Meet the Forestry Faculty

Michael C. Stambaugh, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Forestry

Phone: 573-882-8841
E-mail: stambaughm@missouri.edu
Address: 203C Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building
Website: www.missouri.edu/~stambaughm
Missouri Tree-Ring Laboratory: www.missouri.edu/~guyetter

Education

Ph.D. 2008, University of Missouri

Research

Fire Ecology
Dendrochronology
Forest Ecology and Management
Paleoclimatology

Research Summary

Stambaugh’s research primarily concerns changes in forest ecosystems, both in time and space. Stambaugh is interested in documenting past changes in forests as a means for understanding potential future scenarios. His research commonly utilizes tree-rings because they are excellent archives based on their ability to: span long time periods (millennia), be precisely dated, and provide information at a sub-annual resolution. Currently he supervises research conducted by the Missouri Tree-Ring Laboratory (www.missouri.edu/~guyetter).

Teaching

Dendroecology
Fire and Forest Ecology

Selected Publications

Guyette, R.P., M.C. Stambaugh, D.C. Dey, and R. Muzika. 2012.
Predicting ecosystem fire using the physical chemistry of climate. Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s10021-011-9512-0.
Voelker, S.L., P-E Noirot-Cosson, M.C. Stambaugh, E.R. McMurry, F.C. Meinzer, B. Gartner Lachenbruch, R.P. Guyette. 2012.
Spring temperature responses of oaks are synchronous with North Atlantic conditions during last glaciations. Ecological Monographs doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/11-0848.1
Stambaugh, M.C., J. Sparks, R.P. Guyette, and G. Willson. 2011.
Fire history of a relict oak woodland in northeastern Texas. Rangeland Ecology and Management 64:419-423.
Stambaugh, M.C., R.P. Guyette, E.R. McMurry, E.R. Cook, D.M. Meko, and A.R. Lupo. 2011.
Drought duration and frequency in the U.S. Corn Belt during the last millennium (AD 992 - 2004). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151:154-162.
Stambaugh, M.C., R.P. Guyette, and J.M. Marschall. 2011.
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) fire scars reveal new details of a frequent fire regime. Journal of Vegetation Science 22:1094-1104.
Stambaugh, M.C., D.C. Dey, R.P. Guyette, H. He., J.M. Marschall. 2011.
Spatial and temporal patterning of fuel loading and fire hazard across a deciduous forest landscape, USA. Landscape Ecology 26(7):923-935.
Stambaugh, M.C., R.P. Guyette, R. Godfrey, E.R. McMurry, and J.M. Marschall. 2009.
Fire, drought, and human history near the western terminus of the Cross Timbers, Wichita Mountains, Oklahoma. Fire Ecology 5(2):51-65.
Guyette R.P., D.C. Dey, and M.C. Stambaugh. 2008.
The temporal distribution and carbon storage of large oak wood in streams and floodplain deposits. Ecosystems 11: 643-653.
Stambaugh, M.C. and R.P. Guyette. 2008.
Predicting spatio-temporal variability in fire return intervals with a topographic roughness index. Forest Ecology and Management 254:463-473.
Stambaugh, M.C., R.P. Guyette, E.R. McMurry, and J.M. Marschall. 2008.
Six centuries of fire history at Devils Tower National Monument with comments on region-wide temperature influence. Great Plains Research 18:177-187.
Guyette R.P., D.C. Dey, and M.C. Stambaugh. 2008.
The temporal distribution and carbon storage of large oak wood in streams and floodplain deposits. Ecosystems 11:643-653.
McMurry, E.R., M.C. Stambaugh, R.P. Guyette, and D.C. Dey. 2007.
Fire scars reveal source of New England's 1780 Dark Day. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 16(3):266-270.
Voelker, S.L., R.M. Muzika, R.P. Guyette, and M.C. Stambaugh, 2006.
Historic CO2 enhancement declines with age in Quercus and Pinus. Ecological Monographs 76(4): 549-564.
Stambaugh, M.C. and R.P. Guyette. 2006.
Fire regime of an Ozark Wilderness Area, Arkansas. American Midland Naturalist 156:237-251.
Guyette R.P. and M.C. Stambaugh. 2004.
Post oak fire scars as a function of diameter, growth, and tree age. Forest Ecology and Management 198:183-192.
Guyette R.P. and M.C. Stambaugh. 2003.
The age and density of ancient and modern oak in streams and sediments. International Association of Wood Anatomists (IAWA) Journal 24(4):345-353.
Stambaugh M.C., R.M. Muzika and R.P. Guyette. 2002.
Disturbance characteristics and overstory composition of an old-growth shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) forest within the Ozark Highlands, Missouri, USA. Natural Areas Journal 22: 108-119.