Thomas M. Schuler, PhD
Former Employee
0000-0001-6608-8162Treesearch Publications
- Christopher W. W. Woodall, A.G. Kamoske, G.D. Hayward, Thomas M. Schuler, C.A. Hiemstra, M. Palmer, Andrew Gray. 2023. Classifying mature federal forests in the United States: The forest inventory growth stage system
- Andrew Gray, Kristen A. Pelz, Gregory D. Hayward, Thomas M. Schuler, Wade Salverson, Marin Palmer, Christian Schumacher, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2023. Perspectives: The wicked problem of defining and inventorying mature and old-growth forests
- Mike R. Saunders, David P. Mann, Shannon Stanis, Jan K. Wiedenbeck, Daniel C. C. Dey, Thomas M. Schuler. 2023. Prescribed Fire Causes Wounding and Minor Tree Quality Degradation in Oak Forests
- Terrie B. Jain, Thomas M. Schuler. 2022. Foundational concepts in silviculture with emphasis on reforestation and early stand improvement - 2022 National Silviculture Workshop
- Christel C. Kern, Laura S. Kenefic, Christian Kuehne, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Sarah J. Kaschmitter, Anthony W. D'Amato, Daniel C. C. Dey, John M. Kabrick, Brian J. J. Palik, Thomas M. Schuler. 2021. Relative influence of stand and site factors on aboveground live-tree carbon sequestration and mortality in managed and unmanaged forests
- Thomas M. Schuler, David Gwaze. 2020. Forest management and research collaboration today and in the future: A panel discussion
- Lauren S. Pile, Robert Deal, Daniel C. C. Dey, David Gwaze, John M. Kabrick, Brian J. J. Palik, Thomas M. Schuler. 2020. The 2019 National Silviculture Workshop: A focus on forest management-research partnerships
- Lauren S. Pile, Robert Deal, Daniel C. C. Dey, David Gwaze, John M. Kabrick, Brian J. J. Palik, Thomas M. Schuler. 2020. Forest Management – Research Partnerships: Proceedings of the 2019 National Silviculture Workshop
- Carl D. Jacobsen, Donald J. Brown, William D. Flint, Jamie L. Schuler, Thomas M. Schuler. 2020. Influence of prescribed fire and forest structure on woodland salamander abundance in the central Appalachians, USA
- Daniel C. C. Dey, Thomas M. Schuler. 2020. 2019 US Forest Service National Silviculture Workshop: Forest Management and Research Partnerships
- Daniel C. C. Dey, Benjamin O. Knapp, Michael A. Battaglia, Robert Deal, Justin L. Hart, Kevin L. O'Hara, Callie Schweitzer, Thomas M. Schuler. 2019. Barriers to natural regeneration in temperate forests across the USA
- Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Thomas M. Schuler, Mary Beth Adams. 2018. Early impacts of fire and canopy gaps on seedling and sapling layers: evidence for reversing mesophication? In: Kirschman, Julia E., comp
- John Brown, Jan K. Wiedenbeck, Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy. 2018. Patterns of overstory mortality in a shelterwood- burn central Appalachian forest
- Kristin Floress, Stephanie Connolly, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Amanda Egan, Thomas M. Schuler, Amy Hill, Philip DeSenze, Scott Fenimore, Kent Karriker. 2018. Implementing Landscape Scale Conservation across Organizational Boundaries: Lessons from the Central Appalachian Region, United States
- John Brown, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Thomas M. Schuler, Jan K. Wiedenbeck. 2018. Silvicultural Prescriptions Influence the Proportion of High-Quality Hardwood Butt Logs Harvested over a Half-Century of Management
- John Brown, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Thomas M. Schuler. 2018. Overstory cohort survival in an Appalachian hardwood deferment cutting: 35-year results
- Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Pamela Edwards, Thomas M. Schuler. 2018. Establishment of native species on a natural gas pipeline: the importance of seeding rate, aspect, and species selection
- James S. Rentch, Thomas M. Schuler. 2018. Early Red Spruce Restoration Research by the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station, 1922–1954
- Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, John Brown, Jan K. Wiedenbeck. 2017. Managing Appalachian hardwood stands using four management practices: 60-year results
- J.S. Rentch, W.M. Ford, Thomas M. Schuler, Jeff Palmer, C.A. Diggins. 2016. Release of Suppressed Red Spruce Using Canopy Gap Creation--Ecological Restoration in the Central Appalachians
- M. Adele Fenwick, Jamie L. Schuler, Thomas M. Schuler. 2016. First year sprouting and growth dynamics in response to prescribed fire in a mesic mixed-oak forest
- Kathleen R. Mahoney, Kevin R. Russell, W. Mark Ford, Jane Rodrigue, Jason D. Riddle, Thomas M. Schuler, Mary Beth Adams. 2016. Woodland salamander responses to a shelterwood harvest-prescribed burn silvicultural treatment within Appalachian mixed-oak forests
- Patricia R. Butler, Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson, Leslie Brandt, Stephen Handler, Maria Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, Chris Swanston, Kent Karriker, Jarel Bartig, Stephanie Connolly, William D. Dijak, Scott Bearer, Steve Blatt, Andrea Brandon, Elizabeth Byers, Cheryl Coon, Tim Culbreth, Jad Daly, Wade Dorsey, David Ede, Chris Euler, Neil Gillies, David M. Hix, Catherine Johnson, Latasha Lyte, Stephen Matthews, Dawn McCarthy, Dave Minney, Daniel Murphy, Claire O’Dea, Rachel Orwan, Matthew Peters, Anantha M. Prasad, Cotton Randall, Jason Reed, Cynthia Sandeno, Thomas M. Schuler, Lesley Sneddon, Bill Stanley, Al Steele, Susan L. Stout, Randy Swaty, Jason Teets, Tim Tomon, Jim Vanderhorst, John Whatley, Nicholas Zegre. 2015. Central Appalachians forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Central Appalachians Climate Change Response Framework project
- Jan K. Wiedenbeck, Thomas M. Schuler. 2014. Effects of prescribed fire on the wood quality and marketability of four hardwood species in the central Appalachian region
- Kurt W. Gottschalk, Gary Miller, Robert White, Andrea Hille, Thomas M. Schuler. 2014. Ten-year results of using oak Cleanings to maintain oak species dominance on the Allegheny National Forest
- Adele Fenwick, Jamie L. Schuler, Shawn Grushecky, Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy. 2014. Kanawha State Forest, WV: Wildland fire fuel load assessment and geospatial distribution
- Kurt W. Gottschalk, Gary Miller, Robert L. White, Andrea Hille, Thomas M. Schuler. 2014. Evaluation of cleanings to maintain oak forests on the Allegheny National Forest
- Thomas M. Schuler. 2014. Uneven-aged management after a half-century of research on the Forest Service Fernow Experimental Forest in West Virgina
- Nathan R. Beane, James S. Rentch, Thomas M. Schuler. 2013. Using maximum entropy modeling to identify and prioritize red spruce forest habitat in West Virginia
- Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler, Kurt W. Gottschalk, John R. Brooks, Shawn T. Grushecky, Ben D. Spong, James S., eds. Rentch. 2013. Abstracts from Proceedings, 18th Central Hardwood Forest Conference
- Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler, Kurt W. Gottschalk, John R. Brooks, Shawn T. Grushecky, Ben D. Spong, James S. Rentch. 2013. Poster abstracts from proceedings, 18th Central Hardwood Forest Conference
- Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Mary Beth Adams, W. Mark Ford. 2013. Analysis of two pre-shelterwood prescribed fires in a mesic mixed-oak forest in West Virginia
- Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler, Kurt W. Gottschalk, John R. Brooks, Shawn T. Grushecky, Ben D. Spong, James S., eds. Rentch. 2013. Proceedings, 18th Central Hardwood Forest Conference
- J.Q. Burkhart, J.R. Rentch, Thomas M. Schuler. 2013. Effects of forest management on running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum Muhl. Ex A. Eaton) distribution and abundance in the Fernow Experimental Forest
- Patrick J. Drohan, James C. Finley, Paul Roth, Thomas M. Schuler, Susan L. Stout, Margaret C. Brittingham, Nels C. Johnson. 2012. Oil and gas impacts on forest ecosystems: findings gleaned from the 2012 Goddard Forum at Penn State University
- Mary Beth Adams, Pamela Edwards, W. Mark Ford, Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Frederica Wood. 2012. Fernow Experimental Forest: Research History and Opportunities
- Amy E. Hessl, Tom Saladyga, Thomas M. Schuler, Peter Clark, Joshua Wixom. 2011. Fire history from three species on a central Appalachian ridgetop
- Mary Beth Adams, W. Mark Ford, Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy. 2011. Effects of natural gas development on forest ecosystems
- Mary Beth Adams, Pamela Edwards, W. Mark Ford, Joshua B. Johnson, Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Frederica Wood. 2011. Effects of development of a natural gas well and associated pipeline on the natural and scientific resources of the Fernow Experimental Forest
- James S. Rentch, Thomas M. Schuler, Gregory J. Nowacki, Nathan R. Beane, W. Mark Ford. 2010. Canopy gap dynamics of second-growth red spruce-northern hardwood stands in West Virginia
- Beverly Collins, Thomas M. Schuler, Mark Ford, Danielle Hawkins. 2010. Stand dynamics of relict red spruce in the Alarka Creek headwaters, North Carolina
- James S. Rentch, Thomas M. Schuler. 2010. Proceedings from the conference on the ecology and management of high-elevation forests in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains
- W. Mark Ford, Jane Rodrigue, Ella L. Rowan, Steven B. Castleberry, Thomas M. Schuler. 2010. Woodland salamander response to two prescribed fires in the central Appalachians
- Thomas M. Schuler, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Mary Beth Adams, Mark Ford. 2010. Seed bank response to prescribed fire in the central Appalachians.
- Nathan R. Beane, Eric Heitzman, Thomas M. Schuler. 2010. Stand dynamics of an old-growth eastern hemlock-hardwood forest in West Virginia
- Gail Wells, Deborah Hayes, Katrina M. Krause, Ann Bartuska, Susan LeVan, James R. Anderson, Tivoli Gough, Mary Beth Adams, Thomas M. Schuler, Randy Kolka, Steve Sebestyen, Laura S. Kenefic, John Brissette, Susan L. Stout, Keith Kanoti, Fred Swanson, Sarah Greene, Margaret Herring, Martin Ritchie, Carl Skinner, Tom Lisle, Elizabeth Keppeler, Leslie M. Reid, Peter Wohlegemuth, Stanley G. Kitchen, Ward McCaughey, Jim M. Guldin, Don C. Bragg, Michael Shelton, David Loftis, Cathryn Greenberg, Julia Murphy. 2009. Experimental forests and ranges : 100 years of research success stories
- Gregory Nowacki, Michael Ablutz, Daniel Yaussy, Thomas M. Schuler, Daniel C. C. Dey. 2009. Restoring oak ecosystems on national forest system lands in the eastern region: an adaptive management approach
- Daniel Yaussy, Gregory J. Nowacki, Thomas M. Schuler, Daniel C. C. Dey. 2008. Developing a unified monitoring and reporting system: a key to successful restoration of mixed-oak forests throughout the central hardwood region
- Jonathan A. Pomp, David W. McGill, Thomas M. Schuler. 2008. Investigating the relationship between bole scorch height and fire intensity variables in the ridge and valley physiographic province, West Virginia
- Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Thomas M. Schuler. 2008. Deferred rotation harvests in central Appalachia: 20- and 25-year results
- Kurtis R. Moseley, Mark Ford, Thomas M. Schuler. 2008. Long-term partial cutting impacts on Desmognathus salamander abundance in West Virginia headwater streams
- Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, Gregory J. Nowacki, Thomas M. Schuler. 2007. Rule-based mapping of fire-adapted vegetation and fire regimes for the Monongahela National Forest
- Thomas M. Schuler, David W. McGill. 2007. Long-term assessment of financial maturity, diameter-limit selection in the central Appalachians
- James S. Rentch, Thomas M. Schuler, Mark Ford, Gergory J. Nowacki. 2007. Red spruce stand dynamics, simulations, and restoration opportunities in the central Appalachians
- David P. McCann, David W. McGill, Thomas M. Schuler, W. Mark Ford. 2006. Short-term effects of springtime prescribed fires on adult populations of soil-emerging weevils in Central Appalachian hardwood stands
- David W. McGill, Daniel J. Magill, James Kochenderfer, Mark Ford, Thomas M. Schuler. 2006. Information transfer during the timber transaction period in West Virginia. USA
- Thomas M. Schuler, Mark Ford, Mary Beth Adams, James Kochenderfer, Pamela Edwards. 2006. Large area comparisons of forest management practices in West Virginia (1951-present)
- Patrick Brose, Thomas M. Schuler, Jeffrey S. Ward. 2006. Responses of oak and other hardwood regeneration to prescribed fire: what we know as of 2005
- David P. McCann, David W. McGill, Thomas M. Schuler, Mark Ford. 2006. Short-term effects of springtime prescribed fires on adult populations of soil-emerging weevils in Central Appalachian hardwood stands
- Thomas M. Schuler. 2006. Crop tree release improves competitiveness of northern red oak growing in association with black cherry
- Thomas M. Schuler, Patrick Brose, Robert L. White, Robert H. White. 2005. Residual overstory density affects survival and growth of sheltered oak seedlings on the Allegheny Plateau
- E.L. Rowan, Mark Ford, S.B. Castleberry, J.L. Rodrigue, Thomas M. Schuler, T.M. Schuler. 2005. Response of eastern chipmunks to single application spring prescribed fires on the Fernow Experimental Forest
- Thomas M. Schuler, Mary Beth Adams, Mark Ford, James Kochenderfer, Pamela Edwards. 2005. Large Area Comparisons of Forest Management Practices (1951 - Present)
- Michael A. Marsh, Mary Ann Fajvan, Cynthia Huebner, Thomas M. Schuler, Thomas M. Schuler. 2005. The Effects of Timber Harvesting and Prescribed Fire on Invasive Plant Dynamics in the Central Appalachians
- Michael C. Wiemann, Thomas M. Schuler, John E. Baumgras. 2004. Effects of uneven-aged and diameter-limit management on West Virginia tree and wood quality
- Thomas M. Schuler. 2004. Fifty years of partial harvesting in a mixed mesophytic forest: composition and productivity
- David C. Chojnacky, Thomas M. Schuler. 2004. Amounts of Down Woody Materials for Mixed-Oak Forests in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina
- Mark Benjamin Brashears, Mary Ann Fajvan, Thomas M. Schuler. 2004. An assessment of canopy stratification and tree species diversity following clearcutting in Central Appalachian hardwoods
- Patrick Brose, Thomas M. Schuler, Jeffrey Ward. 2004. Integrating Prescribed Fire into Management of Mixed-oak Forests of the Mid-Atlantic Region: Developing Basic Fire Behavior and Fuels Information for the SILVAH System
- David W. McGill, Thomas M. Schuler. 2003. USDA Forest Service farm woodlands case study - 50 year results from West Virginia
- Mary Beth Adams, Thomas M. Schuler, Mark Ford, James Kochenderfer. 2003. Large woody debris in a second-growth central Appalachian hardwood stand: volume, composition, and dynamics
- David W. McGill, Thomas M. Schuler. 2003. USDA Forest Service farm woodlands case study - 50 year results from West Virgina
- Thomas M. Schuler, W. Russ McClain. 2003. Fire History of a Ridge and Valley Oak Forest
- Darlene Madarish, Thomas M. Schuler. 2002. Effects of forest management practices on the federally endangered running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum Muhl. Ex. A. Eaton)
- D.R. Morris, V.S. Baligar, Thomas M. Schuler, P.J. Harmon. 2002. Biological nitrogen fixation and habitat of running buffalo clover
- Linda S. Gribko, Thomas M. Schuler, Mark Ford. 2002. Biotic and abiotic mechanisms in the establishment of northern red oak seedlings: a review
- Thomas M. Schuler, Rachel J. Collins. 2002. Successional dynamics and restoration implications of a montane coniferous forest in the central Appalachians, USA
- Patrick Brose, Thomas M. Schuler, David Van Lear, John Berst. 2001. Bringing fire back. The changing regimes of the Appalachian mixed-oak forest
- Thomas M. Schuler, Andrew R. Gillespie. 2000. Temporal patterns of woody species diversity in a central Appalachian forest from 1856 to 1997
- Thomas M. Schuler, Gary Miller. 1999. Releasing sheltered northern red oak during the early stem exclusion stage
- Thomas M. Schuler, Mary Ann Fajvan. 1999. Understory tree characteristics and disturbance history of a central Appalachian forest prior to old-growth harvesting
- Arlyn W. Perkey, Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler. 1999. Regeneration results using two-aged management
- Thomas M. Schuler, Gary Miller. 1999. Releasing sheltered northern red oak during the early stem exclusion stage
- Thomas M. Schuler. 1997. Temporal variation in woody species composition from 1922 to 1996 in a second-growth Appalachian forest
- Chris Nowak, Susan L. Stout, John Brissette, Laura S. Kenefic, Gary Miller, William Leak, Daniel Yaussy, Thomas M. Schuler, Kurt W. Gottschalk. 1997. Defining the role of silvicultural research in the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station
- Thomas M. Schuler, Gary Miller, H. Clay Smith. 1995. Preliminary guidelines for the use of tree shelters to regenerate northern red oak and other hardwood species on good to excellent growing sites
- Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler. 1995. A method for applying group selection in central Appalachian hardwoods
- Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler. 1995. Development and quality of reproduction in two-age central Appalachian hardwoods - 10-year results
- Thomas M. Schuler, Gary Miller. 1995. Shelterwood treatments fail to establish oak reproduction on mesic forest sites in West Virginia - 10-year results
- Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler, H. Clay Smith. 1995. Method for applying group selection in central Appalachian hardwoods
- Brian Simpson, R. Peter Kollasch, Mark Twery, Thomas M. Schuler. 1995. NED/SIPS user's manual: Northeast decision model stand inventory processor and simulator (Version 1.00) (Computer program)
- H. Clay Smith, Gary Miller, Thomas M. Schuler. 1994. Closure of logging wounds after 10 years
- Thomas M. Schuler, Thomas M. Schuler. 1993. Survival, growth, and target canker infection of black walnut families 15 years after establishment in West Virginia
- Thomas M. Schuler, David A. Marquis, Richard L. Ernst, Brian T. Simpson, Brian Simpson. 1993. Test of four stand growth simulators for the northeastern United States
- Thomas M. Schuler, Brian Simpson. 1991. User's guide for Northeast Stand Exam Program (NEST Version 2.1).
- Carleton B. Edminster, H. Todd Mowrer, Robert L. Mathiasen, Thomas M. Schuler, William K. Olsen, Frank G. Hawksworth. 1990. GENGYM: A variable density stand table projection system calibrated for mixed conifer and ponderosa pine stands in the Southwest
- Thomas M. Schuler, Frederick W. Smith. 1988. Effect of species mix on size/density and leaf-area relations in the southwest pinyon/juniper woodlands
- Frederick W. Smith, Thomas M. Schuler. 1988. Yields of southwestern pinyon-juniper woodlands
- Purdue University, Ph.D., 1998
- Colorado State University, M.S., 1987
- Purdue University, B.S.F., 1979
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