Meet the Forestry Faculty

John M. Kabrick, Ph.D.

Cooperative Assistant Professor
Research Forester, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station

E-mail: jkabrick@fs.fed.us

Education

Ph.D. 1995, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research

Silviculture, Forest Ecology, Forest Soils

Research Summary

Kabrick's research interests include investigating the ecological processes governing the regeneration and development of oak-dominated forests and woodlands and using this information to develop practical, scientific, and ecologically-based silvicultural prescriptions. Of particular interest are the interactions between the physical environment (e.g., geological parent material, landform position/aspect, soils, and hydrology) and forest vegetation dynamics; the relationship between site factors and oak decline and mortality; restoration of shortleaf pine and oak mixes; responses of upland forest systems to even-age, uneven-age, and no- harvest management; and natural and artificial regeneration of bottomland forests.

Selected Publications

Dwyer, J.P., J.M. Kabrick, and J. Wetteroff. (in press.)
Do improvement harvests mitigate oak decline in Missouri Ozark Forests? Northern Journal of Applied Forestry.
Shifley, S.R., Z. Fan, J.M. Kabrick, and R.G. Jensen. 2006.
Oak mortality risk factors and mortality estimation. Forest Ecology and Management. 229:16-26.
Zenner, E.K., J.M. Kabrick, R.G. Jensen, J.E. Peck, and J.K. Grabner. 2006.
Responses of ground flora to a gradient of harvest intensity in the Missouri Ozarks. Forest Ecology and Management. 222:326-334.
Kabrick, J.M., D.C. Dey, J.W. VanSambeek, M. Wallendorf, and M.A. Gold. 2005.
Soil properties and growth of swamp white oaks and pin oak on bedded soils in the lower Missouri River floodplain. Forest Ecology and Management. 204: 315-327.
Kabrick, J.M., S.R. Shifley, R.G. Jensen, D.R. Larsen, and J.K Grabner. 2004.
Oak forest composition, site index patterns, and dynamics in relation to site factors in the southeastern Missouri Ozarks. pp. 94-101. In: Spetich, Martin A., ed. Upland oak ecology symposium: history, current conditions, and sustainability. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-73. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 311p.
Shifley S.R., and J.M. Kabrick. 2002.
eds. Proceedings of the Second Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project Symposium: Post-treatment Results of the Landscape Experiment; 2000 October 17-18; St. Louis, MO. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-227. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Research Station.
Kabrick, J., D. Meinert, T. Nigh, and B.J. Gorlinsky. 2000.
Physical environment of the Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project sites. pp 41-70. In: Shifley, Stephen R.; Brookshire, Brian L.; eds. Missouri Ozark Forest Ecosystem Project Site History, Soils, Landforms, Woody and Herbaceous Vegetation, Down Wood, and Inventory Methods for the Landscape Experiment. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-208. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station.
Kabrick, J.M., and M. Anderson. 2000.
Oak stump sprouting in mature bottomland forests at Duck Creek Conservation Area. Forest Research Report No. 2. Missouri Department of Conservation.
Nigh, T., Buck, C., Grabner, J., Kabrick, J., and D. Meinert. 2000.
An ecological classification system for the Current River Hills Subsection. (Draft) Missouri Department of Conservation.
Bruhn, J.N., J.J. Wetteroff, Jr., J.D. Mihail, J.M. Kabrick, and J.B. Pickens. 2000.
Distribution patterns of Armillaria species in upland Ozark Mountain forests with respect to site, overstory species composition, and oak decline. For. Path. 30: 43-60.