Dr. Kozma Naka Biography

Research

Forest operations, forest products, silviculture, agroforestry, forest management

 

Education

Ph.D. in Forestry and Forest Products, 1998, Virginia Tech

 

recent Publications

• Naka, Kozma, Shaik Hossain, and Luben Dimov. 2024. Growth of Two Loblolly Pine Clones Planted in Agroforestry and Plantation Settings: Nine-year Results. Agroforestry Systems https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-024-01040-4
• Naka, Kozma, Yongbo Wu, Michael Kennedy, Jing Yang, Ying Zhu, Anmin Mao, Jian Lü. 2024. Planting Trees in Buffer Strips for Attenuating Phosphorus Runoff in Jiangsu Province, China. AgrosystGeosci & Environ 2024;e20513. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20513
• Bowman, T., S. Jeffers, and K. Naka. 2023. Characteristics and concerns of logging businesses in the Southeast United States: Results from a state-wide survey from Alabama. Forests 2023, 14(9), 1695; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14091695 
• Jean, R.; Naka, K.; Christian, C.S.; Gyawali, B.R.; Bowman, T.; Hopkinson, S. 2023. Outdoor Recreation in Southeastern United States National Forests: An Investigation of the Influence of Ethnicity and Gasoline Price on Individual Participation. Tour. Hosp. 2023, 4, 257–281.  https://doi.org/10.3390/tourhosp4020016 
• Jean, R.; Naka, K.; Christian, C.S.; Gyawali, B.R.; Bowman, T.; Hopkinson, S. 2022. Identifying Primary Drivers of Participants from Various Socioeconomic Backgrounds to Choose National Forest Lands in the Southeastern Region of the US as a Travel Destination for Recreation. Land 2022, 11, 1301. https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081301 
• Ojha, Santosh K., Kozma Naka, Luben D. Dimov. 2019. Assessment of disturbances and their impact across forest inventory plots in the southeastern United States for the period 1995-2018. Forest Science, 66(2): 242-255, https://doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxz072 
• Ojha, Santosh K., Kozma Naka, Luben D. Dimov, Dilli Bhatta. 2019. Rarity of shortleaf, slash, and longleaf pine seedlings in oak-pine forest types: An assessment of associated environmental, stand, site, and disturbance factors. Forest Ecology and Management 438 (2019) 151-162. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.02.013 
• Leite-Browning, Maria, Ermson Nyakatawa, James Bukenya, David Mays, Kozma Naka. 2014. Silvopasture Agroforestry Practices for Sustainable Forage, Meat Goat, and Timber Production. Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Alabama A&M and Auburn Universities) in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. UNP-2056. 

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