H. Keske and M.F. Cotrufo. 2016. Biochar in Colorado. Colorado State University Extension. Crop Series|Soil. Fact sheet N.0.509
All Publications
- Anderson, N., Bergman, R., & Page-Dumroese, D. (2016). A Supply Chain Approach to Biochar Systems. In V. Bruckman, E. Apaydın Varol, B. Uzun, & J. Liu (Eds.), Biochar: A Regional Supply Chain Approach in View of Climate Change Mitigation (pp. 23-24). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316337974.003
- Anderson, N., and D. Mitchell. 2016. Forest operations and biomass logistics to improve efficiency, value and sustainability. BioEnergy Research, Special Issue on USDA Biomass and Bioenergy Research, 9:518–533.
- Becker, R., R. Keefe, and N. Anderson. 2017. Use of real-time GNSS-RF data to characterize the swing movements of forestry equipment. Forests 8(2): 44.
- Chung, W., Evangelista, P., Anderson, N., Vorster, A., Han, H., Poudel, K., Sturtevant, R. (2017). Estimating Aboveground Tree Biomass for Beetle-Killed Lodgepole Pine in the Rocky Mountains of Northern Colorado. Forest Science. doi: 10.5849/FS.2016-065
- Field, J.L., E. Marx, M. Easter, P.R. Adler, and K. Paustian. 2016. Ecosystem model parameterization and adaptation for sustainable cellulosic biofuel landscape design. GCB Bioenergy, DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12316.
- John L. Field, Paul Tanger, Simon J. Shackley, Stephan M. Haefele, Agricultural residue gasification for low-cost, low-carbon decentralized power: An empirical case study in Cambodia, Applied Energy, Volume 177, 1 September 2016, Pages 612-624, ISSN 0306-2619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.05.100.
- Foster EJ, Hansen N, Wallenstein M, Cotrufo MF (2016) Biochar and manure amendments impact soil nutrients and microbial enzymatic activities in a semi-arid irrigated maize cropping system. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 233, 404-414.
- Hood, P.R., K.N. Nelson, C.C. Rhoades, and D.B. Tinker. 2017. The effect of post-mountain pine beetle salvage treatments on fuel loads and fuel moisture dynamics in Colorado lodgepole pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 390: 80-88.
- Jacobson, R., R.F. Keefe, Smith, A.M.S., Laninga, T.J., Inman, D., Metlen, S. Saul, D.A., and S.M. Newman. 2016. Multi spatial analysis of forest residue utilization for bioenergy. Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining 10.1002/bbb.1659
- Kim, Y., W. Chung, H. Han, and N. Anderson. 2017. The effect of downed-trees on harvesting productivity and costs in beetle-killed stands. Accepted by Forest Science.
- Long, J. and R. Lawrence. 2016. Mapping percent mortality due to mountain pine bark-beetle damage. Forest Science. http://dx.doi.org/10.5849/forsci.15-046
- Pressler Y, Foster E., Cotrufo M.F., Moore J. (2017) Coupled biochar amendment and limited irrigation strategies do not affect a degraded soil food web in a maize agroecosystem, compared to the native grassland. Global Change Biology Bioenergy. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.12429
- Ramlow, M. and Cotrufo, M.F. (2017) Woody biochar's greenhouse gas mitigation potential across fertilized and unfertilized agricultural soils and soil moisture regimes. GCB Bioenergy. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12474
- Ramlow, M., C.M.H. Keske and M.F. Cotrufo. 2016. Biochar in Colorado. Colorado State University Extension. Crop Series|Soil. Fact sheet N.0.509
- Rhoades, C.C., and P.J. Fornwalt. 2015. Pile Burning Creates a Fifty-Year Legacy of Openings in Regenerating Lodgepole Pine Forests in Colorado. Forest Ecology and Management 336:203-209.
- Rhoades, C.C., P.J. Fornwalt, M.W. Paschke, A. Shanklin, and J.L. Jonas. 2015. Recovery of small pile burn scars in conifer forests of the Colorado Front Range. Forest Ecology and Management 347:180-187.
- Rhoades C.C., Hubbard R.M., Elder K. (2017) A Decade of Streamwater Nitrogen and Forest Dynamics after a Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak at the Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado. Ecosystems 20:380-392. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-016-0027-6.
- Rhoades C.C., Minatre K.L., Pierson D.N., Fegel T.S., Cotrufo M.F., Kelly E.F. (2017) Examining the Potential of Forest Residue-Based Amendments for Post-Wildfire Rehabilitation in Colorado, USA. Scientifica 2017:10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/4758316.
- Stovall, A., Vorster, A., Anderson, R., Evangelista, P., Shugart, H. (2017). Non-destructive aboveground biomass estimation of coniferous trees using terrestrial LiDAR. Remote Sensing of Environment. 200, 31-42. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2017.08.013
- Vorster, A.G., Evangelista, P.H., Stohlgren, T.J., Kumar, S., Rhoades, C.C., Hubbard, R.M., Cheng, A.S., Elder, K. (2017). Severity of a mountain pine beetle outbreak across a range of stand conditions in Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado, United States. Forest Ecology and Management. 389, 116–126. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2016.12.021
- Young, N.E., Anderson, R.S., Chignell, S.M., Vorster, A.G., Lawrence, R., Evangelista, P.H. (2017). A survival guide to Landsat preprocessing. Ecology 98, 920–932. doi:10.1002/ecy.1730
Prior Publications from BANR Researchers
Relevant publications from BANR researchers published prior to the start of the current project
Remote sensing, infestation modeling, biomass inventory
- Evangelista PH, Kumar S, Stohlgren TJ, Young NE (2011) Assessing forest vulnerability and the potential distribution of pine beetles under current and future climate scenarios in the Interior West of the US. Forest Ecology and Management, 262, 307–316.
- Jewett JT, Lawrence RL, Marshall LA, Gessler PE, Powell SL, Savage SL (2011) Spatiotemporal Relationships between Climate and Whitebark Pine Mortality in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Forest Science, 57, 320–335.
Harvest logistics
- Anderson N, Chung W, Loeffler D, Jones JG (2012) A Productivity and Cost Comparison of Two Systems for Producing Biomass Fuel from Roadside Forest Treatment Residues. Forest Products Journal, 62.
- Keefe R, Anderson N, Hogland J, Muhlenfeld K (2014). Woody Biomass Logistics (Ch. 14). In: Karlen, D., Editor. Cellulosic Energy Cropping Systems. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. West Sussex, UK. pp. 251-279.
- Lynch DL, Mackes K (2003) Costs for reducing fuels in Colorado forest restoration projects. USDA Forest Service Proceedings, RMRS-P-29.
Environmental impacts & modeling, stand recovery
- DeLuca TH, Aplet GH (2008) Charcoal and carbon storage in forest soils of the Rocky Mountain West. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6, 18–24.
- Kayes LJ, Tinker DB (2012) Forest structure and regeneration following a mountain pine beetle epidemic in southeastern Wyoming. Forest Ecology and Management, 263, 57–66.
- Lacerte V, Larocque GR, Woods M, Parton WJ, Penner M (2004) Testing the Lake States variant of FVS (Forest Vegetation Simulator) for the main forest types of northern Ontario. The Forestry Chronicle, 80, 495–506.
- Rhoades CC, McCutchan JH, Cooper LA et al. (2013) Biogeochemistry of beetle-killed forests: Explaining a weak nitrate response. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 201221029.
- Wang F, Mladenoff DJ, Forrester JA, Keough C, Parton WJ (2013) Global sensitivity analysis of a modified CENTURY model for simulating impacts of harvesting fine woody biomass for bioenergy. Ecological Modelling, 259, 16–23.
Wildfire modeling
- Collins BJ, Rhoades CC, Battaglia MA, Hubbard RM (2012) The effects of bark beetle outbreaks on forest development, fuel loads and potential fire behavior in salvage logged and untreated lodgepole pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 284, 260–268.
- Contreras MA, Parsons RA, Chung W (2012) Modeling tree-level fuel connectivity to evaluate the effectiveness of thinning treatments for reducing crown fire potential. Forest Ecology and Management, 264, 134–149.
Biochar
- Anderson N, Jones J, Page-Dumroese D, McCollum D, Baker S, Loeffler D, Chung W (2013) A Comparison of Producer Gas, Biochar, and Activated Carbon from Two Distributed Scale Thermochemical Conversion Systems Used to Process Forest Biomass. Energies, 6, 164–183.
- Stewart CE, Zheng J, Botte J, Cotrufo MF (2013) Co-generated fast pyrolysis biochar mitigates green-house gas emissions and increases carbon sequestration in temperate soils. GCB Bioenergy, 5, 153–164.
Greenhouse gas accounting & assessment
- Jones G, Loeffler D, Calkin D, Chung W (2010) Forest treatment residues for thermal energy compared with disposal by onsite burning: Emissions and energy return. Biomass and Bioenergy, 34, 737–746.
- Field JL, Keske CMH, Birch GL, DeFoort MW, Cotrufo MF (2013) Distributed biochar and bioenergy coproduction: a regionally specific case study of environmental benefits and economic impacts. GCB Bioenergy, 5, 177–191.
- Paustian K, Brenner J, Easter M et al. (2009) Counting carbon on the farm: Reaping the benefits of carbon offset programs. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 64, 36A.
Socio-Economic & Policy Analysis
- Cheng AS, Sturtevant VE (2012) A Framework for Assessing Collaborative Capacity in Community-Based Public Forest Management. Environmental Management, 49, 675–689.
- Harden CP, Chin A, English MR, Fu R, Galvin K et al. (2013) Understanding Human–Landscape Interactions in the “Anthropocene.” Environmental Management, 53, 4–13.
- Miner R, Robert CA, Bowyer J, Buford M,
Malmsheimer R, O’Laughlin J et al. (2014) Carbon Accounting Considerations in US Bioenergy Policy. Journal of Forestry. DOI:10.5849/jof.14-009 - Strauss S, Rupp S, Love T, eds. (2013) Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Education & Outreach
- Covitt BA, Gunckel KL, Anderson CW (2009) Students’ Developing Understanding of Water in Environmental Systems. The Journal of Environmental Education, 40, 37–51.
- Rahm J, Martel-Reny M-P, Moore JC (2005) The Role of Afterschool and Community Science Programs in the Lives of Urban Youth. School Science and Mathematics, 105, 283–291.
- Rocca ME, Romme WH (2009) Beetle-infested forests are not “destroyed.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 7, 71–72.