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Overview

Mary A. Arthur is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, incorporating various subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Soil Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work focuses notably on topics including Fire effects on ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant Ecology and Soil Science, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance. Tree-ring climate responses also form part of their research interests.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Mary A. Arthur are:

  • Reviewing Fire, Climate, Deer, and Foundation Species as Drivers of Historically Open Oak and Pine Forests and Transition to Closed Forests (2020) published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Recent Photosynthates Are the Primary Carbon Source for Soil Microbial Respiration in Subtropical Forests (2022) published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Fire exclusion vs. a fire-free interval following repeated prescribed fire: Consequences for forest stand structure and species composition in an upland oak forest (2023) published in Forest Ecology and Management
  • Primary productivity regulates rhizosphere soil organic carbon: Evidence from a chronosequence of subtropical Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantation (2024) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • Mastication Fuels Did Not Alter Fire Severity or Stand Structure in an Upland Oak Woodland (2022) published in Forest Science

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Mary A. Arthur include Zhijie Yang, Shi-Dong Chen, Xiaofei Liu, Decheng Xiong, and Chao Xu.

The scientist regularly publishes in specialized venues with repeated publications found in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other publication outlets for their work include Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Geophysical Research Letters, Forest Ecology and Management, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

  • Forest Ecosystem Responses to Exotic Pests and Pathogens in Eastern North America

    Gary M. Lovett;Charles D. Canham;Mary A. Arthur;Kathleen C. Weathers

  • Nitrogen cycling in a northern hardwood forest: Do species matter?

    Gary M. Lovett;Kathleen C. Weathers;Mary A. Arthur;Jack C. Schultz

  • Control of Nitrogen Loss from Forested Watersheds by Soil Carbon:Nitrogen Ratio and Tree Species Composition

    Gary M. Lovett;Kathleen C. Weathers;Mary A. Arthur

  • Root decomposition and nutrient flux following whole-tree harvest of northern hardwood forest

    Timothy J. Fahey;Jeffrey W. Hughes;Mou Pu;Mary A. Arthur

  • SINGLE AND REPEATED FIRES AFFECT SURVIVAL AND REGENERATION OF WOODY AND HERBACEOUS SPECIES IN AN OAK-PINE FOREST

    M. A. Arthur;R. D. Paratley;B. A. Blankenship

  • Challenges of measuring forest floor organic matter dynamics:: Repeated measures from a chronosequence

    Ruth D Yanai;Mary A Arthur;Thomas G Siccama;C.Anthony Federer

  • Refining the oak-fire hypothesis for management of oak-dominated forests of the eastern United States

    Mary A. Arthur;Heather D. Alexander;Daniel C. Dey;Callie J. Schweitzer

  • Effects of tree species and N additions on forest floor microbial communities and extracellular enzyme activities.

    Matthew P. Weand;Mary A. Arthur;Gary M. Lovett;Rebecca L. McCulley

  • Do Nutrient Limitation Patterns Shift from Nitrogen Toward Phosphorus with Increasing Nitrogen Deposition Across the Northeastern United States

    K. F. Crowley;B. E. McNeil;G. M. Lovett;C. D. Canham

  • Plant and soil natural abundance δ 15N: indicators of relative rates of nitrogen cycling in temperate forest ecosystems

    Pamela H. Templer;Mary A. Arthur;Gary M. Lovett;Kathleen C. Weathers

  • Leaf phenology and freeze tolerance of the invasive shrub Amur honeysuckle and potential native competitors

    Ryan W. McEwan;M. Keith Birchfield;Angela Schoergendorfer;Mary A. Arthur

  • Nitrogen Addition Increases Carbon Storage in Soils, But Not in Trees, in an Eastern U.S. Deciduous Forest

    Gary M. Lovett;Mary A. Arthur;Kathleen C. Weathers;Ross D. Fitzhugh

  • Detecting Change in Forest Floor Carbon

    Ruth D. Yanai;Stephen V. Stehman;Mary A. Arthur;Cindy E. Prescott

  • Stand structure over 9 years in burned and fire-excluded oak stands on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky

    B.A. Blankenship;M.A. Arthur

  • Patterns of growth dominance in forests of the Rocky Mountains, USA

    Dan Binkley;Daniel M. Kashian;Suzanne Boyden;Margot W. Kaye

  • Mass and nutrient content of decaying boles in an Engelmann spruce-subalpine fir forest, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.

    Mary A. Arthur;Timothy J. Fahey

  • Biomass and nutrients in an Engelmann spruce–subalpine fir forest in north central Colorado: pools, annual production, and internal cycling

    Mary A. Arthur;Timothy J. Fahey

  • Survival and growth of upland oak and co-occurring competitor seedlings following single and repeated prescribed fires

    Heather D. Alexander;Mary A. Arthur;David L. Loftis;Stephanie R. Green

  • The influence of the invasive shrub, Lonicera maackii , on leaf decomposition and microbial community dynamics

    Mary A. Arthur;Sarah R. Bray;Christina R. Kuchle;Christina R. Kuchle;Ryan W. McEwan

  • ACCUMULATION AND DEPLETION OF BASE CATIONS IN FOREST FLOORS IN THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

    R. D. Yanai;T. G. Siccama;M. A. Arthur;C. A. Federer

  • Implications of a predicted shift from upland oaks to red maple on forest hydrology and nutrient availability

    Heather D. AlexanderH.D. Alexander;Mary A. ArthurM.A. Arthur

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth D. Yanai
Ruth D. Yanai SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Kathleen C. Weathers
Kathleen C. Weathers Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Thomas G. Siccama
Thomas G. Siccama Yale University
Steven P. Hamburg
Steven P. Hamburg Environmental Defense Fund
Gary M. Lovett
Gary M. Lovett New York Botanical Garden
Joel D. Blum
Joel D. Blum University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky
Pamela H. Templer
Pamela H. Templer Boston University
Andrew J. Friedland
Andrew J. Friedland Dartmouth College
Carol C. Baskin
Carol C. Baskin University of Kentucky

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