Linda S. Heath, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Lara T. Murray, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Andrew J. Lister, Keith Stockmann, Hongmei Gu, Shawn P. Urbanski, Karin Riley, Eric J. Greenfield, Christopher Farley, Hans Andersen, Linda S. Heath, Jeff W. Atkins, Grant M. Domke, Andrew C. Oishi, James Smith, Richard Birdsey, David Skole, Stephen Prisley, Anthony D’Amato, Ethan Belair, Eric Marland, Prakash Nepal, Poonam Khatri, Indroneil Ganguly, Richard Bergman, Kamalakanta Sahoo, John D. Shaw, Jens Stevens, Thomas Buchholz, John Gunn, Lisa McCauley, Joe Fargione, Alexis Ellis, David J. Nowak, Mark Majewsky, Christopher Mihiar. 2024. Quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems
• Sarah Anderson, Linda S. Heath, Marla R. Emery, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Jeremy S. Littell, Alan Lucier, Jeffrey G. Masek, David L. Peterson, Richard Pouyat, Kevin M. Potter, Guy Robertson, Jinelle Sperry. 2021. Developing a set of indicators to identify, monitor, and track impacts and change in forests of the United States
• Andrew J. Lister, Hans Andersen, Tracey Frescino, Demetrios Gatziolis, Sean P. Healey, Linda S. Heath, Greg C. C. Liknes, Ronald McRoberts, Gretchen Moisen, Mark Nelson, Rachel Riemann, Karen G. Schleeweis, Todd A. Schroeder, Jim Westfall, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2020. Use of Remote Sensing Data to Improve the Efficiency of National Forest Inventories: A Case Study from the United States National Forest Inventory
• Jinxun Liu, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Zhiliang Zhu, Thomas R. Loveland, Terry Sohl, Stephen M. Howard, Carl H. Key, Todd Hawbaker, Shuguang Liu, Bradley Reed, Mark A. Cochrane, Linda S. Heath, Hong Jiang, David T. Price, Jing M. Chen, Decheng Zhou, Norman B. Bliss, Tamara Wilson, Jason Sherba, Qiuan Zhu, Yiqi Luo, Benjamin Poulter. 2020. Critical land change information enhances the understanding of carbon balance in the United States
• Jinxun Liu, Benjamin M. Sleeter, Zhiliang Zhu, Linda S. Heath, Zhengxi Tan, Tamara S. Wilson, Jason Sherba, Decheng Zhou. 2016. Estimating carbon sequestration in the piedmont ecoregion of the United States from 1971 to 2010
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2015. Measuring and modeling carbon stock change estimates for US forests and uncertainties from apparent inter-annual variability
• Linda S. Heath, Sarah M. Anderson, Marla R. Emery, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Jeremy Littell, Alan Lucier, Jeffrey G. Masek, David L. Peterson, Richard Pouyat, Kevin M. Potter, Guy Robertson, Jinelle Sperry, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Sarah Jovan, Miranda H. Mockrin, Robert C. Musselman, Bethany K. Schulz, Robert Smith, Susan I. Stewart. 2015. Indicators of climate impacts for forests: recommendations for the US National Climate Assessment indicators system
• Patricia Elias, Linda S. Heath. 2015. REDD+ and Ecosystem Services: Relevance to the Forestry Profession
• Stephen M Ogle, Kenneth Davis, Thomas Lauvaux, Andrew Schuh, Dan Cooley, Tristram O West, Linda S. Heath, Natasha L Miles, Scott Richardson, F Jay Breidt, James Smith, Jessica L McCarty, Kevin R Gurney, Pieter Tans, A Scott Denning. 2015. An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO₂ concentration data
• Coeli Hoover, Linda S. Heath. 2014. A commentary on 'mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments': a deeper look at the data
• David C. Chojnacky, Linda S. Heath, Jennifer C. Jenkins. 2014. Updated generalized biomass equations for North American tree species
• Marianne K. Burke, Karan Chouksey, Linda S. Heath. 2013. Land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) activities
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2013. Forest carbon dynamics associated with growth and disturbances in Oklahoma and Texas, 1992-2006
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Coeli Hoover. 2013. Carbon factors and models for forest carbon estimates for the 2005-2011 National Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the United States
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey. 2013. Carbon benefits from protected areas in the conterminous United States
• Linda S. Heath. 2013. Using FIA data to inform United States forest carbon national-level accounting needs: 1990-2010
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, Brad Quayle. 2013. Assessing double counting of carbon emissions between forest land cover change and forest wildfires: a case study in the United States, 1992-2006
• Daolan Zheng, Mark J. Ducey, Linda S. Heath. 2013. Assessing net carbon sequestration on urban and community forests of northern New England, USA
• Rose-Marie Muzika, Linda S. Heath. 2012. Fire effects
• Stephen J. Colombo, Jiaxin Chen, Michael T. Ter-Mikaelian, Jon McKechnie, Philip C. Elkie, Heather L. MacLean, Linda S. Heath. 2012. Forest protection and forest harvest as strategies for ecological sustainability and climate change mitigation
• David P. Turner, Graham Stinson, Daniel J. Hayes, A. David Mcguire, Yaxing Wei, Tristram O. West, Linda S. Heath, Bernardus Dejong, Brian G. McConkey, Richard Birdsey, Werner A. Kurz, Andrew R. Jacobson, Deborah N. Huntzinger, Yude Pan, W. Mac Post, Robert B. Cook. 2012. Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2011. Effects of land use/cover change and harvests on forest carbon dynamics in northern states of the United States from remote sensing and inventory data: 1992-2001
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Linda S. Heath, Grant M. Domke, Michael C. Nichols. 2011. Methods and equations for estimating aboveground volume, biomass, and carbon for trees in the U.S. forest inventory, 2010
• Duncan C. McKinley, Michael G. Ryan, Richard Birdsey, Christian P. Giardina, Mark E. Harmon, Linda S. Heath, Richard A. Houghton, Robert B. Jackson, James F. Morrison, Brian C. Murray, Diane E. Pataki, Kenneth E. Skog. 2011. A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the United States
• Coeli Hoover, Linda S. Heath. 2011. Potential gains in storage on productive forestlands in the northeastern United Sates through stocking management
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2011. Carbon changes in conterminous US forests associated with growth and major disturbances: 1992-2001
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith, Kenneth E. Skog, David J. Nowak, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2011. Managed forest carbon estimates for the US greenhouse gas inventory, 1990-2008
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Dave Azuma, Karen Waddell. 2011. Carbon stocks on forestland of the United States, with emphasis on USDA Forest Service ownership
• Jiaxin Chen, Stephen J. Colombo, Michael T. Ter-Mikaelian, Linda S. Heath. 2010. Carbon budget of Ontario's managed forests and harvested wood products, 2001–2100
• Michael G. Ryan, Mark E. Harmon, Richard Birdsey, Christian P. Giardina, Linda S. Heath, Richard A. Houghton, Robert B. Jackson, Duncan C. McKinley, James F. Morrison, Brian C. Murray, Diane E. Pataki, Kenneth E. Skog. 2010. Síntesis del estado del conocimiento del ciclo de carbono en ecosistemas boscosos de los Estados Unidos
• Yifan Yu, Sassan Saatch, Linda S. Heath, Elizabeth Burrill, Ranga Myneni, Yuri Knyazikhin. 2010. Regional distribution of forest height and biomass from multisensor data fusion
• Paul C. Van Deusen, Linda S. Heath. 2010. Weighted analysis methods for mapped plot forest inventory data: Tables, regressions, maps and graphs
• Linda S. Heath, Michael C. Nichols, James Smith, John Mills. 2010. FORCARB2: An updated version of the U.S. Forest Carbon Budget Model
• Linda S. Heath, Van Maltby, Reid Miner, Kenneth E. Skog, James Smith, Jay Unwin, Brad Upton. 2010. Greenhouse gas and carbon profile of the U.S. forest products industry value chain
• Michael G. Ryan, Mark E. Harmon, Richard Birdsey, Christian P. Giardina, Linda S. Heath, Richard A. Houghton, Robert B. Jackson, Duncan C. McKinley, James F. Morrison, Brian C. Murray, Diane E. Pataki, Kenneth E. Skog. 2010. A synthesis of the science on forests and carbon for U.S. Forests
• Sarah J. Hines, Linda S. Heath, Richard Birdsey. 2010. An annotated bibliography of scientific literature on managing forests for carbon benefits
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, Brett J. Butler. 2010. Relationships between major ownerships, forest aboveground biomass distributions, and landscape dynamics in the New England Region of USA
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2010. Exploring the assumed invariance of implied emission factors for forest biomass in greenhouse gas inventories
• M.J. Ducey, D. Zheng, Linda S. Heath. 2009. Creating compatible maps from remotely sensed and forest inventory data using radial basis functions
• Richard Birdsey, Nick Bates, MIke Behrenfeld, Kenneth Davis, Scott C. Doney, Richard Feely, Dennis Hansell, Linda S. Heath, et al. 2009. Carbon cycle observations: gaps threaten climate mitigation policies
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, M.J. Ducey, James Smith. 2009. Quantifying scaling effects on satellite-derived forest area estimates for the conterminous USA
• Linda S. Heath, Mark H. Hansen, James Smith, Patrick D. Miles. 2009. Investigation into calculating tree biomass and carbon in the FIADB using a biomass expansion factor approach
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2009. A preliminary investigation of forest carbon changes associated with land-use change in northern New England
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey. 2008. Modeling grain-size dependent bias in estimating forest area: a regional application
• Jiaxin Chen, Stephen J. Colombo, Michael T. Ter-Mikaelian, Linda S. Heath. 2008. Future carbon storage in harvested wood products from Ontario's Crown forests
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey. 2008. Identifying grain-size dependent errors on global forest area estimates and carbon studies
• Brad Upton, Reid Miner, Mike Spinney, Linda S. Heath. 2008. The greenhouse gas and energy impacts of using wood instead of alternatives in residential construction in the United States
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2008. Carbon stocks and stock changes in U.S. forests
• M.G. Ryan, S.R. Archer, Richard Birdsey, C.N. Dahm, Linda S. Heath, J.A. Hicke, David Hollinger, T.E. Huxman, G.S. Okin, R. Oren, J.T. Randerson, W.H. Schlesinger. 2008. Land resources: forests and arid lands
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey. 2008. Spatial distribution of forest aboveground biomass estimated from remote sensing and forest inventory data in New England, USA
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2008. National inventories of down and dead woody material forest carbon stocks in the United States: Challenges and opportunities
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey. 2008. Satellite detection of land-use change and effects on regional forest aboveground biomass estimates
• Richard Birdsey, Jennifer C. Jenkins, Mark Johnston, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Brian Amiro, Ben de Jong, Jorge D. Etchevers Barra, Nancy French, Felipe Garcia-Oliva, Mark Harmon, Linda S. Heath, Victor J. Jaramillo, Kurt Johnsen, Beverly E. Law, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Omar Masera, Ronald Neilson, Yude Pan, Kurt S. Pregitzer. 2007. North American forests
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey. 2007. Forest biomass estimated from MODIS and FIA data in the Lake States: MN, WI and MI, USA
• Peter B. Woodbury, James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2007. Carbon sequestration in the U.S. forest sector from 1990 to 2010
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Michael C. Nichols. 2007. US forest carbon calculation tool: forest-land carbon stocks and net annual stock change
• Peter B. Woodbury, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2007. Effects of land use change on soil carbon cycling in the conterminous United States from 1900 to 2050
• Peter B. Woodbury, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2006. Land use change effects on forest carbon cycling throughout the southern United States
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Kenneth E. Skog, Richard Birdsey. 2006. Methods for calculating forest ecosystem and harvested carbon with standard estimates for forest types of the United States
• Sean M. Garber, John P. Brown, Duncan S. Wilson, Douglas A. Maguire, Linda S. Heath, Linda S. Heath. 2005. Snag longevity under alternative silvicultural regimes in mixed-species forests of central Maine
• Lianjun Zhang, Jeffrey H. Gove, Linda S. Heath, Linda S. Heath. 2005. Spatial residual analysis of six modeling techniques
• Michael P. Spinney, Paul C. Van Deusen, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2005. COLE: Carbon On-line Estimator, Version 2
• Linda S. Heath. 2005. What Landowners and Forest Managers Need to Know about Forest Carbon: a Background from Global to Local
• Patrick Proctor, Paul C. Van Deusen, Linda S. Heath, Jeffrey Gove. 2005. The open-source movement: an introduction for forestry professionals
• Patrick Proctor, Linda S. Heath, Paul C. Van Deusen, Jeffrey Gove, James Smith. 2005. COLE: A Web-based Tool for Interfacing with Forest Inventory Data
• Lianjun Zhang, Huiquan Bi, Jeffrey Gove, Linda S. Heath. 2005. A comparison of alternative methods for estimating the self-thinning boundary line
• Linda S. Heath, Kenneth E. Skog. 2004. Criterion 5, Indicator 28: contribution of forest products to the global carbon budget
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2004. Criterion 5, Indicator 26: total forest ecosystem biomass and carbon pool, and if appropriate, by forest type, age class and successional change
• Robert A. Mickler, James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2004. Forest carbon trends in the Southern United States
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2004. Criterion 5, Indicator 27: contribution of forest ecosystems of the total global carbon budget, including absorption and release of carbon
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Peter B. Woodbury. 2004. How to estimate forest carbon for large areas from inventory data
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2004. Carbon Stocks and Projections on Public Forestlands in the United States, 1952-2040
• David C. Chojnacky, Robert A. Mickler, Linda S. Heath, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2004. Estimates of Down Woody Materials in Eastern US Forests
• Jennifer C. Jenkins, David C. Chojnacky, Linda S. Heath, Richard Birdsey. 2004. Comprehensive database of diameter-based biomass regressions for North American tree species
• Jennifer C. Jenkins, David C. Chojnacky, Linda S. Heath, Richard Birdsey. 2003. National scale biomass estimators for United States tree species
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith, Richard Birdsey. 2003. Carbon trends in U.S. forestlands: a context for the role of soils in forest carbon sequestration
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Jennifer C. Jenkins. 2003. Forest volume-to-biomass models and estimates of mass for live and standing dead trees of U.S. forests.
• Richard Birdsey, David Hollinger, Linda S. Heath, Coeli Hoover, Randy Kolka, M. L. Smith, M. Ryan. 2003. Pilot Studies for Enhanced Forest Land Measurement
• Linda S. Heath, John M. Kimble, Richard Birdsey, Rattan Lal. 2003. The potential of U.S. forest soils to sequester carbon
• David C. Chojnacky, Robert A. Mickler, Linda S. Heath. 2003. Carbon in down woody materials of eastern U.S. forests
• David C. Chojnacky, Linda S. Heath. 2002. Estimating down deadwood from FIA forest inventory variables in Maine
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2002. A model of forest floor carbon mass for United States forest types
• Christine L. Goodale, Michael J. Apps, Richard Birdsey, Christopher B. Field, Linda S. Heath, Richard A. Houghton, Jennifer C. Jenkins, Gundolf H. Kohlmaier, Werner Kurz, Shirong Liu, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Sten Nilsson, Anatoly Z. Shvidenko. 2002. Forest carbon sinks in the Northern Hemisphere
• Linda S. Heath, Richard Birdsey, D. W. Williams. 2002. Methodology for estimating soil carbon for the forest carbon budget model of the United States, 2001
• David C. Chojnacky, Linda S. Heath. 2002. Estimating down dead wood from FIA forest inventory variables in Maine
• Linda S. Heath, David C. Chojnacky, David C. Chojnacky. 2001. Down dead wood statistics for Maine timberlands, 1995
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2001. Identifying influences on model uncertainty: an application using a forest carbon budget model
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2000. Considerations for interpreting probabilistic estimates of uncertainty of forest carbon
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2000. Soil carbon accounting and assumptions for forestry and forest-related land use change
• Coeli Hoover, Richard Birdsey, Linda S. Heath, Susan L. Stout. 2000. How to estimate carbon sequestration on small forest tracts estimate carbon sequestration on small forest tracts
• Richard Birdsey, Robert A. Mickler, John Hom, Linda S. Heath. 2000. Summary of prospective global change impacts on northern U.S. forest ecosystems
• William McWilliams, Linda S. Heath, Gordon Reese, Thomas L. Schmidt. 2000. Forest resources and conditions
• Bov B. Eav, Richard Birdsey, Linda S. Heath. 2000. The Kyoto Protocol and forestry practices in the United States
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2000. An assessment of uncertainty in forest carbon budget projections
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 1998. Multidisciplinary views in modeling response to climate change: A workshop summary
• Linda S. Heath, Linda A. Joyce. 1997. Carbon sequestration in forests as a national policy issue
• Linda S. Heath, Richard Birdsey, Clark Row, Andrew J. Plantinga. 1996. Carbon pools and flux in U.S. forest products
• Richard Birdsey, Linda S. Heath. 1995. 4. Carbon Changes in U.S. Forests
• Thomas D. Fahey, James M. Cahill, Thomas A. Snellgrove, Linda S. Heath. 1991. Lumber and veneer recovery from intensively managed young-growth Douglas-fir.
• Charles E. Peterson, Linda S. Heath. 1991. The influence of weather variation on regional growth of Douglas-fir stands in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

• Program
  

  Forest Inventory and Analysis

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/programs/fia
• Program
  

  Nationwide Forest Inventory

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/programs/nfi
• Project
  

  Carbon Science Delivery Platform

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/projects/carbonsdp

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, B.S., Forestry
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Ph.D., Quantitative Resources Management
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, M.S., Forest Management