Christopher Looney, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Christopher Looney, W. Keith Moser. 2026. Structural-complexity effects on forest demographics and self-thinning in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir on U.S. public lands
• Christopher Looney, Martin Ritchie. 2025. Evaluating the efficacy of thinning and prescribed fire for restoring mature forest characteristics in the Eastern Cascades, USA
• Christopher Looney. 2025. Site-sensitive density management diagrams for even- and uneven-aged California mixed-conifer stands
• Christopher Looney, John D. Shaw. 2025. Climate and nitrogen deposition constrain the maximum size-density boundary for mature and old-growth stands
• Jerry S. Cole, Helen L. Loffland, Christopher Looney, Rodney B. Siegel. 2025. Mechanical thinning and prescribed fire benefit bumble bees and butterflies in a northern California conifer forest
• Michelle C. Agne, Robert A. Slesak, Laura Gonzalez Mantecon, Jessica W. Wright, Scott E. Kolpak, Erin Baumgart, Andrew D. Bower, Robyn Darbyshire, Claire Ellwanger, Vicky J. Erickson, Arnaldo R. Ferreria, Christopher Looney, Beth Roskilly, Joseph W. Sherlock. 2025. Informing reforestation with the Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES)
• Katherine E. A. Wood, Christopher Looney, Jianwei Zhang. 2024. Utilizing FVS growth predictions for reforestation in Northern California
• Emily G. Brodie, Christopher J. Fettig, Martin Ritchie, Eric E. Knapp, Christopher Looney. 2024. Ecological forestry treatments affect fine-scale attributes within large experimental units to influence tree growth, vigor, and mortality in ponderosa pine/white fir forests in California, U.S.
• Christopher Looney, Joseph A.E. Stewart, Katherine E.A. Wood. 2023. Mixed-provenance plantings and climatic transfer-distance affect the early growth of knobcone-monterey hybrid pine, a fire-resilient alternative for reforestation
• Christopher Looney, Jonathan W. Long, Christopher J. Fettig, Jeremy S. Fried, Katherine E.A. Wood, Jackson Audley. 2023. Functional diversity affects tree vigor, growth, and mortality in mixed-conifer/hardwood forests in California, U.S.A, in the absence of fire
• Christopher Looney, Jessica W. Wright, Clay Davis, Ryan Davy, Joseph Stewart, Jianwei Zhang. 2022. Postfire reforestation in northern Sierra Nevada forests: Testing silvicultural and genetic approaches in a changing climate
• Christopher Looney, Jianwei Zhang. 2022. Site quality and intensive early stand management practices affect growth dominance, structural complexity, and tree growth in ponderosa pine plantations
• Jianwei Zhang, Kaelyn Finley, David Young, Gary Fiddler, Christopher Looney. 2022. Growth response of ponderosa pine to intensive cultural treatments varies with site quality and plantation age
• Anthony W. D'Amato, Sarah Jovan, Christopher Looney. 2021. Investigating linkages between the size-growth relationship and drought, nitrogen deposition, and structural complexity in western U.S. Forests
• Christopher Looney, Wilfred J. Previant, John B. Bradford, Linda M. Nagel. 2021. Species mixture effects and climate influence growth, recruitment and mortality in Interior West USA Populus tremuloides ‐conifer communities
• Brian J. J. Palik, Anthony W. D'Amato, Robert A. Slesak, Doug Kastendick, Christopher Looney, Josh Kragthorpe. 2021. Eighth-year survival and growth of planted replacement tree species in black ash (Fraxinus nigra) wetlands threatened by emerald ash borer in Minnesota, USA
• Christopher Looney, Wilfred J. Previant, Linda M. Nagel. 2021. Variations in tree growth provide limited evidence of species mixture effects in Interior West USA mixed‐conifer forests
• Seth Bigelow, Christopher Looney, Jeffery B. Cannon. 2020. Hurricane effects on climate-adaptive silviculture treatments to longleaf pine woodland in southwestern Georgia, USA
• Valerie J. Kurth, Anthony W. D'Amato, John B. Bradford, Brian J. J. Palik, Christopher Looney. 2020. Assessing the ecological impacts of biomass harvesting along a disturbance severity gradient
• Kristen Waring, John Bradford, Christopher Looney. 2020. Forests on the edge: forest ecology in rapidly changing conditions
• Leslie Brandt, Michael Sertle, Heath Hamilton, Chad Deaton, Karen Mangan, Christopher W. Swanston, Mary Hammes, Linda M. Nagel, Courtney L. Peterson, Christopher Looney, Marcella Windmuller- Campione, Rebecca A. Montgomery. 2020. Adapting bottomland hardwood forests to a changing climate
• Courtney L. Peterson, Linda M. Nagel, Jim M. Guldin, Chris Swanston, Maria Janowiak, Michael A. Battaglia, Seth W. Bigelow, Leslie Brandt, Anthony W. D’Amato, Christopher Looney, Kevin Evans, Steve B. Jack, Terrie B. Jain, Melissa M. Jenkins, Elaine K. Sutherland, Mary Hammes, Brian J. J. Palik, Matt C. Tuten, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2020. Adaptive silviculture for climate change network: learning from land manager-research partnerships
• Christopher Looney, Kristen M. Waring, Mary Lou Fairweather. 2019. Chapter 12: Monitoring the Health of Pinus strobiformis:Early Impacts of White Pine Blister Rust Invasion (Project INT-EM-B-10-03)
• Christopher Looney, Anthony W. D'Amato, Brian J. J. Palik, Shawn Fraver, Douglas Kastendick. 2018. Size-growth relationship, tree spatial patterns, and tree-tree competition influence tree growth and stand complexity in a 160-year red pine chronosequence
• Christopher Looney, Anthony W. D'Amato, Shawn Fraver, Brian J. J. Palik, Lee E. Frelich. 2018. Interspecific competition limits the realized niche of Fraxinus nigra along a waterlogging gradient
• Christopher Looney, Anthony W. D'Amato, Brian J. J. Palik, Robert A. Slesak, Mitchell Slater. 2017. The response of Fraxinus nigra forest ground-layer vegetation to emulated emerald ash borer mortality and management strategies in northern Minnesota, USA
• Christopher Looney, Anthony W. D'Amato, Brian J. J. Palik, Robert A. Slesak. 2017. Canopy treatment influences growth of replacement tree species in Fraxinus nigra forests threatened by the emerald ash borer in Minnesota, USA
• Christopher Looney, Anthony W. D'Amato, Shawn Fraver, Brian J. J. Palik, Michael R. Reinikainen. 2016. Examining the influences of tree-to-tree competition and climate on size-growth relationships in hydric, multi-aged Fraxinus nigra stands
• Christopher Looney, Anthony W. D'Amato, Brian J. J. Palik, Robert A. Slesak. 2015. Overstory treatment and planting season affect survival of replacement tree species in emerald ash borer threatened Fraxinus nigra forests in Minnesota, USA

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Looney, C.E.; Sullivan, B.W.; Kolb, T.E. et al. 2012. Pinyon pine (Pinus edulis) mortality and response to water addition across a three million year substrate age gradient in northern Arizona, USA. Plant Soil. 357: 89-102.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-012-1150-6.
• Looney, Christopher E.; Waring, Kristen M. 2012. Patterns of forest structure, competition and regeneration in southwestern white pine (Pinus strobiformis) forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 286: 159-170.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.008.
• Looney, Christopher E.; Waring, Kristen M. 2013. Pinus strobiformis (southwestern white pine) stand dynamics, regeneration, and disturbance ecology: A review. Forest Ecology and Management. 287: 90-102.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.020.

Data and Tools

• Dashboard
  

  Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES) Dashboard

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/products/dataandtools/experimental-network-assisted-migration-and-establishment-silviculture-0
• Tool
  

  Adjusting Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) predictions of reforested ponderosa pine stands

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/products/dataandtools/adjusting-forest-vegetation-simulator-fvs-predictions-reforested

• Program
  

  Northern California Research Zone

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/programs/northzone
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Experimental Network for Assisted Migration and Establishment Silviculture (ENAMES)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/projects/enames
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Using Experimental Forests to provide insight to the Wildfire Crisis Strategy landscapes

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-using-experimental-forests-provide-insight-wildfire-crisis-strategy-landscapes
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Other Publications

• General
  

  Evaluating the effects of a superabsorbent polymer on drought stress in two conifer species

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/evaluating-effects-superabsorbent-polymer-drought-stress-two-conifer-species

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Shifting Life

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-shifting-life

• University of Minnesota, Ph.D, Natural Resources Science and Management, Forest Resources, Silviculture, and Invasive Species, 2017
• Northern Arizona University, Master of Science in Forestry, Silviculture, Forest Health, and Invasive Species, 2012
• Northern Arizona University, Bachelor of Science in Forestry, Forest Ecology and Management, 2010