Publications Philip A. Townsend Professor of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin Homepage Title Cited by Year Modeling floodplain inundation using an integrated GIS with radar and optical remote sensing PA Townsend, SJ Walsh Geomorphology 21 (3-4), 295-312 315 1998 Remote sensing change detection tools for natural resource managers: Understanding concepts and tradeoffs in the design of landscape monitoring projects RE Kennedy, PA Townsend, JE Gross, WB Cohen, P Bolstad, YQ Wang, … Remote sensing of environment 113 (7), 1382-1396 308 2009 Changes in the extent of surface mining and reclamation in the Central Appalachians detected using a 1976–2006 Landsat time series PA Townsend, DP Helmers, CC Kingdon, BE McNeil, KM de Beurs, … Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (1), 62-72 214 2009 Remote sensing of forested wetlands: application of multitemporal and multispectral satellite imagery to determine plant community composition and structure in southeastern USA PA Townsend, SJ Walsh Plant Ecology 157 (2), 129-149 196 2001 Observing terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle from space D Schimel, R Pavlick, JB Fisher, GP Asner, S Saatchi, P Townsend, … Global Change Biology 21 (5), 1762-1776 192 2015 Mapping seasonal flooding in forested wetlands using multi-temporal Radarsat SAR PA Townsend Photogrammetric engineering and remote sensing 67 (7), 857-864 174 2001 The future of evapotranspiration: Global requirements for ecosystem functioning, carbon and climate feedbacks, agricultural management, and water resources JB Fisher, F Melton, E Middleton, C Hain, M Anderson, R Allen, … Water Resources Research 53 (4), 2618-2626 159 2017 Temperature-driven range expansion of an irruptive insect heightened by weakly coevolved plant defenses KF Raffa, EN Powell, PA Townsend Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (6), 2193-2198 158 2013 Application of imaging spectroscopy to mapping canopy nitrogen in the forests of the central Appalachian Mountains using Hyperion and AVIRIS PA Townsend, JR Foster, RA Chastain, WS Currie IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41 (6), 1347-1354 154 2003 Leaf optical properties reflect variation in photosynthetic metabolism and its sensitivity to temperature SP Serbin, DN Dillaway, EL Kruger, PA Townsend Journal of Experimental Botany 63 (1), 489-502 151 2012 Spectroscopic determination of leaf morphological and biochemical traits for northern temperate and boreal tree species SP Serbin, A Singh, BE McNeil, CC Kingdon, PA Townsend Ecological Applications 24 (7), 1651-1669 139 2014 Estimating the effect of gypsy moth defoliation using MODIS KM De Beurs, PA Townsend Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (10), 3983-3990 138 2008 Estimation of forest structural parameters using 5 and 10 meter SPOT-5 satellite data PT Wolter, PA Townsend, BR Sturtevant Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (9), 2019-2036 132 2009 Relationships between forest structure and the detection of flood inundation in forested wetlands using C-band SAR PA Townsend International Journal of Remote Sensing 23 (3), 443-460 129 2002 A quantitative fuzzy approach to assess mapped vegetation classifications for ecological applications PA Townsend Remote Sensing of Environment 72 (3), 253-267 110 2000 Estimating forest structure in wetlands using multitemporal SAR PA Townsend Remote Sensing of Environment 79 (2-3), 288-304 98 2002 Imaging spectroscopy algorithms for mapping canopy foliar chemical and morphological traits and their uncertainties A Singh, SP Serbin, BE McNeil, CC Kingdon, PA Townsend Ecological Applications 25 (8), 2180-2197 97 2015 Spatial pattern analysis for monitoring protected areas PA Townsend, TR Lookingbill, CC Kingdon, RH Gardner Remote Sensing of Environment 113 (7), 1410-1420 92 2009 Surface mining and reclamation effects on flood response of watersheds in the central Appalachian Plateau region JR Ferrari, TR Lookingbill, B McCormick, PA Townsend, KN Eshleman Water Resources Research 45 (4) 86 2009 Land use–land cover conversion, regeneration and degradation in the high elevation Bolivian Andes JS Brandt, PA Townsend Landscape Ecology 21 (4), 607-623 82 2006 Remote sensing of the distribution and abundance of host species for spruce budworm in Northern Minnesota and Ontario PT Wolter, PA Townsend, BR Sturtevant, CC Kingdon Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (10), 3971-3982 81 2008 A general Landsat model to predict canopy defoliation in broadleaf deciduous forests PA Townsend, A Singh, JR Foster, NJ Rehberg, CC Kingdon, … Remote Sensing of Environment 119, 255-265 74 2012 Lake to land subsidies: experimental addition of aquatic insects increases terrestrial arthropod densities D Hoekman, J Dreyer, RD Jackson, PA Townsend, C Gratton Ecology 92 (11), 2063-2072 73 2011 Automated cloud and shadow detection and filling using two-date Landsat imagery in the USA S Jin, C Homer, L Yang, G Xian, J Fry, P Danielson, PA Townsend International Journal of Remote Sensing 34 (5), 1540-1560 72 2013 Relationships between vegetation patterns and hydroperiod on the Roanoke River floodplain, North Carolina PA Townsend Plant Ecology 156 (1), 43-58 70 2001 Remote sensing of gypsy moth defoliation to assess variations in stream nitrogen concentrations PA Townsend, KN Eshleman, C Welcker Ecological Applications 14 (2), 504-516 69 2004 Influence of incidence angle on detecting flooded forests using C-HH synthetic aperture radar data MW Lang, PA Townsend, ES Kasischke Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (10), 3898-3907 68 2008 Carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling implications of the evergreen understory layer in Appalachian forests RA Chastain Jr, WS Currie, PA Townsend Forest Ecology and Management 231 (1-3), 63-77 68 2006 Remotely estimating photosynthetic capacity, and its response to temperature, in vegetation canopies using imaging spectroscopy SP Serbin, A Singh, AR Desai, SG Dubois, AD Jablonski, CC Kingdon, … Remote Sensing of Environment 167, 78-87 65 2015 A pseudo-waveform technique to assess forest structure using discrete lidar data JD Muss, DJ Mladenoff, PA Townsend Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (3), 824-835 64 2011 Spatial and temporal patterns of gap dominance by low-canopy lianas detected using EO-1 Hyperion and Landsat Thematic Mapper JR Foster, PA Townsend, CE Zganjar Remote Sensing of Environment 112 (5), 2104-2117 61 2008 Adaptive management of flows in the lower Roanoke River, North Carolina, USA SH Pearsall, BJ McCrodden, PA Townsend Environmental management 35 (4), 353-367 58 2005 Multi-sensor data fusion for estimating forest species composition and abundance in northern Minnesota PT Wolter, PA Townsend Remote Sensing of Environment 115 (2), 671-691 57 2011 Detection of flooding responses at the river basin scale enhanced by land use change BC McCormick, KN Eshleman, JL Griffith, PA Townsend Water Resources Research 45 (8) 57 2009 Bank erosion along the dam-regulated lower Roanoke River, North Carolina CR Hupp, ER Schenk, JM Richter, RK Peet, PA Townsend Management and restoration of fluvial systems with broad historical changes … 55 2009 A new approach for rescaling land cover data RH Gardner, TR Lookingbill, PA Townsend, J Ferrari Landscape Ecology 23 (5), 513-526 55 2008 Using leaf optical properties to detect ozone effects on foliar biochemistry EA Ainsworth, SP Serbin, JA Skoneczka, PA Townsend Photosynthesis research 119 (1-2), 65-76 52 2014 Urban heat island impacts on plant phenology: intra-urban variability and response to land cover SC Zipper, J Schatz, A Singh, CJ Kucharik, PA Townsend, SP Loheide II Environmental Research Letters 11 (5), 054023 50 2016 Quantifying aquatic insect deposition from lake to land J Dreyer, PA Townsend, JCH III, D Hoekman, MJ Vander Zanden, … Ecology 96 (2), 499-509 50 2015 Associations of leaf spectra with genetic and phylogenetic variation in oaks: prospects for remote detection of biodiversity J Cavender-Bares, JE Meireles, JJ Couture, MA Kaproth, CC Kingdon, … Remote Sensing 8 (3), 221 43 2016 Disentangling the contribution of biological and physical properties of leaves and canopies in imaging spectroscopy data PA Townsend, SP Serbin, EL Kruger, JA Gamon Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (12), E1074-E1074 43 2013 A synthetic aperture radar–based model to assess historical changes in lowland floodplain hydroperiod PA Townsend, JR Foster Water Resources Research 38 (7), 20-1-20-10 41 2002 Wildfire provides refuge from local extinction but is an unlikely driver of outbreaks by mountain pine beetle EN Powell, PA Townsend, KF Raffa Ecological Monographs 82 (1), 69-84 39 2012 Mapping species composition of forests and tree plantations in Northeastern Costa Rica with an integration of hyperspectral and multitemporal Landsat imagery ME Fagan, RS DeFries, SE Sesnie, JP Arroyo-Mora, C Soto, A Singh, … Remote Sensing 7 (5), 5660-5696 36 2015 Long-distance dispersal of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clemens) in Minnesota (USA) and Ontario (Canada) via the atmospheric pathway BR Sturtevant, GL Achtemeier, JJ Charney, DP Anderson, BJ Cooke, … Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 168, 186-200 35 2013 Patterns of landscape use by beaver on the lower Roanoke River floodplain, North Carolina PA Townsend, DR Butler Physical Geography 17 (3), 253-269 35 1996 Seasonal variation in the NDVI–species richness relationship in a prairie grassland experiment (Cedar Creek) R Wang, JA Gamon, RA Montgomery, PA Townsend, AI Zygielbaum, … Remote Sensing 8 (2), 128 34 2016 Investigating the utility of wavelet transforms for inverting a 3-D radiative transfer model using hyperspectral data to retrieve forest LAI A Banskota, RH Wynne, VA Thomas, SP Serbin, N Kayastha, … Remote Sensing 5 (6), 2639-2659 34 2013 Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function AK Schweiger, J Cavender-Bares, PA Townsend, SE Hobbie, … Nature ecology & evolution 2 (6), 976-982 33 2018 Spectroscopic determination of ecologically relevant plant secondary metabolites JJ Couture, A Singh, KF Rubert‐Nason, SP Serbin, RL Lindroth, … Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7 (11), 1402-1412 33 2016 Spectroscopic sensitivity of real‐time, rapidly induced phytochemical change in response to damage JJ Couture, SP Serbin, PA Townsend New Phytologist 198 (1), 311-319 32 2013 Harnessing plant spectra to integrate the biodiversity sciences across biological and spatial scales J Cavender‐Bares, JA Gamon, SE Hobbie, MD Madritch, JE Meireles, … American journal of botany 104 (7), 966-969 31 2017 Imaging spectroscopy links aspen genotype with below-ground processes at landscape scales MD Madritch, CC Kingdon, A Singh, KE Mock, RL Lindroth, PA Townsend Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369 … 31 2014 Patterns of floodplain sediment deposition along the regulated lower Roanoke River, North Carolina: Annual, decadal, centennial scales CR Hupp, ER Schenk, DE Kroes, DA Willard, PA Townsend, RK Peet Geomorphology 228, 666-680 30 2015 A literal use of “forest health” safeguards against misuse and misapplication KF Raffa, B Aukema, BJ Bentz, A Carroll, N Erbilgin, DA Herms, JA Hicke, … Journal of Forestry 107 (5), 276-277 30 2009 Defence syndromes in lodgepole–whitebark pine ecosystems relate to degree of historical exposure to mountain pine beetles KF Raffa, CJ Mason, P Bonello, S Cook, N Erbilgin, K Keefover‐Ring, … Plant, cell & environment 40 (9), 1791-1806 29 2017 Soil organic matter composition and quality across fire severity gradients in coniferous and deciduous forests of the southern boreal region JR Miesel, WC Hockaday, RK Kolka, PA Townsend Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 120 (6), 1124-1141 29 2015 Detection of gradients of forest composition in an urban area using imaging spectroscopy H Gu, A Singh, PA Townsend Remote Sensing of Environment 167, 168-180 28 2015 An LUT-based inversion of DART model to estimate forest LAI from hyperspectral data A Banskota, SP Serbin, RH Wynne, VA Thomas, MJ Falkowski, … IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote … 28 2015 Evolutionary legacy effects on ecosystems: Biogeographic origins, plant traits, and implications for management in the era of global change J Cavender-Bares, DD Ackerly, SE Hobbie, PA Townsend Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 47, 433-462 27 2016 Quantifying the influences of spectral resolution on uncertainty in leaf trait estimates through a Bayesian approach to RTM inversion AN Shiklomanov, MC Dietze, T Viskari, PA Townsend, SP Serbin Remote Sensing of Environment 183, 226-238 27 2016 Mapping asynchrony between gypsy moth egg-hatch and forest leaf-out: Putting the phenological window hypothesis in a spatial context JR Foster, PA Townsend, DJ Mladenoff Forest ecology and management 287, 67-76 27 2013 Exploiting tree shadows on snow for estimating forest basal area using Landsat data PT Wolter, EA Berkley, SD Peckham, A Singh, PA Townsend Remote Sensing of Environment 121, 69-79 27 2012 Relationship of a Landsat cumulative disturbance index to canopy nitrogen and forest structure LN Deel, BE McNeil, PG Curtis, SP Serbin, A Singh, KN Eshleman, … Remote Sensing of Environment 118, 40-49 26 2012 Spatial dynamics of a gypsy moth defoliation outbreak and dependence on habitat characteristics JR Foster, PA Townsend, DJ Mladenoff Landscape ecology 28 (7), 1307-1320 25 2013 Maintenance of ecosystem nitrogen limitation by ephemeral forest disturbance: An assessment using MODIS, Hyperion, and Landsat ETM+ BE McNeil, KM de Beurs, KN Eshleman, JR Foster, PA Townsend Geophysical Research Letters 34 (19) 25 2007 Elevated temperature and periodic water stress alter growth and quality of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and monarch (Danaus plexippus) larval performance JJ Couture, SP Serbin, PA Townsend Arthropod-Plant Interactions 9 (2), 149-161 24 2015 Validation of a remote sensing based index of forest disturbance using streamwater nitrogen data KN Eshleman, BE McNeil, PA Townsend Ecological Indicators 9 (3), 476-484 22 2009 A MODIS approach to predicting stream water quality in Wisconsin A Singh, AR Jakubowski, I Chidister, PA Townsend Remote sensing of environment 128, 74-86 21 2013 Global photosynthetic capacity is optimized to the environment NG Smith, TF Keenan, I Colin Prentice, H Wang, IJ Wright, Ü Niinemets, … Ecology letters 22 (3), 506-517 20 2019 Two‐dimensional wavelet analysis of spruce budworm host basal area in the Border Lakes landscape PMA James, BR Sturtevant, P Townsend, P Wolter, MJ Fortin Ecological Applications 21 (6), 2197-2209 20 2011 Forest recovery patterns in response to divergent disturbance regimes in the Border Lakes region of Minnesota (USA) and Ontario (Canada) BR Sturtevant, BR Miranda, PT Wolter, PMA James, MJ Fortin, … Forest Ecology and Management 313, 199-211 19 2014 Linking hyperspectral imagery and forest inventories for forest assessment in the Central Appalachians JR Foster, PA Townsend In: Yaussy, Daniel A.; Hix, David M.; Long, Robert P.; Goebel, P. Charles … 19 2004
