Max R. R. Piana, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Nancy F. Sonti, Matthew E. Baker, Michael Allman, Richard Hallett, Michelle P. Katoski, Katherine Lautar, Max R. R. Piana, Clara C. Pregitzer. 2025. Whose woods are these? Forest patch characteristics and ownership across cities of the eastern United States
• Richard Hallett, Max R. R. Piana, Michelle Johnson, Leslie Brandt. 2024. Climate change and urban forests
• Jeffrey A. Brown, Julie L. Lockwood, Max R. R. Piana, Caroline Beardsley. 2023. Introduction of artificial light at night increases the abundance of predators, scavengers, and parasites in arthropod communities
• Marcia S. Meixler, Max R. R. Piana, Alexis Henry. 2023. Modeling present and future ecosystem services and environmental justice within an urban-coastal watershed
• Max R. R. Piana, Nicholas Pevzner, Richard Hallett. 2023. Beyond the axe: Interdisciplinary approaches towards an urban silviculture
• Christine C. Rega-Brodsky, Myla F. J. Aronson, Max R. R. Piana, Ela-Sita Carpenter, Amy K. Hahs, Adriana Herrera-Montes, Sonja Knapp, D. Johan Kotze, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Marco Moretti, Allyson B. Salisbury, Nicholas S. G. Williams, Kirsten Jung, Madhusudan Katti, Ian MacGregor-Fors, J. Scott MacIvor, Frank La Sorte, Vallari Sheel, Caragh G. Threfall, Charles H. Nilon. 2022. Urban biodiversity: State of the science and future directions
• Max R. R. Piana, Richard Hallett, Michelle Johnson, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Leslie Brandt, Myla F. J. Aronson, Mark Ashton, Max Blaustein, David Bloniarz, Ashley A. Bowers, Megan E. Carr, Vince D’Amico, Laura Dewald, Heather Dionne, Danica A. Doroski, Robert T. Fahey, Helen Forgione, Todd Forrest, Jack Hale, Eric Hansen, Lisa Hayden, Sarah Hines, Jessica M. Hoch, Taro Ieataka, Susannah B. Lerman, Charles Murphy, Eliot Nagele, Keith Nislow, Dhan Parker, Clara C. Pregitzer, Luke Rhodes, Jessica Schuler, Alexander Sherman, Tara Trammell, Brittany M. Wienke, Thomas Witmer, Thomas Worthley, Ian Yesilonis. 2021. Climate Adaptive Silviculture for the City: Practitioners and Researchers Co-create a Framework for Studying Urban Oak-Dominated Mixed Hardwood Forests
• Max R. R. Piana, Clara C. Pregitzer, Richard Hallett. 2021. Advancing management of urban forested natural areas: toward an urban silviculture?
• Max R. R. Piana, Richard Hallett, Myla F. J. Aronson, Emily Conway, Steven N. Handel. 2021. Natural regeneration in urban forests is limited by early‐establishment dynamics: implications for management

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Silvics of North America

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

• Program
  

  Communities and Landscapes of the Urban Northeast

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

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Stillmeadow PeacePark: Experimental Rehabilitation of an Urban Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/stillmeadow
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Creating Climate Resilient Oak Forests in Cities

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/oaks-cities
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Urban Silviculture Training Program (Baltimore)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/urban-silviculture-training
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Science and Practice of Creating Climate Adapted Oak Forests in Cities

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-and-practice-creating-climate-adapted-oak-forests-cities

• Rutgers University, Ph. D., Ecology & Evolution, 2019
• Yale School of the Environment, M.E.M. (Master Of Environmental Management), Urban Ecology & Design, 2011
• Wesleyan University, B.A., Psychology; Environmental Studies, 2005