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2018-2022

• 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 [accepted]
• 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. 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.
• Fang, J., S. Fei, Y. Fan, and K. Cui. 2000. Ecological patterns in anatomic characters of leaves and woods of Fagus lucida and their climatic control in Mountain Fanjingshan, Guizhou, China. Acta Botanica Sinica 42: 636-642.
• Fei, S., J. Fang, Y. Fan, K. Zhao, X, Liu, and K. Cui. 1999. Anatomical characteristic of leaves and woods of Fagus lucida and their relationship to ecological factors in Mountain Fanjingshan, Guizhou, China. Acta Botanica Sinica 41: 1002-1009.
• Fang, J. and S. Fei. 1998. Carbon cycle in the Arctic terrestrial ecosystems in relation to the global warming. Chinese Journal of Polar Science 9: 92-100.