A5001933139- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Western Carolina University
2020-2024
University of Georgia
2014-2021
West Virginia University
2008-2020
University of California, San Diego
2011
The Mountain Institute
2008
West Virginia Division of Natural Resources
2006
Mountain watersheds are primary sources of freshwater, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. There is significant interest in the effects climate change variability on these processes over short to long time scales. Much impact hydroclimate forest ecosystems manifested vegetation dynamics space time. In steep terrain, leaf phenology responds topoclimate complex ways, can produce specific measurable shifts landscape patterns. The onset spring usually delayed at a rate with...
Abstract The first step in restoration often involves the removal of invasive plants, but few studies have determined if response plant communities matches management goals. shrub Morrow’s honeysuckle ( Lonicera morrowii Gray) is one a suite exotic bush species that become pervasive woody invaders eastern North America. In 2004, we tested four control methods (cut, mechanical removal, stump application glyphosate, and foliar glyphosate) during late spring early autumn within degraded meadow...
Exurban development (e.g., second homes) in woodlands spreads urban land use impacts beyond suburbs, but because exurban developments often retain many components of original ecosystem structure—such as a forest canopy rather than open lawn—their ecological may be underestimated. Changes seed‐dispersing ant behavior prompted by use, such edge avoidance, pose deleterious on the woodland plants (myrmecochores) they disperse, and hence floristic diversity forests. We examined effects...
Fens and wet meadows are important mountain wetland types, but influences on assemblage structure of associated invertebrates poorly understood compared with other aspects the ecology these habitats. We sought to determine relative contributions terrestrial aquatic diversity abundance in wetlands, extent which invertebrate assemblages differ type, what degree vary as a function slow sheet flow. fens meadows, without flow, at 80 backcountry sites dispersed across 6200 km2 landscape Yosemite,...
Abstract The water-quality effects of low-density rural land-use activities are understudied but important because large land coverage. We review and synthesize spatially extensive studies oligotrophic mountain streams in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, concluding that significantly degrade water quality through altered mostly enhanced landscape–stream connections, despite high forest retention. Some connections (insolation, organic inputs, root–channel interactions, stream–field...
Abstract We quantified microhabitat use by white-footed mice Peromyscus leucopus in forest and old-field habitats occupied Morrow’s honeysuckle Lonicera morrowii, an invasive exotic shrub imported from Japan. Microhabitat characteristics were compared between trails used (n = 124) randomly selected 127) 4 study plots located at Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Farmington, Pennsylvania, USA. 10 variables random using non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) classification regression...
Abstract The Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory (CHL) is a USDA Forest Service (FS) Experimental Forest, located in western North Carolina, the southern Appalachian Mountains. Established 1934, CHL has long‐term data records that include climate, streamflow, stream and atmospheric chemistry, vegetation several small, experimentally‐manipulated reference watersheds. In addition to these data, additional associated with specific projects have been collected are available through publications...
Se ha observado el uso de herramientas en más dos docenas familias aves, aunque pocas aves silvestres fuera la familia los córvidos han sido observadas usando actos agonismo; presentamos reportes adicionales este comportamiento tanto como cardenales. El 9 junio del 2023 observamos y video-grabamos un cardenal Cardinalis cardinalis macho que repetidamente levantó guijarro golpeó espejo lateral vehículo estacionamiento Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, Estados Unidos. Hicimos una...
Exotic bush honeysuckles (Lonicera spp.) are becoming increasingly common in the eastern and mid-western United States, but little is known about their impacts on invertebrates. We used a modified leaf vacuum to sample invertebrates shrub strata understory of three types (and open plots understory): single Morrow’s honeysuckle (L. morrowii A. Gray) shrubs, native southern arrowwood (Viburnum recognitum Fernald) dense thickets honeysuckle, southwestern PA, USA during 2004 2005. also assessed...