Christopher E. Looney

US Forest Service — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

13h-index582citations46works0.92yr avg
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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(21), Forest ecology and management(18), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(14), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(10), Forest Insect Ecology and Management(8)

Publications46 total

Effects of starch-based superabsorbent polymer on survival and physiology of Pinus ponderosa seedlings exposed to severe drought stress
2025Open Access
Evaluating the efficacy of thinning and prescribed fire for restoring mature forest characteristics in the Eastern Cascades, USA
Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research·2025
Mechanical thinning and prescribed fire benefit bumble bees and butterflies in a northern California conifer forest
Forest Ecology and Management·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Climate and nitrogen deposition constrain the maximum size-density boundary for mature and old-growth stands
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2025Open Access
Informing reforestation with the Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES)
2025· 1 cited
Pre-treatment cruise of the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area Study, Siskiyou County, California from 1995-1996
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Silvicultural effects on first-rotation ponderosa pine plantation in northern California: Garden of Eden study
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2024Open Access
Census of trees at Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest, Lassen County, California from 1933-1934
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2024Open Access
Ecological forestry treatments affect fine-scale attributes within large experimental units to influence tree growth, vigor, and mortality in ponderosa pine/white fir forests in California, U.S.
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 4 cited
Review for "Climate interacts with the trait structure of tree communities to influence forest productivity"
2024
Review for "Climate interacts with the trait structure of tree communities to influence forest productivity"
2023
Mixed-provenance plantings and climatic transfer-distance affect the early growth of knobcone-monterey hybrid pine, a fire-resilient alternative for reforestation
New Forests·2023· 4 cited
Tree monitoring data used to study the adaptability of knobcone x Monterey pine hybrids to lower-elevation, lower-quality forest sites in northwestern California
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2023Open Access
Functional diversity affects tree vigor, growth, and mortality in mixed-conifer/hardwood forests in California, U.S.A, in the absence of fire
Forest Ecology and Management·2023· 7 cited
Site quality and intensive early stand management practices affect growth dominance, structural complexity, and tree growth in ponderosa pine plantations
Forest Ecology and Management·2022· 13 cited
Growth Response of Ponderosa Pine to Intensive Cultural Treatments Varies with Site Quality and Plantation Age
Forest Science·2022· 9 citedOpen Access
Investigating linkages between the size-growth relationship and drought, nitrogen deposition, and structural complexity in western U.S. Forests
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 15 citedOpen Access
Species mixture effects and climate influence growth, recruitment and mortality in Interior West USA <i>Populus tremuloides</i> ‐conifer communities
Journal of Ecology·2021· 8 citedOpen Access
Eighth-year survival and growth of planted replacement tree species in black ash (Fraxinus nigra) wetlands threatened by emerald ash borer in Minnesota, USA
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 21 cited
Hurricane effects on climate-adaptive silviculture treatments to longleaf pine woodland in southwestern Georgia, USA
Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research·2020· 28 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Anthony W. D’Amato(10), Brian J. Palik(9), Linda M. Nagel(6), Robert A. Slesak(5), Kristen M. Waring(4), Wilfred J. Previant(4), Martin W. Ritchie(4), Shawn Fraver(3), Jianwei Zhang(3), Katherine E.A. Wood(3), Sanford D. Eigenbrode(2), Douglas N. Kastendick(2), Seth W. Bigelow(2), John B. Bradford(2), Kaelyn A. Finley(2), Christopher J. Fettig(2), Joseph A. E. Stewart(2), Leslie A. Brandt(2), Christopher W. Swanston(2), Mary Hammes(2)