Ducey

Mark Ducey

PROFESSOR
Phone: (603) 862-4429
Office: Natural Resources & the Environment, James Hall Rm 114A, Durham, NH 03824
Websites:
Pronouns: He/him/his

I am a forest biometrician and quantitative silviculturist. Research in my lab focuses on the use of quantitative techniques to describe the structure, function, and dynamics of forests from the stand to regional scales. Although much of the research my team and I perform is centered on the mixed-species forests of New England, my group is engaged in projects elsewhere in the U.S. (such as the Blue Mountains ecoregion in northeastern Oregon), with colleagues in Europe (Norway, Spain), Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, and Brazil.

Courses Taught

  • FORT 573: Management Operation&Analysis
  • NR 435: Contemporary Conservatn Issues
  • NR 749/849: Forest Inventory and Modeling
  • NR 900: Teaching Assistantship Practic
  • NR 905: Grant Writing
  • NR 993: Sem/NorthrnForest:PthtoSustain

Education

  • Ph.D., Forestry, Yale University
  • M.F.S., Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management, Yale University
  • B.A., Classical Civilization, Yale University

Selected Publications

  • Lam, T. Y., & Ducey, M. J. (2024). Analysis of the inflection points of height-diameter models. Forest Ecosystems, 11, 100202. doi:10.1016/j.fecs.2024.100202

  • Ducey, M. J., & Kershaw, J. A. (2023). Alternative expressions for stand diameter in complex forests. Forest Ecosystems, 10, 100114. doi:10.1016/j.fecs.2023.100114

  • Ducey, M. J., Fraser, O. L., Yamasaki, M., Belair, E. P., & Leak, W. B. (2023). Eight decades of compositional change in a managed northern hardwood landscape. Forest Ecosystems, 10, 100121. doi:10.1016/j.fecs.2023.100121

  • Roe, N. A., Ducey, M. J., Lee, T. D., Fraser, O. L., Colter, R. A., & Hallett, R. A. (2022). Soil chemical variables improve models of understorey plant species distributions. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 49(4), 753-766. doi:10.1111/jbi.14344

  • Yang, T. -R., Jr, K. J. A., McGarrigle, E., Ducey, M. J., & Shukla, D. (2021). Application of allometric systems for compatible area-based LiDAR-assisted estimation in the Province of Nova Scotia. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 51(11), 1688-1697. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2021-0070

  • Dai, X., Ducey, M. J., Wang, H., Yang, T. -R., Hsu, Y. -H., Ogilvie, J., & Kershaw, J. A. (2021). Biomass estimates derived from sector subsampling of 360 degrees spherical images. FORESTRY, 94(4), 565-575. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpab023

  • Dai, X., Ducey, M. J., Kershaw, J. A. J. J., & Wang, H. (2021). Sector subsampling for basal area ratio estimation: an alternative to big BAF sampling. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 51(8), 1131-1139. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2020-0496

  • Rubin, H. J., Lutz, D. A., Steele, B. G., Cottingham, K. L., Weathers, K. C., Ducey, M. J., . . . Chipman, J. W. (2021). Remote Sensing of Lake Water Clarity: Performance and Transferability of Both Historical Algorithms and Machine Learning. REMOTE SENSING, 13(8). doi:10.3390/rs13081434

  • Yang, T. -R., Jr, K. J. A., & Ducey, M. J. (2021). The development of allometric systems of equations for compatible area-based LiDAR-assisted estimation. FORESTRY, 94(1), 36-53. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpaa019

  • Gove, J. H., Gregoire, T. G., Ducey, M. J., & Lynch, T. B. (2020). A note on the estimation of variance for big BAF sampling. FOREST ECOSYSTEMS, 7(1). doi:10.1186/s40663-020-00272-x

  • Bibaud, H. A., Ducey, M. J., Simmons, M. J., McCarthy, H. C., Bibaud, R. N., & Lee, T. D. (2020). Factors limiting the success of invasive glossy buckthorn (Frangula alnus) in New Hampshire' s eastern white pine - hardwood forests. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 474. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118345

  • Boag, A. E., Ducey, M. J., Palace, M. W., & Hartter, J. (2020). Topography and fire legacies drive variable post-fire juvenile conifer regeneration in eastern Oregon, USA. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 474. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118312

  • Fraser, O. L., Bailey, S. W., Ducey, M. J., & McGuire, K. J. (2020). Predictive modeling of bedrock outcrops and associated shallow soil in upland glaciated landscapes. GEODERMA, 376. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114495

  • Hartter, J., Hamilton, L. C., Ducey, M. J., Boag, A. E., Salerno, J. D., Christoffersen, N. D., . . . Stevens, F. R. (2020). Finding common ground: agreement on increasing wildfire risk crosses political lines. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 15(6). doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab7ace

  • Gunn, J. S., Ducey, M. J., Buchholz, T., & Belair, E. P. (2020). Forest Carbon Resilience of Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) Salvage Harvesting in the Northeastern United States. FRONTIERS IN FORESTS AND GLOBAL CHANGE, 3. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2020.00014

  • Fraser, O. L., Bailey, S. W., & Ducey, M. J. (2019). Decadal Change in Soil Chemistry of Northern Hardwood Forests on the White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, USA. In SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL Vol. 83 (pp. S96-S104). doi:10.2136/sssaj2018.08.0301

  • Gunn, J. S., Ducey, M. J., & Belair, E. (2019). Evaluating degradation in a North American temperate forest. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 432, 415-426. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2018.09.046

  • Ducey, M. J., Johnson, K. M., Belair, E. P., & Cook, B. D. (2018). The Influence of Human Demography on Land Cover Change in the Great Lakes States, USA. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, 62(6), 1089-1107. doi:10.1007/s00267-018-1102-x

  • Bravo-Oviedo, A., Condes, S., del Rio, M., Pretzsch, H., & Ducey, M. J. (2018). Maximum stand density strongly depends on species-specific wood stability, shade and drought tolerance. FORESTRY, 91(4), 459-469. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpy006

  • Ducey, M. J., & Fraver, S. (2018). The conic-paraboloid formulae for coarse woody material volume and taper and their approximation. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 48(8), 966-975. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2018-0064

  • Ducey, M. J., & Fraver, S. (2018). The conic-paraboloid formulae for coarse woody material volume and taper and their approximation. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 48(8), 966-975. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2018-0064

  • Ducey, M. J., & Astrup, R. (2018). Rapid, nondestructive estimation of forest understory biomass using a handheld laser rangefinder. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 48(7), 803-808. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2017-0441

  • Ducey, M. J. (2018). Design-unbiased point-to-object sampling on lines, with applications to areal sampling. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH, 137(3), 367-383. doi:10.1007/s10342-018-1109-0

  • Belair, E. P., & Ducey, M. J. (2018). Patterns in Forest Harvesting in New England and New York: Using FIA Data to Evaluate Silvicultural Outcomes. JOURNAL OF FORESTRY, 116(3), 273-282. doi:10.1093/jofore/fvx019

  • Hoover, C. M., Ducey, M. J., Colter, R. A., & Yamasaki, M. (2018). Evaluation of alternative approaches for landscape-scale biomass estimation in a mixed-species northern forest. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 409, 552-563. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.11.040

  • Boag, A. E., Hartter, J., Hamilton, L. C., Christoffersen, N. D., Stevens, F. R., Palace, M. W., & Ducey, M. J. (2018). Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity. ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY, 23(4). doi:10.5751/ES-10355-230401

  • Kershaw, J. A., Ducey, M. J., Beers, T. W., & Husch, B. (2016). Forest Mensuration. doi:10.1002/9781118902028

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