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YSE Forest-Related Faculty Publications: Summer 2020

See below for a list of YSE forestry-related faculty publications with their students and alumni (bolded) for May-August 2020.

Bloomfield, G., Meli, P., Brancalion, P. H., Terris, E., Guariguata, M. R., & Garen, E. (2019). Tropical Conservation Science, 12, 1940082919887589. Strategic Insights for Capacity Development on Forest Landscape Restoration: Implications for Addressing Global Commitments.

Comita, L. S., & Stump, S. M. (2020). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 105(3), 377-392. Natural Enemies and the Maintenance of Tropical Tree Diversity: Recent Insights and Implications for the Future of Biodiversity in a Changing World. 

Craig, R. J., Duguid, M. C., & Ashton, M. S. (2020, August). In 2020 ESA Annual Meeting (August 3-6). ESA. Long-term population increase and species turnover in breeding forest birds of northeastern Connecticut. 

DiVittorio, C.D., Singhal, S., Roddy, A., Zapata, F., Ackerly, D.D., Baldwin, B.G., Brodersen, C.R., Búrquez, A., Fine, P.V., Flores, M.P. and Solis, E., 2020. bioRxiv. Natural selection maintains species despite widespread hybridization in the desert shrub Encelia. 

Doroski, D. A., Ashton, M. S., & Duguid, M. C. (2020). Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 126816. The future urban forest–A survey of tree planting programs in the Northeastern United States. 

Du, Y., Mao, L., Queenborough, S. A., Primack, R., Comita, L. S., Hampe, A., & Ma, K. (2020). Journal of Biogeography. Macro‐scale variation and environmental predictors of flowering and fruiting phenology in the Chinese angiosperm flora. 

Fisher, J. R., Wood, S. A., Bradford, M. A., & Kelsey, T. R. (2020). Conservation Science and Practice, 2(7), e210. Improving scientific impact: How to practice science that influences environmental policy and management. 

Hall, J. S., Harris, D. J., Saltonstall, K., Medjibe, V. D. P., Ashton, M. S., & Turner, B. L. (2020). Journal of Ecology, 108(2), 433-448. Resource acquisition strategies facilitate Gilbertiodendron dewevrei monodominance in African lowland forests. 

Johnson, K. M., Brodersen, C., Carins-Murphy, M. R., Choat, B., & Brodribb, T. J. (2020). Plant Physiology, 184(1), 212-222. Xylem embolism spreads by single-conduit events in three dry forest angiosperm stems. 

Johnson, S., Echeverria, D., Venditti, R., Jameel, H., & Yao, Y. (2020). AATCC Journal of Research, 7(1), 19-31. Supply Chain of Waste Cotton Recycling and Reuse: A Review. 

Krishnadas, M., Agarwal, K., & Comita, L. S. (2020). Annals of Botany. Edge effects alter the role of fungi and insects in mediating functional composition and diversity of seedling recruits in a fragmented tropical forest. 

Lan, K., Park, S., Kelley, S. S., English, B. C., Yu, T. E., Larson, J., & Yao, Y. GCB Bioenergy. Impacts of Uncertain Feedstock Quality on the Economic Feasibility of Fast Pyrolysis Biorefineries with Blended Feedstocks and Decentralized Preprocessing Sites in the Southeastern United States. 

Lan, K., Park, S., & Yao, Y. (2020). In Biofuels for a More Sustainable Future (pp. 273-315). Elsevier. Key issue, challenges, and status quo of models for biofuel supply chain design. 

Lustenhouwer, N., Maynard, D. S., Bradford, M. A., Lindner, D. L., Oberle, B., Zanne, A. E., & Crowther, T. W. (2020). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(21), 11551-11558. A trait-based understanding of wood decomposition by fungi. 

Marchand, P., Comita, L. S., Wright, S. J., Condit, R., Hubbell, S. P., & Beckman, N. G. (2020). Ecology, 101(2), e02926. Seed‐to‐seedling transitions exhibit distance‐dependent mortality but no strong spacing effects in a Neotropical forest. 

Miller, M. L., Roddy, A. B., Brodersen, C. R., McElrone, A. J., & Johnson, D. M. (2020). American Journal of Botany, 107(8), 1177-1188. Anatomical and hydraulic responses to desiccation in emergent conifer seedlings. 

 

Muehleisen, A. J., Engelbrecht, B. M., Jones, F. A., Manzané‐Pinzón, E., & Comita, L. S. (2020). Ecology, e03151. Local adaptation to herbivory within tropical tree species along a rainfall gradient. 

Oldfield, E. E., Wood, S. A., & Bradford, M. A. (2020). Ecological Applications, 30(4), e02073. Direct evidence using a controlled greenhouse study for threshold effects of soil organic matter on crop growth. 

Osterhoudt, S., Galvin, S. S., Graef, D. J., Saxena, A. K., & Dove, M. R. (2020). World Development, 135, 105070. Chains of Meaning: Crops, commodities, and the ‘in-between’ spaces of trade. 

Penagos Zuluaga, J. C., Queenborough, S. A., & Comita, L. S. (2020). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(2), 344-355. Flowering sex ratios and costs of reproduction in gynodioecious Ocotea oblonga (Lauraceae). 

Piotto, D., Flesher, K., Nunes, A. C. P., Rolim, S., Ashton, M., & Montagnini, F. (2020). Forest Ecology and Management, 474, 118389. Restoration plantings of non-pioneer tree species in open fields, young secondary forests, and rubber plantations in Bahia, Brazil. 

Prats, K. A., & Brodersen, C. R. (2020). AoB PLANTS. Seasonal coordination of leaf hydraulics and gas exchange in a wintergreen fern. 

Singhal, S., Roddy, A., DiVittorio, C., Sanchez-Amaya, A., Henriquez, C., Brodersen, C., … & Zapata, F. (2020). bioRxiv. Diversification, disparification, and hybridization in the desert shrubs Encelia.

Sokol, N., Bradford, M., Baldock, J., Sanderman, J., & Gutknecht, J. (2020). Lawrence Livermore National Lab.(LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Microbial density and substrate identity interact to determine the stabilization efficiency of microbial-derived, mineral-associated organic matter (No. LLNL-PROC-810517). 

Sokol, N., Bradford, M., Gutknecht, J., Sanderman, J., & Baldock, J. (2020). Lawrence Livermore National Lab.(LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States). Microbial density and substrate identity interact to determine the efficiency of mineral-associated organic matter formation (No. LLNL-PROC-810642). 

Stump, S. M., & Comita, L. S. (2020). Theoretical Ecology, 1-31. Differences among species in seed dispersal and conspecific neighbor effects can interact to influence coexistence. 

Stump, S. M., Marden, J. H., Beckman, N. G., Mangan, S. A., & Comita, L. S. (2020). The American Naturalist, 196(4), 472-486. Resistance Genes Affect How Pathogens Maintain Plant Abundance and Diversity. 

Sullivan, M. K., & Queenborough, S. A. (2020). Biotropica. Precipitation gradients, plant biogeography, and the incidence of drip‐tips in Cerrado plant species. 

Théroux‐Rancourt, G., Jenkins, M. R., Brodersen, C. R., McElrone, A., Forrestel, E. J., & Earles, J. M. (2020). Applications in plant sciences, 8(7), e11380. Digitally deconstructing leaves in 3D using X‐ray microcomputed tomography and machine learning. 

Thorhaug, A., Gallagher, J. B., Kiswara, W., Prathep, A., Huang, X., Yap, T. K., … & Berlyn, G. (2020). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 1-17. Coastal and estuarine blue carbon stocks in the greater Southeast Asia region: seagrasses and mangroves per nation and sum of total. 

Tomberlin, K. E., Venditti, R., & Yao, Y. (2020). BioResources, 15(2), 3899-3914. Life Cycle Carbon Footprint Analysis of Pulp and Paper Grades in the United States Using Production-line-based Data and Integration. 

Ye, J. S., Bradford, M. A., Maestre, F. T., Li, F. M., & García‐Palacios, P. (2020). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34(6), e2019GB006507. Compensatory thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration rates in global croplands. 

Yousaf, M. S., Ahmad, I., Anwar-ul-Haq, M., Tahir, M., Siddiqui, T. K., & Berlyn, G. P. (2020). Pak. J. Agri. Sci., 57(5), 1393-1401. Morphophysiological response and reclamation potential of two agroforestry tree species (Syzygium cumini) and (Vachellia nilotica) against salinity. 

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