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Soils & Duff

2026

McCarthy-Neumann, S., Schutte, M.I., Phillips, R., Michel, J.T., Evans, J. 2026. Tree compositional change in upland hardwood forests aligns with mycorrhizal type. Forest Ecology and Management, 617, 123960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123960

2026

Corak, N.K., et al. 2026. Variability in quantifying leaf area index in humid, fire-affected ecosystems. Environmental Research Communincations, 8, 051005. doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/ae6396

2026

Bhandari, S., Alexander, H.D., Phipps, S. et al. 2026. Patterns of Soil Dissolvable Matter Following Prescribed Fire Reintroduction in Hurricane-Damaged Southeastern U.S. Coastal Forests. Environmental Processes, 13, 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40710-025-00810-1

2026

Snyder, M.D., Coates, T.A., Possinger, A.R., Haak, D.C., Oishi, A.C., Caldwell, P.V., Aylward, F.O., Barrett, J.E. 2026. Taxonomic and multifunctional response of soil microbial communities to wildfire, prescribed fire, and partial harvesting in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, United States. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 9:1694825. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2026.1694825

2025

Legge, E.O.L., Akihiro, K., Fernandez, C.W., Wood, K.A.E., Triviño Silva, N.J., Brudvig, L.A., Vander Yacht, A.L. 2025. Dearth under earth: Understudied plant-soil-fire feedback as drivers of forest mesophication and oak regeneration failures. Forest Ecology and Management, 597, 123147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2025.123147.

2025

Sánchez-López, N., Hudak, A.T., Taylor, M.K. et al. 2026. Is this duff? Long-term prescribed burning effects on litter and duff in pine flatwoods of the southeastern US. Fire Ecology, 22, 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-025-00425-9

2025

Onet, A., Grenni, P., Onet, C., Stoian, V., Crisan, V. 2025. Forest Soil Microbiomes: A Review of Key Research from 2003 to 2023. Forests, 16(1), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/f16010148

2023

Kreye, J.K., Kane, J.M., Varner, J.M. 2023. Multivariate roles of litter traits on moisture and flammability of temperate northeastern North American tree species. Fire Ecology, 19, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00176-5

2022

Beals, K.K., Scearce, A.E., Swystun, A.T., Schweitzer, J.A. 2022. Belowground mechanisms for oak regeneration: Interactions among fire, soil microbes, and plant community alter oak seedling growth. Forest Ecology and Management, 503, 119774. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119774.

2022

Babl-Plauche, E.K., Alexander, H.D., Siegert, C.M., Willis, J.L., Berry, A.I. 2022. Mesophication of upland oak forests: Implications of species-specific differences in leaf litter decomposition rates and fuelbed composition. Forest Ecology and Management, 512, 120141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120141.

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