Lisa Schulte

515-294-7339, Fax 515-294-7874
lschulte@iastate.edu
http://www.nrem.iastate.edu/landscape/

B.S. Biology, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1993
M.S. Biology, University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1996
Ph.D. Forestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

Teaching

A Ecl 366, Natural History of Iowa Vertebrates.
For 342, Dynamics of Forest Stands.
For 452, Ecosystem Management.
NREM 472/572X, Landscape Ecology and Natural Resource Management.

Research

The focus of Lisa’s research is on ecosystem patterning and dynamics—with special emphasis on long time periods and broad spatial scales—and sustainable land management. This research falls within the discipline of landscape ecology and involves field- and computer-based research projects. Her forest-related research assesses 1) change in regional ecosystems of the U.S. Lake States, 2) opportunities for coordination of forest management practices across private ownership boundaries, 3) the maintenance of oak ecosystems within the Midwest Driftless Area, 4) avian community response to spatial patterns created by gap-based silviculture, and 5) long-term forest response to catastrophic windthrow and salvage logging. Agroecological projects address the strategic perennialization of agricultural landscapes and include assessing 1) the acceptability of perennial plantings to rural stakeholders, 2) the effects of federal agricultural policy on landscape change, and 3) the effect of landscape heterogeneity on natural enemy insect populations. Lisa seeks an integrated approach in her research on sustainable land management; ecological and socioeconomic dimensions are of interest and considered where possible.

Publications

Schulte, L.A., D.J. Mladenoff, T.R. Crow, L. Merrick, and D.T. Cleland. 2007. Homogenization of northern U.S. Great Lakes forests as a result of land use. Landscape Ecology 22:1089-1103.

Schulte, L.A., M. Liebman, H. Asbjornsen, and T.R. Crow. 2006. Agroecosystem restoration through strategic integration of perennials. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 61:164A-169A.

Atwell, R.C., L.A. Schulte, and L. Westphal. 2006. Restoring perennial cover and ecological function in U.S. Corn Belt landscapes: The farmer’s perspective. Ecological Restoration 24:289-290.

Schulte, L.A., R.J. Mitchell, M.L. Hunter, Jr., J.F. Franklin, R.K. McIntyre, and B.J. Palik. 2006. Evaluating the conceptual tools for forest biodiversity conservation. Forest Ecology and Management 232:1-11.

Knoot, T.G., N. Grudens-Schuck, and L.A. Schulte. 2006. Watershed learning activity: Coming to terms with geographic scale. Journal of Extension [On-line], 44(3). Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2006june/tt4.shtml

Schulte, L.A., A.M. Pidgeon, and D.J. Mladenoff. 2005. One-hundred-fifty years of change in forest bird breeding habitat: historical and current estimates of species distributions. Conservation Biology 19:144-156.

Schulte, L.A., and D.J. Mladenoff. 2005. Severe wind and fire regimes in northern Wisconsin (USA) forests: historical variability at the regional scale. Ecology 86:431-445.

Schulte, L.A., D.J. Mladenoff, S.N. Burrows, T.A. Sickley, and E.V. Nordheim. 2005. Spatial controls of Pre-Euroamerican wind and fire in Wisconsin (USA) forests: a multiscale assessment. Ecosystems 8:73-94.

Bolliger, J., L.A. Schulte, S.N. Burrows, T.A. Sickley, and D.J. Mladenoff. 2004. Assessing ecological restoration potentials of Wisconsin (USA) using historical landscape reconstructions. Restoration Ecology 12:124-142.

Schulte, L.A., D.J. Mladenoff, and E.V. Nordheim. 2002. Quantitative classification of a historic northern Wisconsin landscape: mapping forests at regional scales. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:1616-1638.

Mladenoff, D.J., S.E. Dahir, E.V. Nordheim, L.A. Schulte, G.G. Guntenspergen. 2002. Narrowing historical uncertainty: probabilistic classification of ambiguously identified tree species in historical survey data. Ecosystems 5:539-553.

Schulte, L.A., and D.J. Mladenoff. 2001. The original U.S. Public Land Survey records: their use and limitations in reconstruction pre-European settlement vegetation. Journal of Forestry 99:5-10.

Schulte, L.A., and G.J. Niemi. 1998. Bird populations in burned and logged forests of Northeastern Minnesota. Journal of Wildlife Management 62:1418-1429.