Lauren S. Pile Knapp

Featured Publications

• Lauren Pile Knapp, David R. Coyle, Daniel C. Dey, Jacob S. Fraser, Todd Hutchinson, Michael A. Jenkins, Christel C. Kern, Benjamin O. Knapp, Dacoda Maddox, Cornelia Pinchot, G. Geoff. Wang. 2023. Invasive plant management in eastern North American Forests: A systematic review
• Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Daniel C. Dey, Michael C. Stambaugh, Frank R. Thompson, J. Morgan. Varner. 2024. Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas
• Gina R. Beebe, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Michael C. Stambaugh, Daniel C. Dey, Brian Davidson, Dacoda Maddox, John M. Kabrick. 2024. Fire versus herbivory for oak woodland restoration: burning achieves short-term structural and compositional objectives whereas browsing alone fails to reduce stem densities and promote ground flora
• Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Rebecca Snell, Lance A. Vickers, Todd Hutchinson, John Kabrick, Michael A. Jenkins, Brad Graham, Joanne Rebbeck. 2021. The 'other' hardwood: Growth, physiology, and dynamics of hickories in the Central Hardwood Region, USA
• Lauren S. Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Jeremy P. Stovall, Evan Siemann, Gregory S. Wheeler, Christopher A. Gabler. 2017. Mechanisms of Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) invasion and their management implications – A review
• Lauren S. Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Thomas A. Waldrop, Joan L. Walker, William C. Bridges, Patricia A. Layton. 2017. Managing an established tree invader: developing control methods for Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) in maritime forests
• Lauren S. Pile, Marc D. Meyer, Ramiro Rojas, Olivia Roe, Mark T. Smith. 2019. Drought Impacts and Compounding Mortality on Forest Trees in the Southern Sierra Nevada
• Chris Newbold, Benjamin O. Knapp, Lauren S. Pile. 2020. Are we close enough? Comparing prairie reconstruction chronosequences to remnants following two site preparation methods in Missouri, U.S.A.
• Lauren Pile Knapp, Joanne Rebbeck, Todd Hutchinson, Jacob Fraser, Cornelia C. Pinchot. 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
• Lauren S. Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Benjamin O. Knapp, Joan L. Walker, Michael C. Stambaugh. 2017. Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) invasion in maritime forests: the role of anthropogenic disturbance and its management implication

Other Publications

• Mohammad M. Bataineh, Jacob Fraser, Lauren Pile Knapp. 2024. Characterization of Chinese tallow invasion in the southern United States.
• Shengwu Duan, Hong S. He, Lauren Pile Knapp, 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.
• Trisha M. Markus, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, David R. Coyle, G. Geoff. Wang. 2024. Seasonal Light Response Curves of Ligustrum sinense: A Test of Extended Leaf Phenology
• Cherie LeBlanc Fisher, Lauren Pile-Knapp, Jacob Fraser. 2024. Private Lands Hold the Key to Oak Sustainability in Eastern U.S. Forests
• Hongtao Xie, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Mukui Yu, G. Geoff. Wang. 2023. Solidago canadensis invasion destabilizes the understory plant community and soil properties of coastal shelterbelt forests of subtropical China
• Hongtao Xie, Haidong Xu, Xueqin Li, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Deliang Lu, Songheng Jin. 2023. Does nitrogen fertilization alter the scaling relationships of multinutrients in tree organs? Evidence from Chinese hickory (Carya cathayensis) saplings
• Jacob S. Fraser, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Brad Graham, Michael A. Jenkins, John Kabrick, Michael Saunders, Martin Spetich, Steve Shifley. 2023. Carbon dynamics in old-growth forests of the Central Hardwoods Region, USA
• Joshua J. Puhlick, Thomas L. O’Halloran, Gregory Starr, Rebecca B. Abney, Lauren Pile Knapp, Robert A. McCleery, Kier D. Klepzig, Steven T. Brantley, R. Kevin McIntyre, Bo Song. 2023. Opportunities for Research on Carbon Management in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems
• Shengwu Duan, Hong S. He, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Thomas W. Bonnot, Jacob 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.
• Lance A. Vickers, Benjamin O. Knapp, Daniel C. Dey, Lauren Pile Knapp. 2023. Do forest health threats affect upland oak regeneration and recruitment? Advance reproduction is a key co-morbidity
• Gina R. Beebe, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Michael C. Stambaugh, Brian K. Davidson, Daniel C. Dey. 2022. Smoke, goats, and oaks: Effects of goat browsing and prescribed fire on woodland structure and floristic composition in Ozark hardwoods
• John M. Kabrick, Brice B. Hanberry, Daniel C. Dey, Benjamin O. Knapp, David R. Larsen, Lauren S. Pile Knapp. 2022. Adapting Gingrich stocking guides for managing oak woodlands and savannas
• Lauren S. Pile-Knapp, Shanyue Guan, Bo Song, Geoff G. Wang. 2022. Temporal effects of hurricanes and prescribed fire on fuel loading and pine reproduction in the Southeastern United States
• Hongtao Xie, Xueqin Li, Yu Tang, Lauren Pile Knapp, Songheng Jin. 2022. Multi-nutrient stoichiometry of Chinese hickory (Carya cathayensis) saplings: plant organs vary in their response to nitrogen fertilization
• Hongtao Xie, Lauren S. Pile Knapp, Mukui Yu, G. Geoff. Wang. 2022. Morphological and physiological response of Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) to an extreme cold spell in subtropical, coastal forests of China
• Gina Beebe, Lauren S. Pile, Michael Stambaugh, Brian Davidson, Daniel C. Dey. 2021. Can targeted browsing be a useful surrogate for prescribed burning?
• Guohua Liu, Cang Hui, Ming Chen, Lauren S. Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Fusheng Wang, Peijian Shi. 2020. Variation in individual biomass decreases faster than mean biomass with increasing density of bamboo stands
• Deliang Lu, Lauren S. Pile, Dapao Yu, Jiaojun Zhu, Don C. Bragg, G. Geoff. Wang. 2020. Differential responses of tree species to a severe ice storm and their implications to forest composition in the southeast United States
• Lauren S. Pile, Robert L. Deal, Daniel C. Dey, David Gwaze, John M. Kabrick, Brian J. Palik, Thomas M. Schuler. 2020. Forest Management – Research Partnerships: Proceedings of the 2019 National Silviculture Workshop
• Lauren S. Pile, Robert L. Deal, Daniel C. Dey, David Gwaze, John M. Kabrick, Brian J. Palik, Thomas M. Schuler. 2020. The 2019 National Silviculture Workshop: A focus on forest management-research partnerships
• Lauren Pile, Joanne Rebbeck, Patrick Brose, Robert P. Long. 2019. Black and Chestnut Oak Seedling Response to Glaciated Soil: Implications for Northward Expansion in Response to Climate Warming
• Lauren S. Pile, Lance Vickers, Michael Stambaugh, Calvin Norman, G. Geoff. Wang. 2019. The tortoise and the hare: A race between native tree species and the invasive Chinese tallow
• John M. Kabrick, Lauren S. Pile. 2019. 21st Century Silviculture: The Best-Kept Secret?
• David L. Peterson, Jessica E. Halofsky, Lauren S. Pile. 2019. Managing Effects of Drought in the Interior West
• Benjamin O. Knapp, Lauren S. Pile, Joan L. Walker, G. Geoff Wang. 2018. Fire effects on a fire-adapted species: response of grass stage longleaf pine seedlings to experimental burning
• Lauren Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Joan Walker, Patricia A. Layton. 2018. Plant community response to the management of an invasive tree
• Lauren S. Pile, Marc D. Meyer, Ramiro Rojas, Olivia Roe. 2018. Characterizing tree morality after extreme drought and insect outbreaks in the southern Sierra Nevada
• Guohua Liu, Shahua Lin, Lauren S. Pile, Zheng Fang, G. Geoff. Wang. 2018. Effect of potassium permanganate and pyrolysis temperature on the biochar produced from rice straw and suitability of biochars for heavy metal (CD & PB) immobilization in paper sludge
• Lauren S. Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Benjamin O. Knapp, Guohua Liu, Dapao Yu. 2017. Comparing morphology and physiology of southeastern US Pinus seedlings: implications for adaptation to surface fire regimes
• G. Geoff Wang, Lauren S. Pile, Benjamin O. Knapp, Huifeng Hu. 2016. Longleaf pine adaptation to fire: is early height growth pattern critical to fire survival?
• Lauren S. Pile, Tom Waldrop. 2016. Shortleaf pine and mixed hardwood stands: thirty-four years after regeneration with the fell-and-burn technique in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
• Lauren S. Pile, Christopher A. Maier, G. Geoff Wang, Dapao Yu, Tim M. Shearman. 2016. Responses of two genetically superior loblolly pine clonal ideotypes to a severe ice storm
• Lauren S. Pile, G. Geoff Wang, Patricia A. Layton. 2015. Development of integrated management practices for the control of Chinese tallow on Parris Island Marine Corps Recruit Depot
• Benjamin O. Knapp, G. Geoff Wang, Stacy L Clark, Lauren S. Pile, Scott E. Schlarbaum. 2014. Leaf physiology and morphology of Castanea dentata (Marsh) Borkh., Castanea mollissima Blume, and three backcross breeding generations planted in the southern Appalachians, USA

• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Paoli Experimental Forest

  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Kaskaskia Experimental Forest

  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings (PHiLL)

  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

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

  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Program
  

  Ecological Sustainability of Forests and Grasslands in the Central Hardwood Region

  Station

  Northern Research Station

Other Publications

• Fact Sheet
  

  Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings: Mitigating Soil Degradation

• Fact Sheet
  

  Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings: Restoring Native Vegetation

• Fact Sheet
  

  Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings: Wild Bees

• Notes
  

  The PHiLL Project – How a grassroots management problem became a collaborative research study across three National Forests

Multimedia

• Webinars

  The PHiLL Project – How a grassroots management problem became a collaborative research study across three National Forests

Science Delivery

• Rooted In Research - Science Brief
  

  Private Lands Hold the Key to Oak Sustainability in Eastern U.S. Forests

• Rooted In Research - Science Brief
  

  Understanding Old-Growth Forest Carbon Storage Potential in the Central Hardwoods Region

• Rooted In Research - Science Brief
  

  Controlling an Introduced Invasive: On the Search for Ailanthus' Achilles Heel