Concepedia

Forest Blowdown

Forest Blowdown is a geomorphological disturbance event characterized by the widespread uprooting or snapping of trees due to intense wind forces during severe storms, distinguishing it from other forest disturbances by its aerodynamic causality and spatially contiguous damage pattern.

67

Publications

5.2K

Citations

201

Authors

87

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

12

Variants

Windthrow

Parents

Publications

67

Forest damage and recovery from catastrophic wind

Edwin M. Everham, Nicholas Brokaw · The Botanical Review · 1996 · 756 citations

, , +14

Patterns of Forest Damage Resulting from Catastrophic Wind in Central New England, USA

David R. Foster, Emery R. Boose · Journal of Ecology · 1992 · 391 citations

, , +16

Comparison of two models for predicting the critical wind speeds required to damage coniferous trees

Barry Gardiner, Heli Peltola, Seppo Kellomäki · Ecological Modelling · 2000 · 381 citations

, , +11

Forest Disturbance by Large Blowdowns in the Brazilian Amazon

Bruce Nelson, Valerie Kapos, J. B. Adams et al. · Ecology · 1994 · 279 citations · Full text

, , +13

Tree uprooting: review of terminology, process, and environmental implications

Randall J. Schaetzl, Donald L. Johnson, Scott F. Burns et al. · Canadian Journal of Forest Research · 1989 · 231 citations

, , +14

1–5 of 67

Authors

201

  1. CJ
    Chris J. Peterson

    University of Georgia, United States

    6 publications · 423 citations

    6

    h-index

  2. TT
    Thomas T. Veblen

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    4 publications · 242 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. JQ
    Jeffrey Q. Chambers

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

    3 publications · 205 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. BN
    Bruce Nelson

    Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil

    3 publications · 373 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. WL
    William L. Baker

    University of Wyoming, United States

    3 publications · 114 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 201

Institutions

87

  1. University of Georgia

    Athens, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    468 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    224 citations

  3. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia

    Manaus, Brazil

    4 h-index

    11 publications

    905 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    474 citations

  5. University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    566 citations

  6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    80 citations

  7. US Forest Service

    Washington, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    90 citations

  8. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    252 citations

1–8 of 87

Venues

  1. Forest Ecology and Management

    8 publications · 726 citations

    8

    h-index

  2. Canadian Journal of Forest Research

    4 publications · 400 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

    JAMC · 3 publications · 129 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. 3

    h-index

  5. Ecology

    3 publications · 492 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5