Research Associate

Education

• B.S. Multi-Resource Management (Forestry), Northern Arizona University, 1989
• M.S. Forest Science (Ecology), Oregon State University, 1992
• Ph.D. Forest Science, Northern Arizona University, 2003

Research Interests

• Pinyon-juniper woodland ecology; plant population ecology; plant-herbivore interactions; plant responses to fire; ecological restoration.

Selected Publications

• Huffman, D.W., P.Z. Fulé, K.M. Pearson, and J.E. Crouse. 2008. Fire history of pinyon-juniper woodlands at upper ecotones with ponderosa forests in Arizona and New Mexico. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:2097-2108.
• Stoddard, M.T., D.W. Huffman, T.M. Alcoze, and P.Z. Fulé. 2008. Restoration of herbaceous communities in pinyon-juniper woodlands of northern Arizona. Rangeland Ecology and Management 61:485-495.
• Huffman, D.W. 2006. Production, losses, and germination of Ceanothus fendleri seeds in an Arizona ponderosa pine forest. Western North American Naturalist 66:365-373.
• Huffman, D.W. and M.M. Moore. 2004. Responses of Fendler Ceanothus to overstory thinning, prescribed fire and drought in an Arizona ponderosa pine forest. Forest Ecology and Management 198:105-115.
• Moore, M.M, D.W. Huffman, P.Z Fule’, W. W. Covington, and J. E. Crouse. 2004. Comparison of historical and contemporary forest structure and composition on permanent plots in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Forest Science 50:162-176.
• Huffman, D.W. and M.M. Moore. 2003. Ungulate herbivory on buckbrush in an Arizona ponderosa pine forest. Journal of Range Management 56:358-363.
• Tappeiner, J.C. II, D.W. Huffman, D. Marshall, T.A. Spies, and J.D. Bailey. 1997. Density, ages, and growth rates in old-growth and young-growth forests in coastal Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27:638-648.
• Huffman, D.W., Zasada, J.C., and Tappeiner, J.C., II. 1994. Growth and morphology of rhizome cuttings and seedlings of salal (Gaultheria shallon): effects of four light intensities. Canadian Journal of Botany 72:1702-1708.