Theodore Shear

Hovis, M., Cubbage, F., Smith, G., Zuniga-Teran, A., Varady, R., Shear, T., … Evans, B. (2023). Estimating landowners' willingness to accept payments for nature-based solutions in eastern North Carolina for flood hazard mitigation using the contingent valuation method. JOURNAL OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION, 78(6), 500–514. https://doi.org/10.2489/jSWC.2023.00131

Baldwin, M., Fox, A., Klondike, T., Hovis, M., Shear, T., Joca, L., … Cubbage, F. (2022). Geospatial Analysis and Land Suitability for "FloodWise" Practices: Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation in Eastern, Rural North Carolina. LAND, 11(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091504

Hovis, M., Hollinger, J. C., Cubbage, F., Shear, T., Doll, B., Kurki-Fox, J. J., … Potter, T. (2021). Natural Infrastructure Practices as Potential Flood Storage and Reduction for Farms and Rural Communities in the North Carolina Coastal Plain. SUSTAINABILITY, 13(16). https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169309

Shalizi, M. N., Goldfarb, B., Burney, O. T., & Shear, T. H. (2019). Effects of Five Growing Media and Two Fertilizer Levels on Polybag-Raised Camden Whitegum (Eucalyptus benthamii Maiden & Cambage) Seedling Morphology and Drought Hardiness. FORESTS, 10(7). https://doi.org/10.3390/f10070543

Unks, R. R., Shear, T. H., Krings, A., & Braham, R. R. (2014). Environmental Controls of Reproduction and Early Growth of Lindera melissifolia (Lauraceae). CASTANEA, 79(4), 266–277. https://doi.org/10.2179/14-034

Laing, J. M., Shear, T. H., & Blazich, F. A. (2013, September 15). How management strategies have affected Atlantic White-cedar forest recovery after massive wind damage in the Great Dismal Swamp (vol 262, pg 1337, 2011). FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, Vol. 304, pp. 505–505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.07.022

Johnson, Y. B., Shear, T. H., & James, A. L. (2013). Novel ways to assess forested wetland restoration in North Carolina using ecohydrological patterns from reference sites. Ecohydrology, 7(2), 692–702. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1390

Laing, J. M., Shear, T. H., & Blazich, F. A. (2011). How management strategies have affected Atlantic White-cedar forest recovery after massive wind damage in the Great Dismal Swamp. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 262(8), 1337–1344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.026

Johnson, Y. B., Shear, T. H., & James, A. L. (2011). Identifying ecohydrological patterns in natural forested wetlands useful to restoration design. Ecohydrology, 5(3), 368–379. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.227

Vidra, R. L., & Shear, T. H. (2009). The human/nature dilemma in ecological restoration. In Global restoration ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Judge, C. A., Neal, J. C., & Shear, T. H. (2008). Japanese Stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum) Management for Restoration of Native Plant Communities. INVASIVE PLANT SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT, 1(2), 111–119. https://doi.org/10.1614/ipsm-07-011.1

Vidra, R. L., & Shear, T. H. (2008). Thinking locally for urban forest restoration: A simple method links exotic species invasion to local landscape structure. RESTORATION ECOLOGY, 16(2), 217–220. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00387.x

Munishi, P. K. T., Shear, T. H., Wentworth, T., & Temu, R. (2007). Compositional gradients of plant communities in submontane rainforests of eastern Tanzania. Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 19(1), 35–45.

Vidra, R. L., Shear, T. H., & Stucky, J. M. (2007). Effects of vegetation removal on native understory recovery in an exotic-rich urban forest. JOURNAL OF THE TORREY BOTANICAL SOCIETY, 134(3), 410–419. https://doi.org/10.3159/1095-5674(2007)134[410:EOVRON]2.0.CO;2

Vidra, R. L., Shear, T. H., & Wentworth, T. R. (2006). Testing the paradigms of exotic species invasion in urban riparian forests. NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL, 26(4), 339–350. https://doi.org/10.3375/0885-8608(2006)26[339:TTPOES]2.0.CO;2

Halperin, J., & Shear, T. (2005). An Assessment of Rainforest Distribution and Threats in the West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Geocarto International, 20(1), 51–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/10106040508542336

Munishi, P. K. T., & Shear, T. H. (2005). Rainfall interception and partitioning in afromontane rain forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania: Implications for water conservation. Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 17(3), 355–365.

Roise, J., Gainey, K. W., & Shear, T. (2004). An approach to optimal wetland mitigation using mathematical programming and geographic information system based wetland function estimation. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 12(5), 321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-004-2437-z

Munishi, P. K. T., & Shear, T. H. (2004). Carbon storage in afromontane rain forests of the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania: Their net contribution to atmospheric carbon. Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 16(1), 78–93.

Roise, J. P., Shear, T. H., & Bianco, J. V. (2004). Sensitivity analysis of transportation corridor location in wetland areas: A multiobjective programming and GIS approach. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 12(5), 519–529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-005-3949-x

Wightman, K. E., Shear, T., Goldfarb, B., & Haggar, J. (2001). Nursery and field establishment techniques to improve seedling growth of three Costa Rican hardwoods. NEW FORESTS, 22(1-2), 75–96. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012020023446

Rapp, J., Shear, T., & Robison, D. (2001). Soil, groundwater, and floristics of a southeastern United States blackwater swamp 8 years after clearcutting with helicopter and skidder extraction of the timber. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, 149(1-3), 241–252. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-1127(00)00558-2

Bledsoe, B. P., & Shear, T. H. (2000). Vegetation along hydrologic and edaphic gradients in a North Carolina coastal plain creek bottom and implications for restoration. WETLANDS, 20(1), 126–147. https://doi.org/10.1672/0277-5212(2000)020[0126:vahaeg]2.0.co;2

Shear, T., & Summerville, K. O. (1999). Atlantic white-cedar: Ecology and management symposium. Proceedings of a meeting held a Newport News, Virginia, USA, 6-7 August 1997. In Atlantic white-cedar : ecology and management symposium (p. 82). Asheville, NC : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station.

Rapp, J., Shear, T., & Robison, D. (1999). Soil, groundwater and floristics in a Southeastern blackwater forest eight years after clearcut with helicopter and skidder logging. Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Southern Silviculture Research Conference, 10, 302–306. Shreveport, LA: USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, General Technical Report SRS-30.

Shear, T. H., Lent, T. J., & Fraver, S. (1996). Comparison of restored and mature bottomland hardwood forests of southwestern Kentucky. RESTORATION ECOLOGY, 4(2), 111–123. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1526-100X.1996.tb00113.x