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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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