Kurt Riitters

3041 Cornwallis Road
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2254
United States
Kurt Riitters is a research ecologist and member of the Forest Health Monitoring Team within the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, as well as Adjunct Professor of Forestry at North Carolina State University. He joined the USDA Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring Program in 2000 after fifteen years of research in quantitative forest ecology and management, monitoring, and assessment with three Federal Agencies and in forest industry. He has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles (22 with more than 100 citations each) along with many Forest Service and other agency reports and book chapters, and has received awards for pioneering research in landscape ecology. His current research focus is on national- to global-scale assessments of landscape patterns from remotely sensed land-cover maps, and his work has appeared in many environmental reports including the Millennium Assessment, the Official Atlas of the United States, and the State of the Nation's Ecosystems. He is the USDA Forest Service national leader of landscape pattern and forest fragmentation research for the Resource Planning Act (RPA) and Sustainability (Montreal Process) assessments. He serves on the editorial board of the journal Landscape Ecology. He is past President of the United States Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, and past Deputy Chairman for North America for the Landscape Ecology Working Group of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations. He received the Distinguished Landscape Ecologist award from the United States Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology.
Landscape ecology.
Spatial pattern analysis.
Quantitative ecology.
The assessments produced by this research satisfy legislated and agency requirements for national and international monitoring and reporting of the status and trends of forest conditions nationwide.
The tools and techniques developed by this research permit satisfying the above goal in a timely and efficient manner. Furthermore, the deployment of developed software in freely-available applications and on cloud-based computing platforms has allowed everyone to use the same research and assessment methods.
The basic research in quantitative landscape ecology develops insights to prioritize particular tools and techniques for development.
- Oregon State University, Ph.D., Forest Science (Silviculture), 1986
- University of Minnesota, M.F., Forest Management, 1978
- University of Minnesota, B.E.S., Elected Studies, 1976
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Various,
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Kurt Riitters' research experience has been with four Federal Agencies and private industry.
- Riitters, Kurt. 2019. Pattern metrics for a transdisciplinary landscape ecology
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.. 2012. Decline of forest interior conditions in the conterminous United States
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; O'Neill, Robert V.; Jones, K. Bruce; Smith, Elizabeth R.; Coulston, John W.; Wade, Timothy G.; Smith, Jonathan H.. 2002. Fragmentation of Continental United States Forests
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; O'Neill, R.; Jones, B.; Smith, E.. 2000. Global-scale patterns of forest fragmentation
- Riitters, Kurt H.; O'Neill, R.V.; Hunsaker, C.T.; Wickham, James D.; Yankee, D.H.; Timmins, S.P.; Jones, K.B.; Jackson, B.L.. 1995. A factor analysis of landscape pattern and structure metrics
- Riitters, Kurt; Coulston, John; Wickham, James. 2011. Fragmentation of forest communities in the eastern United States
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.. 2003. How far to the nearest road?
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Vogt, Peter; Soille, Pierre; Kozak, Jacek; Estreguil, Christine. 2007. Neutral model analysis of landscape patterns from mathematical morphology
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.. 2009. An indicator of forest dynamics using a shifting landscape mosaic
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.; Vogt, Peter. 2012. Global survey of anthropogenic neighborhood threats to conservation of grass-shrub and forest vegetation
- Vogt, Peter ; Riitters, Kurt ; Rambaud, Pierrick ; d'Annunzio, Rémi ; Lindquist, Erik ; Pekkarinen, Anssi. 2022. GuidosToolbox Workbench: spatial analysis of raster maps for ecological applications
- Riitters, Kurt ; Robertson, Guy. 2021. The United States' implementation of the Montréal Process indicator of forest fragmentation
- Nelson, Mark D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W.; Domke, Grant M.; Greenfield, Eric J.; Langner, Linda L.; Nowak, David J.; O'Dea, Claire B.; Oswalt, Sonja N.; Reeves, Matthew C.; Wear, David N.. 2020. Defining the United States land base: a technical document supporting the USDA Forest Service 2020 RPA assessment
- Homer, Collin ; Dewitz, Jon ; Jin, Suming ; Xian, George ; Costello, Catherine ; Danielson, Patrick ; Gass, Leila ; Funk, Michelle ; Wickham, James ; Stehman, Stephen ; Auch, Roger ; Riitters, Kurt. 2020. Conterminous United States land cover change patterns 2001–2016 from the 2016 National Land Cover Database
- Caputo, Jesse ; Butler, Brett ; Brandeis, Thomas ; Riitters, Kurt. 2020. Changes in land use, forest ownership, parcel size, and fragmentation in forests of the U.S. South
- Ward, Samuel F.; Taylor, Benjamin S.; Dixon Hamil, Kelly-Ann ; Riitters, Kurt H.; Fei, Songlin. 2020. Effects of terrestrial transport corridors and associated landscape context on invasion by forest plants
- Brooks, Evan B.; Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wear, David N.. 2020. Using a hybrid demand-allocation algorithm to enable distributional analysis of land use change patterns
- Riitters, Kurt ; Schleeweis, Karen ; Costanza, Jennifer. 2020. Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016
- Riitters, Kurt; Potter, Kevin. 2019. Chapter 6 - The invasibility and invadedness of Eastern U.S. forest types
- Wickham, J. ; Riitters, K. H.. 2019. Influence of high-resolution data on the assessment of forest fragmentation
- Costanza, Jennifer K.; Riitters, Kurt ; Vogt, Peter ; Wickham, James. 2019. Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going?
- Riitters, Kurt. 2019. Chapter 6: National Update of Forest Fragmentation Indicators, 2001–2011
- Guo, Qinfeng ; Potter, Kevin M.; Koch, Frank H.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2019. Impacts of nonnative species on the health of natural and planted forests
- Riitters, Kurt ; Costanza, Jennifer. 2018. The landscape context of family forests in the United States: Anthropogenic interfaces and forest fragmentation from 2001 to 2011
- Guo, Qinfeng ; Riitters, Kurt ; Potter, Kevin. 2018. A subcontinental analysis of forest fragmentation effects on insect and disease invasion
- Riitters, Kurt ; Potter, Kevin ; Iannone, Basil ; Oswalt, Christopher ; Guo, Qinfeng ; Fei, Songlin. 2018. Exposure of protected and unprotected forest to plant invasions in the eastern United States
- Riitters, Kurt; Potter, Kevin; Iannone, Basil V.; Oswalt, Christopher; Fei, Songlin; Guo, Qinfeng. 2017. Landscape correlates of forest plant invasions: A high-resolution analysis across the eastern United States
- Buma, Brian; Costanza, Jennifer K; Riitters, Kurt. 2017. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change
- Riitters, Kurt; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Buma, Brian. 2017. Interpreting multiscale domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America
- Vogt, Peter; Riitters, Kurt. 2017. GuidosToolbox: universal digital image object analysis
- Wickham, James; Riitters, Kurt; Vogt, Peter; Costanza, Jennifer; Neale, Anne. 2017. An inventory of continental U.S. terrestrial candidate ecological restoration areas based on landscape context
- Riitters, Kurt; Wickham, James; Costanza, Jennifer K.; Vogt, Peter. 2016. A global evaluation of forest interior area dynamics using tree cover data from 2000 to 2012
- Rogan, J.; Wright, T.M.; Cardille, J.; Pearsall, H.; Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y.; Riemann, Rachel; Riitters, Kurt; Partington, K.. 2016. Forest fragmentation in Massachusetts, USA: a town-level assessment using Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis and affinity propagation
- Yemshanov, Denys; Koch, Frank; Riitters, Kurt H.; McConkey, Brian; Huffmand, Ted; Smithe, Stephen. 2015. Assessing land clearing potential in the Canadian agriculture–forestry interface with a multi-attribute frontier approach
- Nelson, Mark; Robertson, Guy; Riitters, Kurt. 2015. Conserving forest biological diversity: How the Montreal Process helps achieve sustainability
- Nelson, Mark D.; Flather, Curtis; Riitters, Kurt H.; Sieg, Carolyn; Garner, James D.. 2015. National report on sustainable forests—2015: conservation of biological diversity
- Riitters, Kurt H.; James D. Wickam.,. 2015. Detailed assessment of the decline of core forest in the Conterminous United States
- Patterson, Paul L.; Alegria, James; Jolley, Leonard; Powell, Doug; Goebel, J. Jeffery; Riegel, Gregg M.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Ducey, Craig. 2014. Multi-agency Oregon Pilot: Working towards a national inventory and assessment of rangelands using onsite data
- Wickham, J.; Wade, T.G.; Riitters, K.H.. 2014. An isoline separating relatively warm from relatively cool wintertime forest surface temperatures for the southeastern United States
- Zurlini, Giovanni; Jones, Kenneth Bruce; Riitters, Kurt Hans; Li, Bai-Lian; Petrosillo, Irene. 2014. Early warning signals of regime shifts from cross-scale connectivity of land-cover patterns
- Will-Wolf, Susan; Morin, Randall S.; Ambrose, Mark J.; Riitters, Kurt; Jovan, Sarah, Dr.. 2014. Chapter 6 - Links between land cover and lichen species richness at large scales in forested ecosystems across the United States.
- Riitters, Kurt; Percy, Kevin E.. 2013. Forest monitoring methods in the United States and Canada: An overview
- Riitters, Kurt; Potter, Kevin. 2013. Forest health monitoring in the United States: focus on national reports
- Zurlini, Giovanni; Petrosillo, Irene; Jones, Kenneth Bruce; Li, Bai-Lian; Riitters, Kurt Hans; Medagli, Pietro; Marchiori, Silvano; Zaccarelli, Nicola. 2013. Towards the planning and design of disturbance patterns across scales to counter biological invasions
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W.. 2013. Fragmentation of eastern United States forest types
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 2013. Fragmentation of forest, grassland, and shrubland
- Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2013. Empirical analysis of the influence of forest extent on annual and seasonal surface temperatures for the Continental United States
- Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2012. Comparison of cropland and forest surface temperatures across the conterminous United States
- Riitters, Kurt; Wickham, James. 2012. Temporal trends of forest interior conditions in the United States
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 2012. Landscape pattern and context of forest and grassland in Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico
- Ritters, Kurt H.. 2012. Online maps for visualizing landscape patterns at high spatial resolution
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 2011. Spatial patterns of land cover in the United States: a technical document supporting the Forest Service 2010 RPA Assessment
- Wickham, James; Wade, Timothy; Riitters, Kurt. 2011. An environmental assessment of United States drinking water watersheds
- Riitters, Kurt. 2011. Creativity abhors prescription
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 2011. The landscape context of forest and grassland in the United States
- Wickham, J.D; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wade, T.G.; Vogt, P.. 2010. A national assessment of green infrastructure and change for the conterminous United States using morphological image processing
- Shifley, S. R.; Flather, C. H.; Smith, W. B.; Riitters, K. H.; Sieg, C. H.. 2010. Status and progress in large-scale assessment of biological diversity in the United States
- Riitters, Kurt; Wickham, James; Wade, Timothy. 2009. Evaluating anthropogenic risk of grassland and forest habitat degradation using land-cover data
- Riitters, K.H.. 2009. Fragmentation
- Wade, Timothy G.; Wickham, James D.; Zacarelli, Nicola; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2009. A multi-scale method of mapping urban influence
- Riitters, Kurt; Vogt, Peter; Soille, Pierre; Estreguil, Christine. 2009. Landscape patterns from mathematical morphology on maps with contagion
- Vogt, Peter; Ferrari, Joseph R.; Lookingbill, Todd R.; Gardner, Robert H.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Ostapowicz, Katarzyna. 2009. Mapping functional connectivity
- Vogt, Peter; Ferrari, Joseph R.; Lookingbill, Todd R.; Gardner, Robert H.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Ostapowicz, Katarzyna. 2009. Mapping functional connectivity
- Jones, K. Bruce; Edmonds, Curtis E.; Slonecker, E. Terrance; Wickham, James D.; Neale, Anne C.; Wade, Timothy G.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Kepner, William G.. 2008. Detecting changes in riparian habitat conditions based on patterns of greenness change: a case study from the upper San Pedro River Basin, USA
- Zurlini, Giovanni; Petrosillo, Irene; Zaccarelli, Nicola; Riitters, Kurt. 2008. Environmental security as related to scale mismatches of disturbance patterns in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes
- Ambrose, Mark J.; Conkling, Barbara L.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W.. 2008. The forest health monitoring national technical reports: examples of analyses and results from 2001-2004
- Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2008. Detecting temporal change in watershed nutrient yields
- Zaccarelli, Nicola; Petrosillo, Irene; Zurlini, Giovanni; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2008. Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale mismatches in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes
- Wickham, James D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wade, Timothy G.; Homer, Collin. 2008. Temporal change in fragmentation of continental US forests
- Ostapowicz, Katarzyna; Vogt, Peter; Riitters, Kurt H.; Kozak, Jacek; Estreguil, Christine. 2008. Impact of scale on morphological spatial pattern of forest
- Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2008. Detecting Temporal Change in Watershed Nutrient Yields
- Zaccarelli, Nicola1; Petrosillo, ; Irene, ; Zurlini, Giovanni; Riitters, KurtHans. 2008. Source/sink patterns of disturbance and cross-scale mismatches in a panarchy of social-ecological landscapes
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Reams, Gregory A.. 2008. Applications of national land cover maps in United States forestry
- Riitters, Kurt; Estreguil, Christine, eds... 2007. International research to monitor sustainable forest spatial patterns: proceedings of the 2005 IUFRO World Congress symposium
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 2007. Forest Fragmentation
- Zaccarelli, N.; Riitters, K.H.; Petrosillo, I.; Zurlini, G.. 2007. Indicating disturbance content and context for preserved areas
- Vogt, Peter; Riitters, Kurt H.; Iwanowski, Marcin; Estreguil, Christine; Kozak, Jacek; Soille, Pierre. 2007. Mapping landscape corridors
- Bechtold, William; Riitters, Kurt. 2007. The historical background, framework, and the application of forest health monitoring in the United States
- Wickham, J.D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wade, T.G.; Coan, M.; Homer, C.. 2007. The effect of Appalachian mountaintop mining on interior forest
- Zurlini, Giovanni; Riitters, Kurt H.; Zaccarelli, Nicola; Petrosoillo, Irene. 2007. Patterns of disturbance at multiple scales in real and simulated landscapes
- Wickham, J.D.; Riitters, K.H.; Wade, T.G.; Coulston, J.W.. 2007. Temporal change in forest fragmentation at multiple scales
- Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; McRoberts, Ronald E.; Smith, William D.. 2006. True versus perturbed forest inventory plot locations for modeling: a simulation study
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.. 2006. Evaluating ecoregions for sampling and mapping land-cover patterns
- Vogt, Peter; Riitters, Kurt H.; Estreguil, Christine; Kozak, Jacek; Wade, Timothy G.; Wickham, James D.. 2006. Mapping spatial patterns with morphological image processing
- Zurlini, G.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Zaccarelli, N.; Petrosillo, I.; Jones, K.B.; Rossi, L.. 2006. Disturbance patterns in a socio-ecological system at multiple scales
- Coblentz, David; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2005. A quantitative topographic analysis of the Sky Islands: a closer examination of the topography-biodiversity relationship in the Madrean Archipelago
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W.. 2005. Environmental assessment hot spots of perforated forest in the eastern United States
- Cordell, H. Ken; Murphy, Danielle; Riitters, Kurt H.; Harvard, J.E., III.. 2005. The natural ecological value of wilderness
- Coblentz, Dvid; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2005. A quantitative topographic analysis of the Sky Islands: a closer examination of the topography-biodiversity relationship in the Madrean Archipelago [Abstract]
- Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2005. Preserving biodiversity under current and future climates: a case study
- Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Conkling, Barbara L.. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2004 national technical report
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 2005. Downscaling Indicators of Forest Habitat Structure from National Assessments
- Wickham, James D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wade, Timothy G.; Jones, K. Bruce. 2005. Evaluating the relative roles of ecological regions and land-cover composition for guiding establishment of nutrient criteria
- Cordell, H. Ken; Murphy, Danielle; Riitters, Kurt H.; Harvard, J.E., III.. 2005. The human context and natural character of wilderness lands
- Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Conkling, Barbara L.; Smith, William D.. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2003 national technical report
- Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Conkling, Barbara L.. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2002 national technical report
- Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Smith, Grethchen C.. 2004. A preliminary assessment of the Montréal process indicators of air pollution for the United States
- Coblentz, David D.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2004. Topographic controls on the regional-scale biodiversity of the south-western USA
- Wear, David; Pye, John; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2004. Defining conservation priorities using fragmentation forecasts
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James; Coulston, John. 2004. Use of Road Maps in National Assessments of Forest Fragmentation in the United States
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Coulston, John W.. 2004. A preliminary assessment of Montreal process indicators of forest fragmentation for the United States
- Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 2003. Geographic analysis of forest health indicators using spatial scan statistics
- Neale, Anne C.; Jones, K. Bruce; Nash, Maliha S.; Van Remortel, Rick D.; Wickham, James D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; O'neil, Robert V.. 2003. Application of landscape models to alternative futures analyses
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W.; Wickham, James D.. 2003. Localizing National Fragmentation Statistics with Forest Type Maps
- Wickham, James D.; Wade, Timothy G.; Riitters, Kurt H.; O’Neill, R.V.; Smith, Jonathan H.; Smith, Elizabeth R.; Jones, K.B.; Neale, A.C.. 2003. Upstream-to-downstream changes in nutrient export risk
- Wade, Timothy G.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Jones, K. Bruce. 2003. Distribution and Causes of Global Forest Fragmentation
- Wade, Timothy G.; Wickham, James D.; Nash, Maliha S.; Neale, Anne C.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Jones, K. Bruce. 2003. A Comparison of Vector and Raster GIS Methods for Calculating Landscape Metrics Used in Environmental Assessments
- Tran, Liem T.; Knight, C. Gregory; O'Neill, Robert V.; Smith, Elizabeth R.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.. 2002. Fuzzy Decision Analysis for Integrated Environmental Vulnerability Assessment of the Mid-Atlantic Region
- Jones, K. Bruce; Neale, Anne C.; Nash, Malisha S.; van Remortel, Rick D.; Wickham, James D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; O'Neill, Robert V.. 2001. Predicting nutrient and sediment loadings to streams from landscape metrics: A multiple watershed study from the United States Mid-Atlantic Region
- Jones, K. Bruce; Neale, Anne C.; Wade, Timothy G.; Wickham, James D.; Cross, Chad L.; Edmonds, Curtis M.; Loveland, Thomas R.; Nash, Maliha S.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Smith, Elizabeth R.. 2001. The consequences of landscape change on ecological resources: An assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic region, 1973-1993
- Wickham, James D.; Oneil, Robert V.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Smith, Elizabeth R.; Wade, Timothy G.; Jones, K. Bruce. 2001. Geographic targeting of increases in nutrient export due to future urbanization
- Jones, K. Bruce; Neale, Anne C.; Nash, Maliha S.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; O'Neill, Robert V.; van Remortel, Rick D.. 2000. Landscape Correlates of Breeding Bird Richness Across the United States Mid-Atlantic Region
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Vogelmann, James E.; Jones, K. Bruce. 2000. National land-cover pattern data
- Wickham, James D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; O'Neill, Robert V.; Reckhow, Kenneth H.; Wade, Timothy G.; Jones, K. Bruce. 2000. Land Cover as a Framework For Assessing the Risk of Water Pollution
- Wickham, James D.; Jones, K.B.; Riitters, Kurt H.; O'Neill, R.V.; Tankersley, R.D.; Smith, E.R.; Neale, A.C.; Chaloud, D.J.. 1999. An Integrated Environmental Assessment of the US Mid-Atlantic Region
- Wickham, James D.; Jones, K. Bruce; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wade, Timothy G.; O'Neill, Robert V.. 1999. Transitions in forest fragmentation: implications for restoration opportunities at regional scales
- O'Neill, Robert V.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, J.D.; Jones, Bruce K.. 1999. Landscape pattern metrics and regional assessment
- O'Neill, Robert V.; Hunsaker, Carolyn T.; Jones, K. Bruce; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Schwartz, Paul M.; Goodman, Iris A.; Jackson, Barbara L.; Baillargeon, William S.. 1997. Monitoring environmental quality at the landscape scale
- Wickham, James D.; O'Neill, Robert V.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wade, Timothy G.; Jones, K. Bruce. 1997. Sensitivity of selected landscape pattern metrics to land-cover misclassification and differences in land-cover composition
- Riitters, Kurt H.; O'Neill, R.V.; Jones, K.B.. 1997. Assessing Habitat Suitability at Multiple Scales: A Landscape-Level Approach
- Cain, Douglas H.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Orvis, Kenneth. 1997. A multi-scale analysis of landscape statistics
- Jones, K. Bruce; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Tankersley, Roger D., Jr..; O'Neill, Robert V.; Chaloud, Deborah J.; Smith, Elizabeth R.; Neale, Anne C.. 1997. An Ecological Assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Region: A Landscape Atlas
- Riitters, Kurt H.; O'Neill, Robert V.; Wickham, James D.; Jones, K. Bruce. 1996. A note on contagion indices for landscape analysis
- O'Neill, R.V.; Hunsaker, C.T.; Timmins, S.P.; Jackson, B.L.; Jones, K.B.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.. 1996. Scale problems in reporting landscape pattern at the regional scale
- Wickham, J.D.; Wade, T.G.; Jones, K.B.; Riitters, Kurt H.; O'Neill, R.V.. 1995. Diversity of ecological communities of the United States
- Wickham, J. D.; Riitters, K. H.. 1995. Sensitivity of landscape metrics to pixel size
- Smith, E.R.; Riitters, Kurt H.. 1994. A comparison of forest canopy transmittance estimators
- Law, Beverly E.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Ohmann, Lewis F.. 1992. Growth in relation to canopy light interception in a red pine (<i>Pinus resinosa</i>) thinning study
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Law, B.E.; Kucera, R.C.; Gallant, A.L.; DeVelice, R.L.; Palmer, C.J.. 1992. A selection of forest condition indicators for monitoring
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Ohmann, L.F.; Grigal, D.F.. 1991. Woody tissue analysis using an element ratio technique (DRIS)
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 1990. A comparison of chronologies from tree rings
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 1990. Evenness indices measure the signal strength of biweight site chronologies
- Riitters, Kurt H.. 1990. Analysis of biweight site chronologies: relative weights of individual trees over time
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Stanton, Brian J.; Walkup, Robbert H.. 1989. Factor levels for density comparisons in the split-block spacing design
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Perry, David A.. 1987. Early genetic evaluation of open-pollinated Douglas-fir families
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Brodie, J. Douglas. 1984. Implementing optimal thinning strategies
- Hann, David W.; Brodie, J. Douglas; Riitters, Kurt H.. 1983. Optimum stand prescriptions for ponderosa pine
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Brodie, J. Douglas; Hann, David W.. 1982. Dynamic programming for optimization of timber production and grazing in ponderosa pine
- Riitters, Kurt H.; Brodie, J. Douglas; Kao, Chiang. 1982. Volume versus value maximization illustrated for Douglas-fir with thinning

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