Area(s) of Expertise

Soil Ecology, Nutrient Cycling, Sustainability

Publications

• Impacts on soil nitrogen availability of converting managed pine plantation into switchgrass monoculture for bioenergy (2019)
• Effects of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on shallow groundwater quality of a drained forest soil (2018)
• Impacts of forest-based bioenergy feedstock production on soil nitrogen cycling (2018)
• Soil CO2 efflux and root productivity in a switchgrass and loblolly pine intercropping system (2016)
• Impacts of switchgrass-loblolly pine intercropping on soil physical properties of a drained forest (2015)
• Evaluating changes in switchgrass physiology, biomass, and light-use efficiency under artificial shade to estimate yields if intercropped with Pinus taeda L. (2014)
• Gas exchange and stand-level estimates of water use and gross primary productivity in an experimental pine and switchgrass intercrop forestry system on the Lower Coastal Plain of North Carolina, USA (2014)
• Switchgrass intercropping reduces soil inorganic nitrogen in a young loblolly pine plantation located in coastal North Carolina (2014)
• The effect of organic matter manipulations on site productivity, soil nutrients, and soil carbon on a southern loblolly pine plantation (2014)
• The challenge of lignocellulosic bioenergy in a water-limited world (2013)

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Education

Doctorate, Philosophy in Forestry, North Carolina State University (2004)
Master, Forestry, Duke University (2000)
Bachelor of Science, CAENS, Tuskegee University (1999)