Ted Leininger, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger, Kristina Connor, Margaret Devall, Paul Hamel, Nathan Schiff, Dan D. Wilson. 2023. Leaf acclimation to soil flooding and light availability underlies photosynthetic capacity of Lindera melissifolia , an endangered shrub of bottomland forests in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, USA
• Tong Qiu, Robert Andrus, Marie-Claire Aravena, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Roberta Berretti, Daniel Berveiller, Michal Bogdziewicz, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Don C. Bragg, Thomas Caignard, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Benoit Courbaud, Francois Courbet, Thomas Curt, Adrian J. Das, Evangelia Daskalakou, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Sergio Donoso Calderon, Laurent Dormont, Josep Espelta, Timothy J. Fahey, William Farfan-Rios, Catherine A. Gehring, Gregory S. Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Katie H. Greenberg, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket-Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Valentin Journé, Daisuke Kabeya, Christopher L. Kilner, Thomas Kitzberger, Johannes M. H. Knops, Richard K. Kobe, Georges Kunstler, Jonathan G. A. Lageard, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Mateusz Ledwon, Francois Lefevre, Ted Leininger, Jean-Marc Limousin, James A. Lutz, Diana Macias, Eliot J. B. McIntire, Christopher M. Moore, Emily Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan A. Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Kyotaro Noguchi, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ian S. Pearse, Ignacio M. Perez-Ramos, Lukasz Piechnik, John Poulsen, Renata Poulton-Kamakura, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Kyle C. Rodman, Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Javier D. Sanguinetti, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Harald Schmidt Van Marle, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Miles Silman, Michael A. Steele, Nathan L. Stephenson, Jacob N. Straub, I-Fang Sun, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Thomas T. Veblen, Amy V Whipple, Thomas G. Whitham, Andreas P. Wion, Boyd Wright, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess K. Zimmerman, Roman Zlotin, Magdalena Zywiec, James S. Clark. 2022. Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery
• Ying Ouyang, Satyanarayan Dev, Johnny M. Grace, Devendra M. Amatya, Ted Leininger. 2022. Simulating biomass production and water use of poplars in a plantation using a STELLA-Based model
• Steve Meadows, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger, Andrew W. Ezell. 2021. Silvicultural options for young bottomland oak-dominated plantations on former agricultural lands
• Ted Leininger, Emile S. Gardiner, Brian R. Lockhart, Nathan Schiff, Dan D. Wilson, Margaret Devall, Paul Hamel, Kristina F. Connor. 2021. Intensity and mode of Lindera melissifolia reproduction are affected by flooding and light availability
• Ying Ouyang, Yongshan Wan, Wei Jin, Ted Leininger, Gary Feng, Yuguo Han. 2021. Impact of climate change on groundwater resource in a region with a fast depletion rate: the Mississippi Embayment
• Ying Ouyang, Wei Jin, Ted Leininger, Gary Feng, Jia Yang. 2021. Impacts of afforestation on groundwater resource: A case study for Upper Yazoo River watershed, Mississippi, USA
• Ying Ouyang, Ted Leininger, Heidi Renninger, Emile S. Gardiner, Lisa Samuelson. 2021. A model to assess eastern cottonwood water flow using adjusted vapor pressure deficit associated with a climate change imact application
• Ying Ouyang, Jiaen Zhang, Gary Feng, Yongshan Wan, Ted Leininger. 2020. A century of precipitation trends in forest lands of the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley
• Jacob N. Straub, Alan G. Leach, Richard M. Kaminski, Andrew W. Ezell, Ted Leininger. 2019. Red oak acorn yields in green-tree reservoirs and nonimpounded forests in Mississippi
• Ying Ouyang, Gary Feng, Prem Parajuli, Ted Leininger, Yongshan Wan, Johnie N. Jenkins. 2019. Assessment of surface water quality in the Big Sunflower River Watershed of Mississippi Delta using nonparametric analysis
• Ying Ouyang, Gary Feng, Ted Leininger, John Read, Johnie N. Jenkins. 2018. Pond and Irrigation Model (PIM): a tool for simultaneously evaluating pond water availability and crop irrigation demand
• Justyn R. Foth, Richard M. Kaminski, J. Brian Davis, Jacob N. Straub, Ted Leininger. 2018. Aquatic invertebrate community composition, diversity, and biomass in non-impounded bottomland hardwood forests and greentree reservoirs
• Brian R. Lockhart, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger, Paul Hamel, Dan D. Wilson, Margaret Devall, Nathan Schiff, Kristina F. Connor. 2018. Biomass accumulation in the endangered shrub Lindera melissifolia as affected by gradients of light availability and soil flooding
• Martin A. Spetich, Zhaofei Fan, Zhen Sui, Michael Crosby, Hong S. He, Stephen R. R. Shifley, Ted Leininger, W. Keith Moser. 2017. Tree mortality estimates and species distribution probabilities in southeastern United States forests
• Brian R. Lockhart, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger, Margaret Devall, Dan D. Wilson, K. F. Connor, Paul Hamel, Nathan Schiff. 2017. Light availability and soil flooding regulate photosynthesis of an imperiled shrub in lowland forests of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, USA
• Ying Ouyang, Daping Xu, Ted Leininger, Ningnan Zhang. 2016. A system dynamic model to estimate hydrological processes and water use in a eucalypt plantation
• George M. Banzhaf, Thomas G. Matney, Emily B. Schultz, Steve Meadows, J. Paul Jeffreys, William C. Booth, Gan Li, Andrew W. Ezell, Ted Leininger. 2016. Log-grade volume distribution prediction models for tree species in red oak-sweetgum stands on US mid-south minor stream bottoms
• Ying Ouyang, Jiaen Zhang, Ted Leininger, Brent R. Frey. 2015. A STELLA model to estimate water and nitrogen dynamics in a short-rotation woody crop plantation
• Michael K. Crosby, Zhaofei Fan, Martin A. Spetich, Ted Leininger, Xingang Fan. 2015. Early indications of drought impacts on forests in the southeastern United States
• Andreza M. Martins, Fernanda M. Abilio, Plinio Gonçalves de Oliveira, Raquel Partelli Feltrin, Fernanda Scheffer Alves de Lima, Priscilla de O. Antonelli, Daniela Teixeira Vilela, Carl G. Smith III, Collin Tidwell, Paul Hamel, Margaret Devall, Kristina Connor, Ted Leininger, Nathan Schiff, Dan D. Wilson. 2015. Pondberry (Lindera   melissifolia, Lauraceae) seed and seedling dispersers and predators
• Ying Ouyang, Ted Leininger, Matt Moran. 2015. Estimating effects of reforestation on nitrogen and phosphorus load reductions in the Lower Yazoo River Watershed, Mississippi
• Michael K. Crosby, Zhaofei Fan, Xingang Fan, Martin A. Spetich, Ted Leininger. 2015. Multi-scale modeling of relationships between forest health and climatic factors
• Wilson G. Hood, Michael C. Tyree, Dylan N. Dillaway Dillaway, Ted Leininger. 2015. Measuring and partitioning soil respiration in sharkey shrink-swell clays under plantation grown short-rotation woody crops
• Brian R. Lockhart, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger. 2015. Initial response of pondberry released from heavy shade
• Justyn R. Foth, Jacob N. Straub, Richard M. Kaminski, J. Brian Davis, Ted Leininger. 2014. Aquatic invertebrate abundance and biomass in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Missouri bottomland hardwood forests during winter
• Michael K. Crosby, Zhaofei Fan, Ted Leininger, Marty Spetich, A Brady Self. 2014. Spatial trends and factors associated with hardwood mortality in the southeastern United States
• Joonseok Oh, John J. Bowling, Amar G. Chittiboyina, Robert J. Doerksen, Daneel Ferreira, Ted Leininger, Mark T. Hamann. 2013. Configurational assignments of conformationally restricted bis-monoterpene hydroquinones: Utility in exploration of endangered plants
• Ted Leininger, Jeff A. Hatten, Janet C. Dewey, Kyoichi Otsuki, Dusong Cha. 2013. Effect of timber harvesting on stormflow characteristics in headwater streams of managed, forested watersheds in the Upper Gulf Coastal Plain in Mississippi
• R.J. Rousseau, Ted Leininger, B.L. Herrin, Emile S. Gardiner. 2013. Evaluating the potential of black willow as a viable biomass species for the LMAV
• A.G. Leach, R.M. Kaminski, J.N. Straub, A.W. Ezell, Tracy S. Hawkins, Ted Leininger. 2013. Interannual consistency of gross energy in red oak acorns
• Ying Ouyang, Ted Leininger, Matt Moran. 2013. Impacts of reforestation upon sediment load and water outflow in the Lower Yazoo River Watershed, Mississippi
• Brian R. Lockhart, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger, Paul Hamel, Kristina F. Connor, Margaret Devall, Nathan Schiff, Dan D. Wilson. 2013. Lindera melissifolia responses to flood durations and light regimes suggest strategies for recovery and conservation
• Steve Meadows, Ted Leininger, David Montwé, T. Evan Nebeker. 2013. Thinning to improve growth, bole quality, and forest health in an Inonotus hispidus-infected, red oak-sweetgum stand in the Mississippi Delta: 10-year results
• Ying Ouyang, Ted Leininger, Jeff Hatten. 2013. Real-time estimation of TP load in a Mississippi Delta Stream using a dynamic data driven application system
• Kris Connor, G.M. Schaefer, J.B. Donahoo, Margaret Devall, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger, Dan D. Wilson, Nathan Schiff, Paul Hamel, Stan Zarnoch. 2013. Lindera melissifolia seed bank study in a lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley bottomland forest
• Randell J. Rousseau, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger. 2012. Development of a black willow improvement program for biomass production in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Valley
• J.P. Adams, R. J. Rousseau, Ted Leininger. 2012. Genetic control of growth traits and inheritance of resistance to bacterial leaf scorch in American Sycamore
• Ying Ouyang, Ted Leininger, Jeff Hatten, Prem B. Parajuli. 2012. A STELLA model to estimate soil CO₂ emissions from a short-rotation woody crop
• Michael K. Crosby, Zhaofei Fan, Marty Spetich, Ted Leininger, Xingang Fan. 2012. Relationship between crown dieback and drought in the southeastern United States
• Michael K. Crosby, Zhaofei Fan, Xingang Fan, Ted Leininger, Marty Spetich. 2012. Assessing forest mortality patterns using climate and FIA data at multiple scales
• Alan G. Leach, Jacob N. Straub, Richard M. Kaminski, Andrew W. Ezell, Tracy S. Hawkins, Ted Leininger. 2012. Effects of winter flooding on mass and gross energy of bottomland hardwood acorns
• Joonseok Oh, John J. Bowling, John F. Carroll, Betul Demirci, K. Hüsnü Can Baser, Ted Leininger, Ulrich R. Berniere, Mark T. Hamann. 2012. Natural product studies of U.S. endangered plants: Volatile components of Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae) repel mosquitoes and ticks
• Brian R. Lockhart, Emile S. Gardiner, Theran Stautz, Ted Leininger. 2012. Development and plasticity of endangered shrub Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae) seedlings under contrasting light regimes
• Randall J. Rousseau, Emile S. Gardiner, Ted Leininger. 2012. Development of an applied black willow tree improvement program for biomass production in the south
• Michael K. Crosby, Zhaofei Fan, Marty Spetich, Ted Leininger. 2012. Remote Sensing of Forest Health Indicators for Assessing Change in Forest Health
• Emily B. Schultz, J. Clint Iles, Thomas G. Matney, Andrew W. Ezell, Steve Meadows, Ted Leininger, al. et. 2010. Stand-level growth and yield component models for red oak-sweetgum forests on Mid-South minor stream bottoms
• Mitch D. Weegman, Richard M. Kaminski, Guiming Wang, Michael L. Schummer, Andrew W. Ezell, Ted Leininger. 2010. Sweep-net sampling acorns in forested wetlands
• Tracy S. Hawkins, Daniel A Skojac, Nathan Schiff, Ted Leininger. 2010. Floristic composition and potential competitors in Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae) colonies in Mississippi with reference to hydrologic regime
• Paul Hamel, Diane DeSteven, Ted Leininger, Randy Wilson. 2009. Historical trends in rusty blackbird nonbreeding habitat in forested wetlands
• Tracy S. Hawkins, Daniel A. Skojac, Brian R. Lockhart, Ted Leininger, Margaret Devall, Nathan Schiff. 2009. Bottomland Forests in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley associated with the endangered Lindera melissifolia
• Emile S. Gardiner, John A. Stanturf, Ted Leininger, Paul Hamel, L. Jr. Dorris, J. Portwood, J. Shepard. 2008. Establishing a research and demonstration area initiated by managers: the Sharkey Restoration Research and Demonstration Site
• Fernanda Maria Abilio, Carl Smith, Colin Tidwell, Paul Hamel, Margaret Devall, Ted Leininger. 2008. Pondberry (Lindera melissifolia) seed predators

• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Delta Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/forestsandranges/locations/delta
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  Southern Research Station

• Virginia Tech., Ph.D., Plant Pathology, Plant Physiology, 1988
• Duke University, M.F., Forestry, Plant Pathology, 1981
• Albright College, B.S., Biology, Forestry, 1980