Jacob S. Fraser, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Benjamin O. Knapp, Jacob S. Fraser, Joanne Baggs, Vikram Chhatre, David Clabo, Connor D. Crouch, Daniel C. C. Dey, Shaik M. Hossain, Steven B. Jack, John M. Kabrick, Kathryn R. Kidd, Steve McNulty, Carl Nordman, Matthew G. Olson, Kyle Palmquist, Matthew Pelkki, Christopher Schalk, Michael C. Stambaugh, J. Morgan Varner, John Willis. 2026. Shortleaf Pine (Pinus echinata): Management Challenges, Knowledge Gaps, and Opportunities for an Unsung Species
• Hang Sun, Hong S. He, Xianghua Zou, Wen J. Wang, Jacob S. Fraser, Kai Liu. 2025. A spatially independent seed dispersal design for forest landscape models
• Justin Krohn, Hong He, Timothy C. Matisziw, Lauren S. Pile, Jacob S. Fraser, Michael Sunde. 2025. Detecting the distribution of Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana) in an urban U.S. landscape using high spatial resolution satellite imagery and machine learning
• Cherie LeBlanc Fisher, Lauren S. Pile, Jacob S. Fraser. 2024. Private Lands Hold the Key to Oak Sustainability in Eastern U.S. Forests
• Shengwu Duan, Hong S. He, Lauren S. Pile, Thomas W. Bonnot, Jacob S. Fraser. 2024. Private land management is more important than public land in sustaining oaks in temperate forests in the eastern U.S.
• Mohammad Bataineh, Jacob S. Fraser, Lauren S. Pile. 2024. Characterization of Chinese tallow invasion in the southern United States.
• Lauren S. Pile, David R. Coyle, Daniel C. C. Dey, Jacob S. Fraser, Todd Hutchinson, Michael A. Jenkins, Christel C. Kern, Benjamin O. Knapp, Dacoda T. Maddox, Cornelia Wilson, G. Geoff. Wang. 2023. Invasive plant management in eastern North American Forests: A systematic review
• Shengwu Duan, Hong S. He, Lauren S. Pile, Thomas W. Bonnot, Jacob S. Fraser. 2023. Current management in national and state forests has important but limited impacts on sustaining oaks in temperate forests of the eastern U.S.
• Jacob S. Fraser, Lauren S. Pile, Brad Graham, Michael A. Jenkins, John M. Kabrick, Michael Saunders, Marty Spetich, Stephen R. R. Shifley. 2023. Carbon dynamics in old-growth forests of the Central Hardwoods Region, USA
• Lucia A. Fitts, Jacob S. Fraser, Brian R. Miranda, Grant M. Domke, Matthew B. Russell, Brian R. R. Sturtevant. 2023. An iterative site-scale approach to calibrate and corroborate successional processes within a forest landscape model
• Mia M. Wu, Hong S. He, Yu Liang, Michael Stambaugh, Jacob S. Fraser. 2022. Disentangle the effects of environment and disturbance on landscape dynamics using LANDIS forest landscape model
• Mia M. Wu, Xianghua Zou, Yu Liang, Michael Stambaugh, Jacob S. Fraser, Wenru Xu, Hong S. He. 2022. The impact of typhoon on post-volcanic-eruption forest landscape recovery: a study in Changbai mountain through 300 years of historic landscape reconstruction
• Lauren S. Pile, Joanne Rebbeck, Todd Hutchinson, Jacob S. Fraser, Cornelia Wilson. 2022. Controlling an Invasive Tree with a Native Fungus: Inoculating Ailanthus altissima (Tree-of-Heaven) with Verticillium nonalfalfae in Highly Disturbed Appalachian Forests of Ohio
• Shengwu Duan, Hong He, Marty Spetich, Wen Wang, Jacob S. Fraser, Wenru Xu. 2021. Long-term effects of succession, climate change and insect disturbance on oak-pine forest composition in the U.S. Central Hardwood Region
• Shengwu Duan, Hong S. He, Marty Spetich, Wen J. Wang, Jacob S. Fraser, Frank R. Thompson. 2021. Indirect effects mediate direct effects of climate warming on insect disturbance regimes of temperate broadleaf forests in the central U.S.
• Casey A. Lott, Michael E. Akresh, Bridgett E. Costanzo, Anthony W. D'Amato, Shengwu Duan, Cameron J. Fiss, Jacob S. Fraser, Hong S. He, David King, Darin J. McNeil, Scott H. Stoleson, Mariko Yamasaki, Jeffery L. Larkin. 2021. Do Review Papers on Bird–Vegetation Relationships Provide Actionable Information to Forest Managers in the Eastern United States?
• Wenru Xu, Hong S. He, Jacob S. Fraser, Todd J. Hawbaker, Paul D. Henne, Shengwu Duan, Zhiliang Zhu. 2020. Spatially explicit reconstruction of post-megafire forest recovery through landscape modeling
• Jacob S. Fraser, Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson. 2019. Modeling Post-Fire Tree Mortality Using a Logistic Regression Method within a Forest Landscape Model
• Wen J. Wang, Frank R. Thompson, Hong S. He, Jacob S. Fraser, William D. Dijak, Todd Jones‐Farrand. 2019. Climate change and tree harvest interact to affect future tree species distribution changes
• Brice Hanberry, Jacob S. Fraser. 2019. Visualizing current and future climate boundaries of the conterminous United States: Implications for forests
• Wen J. Wang, Frank R. Thompson, Hong S. He, Jacob S. Fraser, William D. Dijak, Marty Spetich. 2018. Population dynamics has greater effects than climate change on tree species distribution in a temperate forest region
• Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson, Leslie Brandt, Stephen Handler, Maria Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, Chris Swanston, Scott Bearer, Alexander M. Bryan, Ken Clark, Greg Czarnecki, Philip DeSenze, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Paul F. Gugger, Andrea Hille, Justin Hynicka, Claire A. Jantz, Matthew C. Kelly, Katrina M. Krause, Inga La Puma, Deborah Landau, Richard G. Lathrop, Laura P. Leites, Evan Madlinger, Stephen Matthews, Gulnihal Ozbay, Matthew Peters, Anantha M. Prasad, David A. Schmit, Collin Shephard, Rebecca Shirer, Nicholas Skowronski, Al Steele, Susan L. Stout, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, John Thompson, Richard M. Turcotte, David A. Weinstein, Alfonso Yáñez. 2018. Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework project
• Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson, Marty Spetich, Jacob S. Fraser. 2018. Effects of species biological traits and environmental heterogeneity on simulated tree species distribution shifts under climate change
• Maria Janowiak, Anthony W. D'Amato, Chris Swanston, Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson, William D. Dijak, Stephen Matthews, Matthew Peters, Anantha M. Prasad, Jacob S. Fraser, Leslie Brandt, Patricia Butler-Leopold, Stephen Handler, P. Danielle Shannon, Diane Burbank, John Campbell, Charles Cogbill, Matthew Duveneck, Marla R. Emery, Nicholas Fisichelli, Jane Foster, Jennifer Hushaw, Laura S. Kenefic, Amanda Mahaffey, Toni Lyn Morelli, Nicholas J. Reo, Paul Schaberg, K. Rogers Simmons, Aaron Weiskittel, Sandy Wilmot, David Hollinger, Erin D. Lane, Lindsey Rustad, Pamela H. Templer. 2018. New England and northern New York forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the New England Climate Change Response Framework project
• 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
• Jaymi J. LeBrun, Jeffrey E. Schneiderman, Frank R. Thompson, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Hong S. He, Joshua J. Millspaugh. 2017. Bird response to future climate and forest management focused on mitigating climate change
• Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson, Jacob S. Fraser, William D. Dijak. 2017. Changes in forest biomass and tree species distribution under climate change in the northeastern United States
• 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
• Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson, Jacob S. Fraser, William D. Dijak. 2016. Landscape-and regional-scale shifts in forest composition under climate change in the Central Hardwood Region of the United States
• 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
• Jeffrey E. Schneiderman, Hong S. He, Frank R. Thompson, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser. 2015. Comparison of a species distribution model and a process model from a hierarchical perspective to quantify effects of projected climate change on tree species
• Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Jacob S. Fraser, Frank R. Thompson, Stephen R. R. Shifley, Marty Spetich. 2014. LANDIS PRO: a landscape model that predicts forest composition and structure changes at regional scales
• Jacob S. Fraser, Hong S. He, Stephen R. R. Shifley, Wen J. Wang, Frank R. Thompson. 2013. Simulating stand-level harvest prescriptions across landscapes: LANDIS PRO harvest module design
• Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Marty Spetich, Stephen R. R. Shifley, Frank R. Thompson, David R. Larsen, Jacob S. Fraser, Jian Yang. 2013. A large-scale forest landscape model incorporating multi-scale processes and utilizing forest inventory data
• Wen J. Wang, Hong S. He, Marty Spetich, Stephen R. R. Shifley, Frank R. Thompson, Jacob S. Fraser. 2013. Modeling the effects of harvest alternatives on mitigating oak decline in a Central Hardwood Forest landscape

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Silvics of North America

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/dataandtools/silvics-north-america
• Tool
  

  LANDIS Landscape Disturbance and Succession model

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/dataandtools/landis-landscape-disturbance-and-succession-model

• Project
  

  Assessing Fire’s Impacts and Benefits from Pine Wood Restoration and Fuel Treatments

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-pine-wood-restoration
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Program
  

  Ecological Sustainability of Forests and Grasslands in the Central Hardwood Region

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/ch
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Restoring with Culturally Significant Plants to Strengthen Food Webs for Pollinators and Tribal Community Well-Being

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-restoring-culturally-significant-plants
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Paoli Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/forestsandranges/locations/paoli
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Kaskaskia Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/forestsandranges/locations/kaskaskia
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Private lands hold the key to oak sustainability in eastern U.S. forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/articles/private-lands-hold-key-oak-sustainability-eastern-us-forests

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Overview of Oak Ecology and Economics

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/overview-oak-ecology-and-economics
• Webinars
  

  LANDIS-II Density Succession: Management-Driven Model Design and Application

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/landis-ii-density-succession-management-driven-model-design-and

• University of Missouri, Ph.D., Natural Resources - Forest Ecology, 2018
• University of Missouri, M.S., Forestry, 2012