David Wear
Bio
Education
B.A. University of Montana (1981)
M.F. Duke University (1983)
Ph.D. University of Montana (1987)
Research Interests
Research addresses questions in four areas: Integrated forest science and synthesis; forecasting forest conditions; multiple scale analysis of land use; and forest sustainability, investments, and productivity.
Co-leader of the Center for Integrated Forest Science – a pioneering research partnership between the Forest Service Southern Research Station and North Carolina State University, which addresses complex questions that require science to inform natural resource management and policy decisions. Most of these questions require understanding biophysical AND human dimensions and fusing science from the natural and social sciences.
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Publications
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Area(s) of Expertise
Integrated forest science and synthesis; forecasting forest conditions; multiple scale analysis of land use; forest sustainability, investments, and productivity
Publications
- Timberland Investment under Both Financial and Biophysical Risk , LAND ECONOMICS (2019)
- Annual Monitoring of US Timber Production: Rationale and Design , FOREST SCIENCE (2018)
- Nonstationary Hydrologic Behavior in Forested Watersheds Is Mediated by Climate‐Induced Changes in Growing Season Length and Subsequent Vegetation Growth , Water Resources Research (2018)
- Achievable future conditions as a framework for guiding forest conservation and management , FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (2015)
- Complex forest dynamics indicate potential for slowing carbon accumulation in the southeastern United States , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2015)
- From sink to source: Regional variation in US forest carbon futures , SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2015)
- An analysis of forest land use, forest land cover and change at policy-relevant scales , FORESTRY (2013)
- Hemlock woolly adelgid in the southern Appalachians: Control strategies, ecological impacts, and potential management responses , FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT (2013)
- testing for change in structural elements of forest inventories , Forest Science (2009)
- Forest forecasts: does individual heterogeneity matter for market and landscape outcomes? , FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS (2004)