Stacy Byrd, PhD

Former Employee

Research Forester

Southern Research Station

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Callie Schweitzer, Owen Williams, Darko Veljkovic, Michael Heyn, Stacy Byrd. 2024. Restoring a Rare Oak Forest Type with Artificial Regeneration
Jason J. Harris, Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2024. Loblolly Pine to White Oak Stand Conversion on Balls Mountain in the Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
Shawn P. Brown, Amira Noui, Richard Baird, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Callie Schweitzer, Stacy Byrd. 2024. Soil Fungal Response Interactions with Seedling Stock Age Across White Oak (Quercus alba) Outplantings in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, USA
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Callie Schweitzer. 2024. Refining the Artificial Regeneration Prescription for White Oak (Quercus alba) by Using Pedigree and Advanced Nursery Practices
Callie Schweitzer, John Craycroft, Jared Calvert, Stacy Byrd, Jacob Royse. 2024. Quercus Reproduction Response to a MultiPhased Shelterwood on the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky, USA
Laura M. Thompson, Joseph D. Clark, Stacy Byrd, Jane Foster, Scott E. Schlarbaum. 2024. Synthesizing Changing Oak Species Distributions, Mast Availability, and Effects on Wildlife Species Under Future Climate, Social, and Land-Use Change
Christine Martens, Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2024. The International Oak Symposium: Science-Based Management for Dynamic Oak Forests
Stacy Byrd, Tara L. Keyser, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Arnold Saxton. 2024. Planted White Oak (Quercus alba) Response to Spacing Density and Orientation in Gap Openings in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina
Callie Schweitzer, Jared Calvert, Stacy Byrd, Jacob Royse. 2024. Multiphased Shelterwood on the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky, Tests Herculean Effort to Regenerate Oak
E. Marcolin, Stacy Byrd, M.S. Patrício, V. Loewe-Muñoz. 2023. Advances and perspectives on the ecology and management of Castanea species
Stacy Byrd, Daniel C. C. Dey. 2023. Enhancement planting of Upland Oaks
Stacy Byrd, Enrico Marcolin, Maria Sameiro Patrício, Verónica Loewe-Muñoz. 2023. A silvicultural synthesis of sweet (Castanea sativa) and American (C. dentata) chestnuts
Shawn P. Brown, Stacy Byrd, Emerald Ford, Nahreen Mirza, Amerah Odeh, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Ari Jumpponen, Richard Baird. 2023. Convergent shifts in soil fungal communities associated with Fagaceae reforestation in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Arnold M. Saxton, Steven N. Jeffers, Richard E. Baird. 2023. Eight-year field performance of backcross American chestnut (Castanea dentata) seedlings planted in the southern Appalachians, USA
Shawn P. Brown, Stacy Byrd, Emerald Ford, Ari Jumpponen, Arnold M. Saxton, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Richard Baird. 2022. Comparisons of interspecies field performance of Fagaceae (Castanea and Quercus) planted in the southeastern United States with attention to soil fungal impacts on plant performance
Scott E. Schlarbaum, Barbara Crane, Tom Tibbs, Stacy Byrd. 2022. Thirty years of cooperative oak research and technology development in the southern region
Stacy Byrd, Scott Schlarbaum, Tara L. Keyser, Arnold Saxton. 2022. Seven-year response of planted northern red oak (Quercus rubra) seedlings to regeneration harvesting, burning, and herbicide treatments in western North Carolina
Scott E. Schlarbaum, Marcus Warwell, Barbara Crane, Jason Rodrigue, Stacy Byrd. 2022. Guidelines for securing and planting upland oak seedlings in the Southern Region
Stacy Byrd. 2021. An introduction to the American chestnut (Castanea dentata) [Online course]
J Davis Goode, Justin Hart, Daniel C. C. Dey, Scott Torreano, Stacy Byrd. 2021. Spatial Patterns of Canopy Disturbance and Shortleaf Pine in a Mixedwood Forest
Jinyan She, Chathuri U. G. Mohottige, Mary King, Yi Jiang, Matt Mlsna, Stacy Byrd, Richard Baird, Todd Mlsna. 2021. Estimation of total phenolic compounds and non-targeted volatile metabolomics in leaf tissues of American chestnut (Castanea dentata), Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) and the backcross breeding generations
Erin M. Coughlin, Richard P. Shefferson, Stacy Byrd, Nina Wurzburger. 2021. Plant–soil feedbacks and the introduction of Castanea (chestnut) hybrids to eastern North American forests
Callie Schweitzer, Jared Calvert, Stacy Byrd. 2020. Managers and scientists unit to adapt a shelterwood prescription to shift stand dynamics for competitive oak reproduction
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Barbara S. Crane, Cornelia Wilson, Paul Schaberg, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy. 2020. Restoration of the American chestnut will require more than a blight-resistant tree
Callie Schweitzer, Jared Calvert, Stacy Byrd. 2019. Managers and scientists unite to adapt a shelterwood prescription to shift stand dynamics for competitive oak reproduction.
Stacy Byrd, Scott Schlarbaum, Joseph Clark. 2019. Restoring a forest icon: could returning the American chestnut remodel our wildlife landscape?
Stacy Byrd, S.E. Schlarbaum. 2019. Artificial regeneration in the Southern Appalachians
Christopher Reazin, Richard Baird, Stacy Byrd, Ari Jumpponen. 2019. Chestnuts bred for blight resistance depart nursery with distinct fungal rhizobiomes
Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer, David Todd. 2019. Emerging needs for oak management and research.
Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2019. Oak symposium: sustaining oak forests in the 21st century through science-based management
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Arnold M. Saxton, Richard Baird. 2019. Eight-year blight (Cryphonectria parasitica) resistance of backcross-generation American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) planted in the southeastern United States
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum. 2018. Effects of acorn size and mass on seedling quality of northern red oak (Quercus rubra)
Cornelia Wilson, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Stacy Byrd, Arnold M. Saxton, Ami M. Sharp, Callie Schweitzer, Frederick V. Hebard. 2017. Growth, survival, and competitive ability of chestnut (Castanea Mill.) seedlings planted across a gradient of light levels
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Arnold M. Saxton, Frederick V. Hebard. 2016. Establishment of American chestnuts (Castanea dentata) bred for blight (Cryphonectria parasitica ) resistance: influence of breeding and nursery grading
Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2016. Stand dynamics of an oak woodland forest and effects of a restoration treatment on forest health
Ashley E. Case, Albert (Bud) E. Mayfield, Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Barbara C. Reynolds. 2016. Abundance and frequency of the Asiatic oak weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and defoliation on American, Chinese, and hybrid chestnut ( Castanea )
Julian (Morgan) Varner, Mary Arthur, Stacy Byrd, Daniel C. C. Dey, Justin Hart, Callie Schweitzer. 2016. Fire in Eastern North American Oak Ecosystems: Filling the Gaps
Shi-Jean Susana Sung, Stacy Byrd, Scott Schlarbaum, Daniel C. C. Dey, Daniel Leduc. 2016. Performance of container-grown seedlings of American chestnut backcross hybrids BC₃ F₃ generation in central Louisiana
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Tara L. Keyser, Callie Schweitzer, Marty Spetich, Dean Simon, Gordon S. Warburton. 2016. Response of planted northern red oak seedlings to regeneration harvesting, Midstory removal, and prescribed burning
Stacy Byrd, Scott Schlarbaum, Callie Schweitzer. 2015. Effects of visual grading on northern red oak (Quercus rubra L.) seedlings planted in two shelterwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, USA
Cornelia Wilson, Stacy Byrd, Scott Schlarbaum, Arnold Saxton, Shi-Jean Susana Sung, Frederick Hebard. 2015. Effects of temporal dynamics, nut weight and nut size on growth of American chestnut, Chinese chestnut and backcross generations in a commercial nursery
Stacy Byrd, S.E. Schlarbaum, F,V Saxton. 2014. The first research plantings of third-generation, third-backcross American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in the southeastern United States
Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer, Mike R. Saunders, Ethan P. Belair, Scott J. Torreano, Scott E. Schlarbaum. 2014. The American chestnut and fire: 6-year research results
Ethan P. Belair, Mike R. Saunders, Stacy Byrd. 2014. Effects of simulated prescribed fire on American chestnut and northern red oak regeneration
Benjamin O. Knapp, G. Geoff Wang, Stacy Byrd, 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
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Cornelia Wilson, Sandra L. Anagnostakis, Michael R. Saunders, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Paul Schaberg, James McKenna, Jane F. Bard, Paul C. Berrang, David M. Casey, Chris E. Casey, Barbara Crane, Brian D. Jackson, Jeff D. Kochenderfer, Russ MacFarlane, Robert Makowske, Mark Miller, Jason A. Rodrigue, Jim Stelick, Christopher D. Thornton, Tyler S. Williamson. 2014. Reintroduction of American Chestnut in the National Forest System
Callie Schweitzer, Stacy Byrd, Kurt W. Gottschalk, Jeff Stringer, Robbie Sitzlar. 2014. Proactive restoration: planning, implementation, and early results of silvicultural strategies for increasing resilience against gypsy moth infestation in upland oak forests on the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky
Henry McNab, Marty Spetich, Roger W. Perry, Dave Haywood, Shelby Gull Laird, Stacy Byrd, Justin L. Hart, Scott J. Torreano, Megan L. Buchanan. 2014. Climate-induced migration of native tree populations and consequences for forest composition
Stacy Byrd. 2013. The reintroduction of the American Chestnut
Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2013. Red maple (Acer rubrum) response to prescribed burning on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
G. Geoff Wang, Benjamin O. Knapp, Stacy Byrd, Bryan Mudder. 2013. The Silvics of Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh., American chestnut, Fagaceae (Beech Family)
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Arnold M. Saxton, Fred V. Hebard. 2012. Nursery performance of American and Chinese chestnuts and backcross generations in commercial tree nurseries
Stacy Byrd, Kathleen Franzreb, Katie H. Greenberg, Tara L. Keyser, Susan Loeb, David Loftis, Henry McNab, Joy M. O'Keefe, Callie Schweitzer, Marty Spetich. 2012. Researching effects of prescribed fire in hardwood forests
Stacy Byrd, Henry McNab, David Loftis, Stan Zarnoch. 2012. American Chestnut Growth and Survival Five Years after Planting in Two Silvicultural Treatments in the Southern Appalachians, USA
Neil Pederson, Kacie Tackett, Ryan W. McEwan, Stacy Byrd, Adrienne Cooper, Glade Brosi, Ray Eaton, R. Drew Stockwell. 2012. Long-term drought sensitivity of trees in second-growth forests in a humid region
Daniel C. C. Dey, Michael C. Stambaugh, Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2012. Extended abstracts of the proceedings of the 4th fire in eastern oak forests conference
Daniel C. C. Dey, Michael C. Stambaugh, Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2012. Abstracts of the proceedings of the 4th fire in eastern oak forests conference
Daniel C. C. Dey, Michael C. Stambaugh, Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer. 2012. Proceedings of the 4th fire in eastern oak forests conference
Cornelia Wilson, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Jennifer A. Franklin, David S. Buckley, Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer, Arnold M. Saxton, Frederick V. Hebard. 2012. Early results of a chestnut planting in eastern Kentucky illustrate reintroduction challenges
Stacy Byrd, Scott Schlarbaum, John Saxton, Fred Hebard, John Blanton, David Casey, Barbara Crane, Russ MacFarlane, Jason Rodrigue, Stelick Jim. 2012. Lessons from the field: The first tests of restoration American chestnut (Castanea dentata) seedlings planted in the Southern Region
Justin L. Hart, Stacy Byrd, Scott J. Torreano, Megan L. Buchanan. 2011. Composition, structure, and dendroecology of an old-growth Quercus forest on the tablelands of the Cumberland Plateau, USA.
Marty Spetich, Roger W. Perry, Craig A. Harper, Stacy Byrd. 2011. Fire in Eastern Hardwood Forests through 14,000 Years
Cornelia Wilson, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Arnold M. Saxton, Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer, David Smith, Alex Mangini, Frederick V. Hebard. 2011. Incidence of Craesus castaneae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) on Chestnut Seedlings Planted in the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky
Stephen F. Grayson, David S. Buckley, Jason G. Henning, Callie Schweitzer, Stacy Byrd. 2011. Influence of alternative silvicultural treatments on spatial variability in light in central hardwood stands on the Cumberland Plateau
Stacy Byrd, Scott E. Schlarbaum, A.M. Saxton, Fred V. Hebard. 2011. Making history: Field testing of blight-resistant American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in the Southern Region
Callie Schweitzer, Kurt W. Gottschalk, Jeff W. Stringer, Stacy Byrd, David Loftis. 2011. Using silviculture to sustain upland oak forests under stress on the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky
Stacy Byrd, Callie Schweitzer, Scott E. Schlarbaum, Luben D. Dimov, Frederick V. Hebard. 2010. Nursery quality and first-year response of american chestnut (Castanea dentata) seedlings planted in the southeastern United States
Joel C. Zak, Luben D. Dimov, Callie Schweitzer, Stacy Byrd. 2010. Relationship between herbaceous layer, stand, and site variables in the Bankhead National Forest, Alabama
S Anagnostakis, Stacy Byrd, Henry McNab. 2009. Preliminary report on the segregation of resistance in chestnuts to infestation by oriental chestnut gall wasp
Stacy Byrd, Sunshine Brosi, Scott Schlarbaum, Henri Grissino-Mayer. 2008. Dendrochronology of two butternut (Juglans cinerea) populations in the southeastern United States
Stacy Byrd, Marty Spetich, Zander Evans. 2008. Drought in the southeast
Stacy Byrd, Scott J. Torreano, David Loftis, Luben D. Dimov. 2007. Twenty-two year changes in regeneration potential in an old-growth Quercus forest in the Mid-Cumberland plateau, Tennessee

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

Video on American Chestnut - Restoration Research of the American Chestnut - An Introductionhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/research/srs/products/multimedia/videos/restoration-research-american-chestnut-part-1-intro
Video on American Chestnut - Science in Actionhttps://www.fs.usda.gov/research/srs/products/multimedia/videos/restoration-research-american-chestnut-part-2-science-action
Online Course on the American Chestnuthttps://www.fs.usda.gov/research/srs/products/multimedia/webinars/introduction-american-chestnut
Inside the Forest Service Newsletter, February 2019. American chestnuts tested on three National Forests. https://www.fs.fed.us/inside-fs/american-chestnuts-tested-three-national-forests