Key Publications

Boring, L. R., C. A. Wilson, J. J. Hendricks, and R. J. Mitchell. 2004. Season of burn and nutrient losses in a longleaf pine ecosystem. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13:443-453.
Brantley, S. T., J. M. Vose, D. N. Wear, and L. E. Band. 2017. Planning for an uncertain future: restoration to mitigate water scarcity, and sustain carbon sequestration. Pages 291-239 in L. K. Kirkman, and S. B. Jack (eds.). Ecological Restoration and Management of Longleaf Pine Forests. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Cathey, S. E., L. R. Boring, and T. R. Sinclair. 2010. Assessment of Nitrogen fixation capability of native legumes from the longleaf pine-wiregrass ecosystem. Environmental and Experimental Botany 67:444-450.
Ford, C. R., R. J. Mitchell, and R. O. Teskey. 2008. Water table depth affects productivity, water use, and the response to nitrogen addition in a savanna system. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:2118-2127. Reproduced with permission of the National Research Council Press © 2008.
Kirkman, L. K., L. M. Giencke, R. S. Taylor, L. R. Boring, C. L. Staudhammer, and R. J. Mitchell. 2016. Productivity and species richness in longleaf pine woodlands: resource-disturbance influences across an edaphic gradient. Ecology 97:2259-2271.
Pecot, S. D., R. J. Mitchell, B. J. Palik, E. B. Moser, and J. K. Hiers. 2007. Competitive responses of seedlings and understory plants in longleaf pine woodlands: separating canopy influences above and below ground. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:634-648. Reproduced with permission of the National Research Council Press © 2007.
Starr, G., C. L. Staudhammer, S. Wiesner, S. Kunwor, H. W. Loescher, A. F. Baron, A. Whelan, R. J. Mitchell, and L. R. Boring. 2016. Carbon dynamics of Pinus palustris ecosystems following drought. Forests 7:98. pdf
Whelan, A., G. Starr, C. L. Staudhammer, H. W. Loescher, and R. J. Mitchell. 2015. Effects of drought and prescribed fire on energy exchange in longleaf pine ecosystems. Ecosphere 6(7):128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES15-00111.1. pdf