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Barton D. Clinton
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 57
Citations - 4370
Barton D. Clinton is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Understory & Forest floor. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 57 publications receiving 4122 citations. Previous affiliations of Barton D. Clinton include United States Department of Agriculture & University of North Carolina at Asheville.
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Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems
Aaron M. Ellison,Michael S. Bank,Barton D. Clinton,Elizabeth A. Colburn,Katherine J. Elliott,Chelcy R. Ford,David R. Foster,Brian D. Kloeppel,Jennifer D. Knoepp,Gary M. Lovett,Jacqueline E. Mohan,David A. Orwig,Nicholas L. Rodenhouse,William V. Sobczak,Kristina A. Stinson,Jeffrey K. Stone,Christopher M. Swan,Jill Thompson,Betsy Von Holle,Jackson R. Webster +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the loss of foundation tree species changes the local environment on which a variety of other species depend and how this disrupts fundamental ecosystem processes, including rates of decomposition, nutrient fluxes, carbon sequestration, and energy flow.
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A long-term study of tree seedling recruitment in southern Appalachian forests: the effects of canopy gaps and shrub understories
TL;DR: This work examined the importance of intermediate-sized gaps and a dense shrub layer on tree seedling recruitment in a southern Appalachian deciduous forest and created 12 canopy gaps under two contrastin...
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Catastrophic windthrow in the southern Appalachians: characteristics of pits and mounds and initial vegetation responses.
Barton D. Clinton,Corey R Baker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterized pit and mound topography resulting from catastrophic wind in the Coweeta Basin, and located 48 PMs across a variety of forest types, including pit length, width, and depth; and mound height, thickness, and width.
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Regeneration patterns in canopy gaps of mixed-oak forests of the southern Appalachians: influences of topographic position and evergreen understory.
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of topographic, gap and stand variables on density of wood seedlings were assessed for the southern Appalachian mixed-oak forests, where regeneration was dominated by Acer rubrum L., Q. velutina Lamarck, Liriodendron tulipifera L. and Cornus florida L.
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Light, temperature, and soil moisture responses to elevation, evergreen understory, and small canopy gaps in the southern Appalachians
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of small canopy gaps of the type (snags) and size (∼300 m2) most frequently observed in the southern Appalachians on the understory microclimate.