Weimin Xi's Selected Publications and Presentations: Articles | Chapters | Presentations
Xi, Weimin, John D. Waldron, Andrew G. Birt, Charles W. Lafon, David M. Cairns, Maria D. Tchakerian, Kier D. Klepzig, and Robert N. Coulson. 2010. Modeling ecological restoration effects on yellow pine forests following southern pine beetle infestations in the southern Appalachians, USA (In preparation)
Xi, Weimin, Szu-Hung Chen, Andrew G. Birt, John D. Waldron, Charles W. Lafon, David M. Cairns, Maria D. Tchakerian, Kier D. Klepzig, and Robert N. Coulson. 2010. Simulating impacts of invasive plants in southern Appalachian landscapes using LANDIS (In preparation)
Xi, Weimin, Robert K. Peet and Dean L. Urban. 2010. The impacts of large, infrequent hurricane on understory sapling dynamics and diversity in North Carolina Piedmont forests, USA (In review)
Xi, Weimin, Robert K. Peet and Dean L. Urban. 2010. Hurricane disturbances, tree species diversity and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests (In review)
Weiming He and Weimin Xi. 2010. Chronic wind modulates seedling recruitment, inter-specific competition, species abundance, and community productivity (In review)
Xi, Weimin and Robert K. Peet. 2010. The complexity of catastrophic wind disturbance on temperate forests (In review)
Xi, Weimin, Bruce P. Allen, and Robert K. Peet. 2010. Learning from hurricanes: forest response to infrequent catastrophic windstorms of Carolina forests (In revision)
Xi, Weimin, Jianping Tao, and Xuguang Li. 2009. The complexity of catastrophic wind impact on forest ecosystems: A synthesis. In Dong Ming and Marinus J.A. Werger (eds.). Progress in Ecological Research. Southwest University Press.
Birt, Andrew G., Weimin Xi, Robert N. Coulson. 2009. LANDISVIEW: A visualization tool for landscape modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software 24(11): 1339-1341. PDF
Xi, Weimin, Robert N. Coulson, Andrew G. Birt, Zongbo Shang, John D. Waldron, Charles W. Lafon, David M. Cairns, Maria D. Tchakerian, and Kier D. Klepzig. 2009. Review of forest landscape models: types, methods, development and applications. Acta Ecologica Sinica 29 (1): 69-78. PDF
Xi, Weimin, John D. Waldron, Charles W. Lafon, David M. Cairns, Andrew G. Birt, Maria D. Tchakerian, Robert N. Coulson, and Kier D. Klepzig. 2009. Modeling long-term effects of altered fire regimes following southern pine beetle outbreaks. Ecological Restoration 27 (1): 24-26.]PDF
Birt, Andrew G., Richard M. Feldman, David M. Cairns, Robert N. Coulson, Maria D. Tchakerian, Weimin Xi, James M. Guldin. 2009. Stage structured matrix models for organisms with non-geometric development times. Ecology 90(1): 57-68. PDF
Xi, Weimin, Lei Wang, Andrew G. Birt, Maria D. Tchakerian, Robert N. Coulson, and Kier D. Klepzig. 2008. An integrated approach to mapping forest conditions in the southern Appalachians. Ecological Restoration 26(4): 290-292. PDF
Xi, Weimin and Robert K. Peet. 2008. Hurricane effects on the Piedmont forests: Patterns and implications. Ecological Restoration 26(4): 295-298. PDF
Xi, Weimin, Robert N. Coulson, John D. Waldron, Maria D. Tchakerian, Charles W. Lafon, David M. Cairns, Andrew G. Birt, and Kier D. Klepzig. 2008. Landscape modeling for forest restoration planning and assessment: Lessons from the southern Appalachian Mountains. Journal of Forestry 106(4):191-197. PDF
Waldron, John D., Robert N. Coulson, David M. Cairns, Charles W. Lafon, Maria D. Tchakerian, Weimin Xi, Kier D. Klepzig, and Andrew G. Birt. 2008. Evaluating the Impact of Invasive Species in Forest Landscapes: southern pine beetle and the hemlock woolly adelgid. The Encyclopedia of Forest Environmental Threats. [weblink]
Xi, Weimin, Robert K. Peet, James K. DeCoster, and Dean L. Urban. 2008. Tree damage risk factors associated with large, infrequent wind disturbances of Carolina forests. Forestry 81(3):317-334. PDF
Cairns, David M., Charles W. Lafon, Andrew G. Birt, John D. Waldron, Maria Tchakerian, Robert N. Coulson, Weimin Xi, and Kier Klepzig. 2008. Simulation modeling as a tool for understanding the landscape ecology of southern pine beetle infestations in southern Appalachian forests. Geography Compass 2(3): 580-599. PDF
Xi, Weimin, Robert K. Peet and Dean. L. Urban. 2008. Changes in forest structure, species diversity, and spatial pattern following hurricane disturbance in a Piedmont North Carolina forest, USA. Journal of Plant Ecology 1(1):43-57. PDF
Cairns, David M., Charles W. Lafon, John D. Waldron, Maria Tchakerian, Robert N. Coulson, Kier D. Klepzig, Andrew G. Birt, Weimin Xi. 2008. Simulating the reciprocal interaction of forest landscape structure and Southern Pine Beetle herbivory using LANDIS. Landscape Ecology 23(4):403-415. PDF
Xi, Weimin and Robert K. Peet. 2008. Long-term studies of forest dynamics in the Duke Forest, southeastern United States: A synthesis. Journal of Plant Ecology (Chinese Version) 32(2):299-318. PDF
Palmer, Michael W., Robert K. Peet, Rebecca A. Reed, Weimin Xi, and Peter S. White. 2007. A multiscale study of vascular plants in a North Carolina Piedmont forest. Ecology 88(10):2674. PDF (This is a data paper, and the bulk of the description of the data can be found at Ecological Archives E088-162)
Xi, Weimin, John D. Waldron, Robert N. Coulson, Maria D. Tchakerian, David M. Cairns, Charles W. Lafon, Andrew G. Birt, and Kier D. Klepzig. 2007. Landscape Modeling for Forest Restoration: Concepts and Applications. Pages 92-95 in Stanturf, John (ed.). Proceedings of the IUFRO Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration. Seoul, Korea 14-19 May 2007. Korea Forest Research Institute, 268pp. PDF
Qinfeng Guo, Hong Qian, Robert E. Ricklefs, Weimin Xi. 2006. Distributions of exotic plants in eastern Asia and North America. Ecology Letters (9):827-834. PDF
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Xi, Weimin, John D. Waldron, David M. Cairns, Charles W. Lafon, Andrew G. Birt, Maria D. Tchakerian, Kier D. Klepzig, and Robert N. Coulson. 2009. Restoration of southern pine forests after the southern pine beetle. In J. Stanturf and P. Madsen (eds). Forest Landscape Restoration: Integrating Natural and Social Sciences. Springer (In press) PDF
Bi, Huaxing, Xi, Weimin. 2009. Forest landscape restoration in China. In P. Madsen and J. Stanturf (eds.). A Goal-oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. Springer (In press)
Xi, Weimin, Lei Wang, Maria D. Tchakerian, and Robert N. Coulson. 2009. South pine beetle hazard in the Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina: Mapping south pine beetle hazard in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In Peter Eredics (ed.) Mapping Forestry. ESRI Map Book. ESRI Press.
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2010 The 21st USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD, USA. "Simulating the interactions of forest structure, fire regime, and plant invasion in the southern Appalachians using LANDIS"
2009 The East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar. Nacogdoches and Lufkin, TX, USA. "Modeling long-term effects of altered fire regimes following southern pine beetle outbreaks"
2009 The 24 US-IALE Annual Landscape Ecology Symposium. Snowbird, UT, USA." Modeling long-term effects of altered fire regimes following southern pine beetle outbreaks"
2009 The 20th USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD, USA. " Simulating the impacts of altered fire regimes and landscape structure on the invasion of Paulownia tomentosa in the southern Appalachians"
2008 The Association of American Geographers 2008 Annual Meeting. Boston, MA." Modeling effects of multiple disturbance interactions on long-term forest changes in the Southern Appalachian Mountains"
2008 The 23rd US-IALE Annual Landscape Ecology Symposium. Madison, WI." Modeling effects among fire, windstorms and yellow pine regeneration following southern pine beetle outbreaks in the southern Appalachians"
2008 The 19th USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species. Annapolis, MD, USA. "Simulating Impacts of Invasive Plants in Southern Appalachian Landscapes Using LANDIS"
2008 The 35th East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar. Nacogdoches and Lufkin, TX, USA. "Restoration of Southern Appalachian Forests following infestation by the southern pine beetle: a summary of discoveries."
2007 The 53rd Southern Forest Insect Work Conference. Jekyll Island, GA, USA. "Modeling Ecological Restoration Effects on Yellow Pine Forests Following Insect Outbreaks"
2007 The IUFRO International Conference on Forest Landscape Restoration. Seoul, Korea. "Landscape Modeling for Forest Restoration: Concepts and Applications."
2007 The 22ed Annual Meeting of US-IALE. Tucson, Arizona, USA. "An Integrated Approach to Mapping Forest Conditions in the Southern Appalachians."
2007 The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. San Francisco, CA, USA. "Predicting Impacts of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Forest Composition in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. "
2006 LANDIS-II Developer’s Workshop. Madison. WI, USA. "Landscape modelling for forest restoration in southern Appalachians, Output visualization and analyzer development, and extension design."
2006 The 33rd East Texas Forest Entomology Seminar. Nacogdoches and Lufkin, TX, USA. "Landscape modelling for forest restoration: a case study following southern pine beetle infestation in southern Appalachians, USA."
2004 The 47th Annual Symposium of International Association for Vegetation Science. Kailua-Kona, HI, USA. “Seedling establishment and growth in response to a major hurricane event in a Carolina Piedmont forest, USA.”
2003 The 88th Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Savannah, GA, USA. “Hurricane disturbances, tree species diversity, and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests.”
2002 The 87th Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Tucson, AZ, USA. “The Impact of a major canopy disturbance event on the long-term dynamics of North Carolina Piedmont forests”
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