SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

De Steven, D. and R. R. Sharitz. 2007. Transplanting native dominant plants to facilitate community development in restored Coastal Plain wetlands. Wetlands 27:972-978.

Allen, B. P., R. R. Sharitz and P. C. Goebel. 2007. Are lianas increasing in importance in temperate floodplain forests in the southeastern United States? Forest Ecology and Management 242:17-23.

Landman, G. B., R. K. Kolka and R. R. Sharitz. 2007. Soil seed bank analysis of planted and naturally revegetating thermally-disturbed riparian wetland forests. Wetlands 27:211-223.

Young, A. S., S.-M. Chang and R. R. Sharitz. 2007. Reproductive ecology of a federally endangered legume, Baptisia arachnifera, and its more widespread congener, B. lanceolata (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany 94:228-236.

De Steven, D., R. R. Sharitz, J.H. Singer, and C.D. Barton. 2006. Testing a passive revegetation approach for restoring coastal plain depression wetlands. Restoration Ecology 14: 452-460.

Zhao, D., R.R. Sharitz, and B.P. Allen. In Press. Twelve-years of response of old-growth southeastern floodplain forest to disturbance of Hurricane Hugo. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

Allen, B.P., R.R. Sharitz, and P.C. Goebel. 2005. Twelve years post-hurricane liana dynamics in an old-growth southeastern floodplain forest. Forest Ecology and Management 218:259-269.

Battaglia, L. L. and R. R. Sharitz. 2005. Effects of natural disturbance on bottomland hardwood regeneration. p. 121-136. In Ecology and Management of Bottomland Hardwood Systems: The State of Our Understanding, edited by L.H. Fredrickson, S.L. King, and R.M. Kaminski. University of Missouri-Columbia, Gaylord Memorial Laboratory Special Publication No. 10.

Conner, W. H. and R. R. Sharitz. 2005. Forest communities of bottomlands. p. 93-120. In Ecology and Management of Bottomland Hardwood Systems: The State of Our Understanding, edited by L.H. Fredrickson, S.L. King, and R.M. Kaminski.University of Missouri-Columbia, Gaylord Memorial Laboratory Special Publication No. 10.

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.

Mulhouse, J. M., D. De Steven, R. F. Lide and R. R. Sharitz. 2005. Effects of dominant species on vegetation change in Carolina bay wetlands following a multi-year drought. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 132:411-420.

Mulhouse, J. M., L. E. Burbage and R. R. Sharitz. 2005. Seed bank-vegetation relationships in herbaceous Carolina bays: responses to climatic variability. Wetlands 25:738-747.

Tsyusko, O. V., M. H. Smith, R. R. Sharitz and T. C. Glenn. 2005. Genetic and clonal diversity of two cattail species, Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia (Typhaceae), from Ukraine. American Journal of Botany 92:1161-1169.

Hinton, T. G., A. S. Knox, D. I. Kaplan and R. Sharitz. 2005. Phytoextraction of uranium and thorium by native trees in a contaminated wetland. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 264:417-422.

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.

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.

Sharitz, R. R. 2003. Carolina Bay wetlands: Unique habitats of the southeastern United States. Wetlands 23:550-562.

Edwards, A. L. and R. R. Sharitz. 2003. Clonal diversity in two rare perennial plants: Sagittaria isoetiformis and Sagittaria teres (Alismataceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 164:181-188.

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.

Miller, S. P., and R. R. Sharitz. 2000. Manipulation of flooding and arbuscular mycorrhiza formation influences growth and nutrition of two semiaquatic grass species. Functional Ecology 14:738-748.

Battaglia, L. L., S. A. Fore, and R. R. Sharitz. 2000. Seedling emergence, survival and size in relation to light and water availability in two bottomland hardwood species. Journal of Ecology 88:1041-1050.

Edwards, A.L., and R.R. Sharitz. 2000. Population genetics of two rare perennials in isolated wetlands: Sagittaria isoetiformis and S. teres (Alismataceae). American Journal of Botany 87:1147-1158.

Battaglia, L.L., RR Sharitz, and P.R. Minchin. 1999. Patterns of seedling and overstory composition along a gradient of hurricane disturbance in an old-growth bottomland hardwood community. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29:144-156.

Jones, R. H. and R. R. Sharitz. 1998. Survival and growth of woody plant seedlings in floodplain forest understories, South Carolina. Journal of Ecology 86:574-587.

Sharitz, R. R. and C. A. Gresham. 1997. Pocosins and Carolina bays. In Southern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management. M. G. Messina and W. H. Conner (eds.). CRE/Lewis Publ., pp. 343-377.

Keeland, B. D. and R. R. Sharitz. 1997. The effects of water-level fluctuations on weekly tree growth in a southeastern USA swamp. American Journal of Botany 84:131-139.

Jones, R.H., B.P. Allen, and R.R. Sharitz. 1997. Why do early-emerging tree seedlings have a survival advantages?: A test using Acer rubrum (Aceraceae). American Journal of Botany, 84:1714-1718.

Sharitz, R. R. and W. J. Mitsch. 1993. Southern floodplain forests. In Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States. W. H. Martin, S. G. Boyce and A. C. Echternacht (eds.). John Wiley, pp. 311-372.

Sharitz, R. R., L. R. Boring, D. H. Van Lear and J. E. Pinder, III. 1992. Integrating ecological concepts with natural resource management of southern forests. Ecological Applications 2:226-237.

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