Christopher W. Woodall

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
205 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Christopher W. Woodall is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher W. Woodall has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 129 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 72 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher W. Woodall's work include Forest ecology and management (107 papers), Forest Management and Policy (88 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (72 papers). Christopher W. Woodall is often cited by papers focused on Forest ecology and management (107 papers), Forest Management and Policy (88 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (72 papers). Christopher W. Woodall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Netherlands. Christopher W. Woodall's co-authors include James S. Clark, Kai Zhu, Grant M. Domke, Anthony W. D’Amato, James A. Westfall, Matthew B. Russell, Charles H. Perry, Brian F. Walters, Shawn Fraver and Greg C. Liknes and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christopher W. Woodall

194 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change

2011 521 citations Kai Zhu, Christopher W. Woodall et al. Global Change Biology profile →
The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

2016 409 citations James S. Clark, Christopher W. Woodall et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century

2021 200 citations Liang Xu, Sassan Saatchi et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher W. Woodall United States	41	3.9k	3.3k	1.6k	1.6k	1.3k	205	6.2k
Mart‐Jan Schelhaas Netherlands	35	4.8k 1.2×	3.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	681 0.5×	112	7.1k
Thomas R. Crow United States	41	3.4k 0.9×	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	785 0.6×	90	5.9k
Anthony W. D’Amato United States	41	4.9k 1.3×	3.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	492 0.4×	237	6.7k
Daniel Kneeshaw Canada	45	4.5k 1.2×	3.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	639 0.5×	167	6.4k
Werner Rammer Austria	42	3.9k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	460 0.4×	87	5.4k
James A. Lutz United States	43	4.6k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	2.5k 1.5×	716 0.5×	907 0.7×	146	6.1k
Miroslav Svoboda Czechia	42	3.8k 1.0×	3.3k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	2.5k 1.6×	479 0.4×	155	6.8k
Jan Wild Czechia	31	2.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	814 0.5×	469 0.4×	78	4.8k
William S. Keeton United States	36	3.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	545 0.4×	85	5.2k
Peter Schall Germany	33	1.6k 0.4×	2.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	604 0.5×	85	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher W. Woodall

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Woodall, Christopher W., Jeff W. Atkins, Bronson P. Bullock, et al.. (2025). Prioritizing Opportunities to Empower Forest Carbon Decisions Through Strategic Investment in Forest Modeling Capacity. Journal of Forestry. 123(2). 241–262. 1 indexed citations

Alipour, Mohamad, et al.. (2024). Remote Sensing and Mapping of Fine Woody Carbon With Satellite Imagery and Super Learner. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Daijun, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Nezha Acil, et al.. (2024). Mapping multi-dimensional variability in water stress strategies across temperate forests. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8909–8909. 3 indexed citations

Gray, Andrew N., et al.. (2023). Perspectives: The wicked problem of defining and inventorying mature and old-growth forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 546. 121350–121350. 13 indexed citations

Woodall, Christopher W., et al.. (2023). Forgotten forest relics: Apple trees (Malus spp.) in eastern U.S. forests. Biodiversity and Conservation. 32(5). 1657–1670. 1 indexed citations

Xu, Liang, Sassan Saatchi, Yan Yang, et al.. (2021). Changes in global terrestrial live biomass over the 21st century. Science Advances. 7(27). eabe9829–eabe9829. 200 indexed citations breakdown →

Ma, Wu, Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. Woodall, & Anthony W. D’Amato. (2019). Land Use Changes, Disturbances, and Their Interactions on Future Forest Aboveground Biomass Dynamics in the Northern US. Forests. 10(7). 606–606. 4 indexed citations

Yanai, Ruth D., John L. Campbell, Mark B. Green, et al.. (2019). Uncertainty in Measurements of Trees in the US Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program.. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

Matthews, Thomas J., Jon P. Sadler, Yasuhiro Kubota, Christopher W. Woodall, & Thomas A. M. Pugh. (2019). Systematic variation in North American tree species abundance distributions along macroecological climatic gradients. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(5). 601–611. 13 indexed citations

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Ma, Wu, et al.. (2018). Using matrix models to estimate aboveground forest biomass dynamics in the eastern USA through various combinations of LiDAR, Landsat, and forest inventory data. Environmental Research Letters. 13(12). 125004–125004. 13 indexed citations

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Domke, Grant M., et al.. (2018). Evaluating the influence of spatial resolution of Landsat predictors on the accuracy of biomass models for large-area estimation across the eastern USA. Environmental Research Letters. 13(5). 55004–55004. 10 indexed citations

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King, A. W., R. J. Andres, K. J. Davis, et al.. (2015). North America's net terrestrial CO ₂ exchange with the atmosphere 1990–2009. Biogeosciences. 12(2). 399–414. 46 indexed citations

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Russell, Matthew B., et al.. (2014). Technical Note: Linking climate change and downed woody debris decomposition across forests of the eastern United States. Biogeosciences. 11(22). 6417–6425. 25 indexed citations

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Liknes, Greg C., Christopher W. Woodall, & Charles H. Perry. (2012). Using inventory data to determine the impact of drought on tree mortality. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 157(37). 109–112. 2 indexed citations

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Woodall, Christopher W., Anthony W. D’Amato, John B. Bradford, & Andrew O. Finley. (2011). Effects of Stand and Inter-Specific Stocking on Maximizing Standing Tree Carbon Stocks in the Eastern United States. Forest Science. 57(5). 365–378. 24 indexed citations

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Zhu, Kai, Christopher W. Woodall, & James S. Clark. (2011). Failure to migrate: lack of tree range expansion in response to climate change. Global Change Biology. 18(3). 1042–1052. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Woodall, Christopher W., et al.. (2009). Who's Counting Dead Wood ?. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 7 indexed citations

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Woodall, Christopher W.. (2003). Coming soon: a national assessment of fuel loadings.. Journal of Forestry. 5 indexed citations

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Woodall, Christopher W.. (2003). Focus on ... Wildfire: Coming Soon: A National Assessment of Fuel Loadings. Journal of Forestry. 101(2). 4–5. 2 indexed citations

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Woodall, Christopher W.. (2000). Growth and structural dynamics of uneven -aged ponderosa pine stands in eastern Montana. The Mathematics Enthusiast. 5 indexed citations

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