Dr. Curtis Lee VanderSchaaf

VanderSchaaf, C. L., Li, Y. 2024. Reforestation tax incentive impacts on financial returns of loblolly pine plantations for family forest landowners in Mississippi. Reforesta 18:1-21.

Mechergui, T., VanderSchaaf, C. L., Pardos, M. 2024. From waste to plant production: cattle dung compost as an alternative nursery substrate to commercial peat for producing lettuce plants. HortScience 59(10):1489-1496.

Mechergui, T., VanderSchaaf, C. L., Jhariya, M., Banerjee, A., Raj, A. 2024. Sheep manure compost: a viable growing substrate for lettuce seedling production. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 24:5108-5119.

VanderSchaaf, C. L. 2024. Currently available site index equations that use on-site tree measurements for naturally regenerated longleaf pine in its historical range. Forests 15(5):13.

VanderSchaaf, C. L. 2023. Implications of incorrectly determining site index on stand-level management activities and financial returns in older generation loblolly pine plantations. Reforesta 16:1-15.

VanderSchaaf, C. L. 2023. Optimal planting density for thinned shortleaf pine plantations in the western half of the southeastern United States. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences 68(2):265-274.

VanderSchaaf, C. L. 2023. Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) planting densities for landowners in areas with poor pulpwood markets: some considerations. Journal of Forestry 121(4):383-390.

Mechergui, T., Pardos, M., VanderSchaaf, C. L., Boussaidi, N., Kumar Jhariya, M., Banerjee, A. 2023. Utilization of Acacia cyanophylla-based compost as a renewable alternative for the production of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seedlings. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 23:3470-3481.

VanderSchaaf, C., Kushla, J. D. 2022. Comparing 16-year-old shortleaf and loblolly pine growth and yield on a north Mississippi afforested site. Reforesta 14:9-18.

Mechergui, T., Pardos, M., VanderSchaaf, C. L., Boussaidi, N., Kumar Jhariya, M., Banerjee, A. 2022. Feasibility of using orange wattle (Acacia cyanophylla Lindl.) compost as an organic growing medium for the production of cork oak (Quercus suber L.) seedlings. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 22:3507-3517.

VanderSchaaf, C., McConnell, E., Tanger, S. M. 2021. Estimated impacts of Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) on ash timber supply in Texas. Journal of Forestry 119:45-61.

Tanger, S. M., Blazier, M. A., Holley, A. G., McConnell, E., VanderSchaaf, C., Clason, T. R., KC, D. 2021. Financial performance of diverse levels of early competition suppression and pre-commercial thinning on loblolly pine stand development. New Forests 52:217-235.

McConnell, E., Crosby, M. K., Holderieath, J. J., VanderSchaaf, C. 2020. Financial assessment of future stand conditions required to recover the opportunity costs of a north Louisiana streamside management zone. Forest Products Journal 70(1):39-49.

VanderSchaaf, C., 2020. Predictive ability of mixed-effects height-diameter models fit using one species but calibrated for another species. Forest Science 66(1):14-24.

McConnell, E., VanderSchaaf, C., Tanger, S. M. 2019. Potential Changes to Louisiana Hardwood Timber Industry Economic Contributions Following Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) Invasion: An Input-Output Approach. Journal of Economic Entomology 112(6):2751-2760.

McConnell, E., VanderSchaaf, C., Holderieath, J. J., Crosby, M. K. 2019. Adequacy of timber trespass civil awards: A Louisiana case study. Journal of Forestry 117(6):533-542.

VanderSchaaf, C., Huang, S., McConnell, E., Trincado, G., Yang, Y. 2018. Mixed-effects height-diameter models for pine plantations in northern Florida and Georgia. Florida Scientist 81:157-169.

VanderSchaaf, C., 2018. Using Bayesian methodology to incorporate personal knowledge when estimating average tons per acre of loblolly pine plantations. Forestry Research and Engineering: International Journal 2:140-147.

VanderSchaaf, C., Blazier, M., McConnell, E., Adams, J. P. 2018. Determining unthinned shortleaf pine plantation economic rotation ages in the Western Gulf. Forestry Research and Engineering: International Journal 2(3):132-138.

McConnell, E., VanderSchaaf, C., Tanger, S. M. 2018. Potential losses in Louisiana hardwood sawtimber economic contributions after Emerald Ash Borer invasion. Louisiana Agriculture

South, D. B., VanderSchaaf, C. 2017. Should forest regeneration studies have more replications?. Reforesta 3:19-30.

VanderSchaaf, C., Holley, G., Adams, J. 2017. Using double-sampling techniques to reduce the number of measurement trees during forest inventories. Reforesta 3:31-40.

VanderSchaaf, C., Holley, G., Arends, A., Adams, J., Deckard, D. 2016. Comparing economic returns of red pine plantation thinning scenarios using Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS). The Minnesota Academy of Science Journal 80:1-11.

Russell, M. B., D'Amato, A. W., Albers, M. A., Woodall, C. W., Puettmann, K. J., Saunders, M. R., VanderSchaaf, C. 2015. Performance of the Forest Vegetation Simulator in managed white spruce plantations influenced by eastern spruce budworm in northern Minnesota. Forest Science 61(4):723-730.

VanderSchaaf, C., 2015. Using Forest Inventory and Analysis plots to estimate sample sizes for alternative inventory methods. Forest Science 61(3):535-539.

VanderSchaaf, C., 2014. Mixed-effects height-diameter models for ten conifers in the inland Northwest, USA. Southern Forests 76(1):1-9.

VanderSchaaf, C., 2013. Mixed-effects height-diameter models for commercially and ecologically important hardwoods in Minnesota. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 30(1):37-42.

VanderSchaaf, C., 2013. Practical implications of projecting a horizontal angle in a nonhorizontal manner to diameter at breast height. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 30(4):188-190.

Meng, S. X., Huang, S., VanderSchaaf, C., Yang, Y., Trincado, G. 2012. Accounting for serial correlation and its impact on forecasting ability of a fixed- and mixed-effects basal area model: a case study. European Journal of Forest Research 131:541-552.

VanderSchaaf, C., Burkhart, H. E. 2012. Development of planting density-specific density management diagrams for loblolly pine. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 36(3):126-129.

VanderSchaaf, C., 2012. Mixed-effects height-diameter models for commercially and ecologically important conifers in Minnesota. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 29(1):15-20.

South, D. B., Johnson, E. E., Hainds, M. J., VanderSchaaf, C. 2012. Restoring longleaf pine on an agricultural site by planting alternating rows of slash pine: a case study. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 36(3):118-125.