Peter Marshall | Faculty Profile

Research Areas:

Biometrics, Forest Measurements, Modelling, Sampling, Stand Dynamics

Research

I am interested in quantifying and forecasting stand and forest dynamics, particularly with respect to uneven-aged and/or mixed species (complex) stands. I also have a long-running interest in designing sampling approaches for various natural resources applications. In the last few years, much of my sampling design work has focused on efficient methods of quantifying downed dead woody material (coarse woody debris). I have been active professionally throughout most of my university career. My professional work has taken place essentially on two fronts: (1) service to the province, via membership on several technical committees and individual or university-based contracts, and (2) service to the forestry profession through my membership on the governing council of the Association of BC Professional Foresters, Board of Examiners of the Association of BC Professional Foresters, as the BC representative on the Canadian Forestry Accreditation Board, membership on the Forest Science and Technology Board of the Canadian Institute of Forestry, and work with two U.S./Canadian growth and yield co-operatives. I am particularly interested in forestry curriculum development and accreditation.

Projects

Validation of CrosBas/PipeQual (ForValueNet)

Dynamics of Interior Douglas-fir stands following pre-commercial thinning

Awards

Canadian Forestry Achievement Award 2005

Selected Publications

Acquah, S.B. and P.L. Marshall (2020). Assessing differences in competitive effects among tree species in central British Columbia, Canada. Forests Forests 11(2), 167. 21 pp. DOI: 10.3390/f11020167

Gasparini, K.A.C., C.H.L. Silva Jr., Y.E. Shimabukuro, E. Arai,, L.E.O. Cruz e Aragão, C.A. Silva, and P.L. Marshall (2019). Determining a threshold to delimit the Amazon forests from Tree Canopy 2000 data Sensors 5020. 11 pp. DOI:10.3390/s19225020

Mulverhill, C., N. Coops. P. Tompalski, J. White, and P. Marshall (2019). Structural development following stand-replacing disturbance in a boreal mixedwood forest Forest Ecology and Management 453:117586

Jang W., B.N.I. Eskelson, P.L. Marshall, and I. Moss (2018). A stand table projection system for interior Douglas-fir in British Columbia, Canada Elsevier Forest Ecology and Management 409:434-443

Mulverhill, C., N.C. Coops, P. Tompalski, J.C. White, P.L. Marshall, and T. Bailey (2018). Improving ALS-derived estimates of stem size distribution in a boreal mixedwood forest. Forests 9(95) doi:10.3390/f9020095

Han, M., F. Peng, and P. Marshall. (2018). Linking pecan orchard management to pecan morphology in southeastern China Annals of Applied Biology 172:160-169. DOI: 10.1111/aab.12408

Tompalski, P., Coops, N.C., Marshall, P.L., White, J.C., Wulder, M.A., Bailey, T. (2018). Combining multi-date airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photogrammetric data for forest growth and yield modeling. Remote Sensing 10 (347). DOI:10.3390/rs10020347

Addo-Danso S.D., C.E. Prescott, R.D. Guy, A. Duah-Gyamfi, S. Moore, K. Owusu-Afriyie, P.L. Marshall, D.I. Forrester, S. Adu-Bredu, and Y. Malhi, (2018). Fine-root exploitation strategies differ in tropical old-growth and logged-over forests in Ghana. Biotropica: DOI: 10.1111/btp.12556

Lei, X., L. Fu, Z. Hu, W. Zeng, S. Tagn, P. Marshall, L. Cao, X. Song, L. Yu, J. Liang. (2017). Integrating regional climate change into allometric equations for estimating tree aboveground biomass of Masson pine in China. Annals of Forest Science 2(74):1-15. Annals of Forest Science 2(74):1-15.

Goodbody, T.R.H., N.C. Coops, P.L. Marshall, P. Tompalski, P. Crawford. (2017). Unmanned aerial systems for precision forest inventory purposes: A review and case study. For. Chron. 93(1):71-81.

Xu, D., J. Liu, P. Marshall, Z. He, and S. Zheng (2017). Leaf litter decomposition dynamics in unmanaged Phyllostachys pubescens stands at high elevations in the Daiyun Mountain National Nature Reserve. Journal of Mountain Science 14(11):2246-2256. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11629-017-4426-8.

Halperin, J., V. LeMay, N. Coops, L. Verchot, P. Marshall, and K. Lochhead (2016). Canopy cover estimation in miombo woodlands of Zambia: Comparison of Landsat 8 OLI versus RapidEye imagery using parametric, nonparametric, or semiparametric methods. Remote Sensing and the Environment 179:170-182

Schneider, R., T. Franceschini, M. Fortin, O. Martin, V. Gauthray-Guyenet, G.R. Larocque, P. Marshall and A. Bérubé-Deschênes. (2016). Growth and yield models for predicting tree and stand productivity. Taylor & Francis Group /CRC Press. pp. 142-178.

Pickell, Paul D., Nicholas C. Coops, Sarah E. Gergel, David W. Andison, Peter L. Marshall. (2016). Managed boreal forests drive rapidly changing landscape patterns over the last three decades in Canada. PLOS ONE Spatial and Landscape Ecology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157736.

Jucker, Tommaso, John Caspersen, Cécile Antin, Nicolas Barbier, Frans Bongers, Jérôme Chave, Michele Dalponte, Karin Y. van Ewijk, David I. Forrester, Matthias Heani, Steven I. Higgins, Robert J. Holdaway, Yoshiko Lida, Michael Keller, Craig Lorimer, Peter L. Marshall, Stéphane Momo, Glenn R. Moncrieff, Pierre Ploton, Lourens Poorte, Kassim Abd Rahman, Michael Schlund, Bonaventure Sonké, Frank J. Sterck, Anna T. Trugman, Vladimir A. Usoltsev, Mark C. Vanderwel, Peter Waldner, Beatrice Wedeux, Christian Wirth, Murray Woods, Wenhua Xiang, Niklaus Zimmermann and David A. Coomes. (2016). Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programs. Global Change Biology DOI:10.1111/gcb.13388.

Halperin, J., V. LeMay, E. Chidumayo, L. Verchot, and P. Marshall. (2016). Model-based estimation of above-ground biomass in the miombo ecoregion of Zambia. Forest Ecosystems 3:14. DOI:10.1186/s40663-016-0077-4