Scientists & Staff

Jeffrey Gove

Research Forester

Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Sciences

271 Mast Road

Durham, NH, 03824

Phone: 603-868-7667

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Current Research

Weighted distributions for forest management and research. Weighted distributions provide a theory that brings together many of the stand attributes used in forest management. This theory, while powerful, is straightforward to apply in the context of forest management using statistical software, or packages such as Balance. These methods make it simpler to get compatible estimates from probability-based stand models.
Optimal methods for developing uneven-aged stand management guidelines. Based on models of forest growth, these methods can be used to maximize numerous different objective functions for management; examples include financial objectives, and total biomass. When both the underlying growth and financial models are closely applicable to a given location, the resulting management guides will be optimal with respect to the objective chosen, and provide the basis for better management.
New methods for sampling down coarse woody debris in forest ecosystems. We continue to develop new methods for the estimation of down coarse woody material; of special interest are the new methods based on probability proportional to size sampling, such as perpendicular distance sampling and its variants, and point relascope sampling. Both field and simulation testing are components of this effort.
Data assimilation methods in forestry. Data assimilation brings models and sampling together in an optimal (for linear systems) or suboptimal (for nonlinear systems) manner through the use of sequential estimation methods. These probabilistically-based methods are very powerful, and show great potential for use in both forest research and management.

Research Interests

Problems in uneven-age forest management, especially optimal stand diameter distribution models.
Investigating new methods, and testing and exploring new adaptations of existing methods for sampling forest ecosystems, especially components of down woody material.
Data assimilation methods for use in forest management and research.

Professional Organizations

Society of American Foresters (SAF)
American Statistical Association

Featured Publications & Products

Van Deusen, Paul C.; Gove, Jeffery H. 2011. Sampling coarse woody debris along spoked transects. Forestry. 84(2): 93-98.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Van Deusen, Paul C. 2011. On fixed-area plot sampling for downed coarse woody debris. Forestry. 84(2): 109-117.
Ståhl, Göran; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Williams, Michael S.; Ducey, Mark J. 2010. Critical length sampling: a method to estimate the volume of downed coarse woody debris. European Journal of Forest Research. 129: 993-1000.
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2009. Propagating probability distributions of stand variables using sequential Monte Carlo methods. Forestry. 82(4): 403-418.
Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T. 2008. Simultaneous unbiased estimates of multiple downed wood attributes in perpendicular distance sampling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 38: 2044-2051.

Publications & Products

Gove, Jeffrey H.; Lynch, Thomas B.; Ducey, Mark J. 2019. The Chapman-Richards Distribution and its Relationship to the Generalized Beta. Forest Ecosystems
Gove, J.H. 2018. SampSurf: sampling surface simulation for areal sampling designs in R. tps://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/*checkout*/extra/vignettes/sampSurfIntro.pdf?root=sampsurf. 61 p.
Lynch, Thomas ; Ståhl, Göran ; Gove, Jeffrey. 2018. Use of Stereology in Forest Inventories—A Brief History and Prospects for the Future. Forests
Gove, Jeffrey. 2017. Some refinements on the comparison of areal sampling methods via simulation. Forests
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2017. The ssWavelets package. 28 p. http://sswavelets.r-forge.r-project.org/
Gove, J.H. 2017. A user's guide to the ssWavelets package. 55 p. http://sswavelets.r-forge.r-project.org/
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2016. A demographic study of the exponential distribution applied to uneven-aged forests. Forestry, Vol. 90(1): 14 pages.: 18-31.
Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2015. Size-biased distributions in the generalized beta distribution family, with applications to forestry. Forestry. 88(1): 143-151.
Lynch, Thomas B.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2015. More practical critical height sampling.. In Proceedings of the 17th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-203. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 2 p.
Lynch, Thomas B.; Roesch, Francis A.; McTague, John Paul; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Reams, Gregory A.; Weiskittel, Aaron R. 2015. The research contributions of Dr. Paul Van Deusen. In: Stanton, Sharon M.; Christensen, Glenn A., comps. 2015. Pushing boundaries: new directions in inventory techniques and applications: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2015. 2015 December 8-10; Portland, Oregon. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-931. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 384 p.
Russell, Matthew B.; Fraver, Shawn; Aakala, Tuomas; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Woodall, Christopher W.; D'Amato, Anthony W.; Ducey, Mark J. 2015. Quantifying carbon stores and decomposition in dead wood: A review. Forest Ecology and Management. 350: 107-128.
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2014. Getting started with package sampSurf. Available at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/web/packages/sampSurf/sampSurf.pdf.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J. 2014. Optimal uneven-aged stocking guides: an application to spruce-fir stands in New England. Forestry. 87: 61-70.
Lynch, Thomas B.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2014. The unbiasedness of a generalized mirage boundary correction method for Monte Carlo integration estimators of volume. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 44(7): 810-819.
Ducey, Mark J.; Williams, Micheal S.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Roberge, Steven; Kenning, Robert S. 2013. Distance-limited perpendicular distance sampling for coarse woody debris: theory and field results. Forestry. 86: 119-128.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Valentine, Harry T.; Williams, Michael S. 2013. A comprehensive comparison of perpendicular distance sampling methods for sampling downed coarse woody debris. Forestry. 86(1): 129-143.
Lynch, Thomas B.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2013. An antithetic variate to facilitate upper-stem height measurements for critical height sampling with importance sampling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 43(12): 1151-1161.
Valentine, Harry T.; Amateis, Ralph L.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Makela, Annikki. 2013. Crown-rise and crown-length dynamics: applications to loblolly pine. Forestry. 86: 371-386.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Valentine, Harry T.; Williams, Michael S. 2012. A distance limited method for sampling downed coarse woody debris. Forest Ecology and Management. 282: 53-62.
Fast, Andrew J.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Leak, William B. 2008. Dating tree mortality using log decay in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 25(3): 154-157.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Leak, William B.; Zhang, Lianjun. 2008. Rotated sigmoid structures in managed uneven-aged northern hardwood stands: a look at the Burr Type III distribution. Forestry. 161-176.
Leak, William B.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2008. Growth of northern hardwoods in New England: a 25-year update. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 25(2): 103-105.
Valentine, Harry T.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gregoire, Timothy G.; Williams, Michael S. 2008. Estimating the carbon in coarse woody debris with perpendicular distance sampling. Chapter 6. In: Hoover, Coeli M., ed. Field measurements for forest carbon monitoring: A landscape-scale approach. New York, NY: Springer Science + Business Media: 73-87.
Gove, J.H.; Hollinger, D.Y.; Hollinger, D.Y. 2006. Application of a dual unscented Kalman filter for simultaneous state and parameter estimation in problems of surface-atmosphere exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research. 111. D08S07, doi:10.1029/2005JD006021. 21 p.
Valentine, Harry T.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffery H.; Lanz, Adrian; Affleck, David L.R. 2006. Corrections for Cluster-Plot Slop. Forest Science 52(1):55-66
Innes, J. C.; Ducey, M. J.; Gove, J. H.; Leak, W. B.; Barrett, J. P. 2005. Size-density metrics, leaf area, and productivity in eastern white pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2469-2478
Kenning, Robert S.; Ducey, Mark J.; Brissette, John C.; Gove, Jeffery H. 2005. Field efficiency and bias of snag inventory methods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2900-2910
Kenning, Robert S.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeff H.; Brissette, John C. 2005. Field Efficiency and Bias of Methods for Snag and Cavity Tree Inventory. In: Kenefic, Laura S.; Twery, Mark J., eds. Changing Forests - Challenging Times: Proceedings of the New England Society of American Foresters 85th Winter Meeting; 2005 March 16-18; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-325. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 57
Proctor, Patrick; Heath, Linda S.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; Gove, Jeffery H.; Smith, James E. 2005. COLE: A Web-based Tool for Interfacing with Forest Inventory Data. In: McRoberts, Ronald E.; Reams, Gregory A.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; McWilliams, William H.; Cieszewski, Chris J., eds. Proceedings of the fourth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-252. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 167-172
Proctor, Patrick; Van Deusen, Paul C.; Heath, Linda S.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2005. The open-source movement: an introduction for forestry professionals. In: Proceedings of the fifth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2003 November 18-20; New Orleans, LA. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-69. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 222p.
Zhang, Lianjun; Bi, Huiquan; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Heath, Linda S. 2005. A comparison of alternative methods for estimating the self-thinning boundary line. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 35: 1507-1514.
Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T. 2004. A walkthrough solution to the boundary overlap problem. Forest Science. 50(4): 427-435.
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2004. Structural stocking guides: a new look at an old friend. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34(5): 1044-1056.
Jordan, G. J.; Ducey, M. J.; Gove, J. H. 2004. Comparing line-intersect, fixed-area, and point relascope sampling for dead and downed coarse woody material in a managed northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34: 1766-1775.
Brissette, John C.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. A field test of point relascope sampling of down coarse woody material in managed stands in the Acadian Forest. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 130(2): 79-88.
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. Estimation and applications of size-based distributions in forestry. In: Reality, models and parameter estimation--the forestry scenario; 2002 June 2-5; Sesimbra, Portugal. [Place of publication unknown]: CABI: 201-212.
Williams, Michael S.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. Perpendicular distance sampling: an alternative method for sampling downed coarse woody debris. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 33: 1564-1579
Ducey, M. J.; Jordan, G. J.; Gove, J. H.; Valentine, H. T. 2002. A practical modification of horizontal line sampling for snag and cavity tree inventory. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:1217-1224
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Valentine, Harry T. 2002. Multistage point relascope and randomized branch sampling for downed coarse woody debris estimation. Forest Ecology and Mangement. 155: 153-162.
Scott, Charles T.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2002. Forest Inventory. In: El-Shaaraw, A.H.; Piegorsch, W.W., eds. Encyclopedia of environmetrics, vol. 2. [Place of publication unknown]: Wiley and Sons: 814-820.
Stahl, Goran; Ringvall, Anna; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J. 2002. Correction for slope in point and transect relascope sampling of downed coarse woody debris. Forest Science. 48(1): 85-92.
Valentine, Harry T.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Gregoire, Timothy G. 2001. Monte Carlo approaches to sampling forested tracts with lines or points. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 31: 1410-1424.
Zhang, Lianjun; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Liu, Chuangmin; Leak, William B. 2001. A finite mixture of two Weibull distributions for modeling the diameter distributions of rotated-sigmoid, uneven-aged stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 31: 1654-1659.
Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2000. Downed wood as seedbed: measurement and management guidelines. In: McManus, Katherine A.; Shields, Kathleen S.; Souto, Dennis R., eds. Proceedings: Symposium on sustainable management of hemlock ecosystems in eastern North America. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-267. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 34-42.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T.; Holmes, Michael J. 2000. A field test of cut-off importance sampling for bole volume. In: Hansen, Mark; Burk, Tom, eds. Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-212. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 372-376.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Linder, Ernst; Tzilkowski, Walter M. 1995. Some results on the combined removal and signs-of-activities estimators for sampling closed animal populations.. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-199. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 34 p.

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