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YSE Forest-Related Faculty Publications: Fall 2023

December 4, 2023

Alshwairikh, Y. A., Fanton, A. C., Prats, K. A., Burak, M. K., Duguid, M. C., & Rowland, F. E. (2023). Habits and attitudes toward writing affect the publication output of environmental biology trainees. (link is external) Ecosphere, 14(10), e4664.

Arnold, W., Taylor, M., Bradford, M., Raymond, P., & Peccia, J. (2023). Microbial activity contributes to spatial heterogeneity of wetland methane fluxes. (link is external) Microbiology Spectrum, 11(5), e02714-23.

Berlyn, G. P. (2023). Some Thoughts on Mountain Forests: Their Benefits and Sustainability. (link is external) Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 42(10), 961–966.

Bradford, M. A., Eash, L., Polussa, A., Jevon, F. V., Kuebbing, S. E., Hammac, W. A., Rosenzweig, S., & Oldfield, E. E. (2023). Testing the feasibility of quantifying change in agricultural soil carbon stocks through empirical sampling. (link is external) Geoderma, 440, 116719.

Clark, E. G., Cornara, D., Brodersen, C. R., McElrone, A. J., Parkinson, D. Y., & Almeida, R. P. (2023). Anatomy of an agricultural antagonist: Feeding complex structure and function of three xylem sap‐feeding insects illuminated with synchrotron‐based 3D imaging (link is external). Journal of Morphology, 284(10), e21639.

Comita, L. S., Aguilar, S., Hubbell, S. P., & Pérez, R. (2023). Long‐term seedling and small sapling census data from the Barro Colorado Island 50 ha Forest Dynamics Plot, Panama (link is external). Ecology, 104(9), e4140.

Ediriweera, S., Bandara, C., Lakkana, T., Jayasinghe, S., Woodbury, D., Dayanandan, A., … & Ashton, M. S. (2023). Old-growth mixed dipterocarp forests show variable losses and gains in aboveground biomass and standing carbon over forty years (link is external). Forest Ecosystems, 100163.

Ferraro, K. M., Welker, L., Ward, E. B., Schmitz, O. J., & Bradford, M. A. (2023). Plant mycorrhizal associations mediate the zoogeochemical effects of calving subsidies by a forest ungulate (link is external). Journal of Animal Ecology.

Fletcher, L. R., Borsuk, A. M., Fanton, A. C., Johnson, K. M., Richburg, J., Zailaa, J., & Brodersen, C. R. (2023). Anatomical and physiological consequences of beech leaf disease in Fagus grandifolia L (link is external). Forest Pathology, e12842.

Garwood, N. C., Metz, M. R., Queenborough, S. A., Persson, V., Wright, S. J., Burslem, D. F., … & Valencia, R. (2023). Seasonality of reproduction in an ever‐wet lowland tropical forest in Amazonian Ecuador (link is external). Ecology, 104(9), e4133.

Gross, C. D., Bradford, M. A., & Kuebbing, S. (2023, October). Carbon Storage and Cycling in Cranberry Farm Agroecosystems (link is external). In ASA, CSSA, SSSA International Annual Meeting. ASA-CSSA-SSSA.

Herrera-Ramírez, D., Hartmann, H., Römermann, C., Trumbore, S., Muhr, J., Maracahipes-Santos, L., Brando, P., Silvério, D., Huang, J., Kuhlmann, I., & Sierra, C. A. (2023). Anatomical distribution of starch in the stemwood influences carbon dynamics and suggests storage-growth trade-offs in some tropical trees. (link is external) Journal of Ecology, 111, 2532–2548.

Lens, F., Gleason, S. M., Bortolami, G., Brodersen, C., Delzon, S., & Jansen, S. (2023). Comparative anatomy vs mechanistic understanding: How to interpret the diameter-vulnerability link. (link is external) IAWA Journal, 44(3–4), 368–380.

Li, Y., Baker, J. C. A., Brando, P. M., Hoffman, F. M., Lawrence, D. M., Morton, D. C., Swann, A. L. S., Uribe, M. D. R., & Randerson, J. T. (2023). Future increases in Amazonia water stress from CO2 physiology and deforestation. (link is external) Nature Water, 1(9), 769–777.

Lin, W., Zhang, Y., Queenborough, S., Ni, M., He, Q., Li, B. H., & Chu, C. (2023). Molecular sexing reveals ontogenetic shifts in sex ratios and underlying processes in a dioecious tree species (link is external). Authorea Preprints.

Liu, W., Bradford, M., Ashton, M., Ducey, M. J., & Kuebbing, S. (2023). Carbon Dioxide Removal by Managing Forests Under Natural Disturbances in the Northeastern US (link is external). AGU23.

Nagele, E., Co, M., Forrest, T. A., DeLuca, E. A., Ashton, M. S., Harris, T. B., & Duguid, M. C. (2023). Using Geologic Features to Visualize Long-Term Changes in Urban Forest Structure and Composition: Thain Family Forest of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York. (link is external) Journal of Forestry, fvad047.

Pierson, D., Jevon, F., Polussa, A., Oliverio, A., Rocci, K., Wood, S., Bradford, M., … & Wieder, W. R. (2023). Investigating Historical Legacies of Microbial Communities to Improve Projections of Soil Carbon Flux in Temperate Forests (link is external). AGU23.

Polussa, A., Jevon, F., Bechtold, E., Rocci, K., Pierson, D., Wieder, W. R., Wood, S., Wrighton, K., Bradford, M., & Oliverio, A. (2023). Assessing Local Drivers of Microbial Decomposer Structure and Functional Capabilities Across Eastern US forests (link is external). AGU23.

Prats, K. A., Fanton, A. C., Brodersen, C. R., & Furze, M. E. (2023). Starch depletion in the xylem and phloem ray parenchyma of grapevine stems under drought (link is external). AoB Plants, 15(5), plad062.

Pregitzer, C. C., & Bradford, M. A. (2023). Associations between recent land use history and urban forest composition. (link is external) Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 90, 128134.

Rowland, F. E., Prats, K. A., Alshwairikh, Y. A., Burak, M. K., Fanton, A. C., & Duguid, M. C. (2023). Overemphasis on publications may disadvantage historically excluded groups in STEM before and during COVID-19: A North American survey-based study. (link is external) PLOS ONE, 18(9), e0291124.

Sullivan, M. K., Fayolle, A., Bush, E., Ofosu-Bamfo, B., Vleminckx, J., Metz, M. R., & Queenborough, S. A. (2023). Cascading effects of climate change: new advances in drivers and shifts of tropical reproductive phenology (link is external). Plant Ecology, 1-13.

Vleminckx, J., Hogan, J. A., Metz, M. R., Comita, L. S., Queenborough, S. A., Wright, S. J., Valencia, R., Zambrano, M., & Garwood, N. C. (2023). Flower production decreases with warmer and more humid atmospheric conditions in a western Amazonian forest. (link is external) New Phytologist, nph.19388.

Ward, E. B., Polussa, A., & Bradford, M. A. (2023). Depth‐dependent effects of ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs on soil carbon and nitrogen pools are accentuated under arbuscular mycorrhizal trees (link is external). Global Change Biology, 29(20), 5924-5940.

Welker, L., Ward, E. B., Bradford, M. A., & Ferraro, K. M. (2023). Plant mycorrhizal functional type shapes nitrogen availability in a regenerating forest (link is external).

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