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2018-2023

• Xiang, W, S Fei, and S Zhang. 2023. Cylinder diameter measurement with iPhone embedded LiDAR and RGB sensors. Proc. SPIE 12524, Dimensional Optical Metrology and Inspection for Practical Applications XII. 1252408 [full text].
• Choi, D. H., LaRue, E. A., Atkins, J. W., Foster, J. R., Matthes, J. H., Fahey, R. T., Thapa, B., Fei, S., & Hardiman, B. S. 2023. Short-term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure. Journal of Ecology. [full text].
• Zhou T, Ravi R, Lin Y-C, Manish R, Fei S, Habib A. 2023. In Situ Calibration and Trajectory Enhancement of UAV and Backpack LiDAR Systems for Fine-Resolution Forest Inventory. Remote Sensing. 15(11):2799. [full text].
• Zhou, T., Manish, R., Fei, S., and Habib, A. 2023. In-situ calibration and trajectory enhancement of UAV and backpack lidar systems for high-resolution forest inventory, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVIII-1/W1-2023: 595–602. [full text].
• Carpenter, J, J Jung, N. Makkara, and S Fei. 2023. Enabling Forest Inventory Plot Center Measurement with UAV Imagery. Journal of Forestry. [full text].
• Luo, S, R Phillips, I Jo, S Fei, J Liang, B Schmid, and N Eisenhauer. 2023. Higher productivity in forests with mixed mycorrhizal strategies. Nature Communications. 14: 1377. [full text].
• Shao, G, S Fei, and G Shao. 2023. A robust stepwise clustering approach to detect individual trees in temperate hardwood plantations with varied stand densities. Remote Sensing. 15: 1241. [full text].
• Guo, Q, A Chen, ET Crockett, JW Atkins, X Chen, and S. Fei. 2023. Integrating gradient with scale in eco-evo studies. Ecology. e3982 [full text].
• Knott, JA, L Liang, JS Dukes, RK Swihart, S. Fei. 2023.Insensitive and unfit: phenological responses to climate change. Ecology. e3940. [full text].
• Fei, S., LaRue, E.A., Hardiman, B.S. & Dahlin, K.M. 2023. Structural diversity: a digital revolution. Frontiers in ecology and the environment. 21: 3. [full text].
• LaRue, EA, Fahey RT, …, S. Fei. 2023. A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three-dimensional structural diversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21: 4–13 [full text].
• LaRue, E.A., J. Knott, G. Domke, H.Y.H. Chen, Q. Guo, M. Hisano, C. Oswalt, S. Oswalt, N. Kong, K.M. Potter, S. Fei. 2023. Structural diversity as a novel and reliable predictor for ecosystem productivity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21: 33–39. [full text].
• Bettinger, P., C. Merry, S. Fei, A. Weiskittel, and Z. Ma. 2023. Usefulness and need for digital technology to assist forest management: Summary of findings from a survey of registered foresters. Journal of Forestry. 121:1-11 .[full text].
• Zhou, T., R.C. dos Santos, J. Liu, Y.C. Lin, W.C. Fei, S. Fei, and A. Habib. 2022. Comparative Evaluation of Different Tree Detection and Localization Approaches on LiDAR Point Clouds with Varying Characteristics. Remote Sensing 14 (15):3738. [full text].
• Carpenter, J., J. Jung, S. Oh, B. Hardiman, and S. Fei. 2022. An Unsupervised Canopy-to-Root Pathing (UCRP) Tree Segmentation Algorithm for Automatic Forest Mapping. Remote Sensing. 14(17), 4274. [full text].
• Ward, S, EG Brockerhoff, RM Turner, T Yamanaka, L Marini, S Fei, and AM Liebhold. 2022. Prevalence of a tree-killing bark beetle (Ips typographus) in international invasion pathways. Journal of Pest Science. [full text].
• Ward, S, A Liebhold, and S Fei. 2022. Variable effects of forest diversity on invasions by non-native pests. Biodiversity and Conservation. [full text].
• Feng, Y, S Wang, B Schmid, DI Forrester,M Loreau, J Zhu, Z Tang, J Zhu, S Fei, P Hong, H Su, X Xiong, J Xiao, and J Fang. Mixed forest plantations outperform monocultures across a broad range of conditions. Science 376: 865-868 [full text].
• Knott, J., G. Domke, C. Woodall, B. Walters, M. Jenkins, S.Fei. 2022. Shifting forests and carbon: Linking community composition and aboveground carbon attributes. Ecosystems. [full text].
• Rossignaud, L. M. Kimberley, D. Kelly, S. Fei, E.G. Brockerhoff. 2022. Effects of competition and habitat heterogeneity on native-exotic plant richness relationships across spatial scales. Diversity and Distributions 28:1093–1104. [full text].
• Chandrasekaran, A, G Shao, S Fei, Z Miller, J Hupy. 2022. Automated inventory of broadleaf tree plantations with UAS imagery. Remote Sensing 14(8), 1931 [full text].
• Fei, S, S Kivlin, G Domke, I Jo, E LaRue, and R Phillips. 2022. Coupling of plant and mycorrhizal fungal diversity - its occurrence, relevance, and possible implications under global change. New Phytologist [invited Tansley Insight]. [full text].
• Novick, K., I. Jo, …S. Fei, et al. 2022. Drought Response of Eastern US oaks - in the context of their ongoing decline. BioScience. biab135. [full text].
• Lin, YC, J Shao, SY Shin, Z Saka, M Joseph, R Manish, S Fei, and A Habib. 2022. Comparative Analysis of Multi-Platform, Multi-Resolution, Multi-Temporal LiDAR Data for Forest Inventory. Remote Sensing 14 (3), 649. [full text].
• Oh, S, J Jung, GF Shao, G Shao, J Gallion, and S Fei. 2022. Statewide canopy height model generation using USGS 3DEP LiDAR data in Indiana, USA. Remote Sensing. 14 (4), 935. [full text].
• Cook, R., S.Ward, A. Liebhold, and S Fei. 2021. Spatial dynamics of spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula, invasion of the Northeastern United States. Neobiota. 70: 23-42 [full text]
• Lin, YC, J Liu, S Fei, and A Habib. 2021. Leaf-off and Leaf-on UAV LiDAR Surveys for Single-Tree Inventory in Forest Plantations. Drones. 5(4):115. [full text].
• Quirion, B.R., G.M. Domke, B. Walters, G. Lovett, J.E. Fargione, L. Greenwood, J. Randall, K. Serbesoff-King, and S. Fei. 2021. Insect and disease disturbances correlate with reduced carbon sequestration rates in forests of the United States. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4: 716582. [full text].
• Davis, AG, JJ Fox, and S. Fei. 2021. Alternative 2070: Mitigating the effects of projected sea level rise and urbanization on Florida black bear and Florida. Journal for Nature Conservation 63: 126052.[full text].
• Miller, Z, J Hupy, A Chandrasekaran, G Shao, and S. Fei. 2021.Application of Post-Processing Kinematic Methods with UAS Remote Sensing in Forest Ecosystems. Journal of Forestry. [full text].
• Chong, KY, RT Corlett, M Nuñez, JH Chiu, F Courchamp, W Dawson, S Kuebbing, AM Liebhold, M Padmanaba, L Souza, K Andersen, SC Chua, S Fei, B Lee, S Lum, M Luskin, KM Ngo, DA Wardle. Are Terrestrial Biological Invasions Different in the Tropics? Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 52: 291-314 . [full text].
• Steiner, KC, J Berkebile, L Graboski, LP Leites, and S Fei. Uncertainty in the modelled mortality of two tree species (Fraxinus) under novel climatic regimes. Diversity and Distributions 27:1449-1461[full text].
• Wang, Y, S. Fei, Z. Tang, Y. Sun, G. Chen, X. Wang, S. Wang, J. Fang. 2021. Alien woody plant invasions in natural forests across China. Journal of Plant Ecology. 14:749-756. [full text].
• Dodds, W., K. Rose, S. Fei, S. Chandra. 2021. Chandra. Macrosystems revisited: challenges and successes in a new subdiscipline of ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 19:4-10. [full text].
• LaRue, EA, J Rohr, J Knott, W Dodds, K Dahlin, BS Hardiman, K Rose, F Tromboni, J Johnson, J Atkins, B Fahey, JH Thorp, MI Rodriguez-Gonzalez, J Parker, M Keller, S Chandra, J Lui, and S. Fei. 2021. The evolution of macrosystems biology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 19:11-19. [full text].
• Tromboni, F, J Liu, E Ziaco, DD Breshears, K Thompson, WK Dodds, K Dahlin, EA LaRue, JH Thorp, A Vina, M Lague, A Maazri, H Yang, S Chandra, and S Fei. 2021. Macrosystems as metacoupled human and natural systems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 19:20-29. [full text].
• Ward, S.F., A.M. Liebhold, R.S. Morin, and S. Fei. 2021. Population dynamics of ash across the eastern USA following invasion by emerald ash borer. Forest Ecology and Management 479:118574. [full text].
• Ward, S.F., B.H. Aukema, S. Fei, and A.M. Liebhold. 2020. Warming increases population growth of an invasive defoliator while inhibiting demographic responses by parasitoids. Ecology 101: e03156 [full text] .
• Ward, S.F., B.S. Taylor, K.D. Hamil, K.H. Ritters, and S. Fei. 2020. The effects of roads and associated landscape context on forest plant invasion. Biological Invasions 22: 3051–3066. [full text]
• Zhu, H., H. Li, Z. Yang, A.B. Ahungu, D. Wang, W. Luo, and S. Fei. 2020. Intensive grazing enhances grasshopper fitness and abundance in a meadow steppe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 300: 107012 [full text].
• LaRue, EA, F. Wagner, S. Fei, J. Atkins, R. Fahey, C. Gough, and B. Hardiman. 2020. Compatibility of aerial and terrestrial LiDAR for quantifying forest structural diversity. Remote Sensing 12(9), 1407 [full text].
• Knott, J., M. Jenkins, C. Oswalt and S. Fei. 2020. Community-level responses to climate change in forests of the eastern United States. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29: 1299-1314. [full text]
• Ward, SF, S. Fei, and AM Liebhold. 2020. Temporal dynamics and drivers of landscape-level spread by emerald ash borer. Journal of Applied Ecology 57: 1020-1030. [full text].
• Kivlin, S. N., S. Fei, S.Kalisz, and C. Averill. 2020. Microbial Ecology Meets Macroecology: Developing a Process Based Understanding of the Microbial Role in Global Ecosystems. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 101: e01645:e01645.[full text]
• Reynolds, H.L., Brandt, L., Fischer, B.C., Hardiman, B.S., Moxley, D.J., Sandweiss, E., Speer, J., and S. Fei. 2020. Implications of climate change for Indiana's urban green infrastructure. Climatic change 163: 1967-1984 [full text]
• Phillips, R.P., Brandt, L., Polly, P.D., Zollner, P., Saunders, M.R., Clay, K., Iverson, L., and S. Fei. 2020. Towards an improved understanding of the ecological and economic consequences of climate change for Indiana forests. Climatic change 163: 1917-1931. [full text]
• LaRue, EA, BS Hardiman, JM Elliott, and S. Fei. 2019. Structural diversity as a predictor of ecosystem function. Environmental Research Letters 14: 114011 [full text]
• Fei, S., R.S. Morin, C.M. Oswalt, and A.M. Liebhold. 2019. Biomass losses resulting from insect and disease invasions in US forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (35) 17371-17376. [full text]
• Ward, S., S. Fei and A. Liebhold. 2019. Spatial patterns of discovery points and invasion hotspots of non-native forest pests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28: 1749-1762. [full text]
• Nunez-Mir, G., Q. Guo, M. Rejmanek, B. Iannone, and S. Fei. 2019. Predicting potential invasive species in forest ecosystems using functional traits. Ecology 100 (10): e02797. [full text]
• Knott, J, EA LaRue, S Ward, E McCallen, K Ordonez, F Wagner, I Jo, JM Elliott, and S. Fei. 2019. A roadmap for exploring the thematic content of ecology journals. Ecosphere 10 (8): e02801. [full text]
• Jo, I., S. Fei, C. Oswalt, G. Domke, R. Phillips. 2019. Shifts in dominant tree-mycorrhizal associations in response to anthropogenic impacts. Science Advances 5: eaav6358. [full text]
• Guo, Q., S. Fei, K. M. Potter, A. M. Liebhold, and J. Wen. 2019. Tree diversity regulates forest pest invasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 7382-7386. [full text]
• Mushinski, R.M., R.P. Phillips, Z.C. Payne, R.B. Abney, I. Jo, S. Fei, S.E. Pusede, J.R. White, D.B. Rusch, J.D. Raff. 2019. Microbial mechanisms and ecosystem flux estimation for aerobic NOy emissions from deciduous forest soils. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 2138-2145. [full text]
• McCallen, E., J. Knott, G. Nunez-Mir, B. Taylor, I. Jo, and S. Fei. 2019. Trends in ecology: Shifts of ecological research themes in the last four decades. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17: 117-125. [full text]
• Knott, J., J. Desprez, C. Oswalt, and S. Fei. 2019. Shifts in forest composition in the eastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 433: 176-183 [full text]
• Chen, A., S. Peng, and S. Fei. 2019. Mapping global forest biomass and its changes over the first decade of the 21st Century. Science China Earth Sciences 62: 585-594. [ full text]
• Fei, S., Jo, I., Guo, Q., Wardle, D.A., Fang, J., Chen, A., Oswalt, C.M., and Brockerhoff, E. 2018. Impacts of climate on the biodiversity-productivity relationship in natural forests. Nature Communications 9: 5436. [full text]
• McCallen, E.B., B.T. Kraus, N.G. Burgmeier, S. Fei, and R.N. Williams. 2018. Movement and habitat use of eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) following population augmentation. Herpetologica 74: 283-293. [ full text]
• Shao, G., G.F. Shao, and S. Fei. 2018. Delineation of individual deciduous trees in plantations with low-density LiDAR data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 40: 346-363.[full text]
• Iannone, B. V. III, K. M. Potter, C. M. Oswalt, Q. Guo, A.M. Liebhold, H. Zhang, and S. Fei. 2018. Evolutionary diversity conveys biotic resistance to invasion across multiple scales. Neobiota 40: 87-105 [full text]
• Riitters, K., K. Potter, B. Iannone, C. Oswalt, Q. Guo, and S. Fei. 2018. Exposure of protected forest to plant invasions in the eastern United States. Forests 9: 723 [ full text]
• LaRue, E. A., J. Atkins, K. Dahlin, R. Fahey, S. Fei, C. Gough, and B. Hardiman. 2018. Linking Landsat to terrestrial LIDAR: Spectral metrics of greenness and brightness are correlated with canopy structural complexity. International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation. 73: 420-427 [ full text]
• Shao, G., B. Iannone, and S. Fei. 2018. Enhanced forest interior estimations utilizing lidar-assisted 3D forest cover map. Ecological Indicators. 93: 1236-1243. [full text]
• Swihart, R. M. Sundaram, K. Kellner, and S. Fei 2018. Benchmarking scholarly performance by faculty in forestry and forest products. Journal of Forestry. 116: 320-327. [full text]
• Guo, Q., S. Fei, Z. Shen, B.V. Iannone, J. Knott, and S. Chown. 2018. A global analysis of elevational distribution of non-nativeversus native plants. Journal of Biogeography. 45: 793-803. [full text]
• Riitters, K., K. Potter, B. Iannone, C. Oswalt, S. Fei, and Q. Guo. 2018. Landscape correlates of forest plant invasions: A high-resolution analysis across the eastern United States. Diversity and Distribution. 24: 274-284 [full text]
• Jo, I, K. Potter, G. Domke, and S. Fei. 2018. Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions. Ecology Letters. 21: 217–224. [full text]
• Shao, G., G.F. Shao, J. Gallion, M. R. Saunders, J.R. Frankenberger, and S. Fei. 2018. Improving Lidar-Based Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimation with Regard to Site Productivity in Temperate Hardwood Forests. Remote Sensing of Environment. 204: 872-882. [full text]
• Clark, T., B. Iannone, and S. Fei. 2018. Measuring macroscale invasion and dispersal patterns in the eastern US. Journal of Plant Ecology. 11:64-72. [full text]

2012 - 2017

• Nunez-Mir, G. C., A.M. Liebhold, Q. Guo, E. Brockerhoff, I. Jo, K. Ordonez, and S. Fei. 2017. Biotic resistance in forest ecosystems: facts, artifacts, and moving forward, to Biological Invasions. Biological Invasions. 19:3287–3299 [full text]
• Wavrek, M., J. M. Heberling, S. Fei, and S. Kalisz. 2017. Herbaceous invaders in temperate forests: a systematic review of their ecology and proposed mechanisms. Biological Invasions. 19:3079-3097 [full text]
• Fei, S., J.M. Desprez, K.M. Potter, I. Jo, J.A. Knott and C.M. Oswalt. 2017. Divergence of species response to climate change. Science Advances 3 (5) e1603055 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1603055 [full text]
• Guo, Q., B.V. Iannone, G.C. Nunez-Mir, K.M. Potter, C.M. Oswalt, and S. Fei. 2017. Global patterns and regional differences in biological invasions and key drivers. Landscape Ecology. 32:229–238. [full text]
• Nunez-Mir, G.C. J. M. Desprez, B. V. Iannone III, T. Clark, and S. Fei. 2017. An Automated Content Analysis of Forestry Research: Are Socioecological Challenges Being Addressed? Journal of Forestry. 115:1-9. [full text]
• Nunez-Mir, G. C., B. V. Iannone, B. C. Pijanowski, N. Kong, and S. Fei. 2016. Automated content analysis: addressing the big literature challenge in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7: 1262-1272. [full text]
• Iannone, B. V. III, K. M. Potter, C. M. Oswalt, Q. Guo, and S. Fei. 2016. Biological invasion hotspots: a trait-based perspective reveals new sub-continental patterns. Ecography. 39:961-969. [full text]
• Fei, S., Q. Guo, and K. M. Potter. 2016. Macrosystems ecology: novel methods and new understanding of multi-scale patterns and processes. Landscape Ecology 31:1-6.[full text]
• Hamil, K. D., B. V. Iannone III, W. K. Huang, S. Fei, and H. Zhang. 2016. Cross-scale contradictions in ecological relationships. Landscape Ecology 31:7-18[full text]
• Iannone, B.V. III, K. M. Potter, K.D. Hamil, W. Huang, H. Zhang, Q. Guo, C.M. Oswalt, C.W. Woodall, and S. Fei. 2016. Evidence of biotic resistance to invasions in forests of the Eastern USA. Landscape Ecology 61:85-99[full text]
• Fei, S. and F. Yu. 2016. Quality of presence data determines species distribution model performance: a novel index to evaluate data quality. Landscape Ecology 31:31-42[full text]
• Nielsen, A.M. and S. Fei. 2015. Assessing the flexibility of the Analytic Hierarchy Process for prioritization of invasive plant management. Neobiota 27:25-36 [full text]
• Nunez-Mir, G. C., B. V., III, Iannone, K. Curtis, and S. Fei. 2015. Evolution of restoration ecology in forestry: a big literature review. New Forests. 46:669-682. [full text]
• Iannone, B. V. III, C. M. Oswalt, A. M. Liebhold, Q. Guo, K. M. Potter, G. C. Nunez-Mir, S. N. Oswalt, B. C. Pijanowski, and S. Fei. 2015. Region-specific patterns and drivers of macroscale forest plant invasions. Diversity and Distributions. 21:1181-1192.[full text]
• Guo, Q., S. Fei, JS Dukes, CM, Oswalt, BV Iannone, KM Potter. 2015. A unified approach for quantifying invasibility and degree of invasion. Ecology 96:2613-2621. [full text]
• Lee, B.D. and S. Fei 2015. 2001 to 2011 Interior Forest Changes of a Kentucky Portion of the Central Appalachian Ecoregion. Journal of Conservation Planning 11:28-42.[full text]
• Oswalt, CM, S. Fei, Q Guo, BV Iannone, SN Oswalt, BC Pijanowski, KM Potter. 2015. A subcontinental view of forest plant invasions. NeoBiota 24:49-54. [full text]
• Fei, S., J. Phillips, and M. Shouse. 2014. Biogeomorphic impacts of invasive species. Annual reviews of ecology, evolution, and systematics. 45: 69-87 [full text]
• Desprez, J., B. Iannone, C. Oswalt and S. Fei. 2014. Northward Migration under Changing Climate: A case study of black gum (Nyssa Sylvatica). Climatic Change. 126: 151-162. [full text]
• Liang, L., S. Fei. 2014. Incorporating Uncertainties in Invasive Species Risk Assessment under a Changing Climate. Climatic Change. 122:735–746. [full text]
• Liang, L., J.T. Clark, N. Kong, L. Rieske, and S. Fei. 2014. Application of Spatial Risk Analysis in Invasive Insect Management. Forest Ecology and Management 315: 22-29. [full text]
• Carlton, J.S., J.R. Angel, S. Fei, M. Huber, T. Koontz, B.J. MacGowan, N.D. Mullendore, N. Babin, and L.S. Prokopy. 2014. State service foresters’ attitudes toward using climate and weather information when advising forest landowners. Journal of Forestry. 112:9–14. [full text]
• Liang, L., S. Fei, J. Ripy, B. Blandford, and T. Grossardt. 2013. Spatial modeling of the potential niche of an endangered aquatic species: blackside dace (Chrosomus cumberlandensis) in southeastern Kentucky. River Research and Applications 29: 1207-1214. [full text]
• Shen, Z., S. Fei, Y. Liu, Z. Liu, J. Feng, Z. Tang, X. Wang, X. Wu, C. Zheng, B. Zhu, and J. Fang. 2013. Geographical Patterns of Community-based Tree Species Richness in Chinese Mountain Forests: The Effects of Contemporary Climate versus Regional History. Ecography 35: 1134-1146. [full text]
• Shouse, M., L. Liang, and S. Fei. 2013. Classification of Understory Invasive Exotic Plants in an Urban Forest. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 21: 525-534. [full text]
• Pan, Q., G. Zhang, W. He, S. Fei, Y. Chen, and H. Zhang. 2012. Comparison of Vegetative Compatibility Diversity of Cryphonectria parasitica from Wild and Cultivated Chestnut and Molecular Detection of Mating-type of the Pathogens from Wild Chestnut. Forest Research 25: 604-611. [full text]
• Fei, S., L. Liang, F.L. Paillet, K.C. Steiner, J. Fang, Z. Shen, Z.Wang, and F.V. Hebard. 2012. Distribution and Climatic Limits for Chestnut (Castanea) Species. Diversity and Distributions 18: 754-768. [full text]
• Parrott, D., J. Lhotka, S. Fei, and B. Shouse. 2012. Efficiency of double sampling for biomass estimation in Appalachian hardwood stands. Forests 3:179-189. [full text]
• Clark, J. L. Liang, S. Fei, and L. Rieske. 2012. Mapping eastern hemlock: Comparing classification techniques to evaluate susceptibility of a fragmented and valued resource to an exotic invader, the hemlock woolly adelgid. Forest Ecology and Management 266: 216-222. [full text]
• Liang, L., M. Schwartz, and S. Fei. 2012. Photographic Assessment of Temperate Forest Understory Phenology in Relation to Springtime Meteorological Drivers. International Journal of Biometeorology. 56: 343-355. [full text]

2011 or Earlier

• Fei, S., N. Kong, K.C. Steiner, W.K Moser, E.B. Steiner. 2011. Change in Oak Abundance in the Eastern United States from 1980 to 2008. Forest Ecology and Management 262:1370-1377. [full text]
• Fei, S., J. Cox, and A. Whittle. 2011. A Perfect Storm May Threaten Florida Panther Recovery. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 317-318. [full text]
• Liang, L., M. Schwartz, and S. Fei. 2011. Validating Satellite Phenology through Intensive Ground Observation and Landscape Scaling in a Mixed Seasonal Forest. Remote Sensing of Environment 115: 143-157. [full text]
• Fei, S., P. Gould, M. Kaeser, and K. Steiner. 2010. Distribution and Dynamics of the Invasive Native Species Dennstaedtia Punctilobula. Weed Science 58: 408-412. [full text]
• Patton, L., D. Maehr, J. Duchamp, S. Fei, J. Gassett, and J. Larkin. 2010. Do Golden-winged Warbler and Blue-winged Warbler Exhibit Species-specific Differences in their Breeding Habitat Use. Avian Conservation and Ecology. 5(2): 2 [http://www.ace-eco.org/vol5/iss2/art2]
• Bettinger P. and S. Fei. 2010. One Year's Experience with a Recreation-Grade GPS receiver. Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural-Resource Sciences. 2: 153-160. [full text]
• Fei, S. 2010. Applying spatial scan statistics in Forestry. International Journal of Forestry Research. doi:10.1155/2010/815292.
• Fei, S. and K.C. Steiner. 2009. Rapid Capture of Growing Space by Red Maple. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 1444–1452. [full text]
• Fei, S., W. Thomas, and J. Stringer. 2009. Empowering Forestry with Geospatial Technology. Journal of Forestry 107: 84-89. [full text]
• Fei, S. and K.C. Steiner. 2008. Relationships between Advance Oak Regeneration and Biotic and Abiotic Factors. Tree Physiology 28: 1111-1119. [full text]
• Steiner, K.C., J.C. Finley, P.J. Gould, S. Fei, and M.E. McDill. 2008. Oak Regeneration Guidelines for the Central Appalachians. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 25: 5-16. [full text]
• Fei, S., J. Schibig, and M. Vance. 2007. Spatial Habitat Modeling of American Chestnut at Mammoth Cave National Park. Forest Ecology and Management 252: 201-207. [full text]
• Fei, S. and K.C. Steiner. 2007. Evidence for Increasing Red Maple Abundance in the Eastern United States. Forest Science 53: 473-477. [full text]
• Brooks, R.P., G.P. Patil, S. Fei, A. I. Gitelman, W.L. Myers, and E.D. Reavie. 2007. The next generation of ecological indicators of wetland condition. EcoHealth 4: 176-178. [full text]
• Fei, S. 2007. The geography of American place names and trees. Journal of Forestry 105: 84-90. [full text]
• Gould, P.J., S. Fei, and K.C. Steiner. 2007. Modeling sprout-origin oak regeneration in the centra l Appalachians. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 170-177. [full text]
• Rathbun, S. and S. Fei. 2006. A spatial zero-inflated Poisson model for oak regeneration. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 13: 406-426. [full text]
• Fei, S., P.J. Gould, K.C. Steiner, and J.C. Finley. 2006. Aggregate height -- a composite variable to predict early-stage mixed-oak stand development. Forest Ecology and Management. 223: 336–341.
• Fei, S., P.J. Gould, K.C. Steiner, and J.C. Finley. 2005. Forest regeneration composition and development in upland, mixed-oak forests. Tree Physiology. 25: 1495–1500. [full text]
• Fang, J., S. Fei, K. Zhao, Y. Fan, D. Zhuang, and M. Wu. 2000. Anatomical characteristics of beech (Fagus) species in Zhejiang and their taxonomic significance. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis 36: 509-516.
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