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Cathryn H. Greenberg

Cathryn H. Greenberg

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Ecology and Evolution

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5540
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National Ranking
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Overview

Cathryn H. Greenberg is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Insect Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Their work covers multiple aspects of ecology and forest ecosystems.

Greenberg's main topics of study include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Their research output includes several recent papers such as:

  • "The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis" (2022), published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects" (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • "Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East" (2022), published in Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • "Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery" (2022), published in Nature Communications

Greenberg has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Catherine A. Gehring, Michał Bogdziewicz, Benoît Courbaud, Gregory S. Gilbert, and Qinfeng Guo.

Their work has appeared in various publication venues, with notable frequent appearances in:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology Letters
  • Restoration Ecology
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research

In addition to articles, Greenberg has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Springer Nature (Netherlands): Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems (2021).

Best Publications

  • A Comparison of Herpetofaunal Sampling Effectiveness of Pitfall, Single-ended, and Double-ended Funnel Traps Used with Drift Fences

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Daniel G. Neary;Larry D. Harris

  • Effects of elemental composition on the incorporation of dietary nitrogen and carbon isotopic signatures in an omnivorous songbird

    Scott F. Pearson;Scott F. Pearson;Douglas J. Levey;Cathryn H. Greenberg;Carlos Martinez del Rio

  • Effect of High‐Intensity Wildfire and Silvicultural Treatments on Reptile Communities in Sand‐Pine Scrub

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Daniel G. Neary;Larry D. Harris

  • Roadside Soils: A Corridor for Invasion of Xeric Shrub by Nonindigenous Plants

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Stanley H. Crownover;Doria R. Gordon

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

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  • Forest disturbance in hurricane-related downbursts in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina

    Cathryn H Greenberg;W.Henry McNab

  • Individual variation in acorn production by five species of southern Appalachian oaks

    Cathryn H Greenberg

  • Response of reptile and amphibian communities to canopy gaps created by wind disturbance in the southern Appalachians

    Cathryn H Greenberg

  • Fruit fate, seed germination and growth of an invasive vine - an experimental test of 'sit and wait' strategy

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Lindsay M. Smith;Douglas J. Levey

  • Short-term response of reptiles and amphibians to prescribed fire and mechanical fuel reduction in a southern Appalachian upland hardwood forest

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Thomas A. Waldrop

  • Spatial and temporal variation in fruit use by wildlife in a forested landscape

    John P. McCarty;Douglas J. Levey;Cathryn H. Greenberg;Sarah Sargent

  • Breeding bird assemblages of hurricane-created gaps and adjacent closed canopy forest in the Southern Appalachians

    Cathryn H Greenberg;J Drew Lanham

  • Vegetation recovery following high-intensity wildfire and silvicultural treatments in sand pine scrub

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Daniel G. Neary;Lawrence D. Harris;Steven P. Linda

  • Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects.

    James S. Clark;James S. Clark;Robert Andrus;Melaine Aubry-Kientz;Yves Bergeron

  • A COMPARISON OF BIRD COMMUNITIES IN BURNED AND SALVAGE-LOGGED, CLEARCUT, AND FORESTED FLORIDA SAND PINE SCRUB

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Lawrence D. Harris;Daniel G Neary

  • Response of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to coarse woody debris and microsite use in southern Appalachian treefall gaps

    Cathryn H Greenberg

  • Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence

    Tong Qiu;Marie-Claire Aravena;Robert Andrus;Davide Ascoli

  • Response of Reptiles and Amphibians to Repeated Fuel Reduction Treatments

    Charlotte E. Matthews;Christopher E. Moorman;Cathryn H. Greenberg;Thomas A. Waldrop

  • Contagious seed dispersal beneath heterospecific fruiting trees and its consequences

    Charles Kwit;Douglas J. Levey;Cathryn H. Greenberg

  • Response of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to fire and fire surrogate fuel reduction treatments in a southern Appalachian hardwood forest

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;David L. Otis;Thomas A. Waldrop

  • A Comparison of Relative Abundance and Biomass of Ground-Dwelling Arthropods Under Different Forest Management Practices

    Cathryn H. Greenberg;Arlene McGrane

  • WINTERING YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERS (DENDROICA CORONATA) TRACK MANIPULATED ABUNDANCE OF MYRICA CERIFERA FRUITS

    Kathi L. Borgmann;Scott F. Pearson;Douglas J. Levey;Cathryn H. Greenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher E. Moorman
Christopher E. Moorman North Carolina State University
Douglas J. Levey
Douglas J. Levey National Science Foundation
James S. Clark
James S. Clark Duke University
Michał Bogdziewicz
Michał Bogdziewicz Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Thomas T. Veblen
Thomas T. Veblen University of Colorado Boulder
Thomas G. Whitham
Thomas G. Whitham Northern Arizona University
Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Catherine A. Gehring
Catherine A. Gehring Northern Arizona University
Walter D. Koenig
Walter D. Koenig University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan Myers
Jonathan Myers VA Palo Alto Health Care System

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