Clayton W. Hale,^1,* Joshua J. Granger,^1,**,*** Courtney M. Siegert,^1,**** Sandra B. Correa,^2,***** Janice L. DuBien,^3,****** Caleb D. Goldsmith,^1,******* Will Kruckeberg<sup>1,********

1</sup>Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762
²Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762
³Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762

^*Clayton W. Hale was a graduate research assistant in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University when this work took place. He holds a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a M.S. in Forestry from Mississippi State University. His research interests include forest ecology, habitat suitability models, plant community assemblages, plant invasion, and the conservation of rare and imperiled plant species.
^**Corresponding author: joshua.j.granger@msstate.edu
^***Joshua J. Granger is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. His research interests focus on forest ecology and quantitative silviculture, with emphases on forest regeneration and conservation of native plant communities and natural resources in the eastern United States. His primary interests are to combine habitat suitability modeling and other quantitative techniques with manipulative experiments to pinpoint optimum habitat conditions for economically important timber species, wildlife, and rare and imperiled species, in order to provide information that will aid landowners, managers, and government officials in sustaining representative forest ecosystems and the natural resources they provide for future generations.
^****Courtney Siegert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. Her research program examines how water and nutrient cycles are affected by natural and anthropogenic disturbances in forest ecosystems.
^*****Sandra B. Correa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on understanding the various ecological roles played by wetland forest ecosystems, including supporting biodiversity, aquatic food webs, and fisheries. Moreover, she seeks to investigate how climate change is altering these ecological roles and whether wetland forests can contribute to mitigating the detrimental effects of climate change at local and regional scales.
^******Janice L. DuBien is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Mississippi State University. Her research focuses on applied statistics.
^*******Caleb D. Goldsmith was a graduate research assistant in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. His research interests focus on forest and fire ecology, invasive plant species, and the conservation of rare and imperiled plant species.
^********Will Kruckeberg was a graduate research assistant in the Forest Soils and Hydrology Lab at Mississippi State University. He received his B.S. in Forestry from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. His research interests include forest ecology, forest soils and hydrology, and fire ecology.