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Deborah A. Clark is affiliated with the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the United States. Their primary area of research lies within Environmental Science, with a focus on several related subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, and Plant Science.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects with particular emphasis on:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Recent publications by Deborah A. Clark include:

  • Annual Tropical-Rainforest Productivity Through Two Decades: Complex Responses to Climatic Factors, [CO2] and Storm Damage, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Physical structure and biological composition of canopies in tropical secondary and old-growth forests, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Spatial and temporal scales of canopy disturbance and recovery across an old-growth tropical rain forest landscape, 2021, Ecological Monographs
  • Can we see the nitrate from the trees? Long-term linkages between tropical forest productivity and stream nitrogen concentrations, 2023, Biogeochemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Clark include:

  • David B. Clark
  • James R. Kellner
  • Ralph Dubayah
  • Steven F. Oberbauer
  • Yue Gao

Their work is published in various journals, frequently appearing in:

  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Ecological Monographs
  • Biogeochemistry

Best Publications

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • MEASURING NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN FORESTS: CONCEPTS AND FIELD METHODS

    Deborah A. Clark;Sandra Brown;David W. Kicklighter;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • LIFE HISTORY DIVERSITY OF CANOPY AND EMERGENT TREES IN A NEOTROPICAL RAIN FOREST

    Deborah A. Clark;David B. Clark

  • Spacing dynamics of a tropical rain forest tree: evaluation of the Janzen-Connell model

    Deborah A. Clark;David B. Clark

  • NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN TROPICAL FORESTS: AN EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS OF EXISTING FIELD DATA

    Deborah A. Clark;Sandra Brown;David W. Kicklighter;Jeffrey Q. Chambers

  • Landscape-scale variation in forest structure and biomass in a tropical rain forest

    D.B Clark;D.A Clark

  • EDAPHIC FACTORS AND THE LANDSCAPE-SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS OF TROPICAL RAIN FOREST TREES

    David B. Clark;Michael W. Palmer;Deborah A. Clark

  • Tropical rain forest tree growth and atmospheric carbon dynamics linked to interannual temperature variation during 1984-2000

    D. A. Clark;S. C. Piper;C. D. Keeling;D. B. Clark

  • Edaphic variation and the mesoscale distribution of tree species in a neotropical rain forest

    David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Jane M. Read

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • Soil stocks of glomalin produced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a tropical rain forest landscape

    Catherine E. Lovelock;Sara F. Wright;Sara F. Wright;Deborah A. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Roger W. Ruess;Roger W. Ruess

  • Belowground carbon allocation in forests estimated from litterfall and IRGA-based soil respiration measurements

    E.A Davidson;K Savage;P Bolstad;D.A Clark

  • Sources or sinks? The responses of tropical forests to current and future climate and atmospheric composition.

    Deborah A. Clark

  • Long-term study of solar radiation regimes in a tropical wet forest using quantum sensors and hemispherical photography

    Paul M. Rich;Paul M. Rich;David B. Clark;David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Steven F. Oberbauer;Steven F. Oberbauer

  • Annual wood production in a tropical rain forest in NE Costa Rica linked to climatic variation but not to increasing CO2

    David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;Steven F. Oberbauer;Steven F. Oberbauer

  • Edaphic and Human Effects on Landscape‐Scale Distributions of Tropical Rain Forest Palms

    Deborah A. Clark;Deborah A. Clark;David B. Clark;David B. Clark;Rosa M. Sandoval;Marco Vinicio C. Castro;Marco Vinicio C. Castro

  • Distribution and effects on tree growth of lianas and woody hemiepiphytes in a Costa Rican tropical wet forest

    David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark

  • The Impact of Physical Damage on Canopy Tree Regeneration in Tropical Rain Forest

    David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark

  • Abundance, growth and mortality of very large trees in neotropical lowland rain forest

    David B. Clark;Deborah A. Clark

  • ASSESSING THE GROWTH OF TROPICAL RAIN FOREST TREES: ISSUES FOR FOREST MODELING AND MANAGEMENT

    Deborah A. Clark;David B. Clark

  • EDAPHIC FACTORS AND THE LANDSCAPE-SCALE DISTRIBUTIONS OF

    David B. Clark;Michael W. Palmer;Deborah A. Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Clark
David B. Clark University of Missouri–St. Louis
Steven F. Oberbauer
Steven F. Oberbauer Florida International University
Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University
Deborah Lawrence
Deborah Lawrence University of Virginia
Douglas Sheil
Douglas Sheil Wageningen University & Research
Joseph J. O'Brien
Joseph J. O'Brien US Forest Service
Robin L. Chazdon
Robin L. Chazdon University of Connecticut
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clément Stahl
Clément Stahl INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Simone A. Vieira
Simone A. Vieira State University of Campinas

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