Publications

Xi, W., R.K. Peet, M.T. Lee & D.L. Urban. Hurricane disturbances, tree diversity and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests. Submitted.

Xi, W, R.K. Peet & D.L. Urban. 2011. The impacts of a large hurricane on understory sapling dynamics and diversity in North Carolina Piedmont forests, USA. Tree and Forest Science and Biotechnology (in press).

Xi, W. & R. K. Peet. 2011. The complexity of catastrophic wind disturbance on temperate forests. In Anthony Lupo (ed.). Recent Hurricane Research - Climate, Dynamics and Sociatal Impacts. Pp 503-534. ISBN 978-953-307-238-8. IN-TECH, Vienna, Austria.

Xi, W. & R.K. Peet. 2008a. Hurricane effects on the Piedmont forests: patterns and implications. Ecological Restoration 26:295-298. 

Xi, W. & R.K.Peet. 2008b . Long-term studies of forest dynamics in the Duke Forest, southeastern United States: A synthesis. Journal of Plant Ecology 32:299-318.

Xi, W., R.K. Peet, J.K. DeCoster & D.L. Urban.2008. Tree damage risk factors associated with large, infrequent wind disturbances of Carolina forests. Forestry 81:317-334.

Xi, W., R.K. Peet & D.L. Urban. 2008. Changes in forest structure, species diversity, and spatial pattern following hurricane disturbance in a Piedmont North Carolina forest, USA. Journal of Plant Ecology 1: 43-57.

Palmer, M.W., R.K. Peet, R.A. Reed, W. Xi, & P.S. White. 2007. A multiscale study of vascular plants in a North Carolina Piedmont forest. Ecology 88:2674. [see Ecological Archives E088-162.]

Graves, J.H., R.K. Peet, and P.S. White. 2006. The influence of carbon - nutrient balance on herb and woody plant abundance in temperate forest understories. Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 217-226.

McDonald, R.I., & D.L. Urban. 2006a. Edge effects on species composition and exotic species abundance in the North Carolina Piedmont. Biological Invasions 8:1049-1060.

McDonald, R.I., and D.L. Urban. 2006b. Spatially varying rules of landscape change: lessons from a case study. Landscape and Urban Planning B 74:7-20.

Taverna, K., D.L. Urban & R.I. McDonald. 2005. Modeling landscape vegetation pattern in response to historic land-use: a hypothesis-driven approach for the North Carolina Piedmont, USA. Landscape Ecology 20:689-702.

Taverna, K., R.K. Peet & L. Phillips. 2005. Long-term change in ground-layer vegetation of deciduous forests of the North Carolina Piedmont, USA. Journal of Ecology 93:202-213.

McDonald, R.I., & D.L. Urban. 2004. Forest edges and tree growth rates in the North Carolina Piedmont. Ecology 85:2258-2266.

Wagner, H.H. 2003. Spatial covariance in plant communities: integrating ordination, geostatistics, and variance testing. Ecology 84:1045.

McDonald, R.I., R.K. Peet & D.L. Urban. 2002.  Environmental correlates of oak decline and red maple increase in the North Carolina Piedmont.  Castanea 67:84-95.

White, P.S., & A. Jentsch. 2001. The search for generality in studies of disturbance and ecosystem dynamics. Progress in Botany 62:399.
Turner, M.G., W.L. Baker, C.J. Peterson & R.K. Peet. 1998. Factors influencing succession: lessons from large, infrequent natural disturbances. Ecosystems 1:511.

Baker-Brosh, K.F. & R.K. Peet. 1997. The ecological significance of lobed and toothed leaves in temperate forest trees. Ecology 78:1250-1255.

Duncan, R.P. 1995. A correction for including competitive asymmetry in measures of local interference in plant populations. Oecologia 103:393-396.

Kasischke, E.S., N.L. Christensen and E.M. Haney. 1994. Modeling of geometric properties of loblolly pine tree and stand characteristics for use in radar backscatter studies. IEEE Trans. Geo. and Remote Sens. 32:800-822.

Palmer, M.W. & P.S. White. 1994. Scale dependence and the species-area relationship. Amer. Nat. 144:717-740.

Peroni, P.A. 1994. Invasion of red maple (Acer rubrum L.) During old field succession in the North Carolina Piedmont: age structure of red maple in young pine stands. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 121:357-359.

Reed, R.A., R.K. Peet, M.W. Palmer & P.S. White. 1993. Scale dependence of vegetation-environment correlations in a Piedmont woodland, North Carolina, USA. J. Veg. Sci. 4:329-340.

Peet, R.K. 1992. Community structure and ecosystem properties. In D.C. Glenn-Lewin, R.K. Peet and T.T. Veblen (eds.). Plant succession: Theory and prediction. Chapman and Hall, London. Pages 102-151.

Knox, R.G., R.K. Peet & N.L. Christensen 1989. Population dynamics in loblolly pine stands: changes in skewness and size inequality. Ecology 70:1153-1166.

Peet, R.K. and N.L. Christensen. 1988a. Changes in species diversity during secondary forest succession on the North Carolina Piedmont. In H.J. During, M.J.A. Werger and J. Willems (eds.). Diversity and pattern in plant communities. SPB Publishers pp 233-245.

Peet, R.K. and N.L. Christensen. 1987. Competition and tree death. BioScience 37:586-595.

Christensen, N.L. and R.K. Peet 1984. Convergence during secondary forest succession. J. Ecol. 72:25-36.

Peet, R.K. 1981. Changes in biomass and production during secondary forest succession. In D.C. West, H.H. Shugart & D.B. Botkin (eds.) Forest Succession: concepts and application. Springer-Verlag. Pages 324-338.

Christensen, N.L. and R.K. Peet 1981. Secondary forest succession on the North Carolina Piedmont. In D.C. West, H.H. Shugart & D.B. Botkin (eds.) Forest Succession: concepts and application. Springer-Verlag. Pages 230-245.

Theses

Taverna 2004. Mature hardwood forests of the central Piedmont of North Carolina: landscape distribution and understory change. M.S.Thesis. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

Bickel, Katie. 2001. Land use, disturbance, and the spread of nonnative plant species in a Piedmont forest. MEM Thesis. Duke Univ.

McDonald, Rob. 2000. Increased dominance of Acer rubrum and the decline of the Quercus-Carya climax in the North Carolina Piedmont. B.A.Thesis. University of North Carolina.

White, Rickie. 1999. The impacts of Hurricane Fran on a North Carolina Piedmont Woodland. MS Thesis. University of North Carolina.

Carpino, Elizabeth. 1998. The landscape patterns of Hurricane damage in the Duke forest. MEM Thesis. Duke Univ.

Golubiewski, Nancy. 1998. The implications of land-use legacies for changes in land cover and forest productivity. MEM Thesis. Duke Univ.

Baker-Brosh, K.F. 1996. The genetic consequences of self-thinning in two populations of loblolly pine, Pinus taeda L. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

DeCoster, J.K. 1996. Impacts of tornados and hurricanes on the community structure and dynamics of North and South Carolina forests. PhD Dissertation. Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Muth, C.C. 1996. A comparison of understory tolerance measures for woody plants. B.S. Thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Graves, J.H. 1995. Resource availability and the importance of herbs in forest dynamics. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ribbens, E. 1995. Seedling recruitment in forests. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut.

McAdams, A.G. 1992. Characterization of the light environment of Piedmont forests and the effect of light on seedling growth. B.S. Thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reed, R.A. 1991. Scale dependence of vegetation-environment correlations. B.S. Thesis. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Abstracts

Peet, R.K. and N.L. Christensen. 1988b. Changes in symmetry of competition during development of even-aged Pinus taeda stands. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 69:257-258

Peet, R.K. , P.A. Harcombe and G.R. Parker. 1991. Rates and patterns of mortality in eastern deciduous forests: a comparative study. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 72:217.

Philippi, T.E. & R.K. Peet 1994. A model of optimal life-histories for tree seedlings: allocation to growth vs belowground reserves. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 75(Suppl):180.

Philippi, T.E., R.K. Peet & N.L. Christensen. 1992. Survivorship and growth of Acer rubrum seedlings in stands representing different successional stages from old-field Pinus taeda to mature mixed hardwoods. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 73(Suppl.): 304-305.

Philippi, T.E., R.K. Peet & N.L. Christensen. 1993. Tree seedling demography in old-field Pinus taeda and mature mixed hardwoods stands in a Piedmont forest. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Amer. 74(Suppl.):393.

Weimin Xi, R. K. Peet and D. L. Urban. 2002. Abstract. Immediate impacts of Hurricane Fran on the structure of a North Carolina Piedmont forest. Southeastern Biology Volume 49 No. 2 2002 p.162.

Weimin Xi, R. K. Peet and D. L. Urban. Abstract. 2002. Impact of a major canopy disturbance on the long-term dynamics of North Carolina Piedmont forests. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America .

Weimin Xi, R. K. Peet, J. K. DeCoster and D. L. Urban. 2003. Abstract. A comparison of mortality risk factors associated with large, infrequent wind disturbances in Carolina Piedmont forests. Southeastern Biology Volume 50(2): p.x.

Weimin Xi, R. K. Peet and D. L. Urban. 2003. Hurricane disturbances, tree species diversity, and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests. Annual Meeting of the Ecolgoical Society of America (in press).