Brice Hanberry, PhD

Research Ecologist

Rocky Mountain Research Station

brice.hanberry@usda.gov

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Brice Hanberry, J. Adam Warwick. 2025. Retrieving historical forest composition in the southern Appalachian region, United States
Brice Hanberry. 2025. Clarifying influences of sampling bias (concentration) and locational errors (uncertainties) on precision or generality of species distribution models
Sylvia Kantor, Jeanne C. Chambers, Duncan Leao, Jessica L. Brown, Brice Hanberry, Matt C. Reeves, Karen C. Short, Claire Tortorelli, Alexandra K. Urza. 2025. Right fuel treatment, right place: Managing wildfire in sagebrush country
Brice Hanberry. 2025. Potential expanded pollinator distributions in North America under future climate
Brice Hanberry, Charles M. Ruffner, Robert Tatina. 2025. Contextualizing estimated tree densities and expert-classified ecosystems in the historical midwestern United States, a region with exposure to frequent fires
Brice Hanberry. 2025. Comparable riparian tree cover in historical grasslands and current croplands of the eastern Great Plains, with model expansion to the entire Great Plains, U.S.A.
Matt C. Reeves, Joseph Swisher, Michael Krebs, Kelly Warnke, Brice Hanberry, Tip Hudson, Sonia A. Hall. 2025. Data-driven decision support to guide sustainable grazing management
Stephen J. Tulowiecki, Brice Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams. 2025. Spatial and temporal pervasiveness of Indigenous settlement in oak landscapes of southern New England, US, during the late Holocene
Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Jeanne C. Chambers, Alexandra K. Urza, Brice Hanberry, Jessi L. Brown, David Board, Steven B. Campbell, Karen J. Clause, Michele R. Crist, John B. Bradford. 2025. Declining ecological resilience and invasion resistance under climate change in the sagebrush region, United States
Paula J. Fornwalt, Andreas P. Wion, Anna W. Schoettle, Miranda D. Redmond, Steven Alton, Javier E. Mercado, Brice Hanberry, Jose Negron. 2024. Vulnerability of major Colorado Front Range tree species to climate change (Chapter 5)
Matthew Fairchild, Brice Hanberry. 2024. Community involvement to increase monitoring capacity for climate-sensitive resources (Chapter 7)
Eva C. Karau, Brice Hanberry, Greg Dillon. 2024. Fire risk and climate change in the Colorado Front Range (Chapter 9)
Brice Hanberry, Xing Zheng, Erik Johnson, Michael Furniss. 2024. Infrastructure, flood risk, and sustainable operations in Front Range national forests (Chapter 10)
Brice Hanberry, Thomas Timberlake, Nehalem C. Clark, Brian W. Miller, Courtney Peterson. 2024. Scope, setting, and purpose of the Colorado Front Range climate change vulnerability assessment for national forests (Chapter 1)
Brice Hanberry. 2024. Summarizing concerns for natural resources due to climate change and interactions with non-climate stressors in the Rocky Mountains (Chapter 2)
Brice Hanberry. 2024. Reaccessing Historical Oak Composition of Kentucky
J. Adam Warwick, Brice Hanberry. 2024. Historic and Current Forests and Fire Culture in the Southern Appalachians
Heather D. Alexander, Josue Chevez Sahona, Brice Hanberry, Tamara Milton, Arthur Lamounier Moura, Monika Rawat, Courtney Siegert, John Willis. 2024. Mesophication of Oak Landscapes: Mechanisms and Management
Brice Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams, Gregory J. Nowacki. 2024. Potential interactions between climate change and land use for forest issues in the eastern United States
Brice Hanberry, Jacob M. Seidel. 2024. Envisioning transition from open landscapes to forested landscapes in the Routt National Forest, Colorado, United States
Brice Hanberry. 2024. Tree species distributions in the United States and Canada under climate from 20,000 years ago to year 2100
Brice Hanberry, Jacob M. Seidel, Phillip DeLeon. 2024. Exploring tree density Increases after fire exclusion in the northern Front Range and Great Plains, Colorado, USA
Robert Tatina, Brice Hanberry, John Willis. 2024. Differentiating historical open forests and current closed forests of the Coastal Plain, southeastern USA
Brice Hanberry. 2024. Colorado Front Range climate change vulnerability assessment for National Forests
Brice Hanberry. 2024. Practical guide for retaining correlated climate variables and unthinned samples in species distribution modeling, using random forests
Terrie B. Jain, Sharon M. Hood, Shawn McKinney, Jeffrey E. Ott, Alexandra K. Urza, Morgan Varner, Ilana Abrahamson, Nathaniel Anderson, Michael A. Battaglia, Jeanne C. Chambers, Brice Hanberry, Francis F. Kilkenny, Joseph O’Brien. 2023. Can fuel treatments change how a wildfire burns across a landscape?
Stephen J. Tulowiecki, Brice Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams. 2023. Native American geography shaped historical fire frequency in forests of eighteenth-century Pennsylvania, USA
Brice Hanberry, Jonathan M. Stober, Don C. Bragg. 2023. Documenting two centuries of change in longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests of the Coastal Plain province, southeastern USA
Brice Hanberry, Phillip Hanberry. 2023. Illustrating land cover change associated with erosion management of the Little Blue River, Kansas, USA
Brice Hanberry. 2023. Effectiveness of land use disturbance measures, compared to climate, soils, and topography, for modeling tree species in the eastern United States
Brice Hanberry. 2023. Urban land expansion and decreased urban sprawl at global, national, and city scales during 2000 to 2020
Brice Hanberry. 2023. Non-native plant species richness and influence of greenhouses and human populations in the conterminous United States
Brice Hanberry. 2023. Shifting potential tree species distributions from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Mid-Holocene in North America, with a correlation assessment
Brice Hanberry. 2023. Global climate classification and comparison to Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum climates, with added aridity information and a hypertropical class
Brice Hanberry. 2023. A solution for perfect bioclimate envelope models that are imperfect for extirpated species
Matt C. Reeves, Michael Krebs, Sarah E. McCord, Matt Fitzpatrick, Roger Claassen, Emily Kachergis, Loretta J. Metz, Brice Hanberry. 2023. Rangeland Resources
Alexandra K. Urza, Brice Hanberry, Terrie B. Jain. 2023. Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: Lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region
Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, John B. Bradford, David Board, Steven B. Campbell, Karen J. Clause, Brice Hanberry, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Alexandra K. Urza. 2023. New indicators of ecological resilience and invasion resistance to support prioritization and management in the sagebrush biome, United States
Brice Hanberry, Edward K. Faison. 2022. Re-framing deer herbivory as a natural disturbance regime with ecological and socioeconomic outcomes in the eastern United States
R. E. Tatina, Brice Hanberry. 2022. Historical forests of the Black Hills, South Dakota, determined using General Land Office surveys
Brice Hanberry. 2022. Non-native plant associations with wildfire, tree removals, and deer in the eastern United States
Brice Hanberry. 2022. Climate envelopes do not reflect tree dynamics after Euro-American settlement in eastern North America
Damaris A. Chenoweth, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, Alexandra K. Urza, Brice Hanberry, David Board, Michele Crist, John B. Bradford. 2022. Ecologically relevant moisture and temperature metrics for assessing dryland ecosystem dynamics
Scott N. Zimmer, Matt C. Reeves, Joseph R. St. Peter, Brice Hanberry. 2022. Earlier green-up and senescence of temperate United States rangelands under future climate
John M. Kabrick, Brice Hanberry, Daniel C. C. Dey, Benjamin O. Knapp, David R. Larsen, Lauren S. Pile. 2022. Adapting Gingrich stocking guides for managing oak woodlands and savannas
Brice Hanberry. 2022. From 20,000 years ago to near present climate classification of North America
Marc D. Abrams, Brice Hanberry, Charles M. Ruffner. 2022. A comparison of witness tree and contemporary compositions for old-growth forests at Savage Mountain, Maryland, and secondary forests of the northern Allegheny Mountains
Brice Hanberry. 2022. Imposing consistent global definitions of urban populations with gridded population density models: Irreconcilable differences at the national scale
Brice Hanberry, Reed F. Noss. 2022. Locating potential historical fire-maintained grasslands of the eastern United States based on topography and wind speed
Brice Hanberry. 2022. Confronting the issue of invasive native tree species due to land use change in the eastern United States
Brice Hanberry. 2022. Global population densities, climate change, and the maximum monthly temperature threshold as a potential tipping point for high urban densities
Brice Hanberry. 2022. Westward expansion by Juniperus virginiana of the eastern United States and intersection with western Juniperus species in a novel assemblage
Terrie B. Jain, Ilana Abrahamson, Nathaniel Anderson, Sharon M. Hood, Brice Hanberry, Francis F. Kilkenny, Shawn McKinney, Jeffrey E. Ott, Alexandra K. Urza, Jeanne C. Chambers, Michael A. Battaglia, J. Morgan Varner, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2021. Effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale: State of understanding and key research gaps
Brice Hanberry, Daniel C. C. Dey. 2021. Restoration and management of forests for future climate changes in Wisconsin, USA
Brice Hanberry. 2021. It is crowded in here: How open forests have disappeared and why we should bring them back
Paul R. Gagnon, Loretta L. Battaglia, Brice Hanberry, William H. Conner, Sammy L. King. 2021. Fire in floodplain forests of the Southeastern USA [Chapter 6]
Brice Hanberry. 2021. Timing of tree density increases, influence of climate change, and a land use index proxy for tree density increases in the United States
Brice Hanberry. 2021. Transition from fire-dependent open forests: Alternative ecosystem states in the southeastern United States
Brice Hanberry. 2021. Addressing regional relationships between white-tailed deer densities and land classes
Brice Hanberry. 2021. Wind-bounded grasslands of North America
Brice Hanberry. 2021. Forest disturbance types and current analogs for historical disturbance-independent forests
Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brice Hanberry. 2021. Processes underlying restoration of temperate savanna and woodland ecosystems: Emerging themes and challenges
Jacqueline P. Ott, Brice Hanberry, Mona Khalil, Mark W. Paschke, Max Post van der Burg, Anthony J. Prenni. 2021. Energy development and production in the Great Plains: Implications and mitigation opportunities
Matt C. Reeves, Brice Hanberry, Hailey Wilmer, Nicole E. Kaplan, William K. Lauenroth. 2021. An assessment of production trends on the Great Plains from 1984 to 2017
Brice Hanberry, Phillip Hanberry. 2020. Regaining the history of deer populations and densities in the southeastern United States
Brice Hanberry, Donald C. Justice, David C. Powell. 2020. Discovering Douglas-fir woodlands in the historical forests of the Umatilla National Forest, eastern Oregon and Washington
Matt C. Reeves, Brice Hanberry, Iric Burden. 2020. Rapidly quantifying drought impacts to aid reseeding strategies
Brice Hanberry, Sandra J. DeBano, Thomas N. Kaye, Mary M. Rowland, Cynthia R. Hartway, Donna Shorrock. 2020. Pollinators of the Great Plains: Disturbances, stressors, management, and research needs
Brice Hanberry. 2020. Classifying large wildfires in the United States by land cover
Matt C. Reeves, Brice Hanberry, Jeffrey L. Bruggink, Michael A. Krebs, Steven B. Campbell, Scott Baggett. 2020. A novel approach for estimating nonforest carbon stocks in support of forest plan revision
Brice Hanberry. 2020. Reclassifying the wildland-urban interface using fire occurrences for the United States
Brice Hanberry. 2020. Baseline and novel ecosystems in Michigan, USA, with a quantitative and qualitative assessment
Don C. Bragg, Brice Hanberry, Todd Hutchinson, Steven B. Jack, John M. Kabrick. 2020. Silvicultural options for open forest management in eastern North America
Brice Hanberry, Kas Dumroese. 2020. Biodiversity and representative species in dry pine forests [Chapter 4.1]
Brice Hanberry. 2020. Compounded heat and fire risk for future U.S. populations
Brice Hanberry, Don C. Bragg, Heather D. Alexander. 2020. Open forest ecosystems: An excluded state
Brice Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams, Mary A. Arthur, J. Morgan. Varner. 2020. Reviewing fire, climate, deer, and foundation species as drivers of historically open oak and pine forests and transition to closed forests
Brice Hanberry, Phillip Hanberry. 2020. Rapid digitization to reclaim thematic maps of white-tailed deer density from 1982 and 2003 in the conterminous US
Brice Hanberry, Matt C. Reeves, Andrew Brischke, Mike Hannemann, Tipton Hudson, Richard Mayberry, Dennis Ojima, Holly R. Prendeville, Imtiaz Rangwala. 2019. Managing Effects of Drought in the Great Plains
Deborah M. Finch, Carolyn Baldwin, David P. Brown, Katelyn P. Driscoll, Erica Fleishman, Paulette L. Ford, Brice Hanberry, Amy J. Symstad, Bill Van Pelt, Richard Zabel. 2019. Management opportunities and research priorities for Great Plains grasslands
Brice Hanberry. 2019. Defining the historical northeastern forested boundary of the Great Plains Grasslands in the United States
Brice Hanberry. 2019. Recent shifts in shade tolerance and disturbance traits in forests of the eastern United States
Brice Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams. 2019. Does white-tailed deer density affect tree stocking in forests of the eastern United States?
Brice Hanberry, Daniel C. C. Dey. 2019. Historical range of variability for restoration and management in Wisconsin
Brice Hanberry. 2019. Trajectory from beech and oak forests to eastern broadleaf forests in Indiana, USA
Brice Hanberry, Frank R. Thompson. 2019. Open forest management for early successional birds
Brice Hanberry, Jacob S. Fraser. 2019. Visualizing current and future climate boundaries of the conterminous United States: Implications for forests
Brice Hanberry, Don C. Bragg, Todd Hutchinson. 2018. A reconceptualization of open oak and pine ecosystems of eastern North America using a forest structure spectrum
Brice Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams, Joseph D. White. 2018. Is increased precipitation during the 20th century statistically or ecologically significant in the eastern US?
Brice Hanberry, Robert F. Brzuszek, H. Thomas Foster, Timothy J. Schauwecker. 2018. Recalling open old growth forests in the Southeastern Mixed Forest province of the United States
Frank R. Thompson, Brice Hanberry, Stephen R. R. Shifley, Brian K. Davidson. 2018. Restoration of pine-oak woodlands in Missouri: Using science to inform land management debates and decisions
Brice Hanberry. 2018. Revisiting historical beech and oak forests in Indiana using a GIS method to recover information from bar charts
Brice Hanberry, Keith Coursey, John S. Kush. 2018. Structure and composition of historical longleaf pine ecosystems in Mississippi, USA
Brice Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams. 2018. Recognizing loss of open forest ecosystems by tree densification and land use intensification in the Midwestern USA
Brice Hanberry, John M. Kabrick, Peter W. Dunwiddie, Tibor Hartel, Terrie B. Jain, Benjamin O. Knapp. 2017. Restoration of temperate savannas and woodlands [Chapter 11]
William D. Dijak, Brice Hanberry, Jacob S. Fraser, Hong S. He, Wen J. Wang, Frank R. Thompson. 2017. Revision and application of the LINKAGES model to simulate forest growth in central hardwood landscapes in response to climate change
Wenchi Jin, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson, Wen J. Wang, Jacob S. Fraser, Stephen R. R. Shifley, Brice Hanberry, William D. Dijak. 2017. Future forest aboveground carbon dynamics in the central United States: the importance of forest demographic processes
Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson, Stephen Matthews, Matthew Peters, Anantha M. Prasad, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Wen J. Wang, Brice Hanberry, Hong He, Maria Janowiak, Patricia Butler, Leslie Brandt, Chris Swanston. 2017. Multi-model comparison on the effects of climate change on tree species in the eastern U.S.: results from an enhanced niche model and process-based ecosystem and landscape models
Brice Hanberry, Hong S. He, Stephen R. R. Shifley. 2016. Loss of aboveground forest biomass and landscape biomass variability in Missouri, US
Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson, Jacob S. Fraser, Brice Hanberry, William D. Dijak. 2015. Importance of succession, harvest, and climate change in determining future composition in US Central Hardwood Forests
Brice Hanberry, Reed F. Noss, Hugh D. Safford, Stuart K. Allison, Daniel C. C. Dey. 2015. Restoration Is Preparation for the Future
Michael C. Stambaugh, J. Morgan Varner, Reed F. Noss, Daniel C. C. Dey, Norman L. Christensen, Robert F. Baldwin, Richard P. Guyette, Brice Hanberry, Craig A. Harper, Sam G. Lindblom, Tom Waldrop. 2015. Clarifying the role of fire in the deciduous forests of eastern North America: reply to Matlack
Brice Hanberry, D. Todd Jones-Farrand, John M. Kabrick. 2014. Historical open forest ecosystems in the Missouri Ozarks: reconstruction and restoration targets
Brice Hanberry, John M. Kabrick, Hong S. He. 2014. Changing tree composition by life history strategy in a grassland-forest landscape
Brice Hanberry, Daniel C. C. Dey, Hong S. He. 2014. The history of widespread decrease in oak dominance exemplified in a grassland--forest landscape
Brice Hanberry, John M. Kabrick, Hong S. He. 2014. Densification and state transition across the Missouri Ozarks landscape
Brice Hanberry, Brian J. J. Palik, Hong S. He. 2013. Winning and Losing Tree Species of Reassembly in Minnesota’s Mixed and Broadleaf Forests
Brice Hanberry, Brian J. J. Palik, Hong S. He. 2012. Comparison of historical and current forest surveys for detection of homogenization and mesophication of Minnesota forests
Brice Hanberry, John M. Kabrick, Hong S. He, Brian J. J. Palik. 2012. Historical trajectories and restoration strategies for the Mississippi River alluvial valley
Brice Hanberry, Daniel C. C. Dey, Hong S. He. 2012. Regime shifts and weakened environmental gradients in open oak and pine ecosystems
Brice Hanberry, Jian Yang, John M. Kabrick, Hong S. He. 2012. Adjusting forest density estimates for surveyor bias in historical tree surveys
Brice Hanberry, H.S. He, Daniel C. C. Dey. 2012. Sample sizes and model comparison metrics for species distribution models
Brice Hanberry, Shawn Fraver, Hong S. He, Jian Yang, Daniel C. C. Dey, Brian J. J. Palik. 2011. Spatial pattern corrections and sample sizes for forest density estimates of historical tree surveys

Mississippi State University, Ph.D., Forest Resources, 2007
Southern Illinois University, M.A., Biological Sciences, 2003

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