BORIS ZEIDE

 

School of Forestry University of Arkansas Monticello, AR 71656-3468, USA Phone:  870-460-1648 FAX:    870-460-1092 Email:   zeide@uamont.edu

Date of birth: March 30, 1937 Place of birth: Moscow, Russia Married, two children Home:  870-367-6444

Academic degrees

 

Ph.D.  The All-Union Research Institute of Standardization, Russia                                                1970

            Dissertation topic:  Prediction of stand productivity

            on the basis of standardization of yield tables.

 

M.Sc.  The Moscow College of Forestry, Russia                                                                          1959

            Thesis topic:  A new type of hypsometer

            and its application in forest inventory.

 

 Employment experience

Professor of Forestry                                                                                                    1986 to present

School of Forestry, University of Arkansas

 

Associate Professor of Forestry                                                                                           1980-1986

Department of Forestry, University  of Arkansas

 

Assistant Professor of Forestry                                                                                            1977-1980

Cook College, Rutgers University

 

Bullard Forest Research Fellow                                                                                           1976-1977

Harvard Forest, Harvard University

 

Senior Lecturer, Department of Botany,                                                                               1974-1976

Hebrew University, Israel

 

Head of the Forestry Laboratory, The All-Union Research                                                   1968-1973

Institute of Standardization, Moscow, Russia

 

Senior Research Scientist, The All-Union Research                                                              1966-1968

Institute of Standardization, Moscow, Russia

 

Senior Forest Engineer, The All-Union Forest Inventory                                                       1964-1966

Institution, Moscow, Russia

 

Forest Engineer, The All-Union Forest Inventory                                                                 1961-1964

Institution, Moscow, Russia

 

Forester, Kalmuck Forest Management District, Russia                                                       1959-1960

Current research

Area:

            - quantitative forest ecology

 

Topics:

            - forest stands dynamics

            - self-thinning in forest stands

            - competition and density control

            - application of fractal geometry to the study of tree structure and growth

            - ecosystem management and biodiversity

 

Some results:

- linking the pattern of foliage distribution and process of stand dynamics

            - relating growth and density

            - finding current optimal stand density and its optimal path

- development of the U-approach to process modeling

- discovery of two basic forms behind existing growth equations

- development of a method to calculate fractal dimensions of tree crowns

- identification of the prime unit of the tree crown

- cluster arrangement of trees in agroforestry

            - a practical guide for forest management

- the concept of  self-tolerance of trees and its estimation

- unification of growth curves and construction of growth types

- balanced analysis of biodiversity, ecosystem management, and ecocentric ethics.

 Visiting positions

The University of Tras-os-Monts e Alto Doruo, Portugal	November-December 1999
Mediterranean Forestry Research Laboratory, Avignon, France	May-June 1996
The National Institute of Global Climate and Ecology, Moscow, Russia	May-June 1990 August 1994
Biosphere Reserve and Natural Laboratory Las Joyas, Mexico	December 1992
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Sault St. Marie, Canada	August-September 1991
The Polytechnical University of Madrid, Spain	July-August 1991
The Belle Baruch Forest Science Institute of Clemson University, USA	June-July 1989
The University of Joensuu, Finland	May-August 1988

 

PUBLICATIONS 1959-1996
131 papers including 59 refereed articles.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS from 1997

Zeide, B.  1997.  Assessing biodiversity. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 48(3):249-260.

Zeide, B.  1998.  Fractal analysis of foliage distribution in loblolly pine crowns. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:106-114.

Zeide, B.  1998.  Competition.  In The Dictionary of Forestry, page 34.  Edited by J.  A.  Helms. The Society of American Foresters.  210 p.

Zeide, B. 1999.  Pattern of height growth for southern pine species.  Forest Ecology and Management 118:183-196.

Zeide, B. 1999.  Conceptual issues of ecosystem management. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 9(½):1-20.

Zeide, B. 1999.  Long-term observations: from trials and errors to process modeling. Keynote paper.  Pages 3-18 in C.  Kleinn and M. Kohl, editors. Long Term Observations and Experiments in Forestry. Proceedings of IUFRO S4.11 International Symposium, CATIE, Costa Rica, February 23-26, 1999.  291 p.

Zeide, B.  2000.  Fractal geometry: addressing the intrinsic spatial uncertainty. Pages 755-758 in G.B.M. Heuvelink and M.J.P.M. Lemmens, editors.  Proceedings of the 4^th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences.  Amsterdam, July 2000.  772 p.

Zeide, B., and D.  Sharer. 2000.  Good forestry at a glance: a guide for managing even-aged loblolly pine stands.  Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Arkansas Forest Resources Center Series 003.  19 p.

Zeide, B.  2001.  Thinning and growth: a full turnaround.  Journal of Forestry 99(1):20-25.

Zeide, B., and D.  Sharer. 2001.  Loblolly pine plantation management in a nutshell.  2001 Manual Forest Landowner 60(2): 10-15.

Zeide, B.  2001.  Natural thinning and environmental change: an ecological process model.  Forest Ecology and Management 154 (1-2):165-177.

Zeide, B.  2001.  Resolving contradictions in forestry: back to science.  Forestry Chronicle 77(6): 973-981.

Zeide, B.  2001.  Uniting the bottom-up and top-down approaches to growth modelling.  Pages 437-449 in V. LeMay and P. Marshall, editors.. Proceedings of Forest Modelling for Ecosystem Management, Forest Certification, and Sustainable Management Conference.  Vancouver, Canada, August 12-17, 2001.  506 p.

Zeide, B. 2002.  Analysis of a concept: stand density. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 14(4):51-62.

Zeide, B.  2002.  Sharing data. Forestry Chronicle 78(1): 152-153.

Zeide, B.  2002. Density and the growth of even-aged stands.  Forest Science, in press.