About the Authors

Gifty E. Acquah

gea0002@auburn.edu

Affiliation Forest Products Development Center, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Brian K. Via

Affiliations Forest Products Development Center, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America, Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Oladiran O. Fasina

Affiliation Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Sushil Adhikari

Affiliation Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Nedret Billor

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Lori G. Eckhardt

Affiliation Forest Health Dynamics Laboratory, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BKV LGE GEA. Data curation: GEA. Formal analysis: GEA NB. Funding acquisition: BKV LGE. Investigation: GEA. Methodology: BKV GEA. Project administration: BKV LGE. Resources: BKV LGE OOF SA. Supervision: BKV LGE OOF NB SA. Validation: GEA BKV LGE. Visualization: GEA. Writing – original draft: GEA. Writing – review & editing: BKV OOF SA.