Featured publications

Forest Ecology and Management

Woodbury, D. J., Jayawickrama, H., Martin, M. P., Ediriweera, S. & Ashton M. S. (2024). Land tenure and human disturbance influence the current distribution of aboveground biomass in Sri Lankan rainforest fragments. Forest Ecology and Management, 572, 122285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122285

Biological Conservation

Martin, M. P., Woodbury, D. J., Doroski, D. A., Nagele, E., Storace, M., Cook-Patton, S. C., Pasternack, R., & Ashton, M. S. (2021b). People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon. Biological Conservation, 261, 109224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109224

Land Degradation & Development

Woodbury, D. J., Yassir, I., Arbainsyah, Doroski, D. A., Queenborough, S. A., & Ashton, M. S. (2020). Filling a void: Analysis of early tropical soil and vegetative recovery under leguminous, post-coal mine reforestation plantations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Land Degradation & Development, 31(4), 473–487. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.3464

david J. Woodbury - assistant Professor

I am an applied forest ecologist that focuses on answering both theoretical and applied questions related to forest restoration and managing forest ecosystems that are resilient to change. Presently, I am an Assistant Professor at New Mexico Highlands University where I teach classes about forest ecology and management and research how forests respond to disturbances. 

My research spans temperate and tropical ecosystems, including current work on forest dynamics in fragmented rainforests in Sri Lanka and White Oak response to uneven-aged management in the Missouri Ozarks. I use a variety of techniques to do this work including dendrochronology, remote sensing, field-based forest inventory plots, and social surveys to ask how past land use and current human values influence forest development. 

In my past work, I led research projects on forest gap dynamics in a northeastern oak-hickory forest in Connecticut and on an abandoned surface coal mine reforestation site in Indonesian Borneo. Additionally, I contributed to studies on intact rainforests in Sri Lanka, tropical tree planting programs, and temperate ginseng forest farming.

I design my research to directly inform strategies for establishing resilient forests in a rapidly changing world, focusing on sustainable forest management that not only enhances ecosystem resilience but also improves people's lives.

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David J. Woodbury
Assistant Professor
Forest Ecology and Silviculture
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New Mexico Highlands University
Department of Forestry
860 National Avenue
Las Vegas, NM 87701

email: dwoodbury AT nmhu DOT edu
phone: (360) 420-3375
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