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Teresa Hollingsworth

Teresa Hollingsworth
Telephone (primary): (907) 474-2424
Telephone (secondary):
Fax: (907) 474-6251
E-mail1 (primary): thollingsworth@fs.fed.us
E-mail2 (secondary): tnhollingsworth@alaska.edu
Web URL: http://www.becru.uaf.edu/personnel/Teresa.htm

Address:
Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest Service, P.O. Box 756780,University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK 99775
United States
Official position at
address above:		 USDA Forest Service Research Ecologist
Educational Institutions
attended:		 Ph.D, 2004, Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks
M.S., 2000, Biological Sciences, Lancaster University, Lancaster England
B.A., 1997, Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
Roles/Affiliations: Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit
Institute of Arctic Biology
PNW Research Station
USDA Forest Service

Study Areas

Core Areas: Disturbance
Modeling/Synthesis
Categories: Disturbance
Stand Structure
Succession
Vegetation
Keywords: black spruce
community ecology
floristics

Datasets

  • Active layer depths: 150 mature black spruce sites in interior Alaska (2000-2003)
  • Age, size, and disease severity of thinleaf alder stems along the Tanana River floodplains, collected in 2006 and 2007.
  • Braun-Blanquet sorted vegetation tables for 150 extensive mature black spruce sites in interior Alaska
  • Environmental and stand data for sites located in the 2004 burns off the Steese, Taylor, and Dalton Highways, collected in 2005-2007
  • Point-center quarter method black spruce heights, diameter, and location for 150 mature black spruce sites in interior Alaska
  • Pre-fire and Post-re species abundance (Braun-blaunquet abundance methods) for 14 sites from 2001-2006.
  • Soil nitrogen and carbon from organic and mineral soil of 32 mature black spruce sites across interior Alaska (Sampled 2001)
  • Species list for Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest
  • Species list for Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest
  • Standardized ring-width chronologies of thinleaf alder growth along the Tanana River floodplains spanning 1968-2006.
  • Stem diameter of trees and shrubs in thinleaf alder sites along the Tanana River floodplains and severity of stem canker infection of alder in 2006.
  • Summary of environmental and stand characteristics of thinleaf alder sites along the Tanana River floodplains from 2006-2007.
  • Summary of plant community structure of thinleaf alder sites along the Tanana River floodplains from 2006.
  • Tree core and ring data for 150 mature black spruce sites in interior Alaska
  • Vegetation and plant community composition for 150 extensive mature black spruce sites in interior Alaska
  • Vegetation Plots of the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest: Species Count (1975 - 2004)
  • Vegetation Plots of the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest: Species Count (1975 - 2004)
  • Vegetation Plots of the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest:Species Percent Cover (1975 - 2004)
  • Vegetation Plots of the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest:Species Percent Cover (1975 - 2004)
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    Publications (9)

    Journal Articles:

    Hollingsworth, T.N., M.D. Walker, F.S. Chapin, III, and A.L. Parsons. 2006 Scale-dependent environmental controls over species composition in Alaskan black spruce communities. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:1781-1796.

    Gonzalez G., W. A. Gould, A. T. Hudak and T. N. Hollingsworth. 2008 Decay of Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) Wood in Moist and Dry Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Forest Fragments. Ambio Vol. 37, No. 7-8, December 2008. DOI:i0044-7447-37-7-588

    Gould W. A., G. Gonzalez, A. T. Hudak, T. N. Hollingsworth and J. Hollingsworth. 2008 Forest Structure and Downed Woody Debris in Boreal, Temperate, and Tropical Forest Fragments. Ambio Vol. 37, No. 7-8, December 2008. DOI:i0044-7447-37-7-577

    Hollingsworth, T.N, E.A.G. Schuur, F.S. Chapin, III, and M.D. Walker. 2008 Plant community composition as a predictor of regional soil carbon storage in Alaskan boreal black spruce ecosystems. Ecosystems 11(4): 629-642.

    Johnstone, J.F., T.N. Hollingsworth, F.S. Chapin, III, and M.C. Mack. 2009 Changes in fire regime break the legacy lock on successional trajectories in Alaskan boreal forest. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02051.x


    Books:


    Book Chapters:

    Chapin, F.S., III, T. Hollingsworth, D.F. Murray, L.A. Viereck, and M.D. Walker. 2006. Floristic diversity and vegetation distribution in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 81-99 in F.S. Chapin, III, M. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L.A. Viereck, and D.L. Verbyla (Eds.) Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.


    Conference Proceedings:


    Report:

    Hollingsworth, T.N.. 2008. Exploring the Alaskan Black Spruce Ecosystem: Variability in Species Composition, Ecosystem Function, and Fire History. 2008. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Flora Group. CAFF Technical Report No. 15, September 2008.

    Johnstone, Jill F.; Hollingsworth, Teresa N.; Chapin, F. Stuart, III.. 2008. A key for predicting postfire successional trajectories in black spruce stands of interior Alaska. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-767. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 37 p.


    Thesis and Dissertations:

    Hollingsworth, T. N.. 2004. Quantifying variability in the Alaskan black spruce ecosystem: Linking vegetation, carbon, and fire. PhD Dissertation. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Fairbanks, AK. USA.
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