Unraveling the impacts: How extreme weather events disrupt wood product markets

CMT Johnston, JD Henderson, J Guo… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While extreme weather events are often localized, the potential effects on global forests can
be far reaching due to the interconnected nature of forest product markets. To better …

Hurricanes jeopardise carbon storage capacity

C Walker - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Forests store 25% of human-related carbon emissions globally so theoretically the more
trees we plant, the more carbon we store. Forests are however under growing risk from the …

Defoliation and demography interact to affect oak survival in Southern New England

AB Plotkin, B Keevan, MG MacLean, G Shiffrin… - Forest Ecology and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Oak (Quercus) is a globally important genus, but its dominance is declining across the
northeastern United States. Periodic outbreaks of an invasive insect, spongy moth …

Causes and Consequences of Tree Mortality from Invasive Insects

AA Barker Plotkin - 2024 - scholarworks.umass.edu
Invasions of non-native insects are a major driver of change for forest composition, structure,
and carbon storage capacity, especially in invasion hotspots such as the Northeastern …