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Lafon, Charles

Professor

Positions:

Professor, Geography, College of Geosciences

UN Sustainable Development Goals:

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clafon@tamu.edu

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UN Sustainable Development Goals:

overview

Spatial and temporal patterns of disturbances, including fires, ice storms, insect outbreaks, hurricanes, and mammalian herbivory

Influences of disturbances and environmental gradients on vegetation patterns

Vegetation history and succession

Eastern North American forests and Scandinavian treeline

education and training

Ph.D. in Geography, University of Tennessee at Knoxville - (Knoxville, Tennessee, United States) 2010
M.S. in Geography, University of Tennessee at Knoxville - (Knoxville, Tennessee, United States) 1995
B.A. in Geography, Emory and Henry College - (Emory, Virginia, United States) 1992

selected publications

Academic Articles25

Lafon, C. W., DeWeese, G. G., Flatley, W. T., Aldrich, S. R., & Naito, A. T (2022). Historical Fire Regimes and Stand Dynamics of Xerophytic Pine–Oak Stands in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Virginia, USA. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 112(2), 387-409.
Deshpande, A. G., Boutton, T. W., Hyodo, A., Lafon, C. W., & Moore, G. W. (2020). Bottomland hardwood forest growth and stress response to hydroclimatic variation: evidence from dendrochronology and tree ring Δ¹³C values. Biogeosciences. 17(22), 5639-5653.

SDG 13
Kim, D., Millington, A. C., & Lafon, C. W (2020). Disturbance after Disturbance: Combined Effects of Two Successive Hurricanes on Forest Community Structure. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 110(3), 571-585.
Harley, G., Baisan, C., Brown, P., Falk, D., Flatley, W., Grissino-Mayer, H., ... Taylor, A (2018). Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States. Fire. 1(1), 11-11.
Johnson, J. S., Gaddis, K. D., Cairns, D. M., Lafon, C. W., & Krutovsky, K. V. (2016). Plant responses to global change: next generation biogeography. Physical Geography. 37(2), 93-119.

Chapters2

Lafon, C. W. (2016). Ice Storms in Central Hardwood Forests: The Disturbance Regime, Spatial Patterns, and Vegetation Influences. Greenberg, C. H., & Collins, B. S. (Eds.), Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation. 147-166. Springer International Publishing.
Xi, W., Waldron, J. D., Cairns, D. M., Lafon, C. W., Birt, A. G., Tchakerian, M. D., Klepzig, K. D., & Coulson, R. N. (2012). Restoration of Southern Pine Forests After the Southern Pine Beetle. Stanturf, J., Madsen, P., & Lamb, D. (Eds.), A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. 321-354. Springer Netherlands.