Teaching Responsibilities

• FOR 3314 - Forest Ecology and Silvics
• FOR 5374 - Advanced Forest Ecology

Selected Publications

• Copenheaver, C.A., Yancey, M.W., Pantaleoni, E., and Emrick, V.R. 2007. Dendroclimatic analysis of a bottomland hardwood forest: Floodplain vs. terrace responses.  Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 134:505-511.

• Copenheaver, C.A., Prisley, S. P., Pittman, J. R., Yonce, M. E., Issem, C. M. S., and Jensen, K. A. 2007. The geography of grist, flour, and saw mills: indictors of land-use history in Virginia.  Southeastern Geographer 47:138-154.
• Kirwan, M.L., Kirwan, J.L., and Copenheaver, C.A. 2007. Dynamics of an estuarine forest and its response to rising sea level. Journal of Coastal Research 23:457-463.
• Copenheaver, C. A., Pokorski, E. A., Currie, J.E., and Abrams, M.D. 2006. Causation of false ring formation in Pinus banksiana: a comparison of age, canopy class, climate and growth rate. Forest Ecology and Management 236:348-355.
• Copenheaver, C. A., Matthews, J. M., Showalter, J. M., and Auch, W. E.  2006.  Forest stand development patterns in the southern Appalachians.  Northeastern Naturalist 13:477-494.
• Copenheaver, C.A., Dorr, J.L., Flatley, W.T., and Garst, D.W. 2006. Temporal variability in the spatial distribution of an eastern red cedar-chinquapin oak woodland in Virginia. Natural Areas Journal 26:274-279.
• Copenheaver, C.A., Kyle, K.H., Stevens, G.N., and Kamp, M.H. 2005. Comparing Juniperus virginia tree-ring chronologies from forest edge vs. forest interior positions in the Cedars Natural Area Preserve in Virginia, USA. Dendrochronologia 23:39-45.
• Fuhrman, N.E., Copenheaver, C.A., and Duncan, D.W. 2005. A comparison of first-year college student attitudes toward coarse woody debris following review of a brochure and participation in a cooperative learning activity. NACTA Journal 49:27-35.
• Copenheaver, C. A. 2004. A Comparison of Scientific and Literary Perceptions of Pre-European Settlement Forests in Michigan. Michigan Academician 36:267-286.
• Copenheaver, C. A., Duncan, D. W., Leslie, L. D., and McGehee, N. G. 2004. An exploration of cross-disciplinary peer education in natural resources. Journal of Natural Resource and Life Science Education 33:124-130.
• Copenheaver, C.A. Fuhrman, N. E., Gellerstedt, L. S., and Gellerstedt, P. A. 2004. Tree encroachment in forest openings: A case study from Buffalo Mountain, Virginia. Castanea 69:297-308.
• Radtke, P. J., Prisley, S. P., Amateis, R. L., Copenheaver, C. A., and Burkhart, H. E. 2004. A proposed model for deadwood C production and decay in loblolly pine plantations. Environmental Management 33:56-64.
• Copenheaver, C. A. and Abrams, M. D. 2003. Dendroecology in young stands: case studies from jack pine in northern lower Michigan. Forest Ecology and Management 182:247-251.
• Copenheaver, C. A., and Abrams, M. D. 2002. Post European Settlement Forest Changes in Oscoda and Ogemaw Counties, Michigan. The Michigan Botanist 41:143-158.
• Copenheaver, C. A., Grinter, L. E., Lorber, J. H., Neatrour, M. A., and Spinney, M. P. 2002. A dendroecological and dendroclimatic analysis of Pinus virginiana and Pinus rigida at two slope positions in the Virginia Piedmont. Castanea 67:91-104.
• Bortolot, Z. J., Copenheaver, C. A., Longe, R. L., and van Aardt, J. A. N. 2001. Development of a white oak chronology using live trees and a post-Civil War cabin in south-central Virginia. Tree-Ring Research 57:197-203.
• Abrams, M. D., Copenheaver, C. A., Black, B. A., van de Gevel, S. 2001. Dendroecology and climatic impacts for a relict, old growth bog forest in the Ridge and Valley Province of Central Pennsylvania, USA. Canadian Journal of Botany 79(1):58-69.

Professional Organizations

• Society of American Foresters
• Virginia Forestry Association
• Tree-Ring Society
• Ecological Society of America
• Torrey Botanical Society
• Natural Areas Association
• Southern Appalachian Botanical Society