Susan Cordell, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Thomas G. Cole, Susan Cordell. 2025. Control of flowering and factors affecting phenology of endemic low-elevation tree species at Hawai‘i Ka‘ūpūlehu
• Benjamin J. Crain, Melissa K. McCormick, Lawrence W. Zettler, Julian Dendy, Christian P. Giardina, Amanda L. Uowolo, Susan Cordell, Dennis F. Whigham. 2025. Influence of habitat attributes on terrestrial orchid communities across a tropical forest recovery gradient
• Shannon L. J. Bayliss, Eben N. Broadbent, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Susan Cordell, Stephanie Pau. 2025. Scale-dependent responses to environmental fluctuations in tropical tree species’ crown temperatures
• Jodie R. Rosam, Laura Warman, Rebecca Ostertag, Ryan Perroy, Susan Cordell. 2024. Light quality and spatial variability influences on seedling regeneration in Hawaiian lowland wet forests
• Stephanie Yelenik, Eli Rose, Susan Cordell. 2024. Invasive-dominated grasslands in Hawaiʻi are resilient to disturbance
• Kevin M. Potter, Christian P. Giardina, Flint F. Hughes, Susan Cordell, Olaf Kuegler, Amy Koch, Emma Yuen. 2023. How invaded are Hawaiian forests? Non-native understory tree dominance signals potential canopy replacement.
• Clay Trauernicht, Abby G. Frazier, Julian Dendy, Ilan Bubb, Christine Camacho‐Fejeran, James B. Friday, Romina King, James Manglona, Francis Ruegorong, Ann Singeo, Christian P. Giardina, Susan Cordell. 2023. How people, rainfall and vegetation shape tropical island fire regimes across Micronesia
• Joseph A. LaManna, Jonathan A. Myers, Richard P. Phillips, Salomón Aguilar, Camille S. Delavaux, David Allen, Alfonso Alonso, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Matthew E. Baker, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Pulchérie Bissiengou, Mariana Bonfim, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, David F. R. P. Burslem, Li-Wan Chang, Yang Chen, Jyh-Min Chiang, Chengjin Chu, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Mary Cortese, Jan den Ouden, Christopher Dick, Sisira Ediriweera, Erle C. Ellis, Anna Feistner, Amy L. Freestone, Thomas Giambelluca, Christian P. Giardina, Gregory S. Gilbert, Fangliang He, Jan Holík, Robert W. Howe, Walter Huaraca Huasca, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith Inman, Patrick A. Jansen, Daniel Johnson, Kamil Kral, Andrew J. Larson, Creighton M. Litton, James A. Lutz, Yadvinder Malhi, Krista McGuire, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Natalia Norden, Vojtech Novotny, Michael J. O’Brien, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Rolando Pérez, Glen Reynolds, Sabrina E. Russo, Lawren Sack, Pavel Šamonil, I-Fang Sun, Mark E. Swanson, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, John Vandermeer, Xihua Wang, Ian Ware, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Shu-Hui Wu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Thomas Lauber, Daniel S. Maynard, Thomas W. Crowther, Colin Averill. 2023. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity
• Nicole DiManno, Rebecca Ostertag, Amanda L. Uowolo, Amy Durham, Kaikea Blakemore, Susan Cordell, Peter Vitousek. 2023. Functional trait‐based restoration alters nutrient cycling and invasion rates in Hawaiian lowland wet forest
• Céline B. Jennison, Rebecca Ostertag, Donald Rayome, Susan Cordell, Yadvinder Malhi. 2023. Non-timber Forest Products Survey of Forest Landscape Restoration: A Case Study of Hybrid Ecosystem Restoration in Invaded Hawaiian Forest
• Julian Dendy, Paul Collins, Dino Mesubed, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Amanda L. Uowolo, Akiko Iida. 2022. Centennial-scale land-cover change on Babeldaob Island, Palau
• Camille Piponiot, Kristina J. Anderson‐Teixeira, Stuart J. Davies, David Allen, Norman A. Bourg, David F. R. P. Burslem, Dairon Cárdenas, Chia‐Hao Chang‐Yang, George Chuyong, Susan Cordell, Handanakere Shivaramaiah Dattaraja, Álvaro Duque, Sisira Ediriweera, Corneille Ewango, Zacky Ezedin, Jonah Filip, Christian P. Giardina, Robert Howe, Chang‐Fu Hsieh, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith M. Inman‐Narahari, Akira Itoh, David Janík, David Kenfack, Kamil Král, James A. Lutz, Jean‐Remy Makana, Sean M. McMahon, William McShea, Xiangcheng Mi, Mohizah Bt. Mohamad, Vojtěch Novotný, Michael J. O'Brien, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey Parker, Rolando Pérez, Haibao Ren, Glen Reynolds, Mohamad Danial Md Sabri, Lawren Sack, Ankur Shringi, Sheng‐Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I‐Fang Sun, Hebbalalu S. Suresh, Duncan W. Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Uriarte, John Vandermeer, Yunquan Wang, Ian Ware, George D. Weiblen, Timothy J. S. Whitfeld, Amy Wolf, Tze Leong Yao, Mingjian Yu, Zuoqiang Yuan, Jess K. Zimmerman, Daniel Zuleta, Helene C. Muller‐Landau. 2022. Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world
• Ian Ware, Rebecca Ostertag, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Lawren Sack, Camila D. Medeiros, Faith Inman, Creighton M. Litton, Thomas Giambelluca, Grace P. John, Christine Scoffoni. 2022. Multi-stemmed habit in trees contributes climate resilience in tropical dry forest
• Stephanie Yelenik, Eli Rose, Susan Cordell, Michelle Victoria, James R. Kellner. 2022. The role of microtopography and resident species in post‐disturbance recovery of arid habitats in Hawaiʻi
• Philip Cannon, James B. Friday, Thomas Harrington, Lisa Keith, Marc Hughes, Rob Hauff, Flint F. Hughes, Ryan Perroy, David Benitez, Kylle Roy, Robert Peck, Sheri Smith, Blaine Luiz, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Jennifer Juzwik, Stephanie Yelenik, Zachary Cook. 2022. Rapid ‘Ohi‘a death in Hawai‘i [Chapter 15]
• Erin J. Questad, Amanda L. Uowolo, Samuel E. Brooks, Susan Cordell. 2022. Shifting limitations to restoration across dryland ecosystems in Hawaiʻi
• Julian Dendy, Dino Mesubed, Patrick L. Colin, Christian P. Giardina, Susan Cordell, Tarita Holm, Amanda L. Uowolo. 2022. Dynamics of anthropogenic wildfire on Babeldaob Island (Palau) as revealed by fire history
• Kasey E. Barton, Andrea Westerband, Rebecca Ostertag, Elizabeth Stacy, Kawika Winter, Donald R. Drake, Lucas Berio Fortini, Creighton M. Litton, Susan Cordell, Paul Krushelnycky, Kapua Kawelo, Kealoha Feliciano, Gordon Bennett, Tiffany Knight. 2021. Hawai‘i forest review: Synthesizing the ecology, evolution, and conservation of a model system
• Susan Cordell, Celia Bardwell-Jones, Rebecca Ostertag, Amanda L. Uowolo, Nicole DiManno. 2021. Species home-making in ecosystems: Toward place-based ecological metrics of belonging
• Kekuhi Kealiikanakaoleohaililani, Aimee Y. Sato, Christian P. Giardina, Creighton M. Litton, Smrity Ramavarapu, Leslie Hutchins, Evelyn H. Wight, Michelle Clark, Susan Cordell, Kainana S. Francisco, Heather McMillen, Pua‘ala Pascua, Darcy Yogi. 2021. Increasing conservation capacity by embracing ritual: kuahu as a portal to the sacred
• Susanne Kandert, Holger Kreft, Nicole DiManno, Amanda L. Uowolo, Susan Cordell, Rebecca Ostertag. 2021. Influence of light and substrate conditions on regeneration of native tree saplings in the Hawaiian Lowland Wet Forest
• Yonglin Zhong, Chengjin Chu, Jonathan A. Myers, Gregory S. Gilbert, James A. Lutz, Jonas Stillhard, Kai Zhu, Jill Thompson, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Fangliang He, Joseph A. LaManna, Stuart J. Davies, Kristina J. Aderson-Teixeira, David F.R.P. Burslem, Alfonso Alonso, Kuo-Jung Chao, Xugao Wang, Lianming Gao, David A. Orwig, Xue Yin, Xinghua Sui, Zhiyao Su, Iveren Abiem, Pulchérie Bissiengou, Norm Bourg, Nathalie Butt, Min Cao, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Wei-Chun Chao, Hazel Chapman, Yu-Yun Chen, David A. Coomes, Susan Cordell, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Hu Du, Suqin Fang, Christian P. Giardina, Zhanqing Hao, Andrew Hector, Stephen P. Hubbell, David Janík, Patrick A. Jansen, Mingxi Jiang, Guangze Jin, David Kenfack, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, Buhang Li, Xiankun Li, Yide Li, Juyu Lian, Luxiang Lin, Feng Liu, Yankun Liu, Yu Liu, Fuchen Luan, Yahuang Luo, Keping Ma, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean M. McMahon, William McShea, Hervé Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Mike Morecroft, Vojtech Novotny, Michael J. O’Brien, Jan den Ouden, Geoffrey G. Parker, Xiujuan Qiao, Haibao Ren, Glen Reynolds, Pavel Samonil, Weiguo Sang, Guochun Shen, Zhiqiang Shen, Guo-Zhang Michael Song, I-Fang Sun, Hui Tang, Songyan Tian, Amanda L. Uowolo, María Uriarte, Bin Wang, Xihua Wang, Youshi Wang, George D. Weiblen, Zhihong Wu, Nianxun Xi, Wusheng Xiang, Han Xu, Kun Xu, Wanhui Ye, Mingjian Yu, Fuping Zeng, Minhua Zhang, Yingming Zhang, Jess K. Zimmerman, Li Zhu. 2021. Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide
• Christian P. Giardina, Gregory S. Gilbert, Faith Imran‐Narahari, Creighton M. Litton, James A. Lutz, Malcolm P. North, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Lawren Sack, Richard P. Phillips, Daniel Sousa, Joshua B. Fisher, Fernando Romero Galvan, Ryan P. Pavlick, Susan Cordell, Thomas W. Giambelluca. 2021. Tree canopies reflect mycorrhizal composition
• Susan Cordell. 2021. Regional Summaries: Hawaii and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands
• Chelcy F. Miniat, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, Steven T. Brantley, Mac A. Callaham, Susan Cordell, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Christian P. Giardina, Shibu Jose, Gary Lovett. 2021. Impacts of Invasive Species on Forest and Grassland Ecosystem Processes in the United States
• S.J. Davies, I. Abiem, K. Abu Salim, S. Aguilar, D. Allen, A. Alonso, K. Anderson-Teixeira, A. Andrade, G. Arellano, P.S. Ashton, P.J. Baker, M.E. Baker, J.L. Baltzer, Y. Basset, P. Bissiengou, S. Bohlman, N.A. Bourg, W.Y. Brockelman, S. Bunyavejchewin, D.F.R.P. Burslem, M. Cao, D. Cárdenas, L. Chang, C. Chang-Yang, K. Chao, W. Chao, H. Chapman, Y. Chen, R.A. Chisholm, C. Chu, G. Chuyong, K. Clay, L.S. Comita, R. Condit, Susan Cordell, H.S. Dattaraja, A.A. de Oliveira, J. den Ouden, M. Detto, C. Dick, X. Du, Á. Duque, S. Ediriweera, E.C. Ellis, N.L.E. Obiang, S. Esufali, C.E.N. Ewango, E.S. Fernando, J. Filip, G.A. Fischer, R. Foster, T. Giambelluca, Christian P. Giardina, G.S. Gilbert, E. Gonzalez-Akre, I.A.U.N. Gunatilleke, C.V.S. Gunatilleke, Z. Hao, B.C.H. Hau, F. He, H. Ni, R.W. Howe, S.P. Hubbell, A. Huth, F. Inman-Narahari, A. Itoh, D. Janík, P.A. Jansen, M. Jiang, D.J. Johnson, F.A. Jones, M. Kanzaki, D. Kenfack, S. Kiratiprayoon, K. Král, L. Krizel, S. Lao, A.J. Larson, Y. Li, X. Li, C.M. Litton, Yu Liu, S. Liu, S.K.Y. Lum, M.S. Luskin, J.A. Lutz, H.T. Luu, K. Ma, J. Makana, Y. Malhi, A. Martin, C. McCarthy, S.M. McMahon, W.J. McShea, H. Memiaghe, X. Mi, D. Mitre, M. Mohamad, L. Monks, H.C. Muller-Landau, P.M. Musili, J.A. Myers, A. Nathalang, K.M. Ngo, N. Norden, V. Novotny, M.J. O'Brien, D. Orwig, R. Ostertag, K. Papathanassiou, G.G. Parker, R. Pérez, I. Perfecto, R.P. Phillips, N. Pongpattananurak, H. Pretzsch, H. Ren, G. Reynolds, L.J. Rodriguez, S.E. Russo, L. Sack, W. Sang, J. Shue, A. Singh, G.M. Song, R. Sukumar, I. Sun, H.S. Suresh, N.G. Swenson, S. Tan, S.C. Thomas, D. Thomas, J. Thompson, B.L. Turner, Amanda L. Uowolo, M. Uriarte, R. Valencia, J. Vandermeer, A. Vicentini, M. Visser, T. Vrska, X. Wang, X. Wang, G.D. Weiblen, T.J.S. Whitfeld, A. Wolf, S.J. Wright. 2021. ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network
• Rebecca Ostertag, Esther Sebastián-González, Robert Peck, Trebor Hall, Jihoo Kim, Nicole DiManno, Donald Rayome, Susan Cordell, Paul Banko, Amanda L. Uowolo. 2020. Linking plant and animal functional diversity with an experimental community restoration in a Hawaiian lowland wet forest
• Stephanie Pau, Susan Cordell, Rebecca Ostertag, Faith Inman, Lawren Sack. 2020. Climatic sensitivity of species’ vegetative and reproductive phenology in a Hawaiian montane wet forest
• Duncan N. L. Menge, Ryan A. Chisholm, Stuart J. Davies, Kamariah Abu Salim, David Allen, Mauricio Alvarez, Norm Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Nathalie Butt, Min Cao, Wirong Chanthorn, Wei‐Chun Chao, Keith Clay, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, João Batista Silva, H. S. Dattaraja, Ana Cristina Segalin Andrade, Alexandre A. Oliveira, Jan den Ouden, Michael Drescher, Christine Fletcher, Christian P. Giardina, C. V Savitri Gunatilleke, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, Billy C. H. Hau, Fangliang He, Robert Howe, Chang‐Fu Hsieh, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith M. Inman‐Narahari, Patrick A. Jansen, Daniel J. Johnson, Lee Sing Kong, Kamil Král, Chen‐Chia Ku, Jiangshan Lai, Andrew J. Larson, Xiankun Li, Yide Li, Luxiang Lin, YiChing Lin, Shirong Liu, Shawn K. Y. Lum, James A. Lutz, Keping Ma, Yadvinder Malhi, Sean McMahon, William McShea, Xiangcheng Mi, Michael Morecroft, Jonathan A. Myers, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Kassim Abd. Rahman, Lawren Sack, Weiguo Sang, Guochun Shen, Ankur Shringi, Jessica Shue, Sheng‐Hsin Su, Raman Sukumar, I‐Fang Sun, H. S. Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Sean C. Thomas, Pagi S. Toko, Renato Valencia, Martha I Vallejo, Alberto Vicentini, Tomáš Vrška, Bin Wang, Xihua Wang, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Han Xu, Sandra Yap, Li Zhu, Tak Fung. 2019. Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America
• Donald Rayome, Nicole DiManno, Rebecca Ostertag, Susan Cordell, Bryson Fung, Anthony Vizzone, Pauleen Pante, Reuben Tate. 2019. Restoring Ecosystem Services Tool (REST): a program for selecting species for restoration projects using a functional-trait approach
• Thomas Ibanez, Gunnar Keppel, Cláudia Baider, Chris Birkinshaw, Heike Culmsee, Susan Cordell, F. B. Vincent Florens, Janet Franklin, Christian P. Giardina, Thomas W. Gillespie, Melinda Laidlaw, Creighton M. Litton, Tara G. Martin, Rebecca Ostertag, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Richard Randrianaivo, Miramasoandro Randrianjanahary, Muthu Rajkumar, Ladan Rasingam, Fidy Ratovoson, Ludovic Reza, Lawren Sack, Shin-ichiro Aiba, Edward Webb, Timothy J. S. Whitfeld, Runguo Zang, Philippe Birnbaum. 2018. Regional forcing explains local species diversity and turnover on tropical islands
• Erin J. Questad, Amanda L. Uowolo, Sam Brooks, Robert Fitch, Susan Cordell. 2018. Resource availability, propagule supply, and effect of nonnative ungulate herbivores on Senecio madagascariensis invasion
• Donald Rayome, Rebecca Ostertag, Susan Cordell. 2018. Enhancing aboveground carbon storage and invasion resistance through restoration: early esults from a functional trait-based experiment
• Parker C. Trauernicht, Elizabeth A. Pickett, Pablo Beimler, Christian P. Giardina, Susan Cordell, James B. Friday, Eric Moller, Creighton M. Litton. 2018. Assessing fire management needs in the Pacific Islands: a collaborative approach
• Dylan Craven, Tiffany Knight, Kasey Barton, Lalasia Bialic-Murphy, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Thomas Gillespie, Rebecca Ostertag, Lawren Sack, Jonathan Chase. 2018. OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database
• Daniel J. Johnson, Jessica Needham, Chonggang Xu, Elias C. Massoud, Stuart J. Davies, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Jeffery Q. Chambers, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, Christine Fletcher, Christian P. Giardina, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Stephen Hubbell, Faith Inman-Narahari, Abdul Rahman Kassim, Masatoshi Katabuchi, David Kenfack, Creighton M. Litton, Shawn Lum, Mohizah Mohamad, Musalmah Nasardin, Perry S. Ong, Rebecca Ostertag, Lawren Sack, Nathan G. Swenson, I Fang Sun, Sylvester Tan, Duncan W. Thomas, Jill Thompson, Maria Natalia Umaña, Maria Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Sandra Yap, Jess Zimmerman, Nate G. McDowell, Sean M. McMahon. 2018. Climate sensitive size-dependent survival in tropical trees
• Camila D. Medeiros, Christine Scoffoni, Grace P. John, Megan K. Bartlett, Faith Inman-Narahari, Rebecca Ostertag, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Lawren Sack. 2018. An extensive suite of functional traits distinguishes Hawaiian wet and dry forests and enables prediction of species vital rates
• Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap, Jonathan A. Myers, Joseph A. LaManna, Scott A. Mangan, Alfonso Alonso, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Stuart J. Davies, Tucker J. Furniss, Christian P. Giardina, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, C. V Savitri Gunatilleke, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny. 2018. Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”
• James A. Lutz, Tucker J. Furniss, Daniel Johnson, Stuart J. Davies, David Allen, Alfonso Alonso, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Ana Andrade, Jennifer Baltzer, Kendall M. L. Becker, Erika M. Blomdahl, Norman A. Bourg, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David F. R. P. Burslem, Alina Cansler, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina. 2018. Global importance of large-diameter trees
• Ryan J. Longman, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Michael A. Nullet, Abby G. Frazier, Kevin Kodama, Shelley D. Crausbay, Paul D. Krushelnycky, Susan Cordell, Martyn P. Clark, Andy J. Newman, Jeffrey R. Arnold. 2018. Compilation of climate data from heterogeneous networks across the Hawaiian Islands
• Carla M. D'Antonio, Rebecca Ostertag, Susan Cordell, Stephanie Yelenik. 2017. Interactions among invasive plants: Lessons from Hawai‘i
• Joseph A. LaManna, Scott A. Mangan, Alfonso Alonso, Norman A. Bourg, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Li-Wan Chang, Jyh-Min Chiang, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Richard Condit, Susan Cordell, Stuart J. Davies, Tucker J. Furniss, Christian P. Giardina, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke, Fangliang He, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I-Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Yap, Jonathan A. Myers. 2017. Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale
• Yoshiyuki Miyazawa, Bruce D. Dudley, Flint F. Hughes, Joshua Vandemark, Susan Cordell, Michael A. Nullet, Rebecca Ostertag, Thomas W. Giambelluca. 2016. Non-native tree in a dry coastal area in Hawai'i has high transpiration but restricts water use despite phreatophytic trait
• Susan Cordell, Erin J. Questad, Gregory P. Asner, Kealohanuiopuna Kinney, Jarrod M. Thaxton, Amanda L. Uowolo, Sam Brooks, Mark W. Chynoweth. 2016. Remote sensing for restoration planning: how the big picture can inform stakeholders
• Faith Inman-Narahari, Rebecca Ostertag, Stephen P. Hubbell, Christian P. Giardina, Susan Cordell, Lawren Sack, Andrew MacDougall. 2016. Density-dependent seedling mortality varies with light availability and species abundance in wet and dry Hawaiian forests
• Susan Cordell, Rebecca Ostertag, Jené Michaud, Laura Warman. 2016. Quandaries of a decade-long restoration experiment trying to reduce invasive species: Beat them, join them, give up, or start over?
• Clay Trauernicht, Elizabeth Pickett, Christian P. Giardina, Creighton M. Litton, Susan Cordell, Andrew Beavers. 2015. The contemporary scale and context of wildfire in Hawai'i
• Mark W. Chynoweth, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Creighton M. Litton, Steven C. Hess, James R. Kellner, Susan Cordell, Lalit Kumar. 2015. Home range use and movement patterns of non-native feral goats in a tropical island montane dry landscape
• Julian Dendy, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Bernice Hwang, Edwin Polloi, Kashgar Rengulbai. 2015. The role of remnant forest patches for habitat restoration in degraded areas of Palau
• James B. Friday, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Faith Inman-Narahari, Nicholas Koch, James J. K. Leary, Creighton M. Litton, Clay Trauernicht. 2015. Future directions for forest restoration in Hawai'i
• Jené Michaud, Susan Cordell, T. Colleen Cole, Rebecca Ostertag. 2015. Drought in an invaded Hawaiian lowland wet forest
• Rebecca Ostertag, Laura Warman, Susan Cordell, Peter M. Vitousek. 2015. Using plant functional traits to restore Hawaiian rainforest
• Kealohanuiopuna Kinney, Gregory P. Asner, Susan Cordell, Oliver A. Chadwick, Katherine Heckman, Sara Hotchkiss, Marjeta Jeraj, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David E. Knapp. 2015. Primary succession on a Hawaiian dryland chronosequence
• Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Stuart J. Davies, Amy C. Bennett, Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre, Helene C. Muller-Landau, S. Joseph Wright, Kamariah Abu Salim, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Alfonso Alonso, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Yves Basset, Norman A. Bourg, Eben N. Broadbent, Warren Y. Brockelman, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, David F. R. P. Burslem, Nathalie Butt, Min Cao, Dairon Cardenas, George B. Chuyong, Keith Clay, Susan Cordell, Handanakere S. Dattaraja, Xiaobao Deng, Matteo Detto, Xiaojun Du, Alvaro Duque, David L. Erikson, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Gunter A. Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Robin B. Foster, Christian P. Giardina, Gregory S. Gilbert, Nimal Gunatilleke, Savitri Gunatilleke, Zhanqing Hao, William Hargrove, Terese B. Hart, Billy C.H. Hau, Fangliang He, Forrest M. Hoffman, Robert W. Howe, Stephen P. Hubbell, Faith M. Inman-Narahari, Patrick A. Jansen, Mingxi Jiang, Daniel Johnson, Mamoru Kanzaki, Abdul Rahman Kassim, David Kenfack, Staline Kibet, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Lisa Korte, Kamil Kral, Jitendra Kumar, Andrew J. Larson, Yide Li, Xiankun Li, Shirong Liu, Shawn K.Y. Lum, James A. Lutz, Keping Ma, Damian M. Maddalena, Jean-Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Toby Marthews, Rafizah Mat Serudin, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Xiangcheng Mi, Takashi Mizuno, Michael Morecroft, Jonathan A. Myers, Vojtech Novotny, Alexandre A. de Oliveira, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Jan den Ouden, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, Moses N. Sainge, Weiguo Sang, Kriangsak Sri-ngernyuang, Raman Sukumar, I-Fang Sun, Witchaphart Sungpalee, Hebbalalu Sathyanarayana Suresh, Sylvester Tan, Sean C. Thomas, Duncan W. Thomas, Jill Thompson, Benjamin L. Turner, Maria Uriarte, Renato Valencia, Marta I. Vallejo, Alberto Vicentini, Tomáš Vrška, Xihua Wang, Xugao Wang, George Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Han Xu, Sandra Yap, Jess Zimmerman. 2014. CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change
• Faith Inman-Narahari, Rebecca Ostertag, Gregory P. Asner, Susan Cordell, Stephen P. Hubbell, Lawren Sack. 2014. Trade-offs in seedling growth and survival within and across tropical forest microhabitats
• R. Ostertag, F. Inman-Narahari, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, L. Sack. 2014. Forest structure in low diversity tropical forests: a study of Hawaiian wet and dry forests
• Eben N. Broadbent, Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Gregory P. Asner, Christopher B. Field, Brad E. Rosenheim, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David E. Knapp, David Burke, Christian P. Giardina, Susan Cordell. 2014. Linking rainforest ecophysiology and microclimate through fusion of airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery
• M.A. Cavaleri, R. Ostertag, Susan Cordell, L. and Sack. 2014. Native trees show conservative water use relative to invasive: results from a removal experiment in a Hawaiian wet forest
• E. Questad, J.R. Kellner, Kealohanuiopuna Kinney, Susan Cordell, G.P. Asner, J. Thaxton, J. Diep, Amanda L. Uowolo, Samuel E. Brooks, N. Inman-Narahari, S. Evans, B. Tucker. 2014. Mapping habitat suitability for at-risk plants and its implications for restoration and reintroduction
• Jodie R. Schulten, T. Colleen Cole, Susan Cordell, Keiko M. Publico, Rebecca Ostertag, Jaime E. Enoka, Jené D. Michaud. 2014. Persistence of Native Trees in an Invaded Hawaiian Lowland Wet Forest: Experimental Evaluation of Light and Water Constraints
• Andrew D. Pierce, Sierra McDaniel, Mark Wasser, Alison Ainsworth, Creighton M. Litton, Christian P. Giardina, Susan Cordell, Ralf Ohlemuller. 2014. Using a prescribed fire to test custom and standard fuel models for fire behaviour prediction in a non-native, grass-invaded tropical dry shrubland
• Faith Inman-Narahari, Rebecca Ostertag, Susan Cordell, Christian P. Giardina, Nelson-Kaula Kehauwealani, Lawren Sack. 2013. Seedling recruitment factors in low-diversity Hawaiian wet forest: towards global comparisons among tropical forests
• Mark W. Chynoweth, Creighton M. Litton, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Steven C. Hess, Susan Cordell. 2013. Biology and impacts of Pacific island invasive species: Capra hircus, the feral goat, (Mammalia: Bovidae)
• Douglas Cram, Susan Cordell, James B. Friday, Christian P. Giardina, Creighton M. Litton, Eric Moller, Elizabeth Pickett. 2013. Fire and drought in paradise – Say it isn’t so, Smokey
• James R. Kellner, Gregory P. Asner, Susan Cordell, Jarrod M. Thaxton, Kealohanuiopuna Kinney, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, David E. Knapp, Erin J. Questad, Stephen Ambagis. 2012. Historical land-cover classification for conservation and management in Hawaiian subalpine drylands
• Susan Cordell. 2012. Former Hawaii Restoration Ecologist Now Favors 'Tinkering' Over Rigor. Review of Cabin, Robert J. 2011. Intelligent tinkering: bridging the gap between science and practice.
• Jared M. Thaxton, Susan Cordell, Robert J. Cabin, Darren R. Sandquist. 2012. Non-native grass removal and shade increase soil moisture and seedling performance during Hawaiian dry forest restoration
• Erin J. Questad, Jarrod M. Thaxton, Susan Cordell. 2012. Patterns and consequences of re-invasion into a Hawaiian dry forest restoration
• Edith N. Adkins, Susan Cordell, Donald R. Drake. 2011. Role of fire in the germination ecology of fountain grass (Pennisetum setaceum), an invasive African bunchgrass in Hawaii
• Oliver Agoncillo, Jennifer Conje, Susan Cordell, James Halperin, Roopa Karia, Beth Lebow. 2011. Sustainable Landscapes Assessment for the Philippines
• James R. Kellner, Gregory P. Asner, Kealohanuiopuna Kinney, Scott R. Loarie, David E. Knapp, Ty Kennedy-Bowdoin, Erin J. Questad, Susan Cordell, Jarrod M. Thaxton. 2011. Remote analysis of biological invasion and the impact of enemy release
• Mark Chynoweth, Creighton M. Litton, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Susan Cordell. 2010. Feral goats in the Hawaiian Islands: understanding the behavioral ecology of nonnative ungulates with GPS and remote sensing technology
• Jarrod M. Thaxton, T. Colleen Cole, Susan Cordell, Robert J. Cabin, Darren R. Sandquist, Creighton M. Litton. 2010. Native species regeneration following ungulate exclusion and nonnative grass removal in a remnant Hawaiian dry forest
• Faith Inman-Narahari, Christian P. Giardina, Rebecca Ostertag, Susan Cordell, Lawren Sack. 2010. Digital data collection in forest dynamics plots
• K. D. Holl, R. A. Zahawi, R. J. Cole, R. Ostertag, Susan Cordell. 2010. Planting seedlings in tree islands versus plantations as a large-scale tropical forest restoration strategy
• Susan Cordell, R. Ostertag, B. Rowe, L. Sweinhart, L. Vasquez-Radonic, J. Michaud, T.C. Cole, J.R. Schulten. 2009. Evaluating barriers to native seedling establishment in an invaded Hawaiian lowland wet forest
• Samuel E. Brooks, Susan Cordell, L. Perry. 2009. Broadcast seeding as a potential tool to reestablish native species in degraded dry forest ecosystems in Hawaii
• R. Ostertag, Susan Cordell, J. Michaud, T.C. Cole, J.R. Schulten, K.M. Publico, J.H. Enoka. 2009. Ecosystem and restoration consequences of invasive woody species removal in Hawaiian lowland wet forest
• Rebecca Ostertag, Christian P. Giardina, Susan Cordell. 2008. Understory colonization of Eucalyptus plantations in Hawaii in relation to light and nutrient levels
• Susan Cordell, Moana McClellan, Yvonne Yarber Carter, Lisa J. Hadway. 2008. Towards restoration of Hawaiian tropical dry forests: the Kaupulehu outplanting programme
• Susan Cordell, D. R. Sandquist. 2008. The impact of an invasive African bunchgrass (Pennisetum setaceum) on water availability and productivity of canopy trees within a tropical dry forest in Hawaii
• Jim Kling, Julie Featured: Denslow, Tracy Johnson, Susan Cordell. 2008. Repelling invaders: Hawaiian foresters use ecology to counter invasive species
• Christian P. Giardina, Creighton M. Litton, Jarrod M. Thaxton, Susan Cordell, Lisa J. Hadway, Darren R. Sandquist. 2007. Science driven restoration: A candle in a demon haunted world—response to cabin

Data and Tools

• Dataset
  

  Silvics of North America

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

• Program
  

  Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry (Pacific Zone – Hawaii and U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/programs/ipif
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Forests: Invasion and Outbreaks in Forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-forests-invasion-and-outbreaks-forests

• University of Hawaii, Ph.D., Botany, 1999
• University of Hawaii, M.S., Botany, 1996
• Santa Barbara, B.A., Aquatic Biology, 1987