I am currently an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Western Carolina University (WCU). Please visit my WCU page.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Holladay, C.-A., C. Kwit and B. Collins. 2006. Woody regeneration in and around aging southern bottomland hardwood forest gaps: Effects of herbivory and gap size. Forest Ecology and Management 223(1-3) 218-225.

Lajeunesse, S. D., J. J. Dilustro, R. R. Sharitz, and B. S. Collins. 2006. Ground layer carbon and nitrogen cycling and legume nitrogen inputs following fire in mixed pine forests. Am. J. Bot. 2006 93: 84-93.

Collins, B. S., R. R. Sharitz and D. P. Coughlin. 2005. Elemental composition of native wetland plants in constructed mesocosm treatment wetlands. Bioresource Technology 96:937-948.

Dilustro, J., B. Collins, L. Duncan and C. Crawford. 2005. Moisture and soil texture effects on soil C0₂ efflux components in southeastern mixed pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 204:85-95.

Collins, B. S., J. V McArthur and R. R. Sharitz. 2004. Plant effects on microbial assemblages and remediation of acidic coal pile runoff in mesocosm treatment wetlands. Ecological Engineering 23:107-115.

Duncan, L., J. Dilustro and B. Collins. 2004. Avian response to forest management and military training activities at Fort Benning, Georgia. Georgia Journal of Science 62:95-103.

Battaglia, L. L., B. S. Collins and P. B. Weisenhorn. 2004. Quercus michauxii regeneration in and around aging canopy gaps. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34:1359-1364.

Collins, B. 2003. Ground layer competition and herbivory effects on cherrybark oak (Quercus pagoda Raf.) regeneration in experimental canopy gaps. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 130:147-157.

Dilustro, J. J., B. S. Collins, L. K. Duncan and R. R. Sharitz. 2002. Soil texture, land use intensity, and vegetation of Fort Benning upland forest sites. Journal of the Torrey Botantical Society 129:289-297.

Collins, B., G. Wein, and T. Philippi. 2001. Effects of disturbance intensity and frequency on early old-field succession. Journal of Vegetation Science 12:721-728.

Collins, B. and L. L. Battaglia. 2001. Hydrology effects on propagule bank expression and vegetation in six Carolina bays. Community Ecology 2:21-33.

Collins, B. and L. L. Battaglia. 2001. Microenvironmental heterogeneity and Quercus michauxii regeneration in experimental gaps. Forest Ecology and Management 155:279-290.

_____, P. S. White, and D. W. Imm. 2001. Introduction to Ecology and Management of Rare Plants of the Southeast. Natural Areas Journal 21:4-11.

Philippi, T., B. Collins, S. Guisti, and P. M. Dixon. 2001. A multistage approach to population monitoring for rare plant populations. Natural Areas Journal 21:111-116.

Imm, D. W., H. E. Shealy, Jr., K. W. McLeod, and B. Collins. 2001. Rare Plants of Southeastern Hardwood Forests and the Role of Predictive Modeling. Natural Areas Journal 21:36-49.

Collins, B. and G. Wein. 2000. Stem elongation response to neighbor shade in sprawling and upright Polygonum species. Annals of Botany 86:739-744.

Kreher, S. A., S. A. Foré, and B. Collins. 2000. Genetic variation within and among patches of the clonal species, Vaccinium stamineum L. Molecular Ecology 9:1247-1252.

Collins, B. and G. Wein. 1998. Soil resource heterogeneity effects on early succession. Oikos 82:238-245.

_____ and _____. 1998. Soil heterogeneity effects on canopy structure and composition during early succession. Plant Ecology 138:217-230.