Published or in press (last 10 years): Peterson, C.J. and J.B. Cannon. 2021. Modelling wind damage to southeastern U.S. trees: Effects of wind profile, gaps, neighborhood interactions, and wind direction. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4: 719813. Doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.719813. San-Jose, M., L. Werden, C.J. Peterson, F. Oviedo-Brenes, and R.A. Zahawi. 2021. Large tree mortality leads to major aboveground biomass decline in a tropical forest reserve. Oecologia 197 (3): 795-806. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-021-05048-w. Peterson, C.J. 2021. First-decade biomass and carbon accumulation, and woody community change after severe wind damage in a hemlock-white pine forest remnant. Forests, 12: 231. Doi: 10.3390/f12020231. Oldfield, C.A., and C.J. Peterson. 2021. Aboveground biomass and carbon accumulation 19 years post windthrow and salvage logging. Forests, 12: 173. Doi: 10.3390/f12020173. Mansour, M.A., D.M. Rhee, T. Newson, C.J. Peterson, and F.T. Lombardo. 2020. Estimating wind damage in forested areas due to tornadoes. Forests, 12:17. Doi: 10.3390/ f12010017. Peterson, C.J. 2020. Change in tree spatial pattern after severe wind disturbance in four North American northern hardwood and sub-boreal forests. Frontiers in Forests & Global Change, 3:57. Doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00057. Peterson, C.J. 2019. Twenty-five years of aboveground biomass and carbon accumulation following extreme wind damage in an old-growth forest. Forests, 10(2), art289. Doi: 10.3390/fl0030289. Oldfield, C. A., & Peterson, C. J. 2019. Woody Species Composition, Diversity, and Recovery Six Years after Wind Disturbance and Salvage Logging of a Southern Appalachian Forest. Forests, 10(2): 129. Cannon, J. B., Henderson, S. K., Bailey, M. H., & Peterson, C. J. 2019. Interactions between wind and fire disturbance in forests: Competing amplifying and buffering effects. Forest ecology and management, 436: 117-128. Peterson, C. J. 2019. Damage Diversity as a Metric of Structural Complexity after Forest Wind Disturbance. Forests, 10(2): 85. Peterson, C. J., Ribeiro, G. H. P. D. M., Negrón-Juárez, R., Marra, D. M., Chambers, J. Q., Higuchi, N., Adriano, L., and Cannon, J. B. 2019. Critical wind speeds suggest wind could be an important disturbance agent in Amazonian forests. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, cpz025. Godfrey, C.M. and C.J. Peterson. 2017. Estimating enhanced Fujita scale levels based on forest damage severity. Weather and Forecasting, 32: 243-252. Zahawi, R.A., F. Oviedo-Brenes, and C.J. Peterson. 2017. A degradation debt? Large-scale shifts in community composition and loss of biomass in a tropical forest fragment after 40 years of isolation. PloS one, 12(8): e0183133. Ribeiro, G.H.P.M., J.Q. Chambers, C.J. Peterson, S.E. Trumbore, D.M. Marra, C. Wirth, ... and J. Santos. 2016. Mechanical vulnerability and resistance to snapping and uprooting for Central Amazon tree species. Forest Ecology and Management, 380: 1-10. Peterson, C.J., J.B. Cannon and C.M. Godfrey. 2016. First steps toward defining the wind disturbance regime in central hardwoods forests. In Natural disturbances and historic range of variation (pp. 89-122). Springer, Cham. Cannon, J.B., J. Hepinstall-Cymerman, C.M. Godfrey and C.J. Peterson. 2016. Landscape-scale characteristics of forest tornado damage in mountainous terrain. Landscape ecology, 31: 2097-2114. Nagendra, U. J. and C.J. Peterson. 2016. Plant-soil feedbacks differ in intact and tornado-damaged areas of the southern Appalachian mountains, USA. Plant and soil, 402: 103-116. Royo, A.A., C.J. Peterson, J.S. Stanovick and W.P. Carson, W. P. 2016. Evaluating the ecological impacts of salvage logging: can natural and anthropogenic disturbances promote coexistence? Ecology, 97: 1566-1582. Cannon, J.B., M.E. Barrett and C.J. Peterson. 2015. The effect of species, size, failure mode, and fire-scarring on tree stability. Forest Ecology and Management, 356: 196-203. Cannon, J.B., J.J. O’Brien, E.L. Loudermilk, M.B. Dickinson and C.J. Peterson. 2014. The influence of experimental wind disturbance on forest fuels and fire characteristics. Forest Ecology and Management, 330: 294-303. Peterson, C.J., J.J. Dosch and W.P. Carson. 2014. Pasture succession in the Neotropics: extending the nucleation hypothesis into a matrix discontinuity hypothesis. Oecologia, 175: 1325-1335. Waldron, K., J.-C. Ruel, S. Gauthier, L. DeGrandpre and C.J. Peterson. 2014. Effects of post-windthrow salvage logging on microsites, plant composition and regeneration. Applied Vegetation Science, 17: 323-337. Peterson, C.J., L. Krueger, S. Stark, A.A. Royo, and W.P. Carson. 2013. Disturbance size and severity covary in small and mid-size wind disturbances in Pennsylvania northern hardwoods forests. Forest Ecology & Management, 302: 273-279. Peterson, C.J., and V. Claassen. 2013. An evaluation of the stability of Quercus lobata and Populus fremontii on river levees assessed using static winching tests. Forestry, 86: 201-209. Cowden, C.C., and C.J. Peterson. 2013. Annual and seasonal dynamics of ectomycorrhizal fungi colonizing white pine (Pinus strobus) seedlings following catastrophic windthrow in northern Georgia, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 43: 215-223. Sugiyama, A., and C.J. Peterson. 2013. Inter-annual higher seed germination from smaller than medium-sized premontane wet forest fragments for an animal-dispersed tree species in Costa Rica. Plant Ecology, 214: 115-125. Sugiyama, A., and C.J. Peterson. 2013. Edge effects act differentially on multiple early regeneration stages of a shade-tolerant tree Tapirira mexicana. Biotropica, 45: 37-44. Hovick, S.M., C.J. Peterson, and W.P. Carson. 2012. Predicting invasiveness and range size in wetland plants using biological traits: a multivariate experimental approach. Journal of Ecology, 100: 1373-1382. Presentations (last 5 years): Hale, C.W., and C.J. Peterson. 2021. Evidence of mesophication in the Georgia Piedmont. Univ. of Georgia Plant Center Retreat. Young Harris, GA. Menzmer, A.J., C.A. Oldfield, and C.J. Peterson. 2021. Effects of experimental wind disturbance severity on herbaceous species diversity, richness and composition in a Georgia Piedmont forest. 82nd Annual Meeting of Association of Southeastern Biologists, virtual. Scully, S., R.S. Taylor, C.J. Peterson, and J.B. Cannon. 2021. Experimentally measuring effects of soil moisture on windfirmness in Pinus elliottii using static winching. 21st Biennial Southern Silviculture Research Conference. Virtual. Scully, S., J.B. Cannon and C.J. Peterson. 2021. Effects of soil moisture on windfirmness in Hurricane-prone and fire adapted pine species using experimental tree winching. 9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Virtual. Godfrey, C.M., C.D. Karstens, D. Rhee, C.J. Peterson, and F.T. Lombardo. 2020. A comparison of three wind speed estimation techniques based on tornado-induced treefall patterns. Preprints, Severe Local Storms Symposium, American Meteorological Society general meeting, Boston, MA. LaDue, J.J., M. Levitan, T. Marshall, T. Brown-Giammanco, A. Womble, J. Wurman, F.T. Lombardo, C.D. Karstens, C.J. Peterson, B. Coulbourne, and K. James. 2020. Demonstrating a future application of the wind speed estimation standard to tornadoes. Preprints, Severe Local Storms Symposium, American Meteorological Society general meeting, Boston, MA. LaDue, J.J., M. Levitan, C. Standohar-Alfano, D. Roueche, P. Scott, T. Brown-Giammanco, A. Womble, J. Wurman, F.T. Lombardo, C.D. Karstens, C.J. Peterson, and B. Coulbourne. 2020. Using the jointly-branded ANSI compliant standard as a form of R2O to improve post-storm assessments of damaging wind. Preprints, 10th Conference on the Transition from Research to Operations, American Meteorological Society general Meeting, Boston, MA. H. Figueroa, C.A. Oldfield, and C.J. Peterson. 2019. The effects of an experimental wind disturbance on soil respiration. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY. F.S. Wen, R. Parr, C.A. Oldfield, and C.J. Peterson. 2019. Tree stability of Quercus alba and Liquidambar styraciflua. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY. C.A. Oldfield, and C.J. Peterson. 2019. Soil CO2 efflux elevated 6 years post-windthrow. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY. Peterson, C.J., C.M. Godfrey, and J.B. Cannon. 2019. Estimates of tree critical wind speeds based on static winching. THWARTS II, Urbana, IL. Peterson, C.J., C.M. Godfrey, and F.T. Lombardo. Quantification of wind speeds in the 19 March 2018 Jacksonville, AL tornado through analyses of very high-resolution tree damage. 29th Conference on Severe Local Storms. Stowe, VT. Peterson, C.J. 2018. 25 years of carbon and biomass accumulation following catastrophic wind in a Pennsylvania northern hardwoods forest. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Oldfield, C.A., and C.J. Peterson. 2018. Impacts of tornado and salvage logging on carbon cycle components and forest recovery in the Piedmont. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Zenoble, M.D., and C.J. Peterson. 2018. Intraspecific and interspecific segregation characterize canopy tree spatial patterns in a large southern Piedmont hardwood forest mapped plot. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Peterson, C.J., C.M. Godfrey, and F.T. Lombardo. 2017. Computer simulation of tornado damage using a coupled Rankine vortex and tree stability model. Abstracts of the 8th international conference Wind & Trees, Boulder, CO. Godfrey, C.M., F.T. Lombardo, and C.J. Peterson. 2017. Tornado damage assessment: reconstructing the wind through debris tracking and treefall pattern analysis. American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, LA.
