HERE
are links to pdfs of
publications from the last decade or so as well as
copies of several presentations at meetings and conferences.
Kerry
David Woods
Full
C.V.
Education and
Experience:
- Professor of Biology, Bennington College. 1986-present
- Visiting Instructor, University of Vermont, Field
Naturalist Graduate
Program,
Winter
1995
- Professor, Central European University, Environmental
Science
Graduate
Program. Summer, 1991
- Post-doctoral Associate (Daniel B. Botkin) and Instructor,
Biology and
Environmental Studies,
University of California-Santa Barbara. 1983-1986
- Assistant Professor, Biology, St. Olaf College. 1982-1983
- Post-doctoral Associate (Margaret B. Davis) and Instructor,
Ecology,
University of Minnesota.
1980-1982
- Ph.D., 1981, Cornell University. Ecology (minors in Soil
Science,
Statistics): Advisors: R.H. Whittaker, P.L. Marks
- B.A., 1975, Illinois College, summa cum laude.
Biology
and
Physics
Awards and Honors:
- Center Fellow (sabbatical),
National Center
for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 2008-2009
- Annual meeting Chair, Ecological
Society of
America 2007
- Manierre Research Award, Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation 2000
- Bullard Fellowship in Forest Science, Harvard University
1997
- VT-EPSCoR -- NSF Sabbatical Fellowship 1997
- Sigma Xi 1980
- National Science Foundation Fellow 1975-1978
- Phi Beta Kappa 1975
Professional Societies
and Organizations:
- Ecological Society of America (Chair, Professional Ethics
Committee 1999-2004; Chair Annual Meeting 2007; Co-Chair, Meetings
Committee, 2008 )
- International Association for Vegetation Science (Chair
North
American Chapter 2009-2010, Professional Ethics Committee Chair, 2012 -)
- British Ecological Society
- Society for Conservation Biology
Other Professional
Activities:
- Director
of Research, Huron Mt. Wildlife
Foundation, 2004-
- Scientific Advisory
Committee, Edmund Niles
Huyck
Preserve
and Research Station, 2000-
- Associate Editor, Journal
of Vegetation
Science,
2001-
(Editorial Board since 1999)
- Advisory Board, Ecological Society of
America
'Issues in Ecology', 2008-2012
- Program Chair, national
meetings Ecological
Society of America, 2007 (member program committee, 2004-2008, Co-Chair
2008)
- Vice-Chair, North American Section,
International
Association for Vegetation Science, 2008, Chair 2009-10
- Advisory Board, Issues
in Ecology (publications of Ecological Society of
America), 2007-
- Associate Editor, Community
Ecology 2009-2011
- Associate Editor, Ecology
and Ecological
Monographs, 2001 -
- Forest Management Advisory
Committee, Merck
Forest and Farmland Trust, 2001-
- Manuscript and grant
proposal review for >25
journals and granting organizations
- ad hoc
Committee on Data Sharing and
Archiving, Ecological
Society of America, 1995-1999
- Ecological Society of
America Council Member
1994-
- Professional Ethics
Committee, Ecological
Society
of America,
1991-; Chair, 1994-.
- Small College Development
Committee,
VT-EPSCoR/NSF,
1988-1994
- Accreditation Visiting Teams
for New England
Assoc.
Schools
and Colleges, 1990-98
- Flora Advisory Committee to
Vermont Endangered
Species Committee,
1988-
- Institutional
Representative, School for Field
Studies College
Consortium, 1989-.
- Board of Directors, Mt.
Anthony Preservation
Society, 1992-1996
- Board of Directors, Equinox
Preservation Trust
1991-1994.
- Co-Organizer, Vermont Field
Biology
Conferences,
1990-1993.
- VT Governor's Advisory
Committee on Science
Research Funding,
1990.
- Symposium Organizer,
Moderator, Ecological
Society
Meetings,
1985, 1990, 1995.
- Preserve Management
Committee, The Nature
Conservancy, Minnesota,
1980-1983.
- Universities Space Research
Assoc.: Pilot Land
Data
System
Working Group, 1985.
- Science Advisory Group,
Earth Observing System,
NASA, 1985.
- Bennington College Committees:
Faculty
Performance Review,
1998-2012 (chair 4 yrs), Facilities (chair), Educational Counseling
1988-92, Freshman
year ad hoc (chair) 1989-90, Field Work Term 1993-
1996,
Professional
Ethics ad hoc (chair) 1993-94, Campus Renewal Comm.
1996-7,
College
Farm
Supervisory Board 1996-2000
Selected
Publications
(For REPRINTS):
- Woods, K.D. 1979. Reciprocal
replacement and
the
maintenance
of codominance in a beech-maple forest. Oikos 33:31-39.
- Woods, K.D. and R.H.
Whittaker. 1981.
Canopy-understory interaction
and the internal dynamics of mature hardwood and hemlock-hardwood
forests.
IN West, Shugart, and Botkin (eds), Forest
Succession: Concepts and
Applications.
Springer-Verlag.
- Woods, K.D. 1981. Interstand
and Intrastand
Pattern
in Hemlock-Northern
Hardwood Forests. Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell, Univ.
- Woods, K.D. 1984. Patterns
of tree replacement:
canopy effects
on understory pattern in hemlock-northern hardwood forests. Vegetatio
56:87-107.
(Republished, 1985, IN Peet (ed), Papers
in Plant Ecology in Honor of
R.
H. Whittaker.
- Botkin, D.B., T. Reynales,
K.D. Woods. 1985.
Adding
spatial
considerations to the JABOWA model of forest growth. IN Proceedings of
XII Annual Symposium on Machine Processing of Remotely Sensed Data,
LARS,
Purdue.
- Davis, M., K.D.Woods,
S.Webb, and R.Futyma.
1986.
Dispersal
versus climate: expansion of Fagus and Tsuga
into the
Upper
Great Lakes region. Vegetatio
67:93-103.
- Woods, K.D. 1988. Northern
hardwood forests. Journal
New
England Wild Flower Soc.
- Woods, K.D. and M.B. Davis.
1989. Paleoecology
of
range limits:
beech in northern Michigan and Wisconsin. Ecology 70:681-696.
- Hall, F.G., D.B.Botkin, D.E.
Strebel, K.D.
Woods,
S.J.Goetz.
1991. Large-scale patterns of forest succession as determined by remote
sensing. Ecology
72:628-640.
- Woods, K.D., A. Feiveson,
D.B. Botkin. 1991.
Statistical
error analysis for biomass density and leaf area estimation. Canadian
Journal
of Forest Research 21:974-989.
- Woods, K.D. and D.J. Hicks.
1991. Re-viewing
ecology [review
of three ecology texts]. Ecology
72:765-767.
- Woods, K.D. 1991. Invaders and
Biogeography
[book
reviews]. Ecology
72:1173-1175.
- Davis, M.B., K.D. Woods, M.
Schwartz. 1991.
Detecting a species
limit from pollen in sediments.
Journal of Biogeography 18:653-668.
- Hall, F.G., K. Huemmrich, D.
Strebel, S. Goetz,
K.D. Woods.
1992. Biophysical, morphological, canopy optical properties, and
productivity
data from the Superior National Forest. NASA Tech. Memo. 104568
- Woods, K.D. 1993.
Consequences for forest
communities of
invasion by Lonicera tatarica L.. American Midland Naturalist
130:62-74.
- Woods, K.D and C.V. Cogbill.
1994. Upland
old-growth forests
in the Adirondack Park, New York. Natural
Areas Journal 14:241-258.
- Woods, K.D. 1996. Community
response to plant
invasion. Invited
Chapter IN: J.O. Luken and J.W. Thieret (eds) Assessment and
Management
of Plant Invasions. Springer-Verlag.
- Woods, K.D. 2000. Dynamics
in late-successional
hemlock-hardwood
forests over three decades.
Ecology
81:110-126
- Woods, K.D. 2000. Long-term
change and spatial
pattern in
a late-successional hemlock-northern hardwood forest. Journal of
Ecology 88:267-282.
- Woods, K.D. 2001. A
preliminary ecological
land-type classification for the northern Taconic Mts. Report to
Green Mt. National Forest.
- Woods, K.D. 2001. Book Review
M.L. Hunter, Jr.
1999. Maintaining Biodiversity in Forest Ecosystems. Journal of
Ecology
- Woods, K.D. 2004. Intermediate
disturbance in
a late-successional northern-hardwood forest. Journal of Ecology
92:464-476.
- Papaik, M.J., Canham, C.D.,
Latty, E.F., Woods,
K.D. 2005. Effects of an introduced pathogen on resistance to natural
disturbance: beech bark disease and windthrow Canadian Journal of Forest
Research
35:1832-1843
- Woods, K.D. 2008. Living long
by staying small;
stem-layering as an adaptive life-history trait in shade-tolerant
seedlings. Canadian
Journal of Forest
Research, in press.
- Bekker, R.M., van
der Maarel, E.,
Bruelheide, H. & Woods, K. 2007. Long-term datasets: From
descriptive to predictive data using eco-informatics. Journal
of
Vegetation Science 18:457-462.
[Introduction to
special issue on
Ecoinformatics, including next paper.]
- Woods, K.D. 2007.
Predictability, contingency,
and convergence in late succession: slow systems and complex
data-sets. Journal
of
Vegetation Science 18: 543-554
- Woods, K.D. (compiler)
2007. An all-taxa
biodiversity inventory of the Huron Mountain Club. Version August 2007.
Occasional papers of
the Huron
Mountain Wildlife Foundation, No. 5.
[http://www.hmwf.org/species_list.php] (a regularly up-dated
publication; prior versions on-line)
- Woods, K.D. 2008. Living long
by staying small;
stem-layering as an adaptive life-history trait in shade-tolerant
seedlings. Canadian
Journal of
Forest Research, 38:480-487.
- Woods, K.D. 2009. Multi-decade, spatially explicit population studies of canopy dynamics in Michigan old-growth forests. Ecological Archives (data paper) E090-251-D1
- Woods, K.D., D.J. Hicks, J.
Schultz. 2012.
Losses in understory diversity over three decades in an old-growth cool-temperate forest in Michigan, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42:532-549.
Research Grants and
Contracts:
- "Tree Replacement in
Old-Growth Forests",
McIntire-Stennis,
1977-1979.
- (with D.B. Botkin and F.G.
Hall), "Remote
Sensing
of Key
Vegetation Characteristics," NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center,
1985-1986.
- (with D.B. Botkin),
"Estimation of total
biomass
for boreal
forests of North America: a ground-sampling approach", Mellon
Foundation,
1986-1988.
- "Remote sensing studies of
forest pattern and
process." NASA-GSFC,
1987-1989.
- "Response of Myriophyllum
spicatum and
native macrophytes
to a winter draw-down." VT Agency of Natural Resources. 1988-1989
- "Pattern and consequences of
biological
invasions:
Tatarian
honeysuckle in northeastern forests". Vermont EPSCOR/NSF, 1989.
- "Permanent plot studies in
hemlock-northern
hardwoods forests
in Upper Michigan: Resampling and analysis", Mellon Foundation/Univ. of
Minnesota. 1989.
- "Baseline studies for
population monitoring of Asplenium
montanum in Pownal, Vermont." Vermont Dept. of Natural
Resources.
1989
- "Long-term studies of
old-growth forests in the
Adirondack
Park." NY Nat. Heritage Prog. 1990.
- "Population biology of rare
calcophilic plants
in
Pownal,
Vermont." Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. 1990. (offered and
declined)
- "Continued permanent plot
studies in old-growth
forests,
Dukes Experimental Forest." USDA Forest Service. 1992
- "Long-term studies of
old-growth forests",
Huron
Mt. Wildlife
Foundation. 1992-1994.
- "Permanent plot studies in
old-growth
hemlock-hardwood forests."
NSF. 1993-1998.
- "Landscape modeling of
forest pattern in the
northern Taconic
Mts." Merck Forest and Farmland Foundation. 1997-1999.
- "Continued permanent plot
studies at the Dukes
Experimental
Forest." USDA Forest Service. 1999-2002.
- "Long-term dynamics in
old-growth forests:
ongoing
permanent
plot studies". Andrew J. Mellon Foundation. 1999-2007.
- "Ecological Land-Type
classification for the
northern Taconic
Mts." Green Mt. National Forest. 2000-2001
- “All-taxon Biological
Inventory for the Huron
Mountains”. Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation 2001-2004
- "Regulation of community
composition and
diversity patterns in eastern old-growth forests from multi-decade
permanent plot data." (with Jason Fridley, Syracuse Univ.).
2010-1015 (in review, NSF-LTREB)
- "Infrastructure for program
expansion at Ives
Lake Field Station, Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation”. 2008-2010
(NSF-FSML).
Invited Professional
Presentations:
These
are examples of invited
talks
given
at some 50 institutions
- Canopy-understory
interaction and the internal
dynamics of
mature hardwood forests. Mt. Lake Workshop on Forest Succession, Mt.
Lake,
Va., 1980.
- Quaternary history of
invasion; range expansion
of
forest
trees. SCOPE Conference on Ecology of Biological Invasion, Asilomar,
1984.
- Measurement of Biological
Production Using
Remote
Sensing.
CERMA and Remote Sensing Society Conference on Resource Management,
Washington,
D.C., 1985.
- Studying Earth's Vegetation
from Space. NY
State
Museum,
Natural History Surv., 1989.
- Balance, extremism, and
certainty;
communication
failures
between scientists and the media. "Freedom Forum", Science and the
Media,
Columbia Univ. School of Journalism, 1992
- Big trees, old-growth, and
forest primeval:
Stability and
change in ancient forests. Huron Mt. Wildlife Foundation, MI, 1993, 1994
- Long-term studies in Upper
Michigan's
old-growth
forests.
Clear Lake Conf., Hiawatha National Forest, Clear Lake MI, 1995.
- The imagined forest:
stability, change and
illusion
in the
forest primeval. Illinois Natural History Survey, 1998.
- Ecological consequences of
invasive shrubs in
native forests.
Bar Harbor Workshop on Invasive Species, Univ. of Maine., 2000
- Long-term studies in ancient
forests; succession,
stability,
and illusion. Harvard University, OEB, 2000.
- Between catastrophe and
gap-phase: intermediate
disturbance in old-growth forests. University of Ottawa 2002,
University of Quebec-Montreal 2003
- Succession in old-growth
forests and
seedling-bank strategies. University of North Carolina, 2004
- Are old-growth forests special
or just old?
Harvard Forest, 2004
- Ecological Insights and
Analytical Challenges:
Processing and Visualizing Multiple Measurements from Permanent Plots.
Invited Symposium Paper, 48th Annual Symposium, International
Association of Vegetation Science, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
- Old-growth forest dynamics are
not equilibrial,
but they are sometimes predictable. Invited Paper, Ecological
Society of American Annual Meeting, Montreal, Aug 2005
- Seedling regeneration,
shade-tolerance, deer
browse, and patch dynamics in late-successional forests: a synthetic
view. SUNY Coll. Envir. Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY 2006.
Selected
Abstracts:
- Woods, K.D.
and
M.B. Davis.
1982. Sensitivity of the pollen record to short-term climatic changes:
Little Ice Age response. Amer. Quat. Assoc. Abstracts.
- Davis, M.B.
and
K.D. Woods.
1984. Climate vs. dispersal as factors limiting Holocene range
extension
of beech and hemlock into the upper Great Lakes region. 6th Int'l
Palyn.
Conf.
- Botkin, D.B.
and
K.D.
Woods. 1985. Developing a conceptual framework for remote sensing
studies
of ecological patterns. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 66:144-145.
- Woods, K.D.,
D.B. Botkin,
F.G. Hall. 1986. Studies of regional vegetation pattern and dynamics
using
remote sensing. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 67:139.
- Woods, K.D.,
F.G. Hall,
D.E. Strebel. 1988. Satellite remote sensing studies of seasonal and
successional
dynamics in boreal forests. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 69:347.
- Woods, K.D.
1993. Canopy
demography and community change in old-growth hemlock-northern hardwood
forest. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 74: (Ann. meeting)
- Woods, K.D.
1995. Stability,
change, and invasion in old-growth forest: canopy dynamics over six
decades
in a mesic forest in Michigan. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 75: (Ann.
meeting)
- Hicks, D.J.
and
K.D. Woods.
1995. Structure of understory communities in an old-growth forest in
northern
Michigan, USA. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 75: (Annual meeting
program)
- Woods, K.D.,
J.D. Fridley,
J.S. Smith. 1996. Demographic patterns and disturbance history in
old-growth
forests from tree-ring analysis. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 76: (Annual
meeting)
- Woods, K.D.,
G.
Silberstein.
2000. Exclosure studies of deer browse in old-growth northern hardwood
forests. Annual Meeting, Ecol. Soc. Amer.
- Woods, K.D.
2003. Intermediate
disturbance in
old-growth northern hardwood forests. Society for Conservation Biology,
Duluth, MN
- Woods, K.D. 2004.
Stem-layering as an adaptive
life-history trait in suppressed Acer saccharum seedlings.
Annual
Meetings, Ecological Society of America, Portland OR.
- Woods, K.D. 2005 Ecological
Insights and
Analytical Challenges: Processing and Visualizing Multiple Measurements
from Permanent Plots. Symposium, "Long-term data sets: from
descriptive to predictive data using ecoinformatics", 48th annual
symposium, International Association for Vegetation Science
- Woods, K.D. 2005. Old-growth
forests are rarely
equilibrial, but they are sometimes predictable. Annual Meeting, Ecol.
Soc. Amer. (invited)" Invited paper, presented in session
"Predictability in vegetation dynamics"
- Brese, D., K.D. Woods. 2005.
Tip-Up Mounds in
Large Gaps Play an Important Role in Old-Growth Forest Dynamics." Annual Meeting, Ecol. Soc. Amer.
Representative
Student
Research
Theses:
- Brese, D.
Vegetation on tip-up mounds in
large gaps in an old-growth forest.
- Ravenscroft, C.
Microhabitat influences
on
seedling
growth.
- Bogonovich, M. Investigations
of Rapoport's Rule
in ranges of North American plants.
- Lawlor, J. Fine-scale
vegetation pattern in
a Maine coastal bog.
- Visser, D.
Ecological patterns in
sugar-bush management in Bennington Co., VT
- Fridley, J. Weed communities
and yield in
multi-cropped agricultural systems
- Teten, S. Effects of
fragment habitation on
breed
bird populations.
- LoDolce, R.
Foraging strategies and
specialization
by individual workers in ant colonies
- Fridley, J. Effects of
different cropping
systems
on seed
banks and weed communities.
- Bennett, SL. Resource
allocation and maternal
inheritance
in mustards.
- Wallace-Senft, DA. Ecology
of shrubby
honeysuckle
invasion
in northeastern forests.
- Wallace-Senft, DA. Maple
syrup production on
Bennington College
campus.
- Lopez, L Back to Earth:
models for sustainable
communities.
- Brockmann, JB. Effects of
canopy trees on
seedling
community
in a beech-maple forest.
- Stinson, KA. Succession
following catastrophic
windthrow
in a northern hardwood forest.
- Chapin, JJ. The politics of
wolf reintroduction
programs
in the United States.
- Scheer, NS. Science in the
political arena:
systemic influences
on environmental policy
- Vlachoutsikou, A. Monk seals
of Zakynthos,
Greece;
field
studies and conservation.
Community
Service:
- Cambridge NY Central School ,
Board of Education
2001- 2005 (President, 2002-2004)
- Trustee of Hubbard Hall
Projects, Cambridge NY
(arts presenting organization)
- Founding member, Battenkill
Chorale
cal arena:
systemic influences
on environmental policy
Vlachoutsikou, A. Monk seals of
Zakynthos,
Greece;
field
studies and conservation.
Community
Service:
- Cambridge
NY Central School , Board of Education
2001- 2005 (President, 2002-2004)
- Trustee
of Hubbard Hall Projects, Cambridge NY
(arts presenting organization)
- Founding
member, Battenkill Chorale