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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. (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

 

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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) (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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

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. (link is external)

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 (link is external) (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 (link is external) formation (link is external) (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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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 (link is external)

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