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YSE Forest-Related Faculty Publications: Summer 2021

See below for a list of YSE forestry-related faculty publications with their students and alumni (bolded) for June 2020-August 2021.

Benitez, L., & Queenborough, S. A. (2021). Fruit trees drive small‐scale movement of elephants in Kibale National Park, Uganda. Biotropica.

Berlyn, G. P. (2021). Some thoughts on Biodiversity and Sustainability. Journal of Environmental Science and Public Health, 5(3), 371-373.

Borsuk, A. M., Roddy, A. B., Theroux-Rancourt, G., & Brodersen, C. R. (2021, March). Structural organization of the spongy mesophyll in laminar leaves with reticulate venation. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 61, pp. E72-E72). Oxford Univ Press Inc.

Bradford, M. A., Maynard, D. S., Crowther, T. W., Frankson, P. T., Mohan, J. E., Steinrueck, C., … & Warren, R. J. (2021). Belowground community turnover accelerates the decomposition of standing dead wood. Ecology, e03484.

Brodersen, C. R. (2021). By the narrowest of margins: nano-scale modification of pit membranes and the fate of plants during drought. A commentary on: ‘Intervessel pit membrane thickness best explains variation in embolism resistance amongst stems of Arabidopsis thaliana accessio. Annals of Botany, 128(2), iii-v.

Browne, L., L. Markesteijn, L., B. M. J. Engelbrecht, F. A. Jones, O. T. Lewis, E. Manzané-Pinzón, S. J. Wright, and L. S. ComitaAccepted. Increased mortality of tropical tree seedlings during the extreme 2015-16 El NiñoGlobal Change Biology

Carpenter, R., Ward, E. B., Wikle, J., Duguid, M. C., Bradford, M. A., & Ashton, M. S. (2021). Soil nutrient recovery after shelterwood timber harvesting in a temperate oak hardwood forest: Insights using a twenty-five-year chronosequence. Forest Ecology and Management, 499, 119604.

de Melo Virginio Filho, E., Somarriba, E., Cerda, R., Casanoves, F., Cordero, C. A., Avelino, J., … Montagnini, F., … & Haggar, J. (2021). Aportes a la investigación, fortalecimiento de capacidades y formulación de políticas para el sector cafetalero en 20 años de ensayos de sistemas agroforestales con café.

Doroski, D. A., Duguid, M. C., & Ashton, M. S. (2021). Forest patch size predicts seed bank composition in urban areas. Applied Vegetation Science, 24(1), e12534.

Echeverria, D., Venditti, R., Jameel, H., & Yao, Y. (2021). A general Life Cycle Assessment framework for sustainable bleaching: A case study of peracetic acid bleaching of wood pulp. Journal of Cleaner Production, 290, 125854.

García-Palacios, P., Crowther, T. W., Dacal, M., Hartley, I. P., Reinsch, S., Rinnan, R., … & Bradford, M. A. (2021). Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 1-11.

Glick, H. B., Umunay, P. M., Makana, J. R., Thomas, S. C., Reuning-Scherer, J. D., & Gregoire, T. G. (2021). Developmental Dynamics of Gilbertiodendron dewevrei (Fabaceae) Drive Forest Structure and Biomass in the Eastern Congo Basin. Forests, 12(6), 738.

Goodsell, R. M., Childs, D. Z., Spencer, M., Coutts, S., Vergnon, R., Swinfield, T., … Queenborough, S. A., & Freckleton, R. P. (2021). Developing hierarchical density‐structured models to study the national‐scale dynamics of an arable weed. Ecological Monographs.

Kane, D. A., Bradford, M. A., Fuller, E., Oldfield, E. E., & Wood, S. A. (2021). Soil organic matter protects US maize yields and lowers crop insurance payouts under drought. Environmental Research Letters, 16(4), 044018.

Lynch, T. B., Gove, J. H., Gregoire, T. G., & Ducey, M. J. (2021). An approximate point-based alternative for the estimation of variance under big BAF sampling. Forest Ecosystems, 8(1), 1-19.

Martin, M., Woodbury, D., Glogower, Y., Duguid, M., Frey, B., & Ashton, M. (2021). Within-gap position shapes fifty years of forest dynamics in a temperate hardwood forest in Connecticut, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 494, 119311.

Martin, M., Woodbury, D., Doroski, D., Nagele, E., Storace, M., Cook-Patton, S., Pasternack, R.  & Ashton, M. (2021). People plant trees for utility more often than biodiversity or carbon. Biological Conservation, 261, 109224.

McElrone, A. J., Manuck, C. M., Brodersen, C. R., Patakas, A., Pearsall, K. R., & Williams, L. E. (2021). Functional hydraulic sectoring in grapevines as evidenced by sap flow, dye infusion, leaf removal and micro-computed tomography. AoB Plants, 13(2), plab003.

Miller, E. F., Doolittle, A. A., Cerutti, P. O., Naimark, J., Rufino, M. C., Ashton, M. S., & Mwangi, E. (2021). Spatial distribution and perceived drivers of provisioning service values across an East African montane forest landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning, 207, 103995.

Penagos Zuluaga, J. C., H. van der Werff, B. Park, D. Eaton, L. S. Comita, S. A. Queenborough, and M. J. Donoghue. (2021)Resolved phylogenetic relationships in the Ocotea complex (Supraocotea) facilitate phylogenetic classification and studies of character evolutionAmerican Journal of Botany, 108, 664-679.

Prats, K. A., & Brodersen, C. R. (2021). Desiccation and rehydration dynamics in the epiphytic resurrection fern Pleopeltis polypodioides. Plant Physiology.

Raza, H. M. A., Bashir, M. A., Rehim, A., Jan, M., Qurat-ul-ain, R. A. Z. A., & Berlyn, G. P. Potassium and zinc co-fertilization provide new insights to improve maize (zea mays l.) physiology and productivity. Pak. J. Bot, 53, 6.

Rehim, A., Amjad Bashir, M., Raza, Q. U. A., Gallagher, K., & Berlyn, G. P. (2021). Yield enhancement of biostimulants, vitamin B12, and CoQ10 compared to inorganic fertilizer in radish. Agronomy, 11(4), 697.

Sigman, E., & Elias, M. (2021). Three Approaches to Restoration and Their Implications for Social Inclusion. Ecological Restoration, 39(1-2), 27-35.

Sigman, E. The Dilemma of Scale: Competing Imperatives for Global Restoration. Restoration Ecology, e13408.

Spake, R., Mori, A. S., Beckmann, M., Martin, P. A., Christie, A. P., Duguid, M. C., & Doncaster, C. P. (2021). Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences. Ecology Letters, 24(2), 374-390.

Théroux-Rancourt, G., Roddy, A. B., Earles, J. M., Gilbert, M. E., Zwieniecki, M. A., Boyce, C. K., … & Brodersen, C. R. (2021). Maximum CO2 diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1945), 20203145.

Vincent, J. R., Curran, S. R., & Ashton, M. S. (2021). Forest Restoration in Low-and Middle-Income Countries. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 46.

Ward, E. B., Duguid, M. C., Kuebbing, S. E., Lendemer, J. C., Warren, R. J., & Bradford, M. A. (2021). Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen. Journal of Ecology.

Warren, R. J., & Bradford, M. A. (2021). Non-native Microstegium vimineum populations collapse with fungal leaf spot disease outbreak. Plant Ecology, 222(1), 107-117.

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