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Overview

Samuel B. St. Clair is affiliated with Brigham Young University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with particular emphasis on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of main research topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
  • Weed Control and Herbicide Applications
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Samuel B. St. Clair has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Restoration Ecology
  • Ecosphere
  • Biological Invasions
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • BioScience

Notable recent papers authored by or associated with Samuel B. St. Clair are:

  • Limitations to Propagule Dispersal Will Constrain Postfire Recovery of Plants and Fungi in Western Coniferous Forests, 2021, BioScience
  • Deterring rodent seed-predation using seed-coating technologies, 2020, Restoration Ecology
  • Megafire affects stream sediment flux and dissolved organic matter reactivity, but land use dominates nutrient dynamics in semiarid watersheds, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Selective herbicide control: using furrows and carbon seed coatings to establish a native bunchgrass while reducing cheatgrass cover, 2021, Restoration Ecology
  • Herbicide effects on the establishment of a native bunchgrass in annual grass invaded areas: Indaziflam versus imazapic, 2021, Ecological Solutions and Evidence

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Matthew D. Madsen
  • Tara B. B. Bishop
  • Baylie C. Nusink
  • Rebekah L. Stanton
  • Kristina L. Cass

Best Publications

  • The opening of Pandora’s Box: climate change impacts on soil fertility and crop nutrition in developing countries

    Samuel B. St.Clair;Jonathan P. Lynch

  • Mineral stress: the missing link in understanding how global climate change will affect plants in real world soils

    Jonathan P. Lynch;Samuel B. St.Clair

  • Adaptations of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) for defense against herbivores

    Richard L. Lindroth;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Key interactions between nutrient limitation and climatic factors in temperate forests: a synthesis of the sugar maple literature

    Samuel B. St.ClairS.B. St.Clair;Samuel B. St.ClairS.B. St.Clair;William E. SharpeW.E. Sharpe;William E. SharpeW.E. Sharpe;Jonathan P. LynchJ.P. Lynch;Jonathan P. LynchJ.P. Lynch

  • Patterns and consequences of ungulate herbivory on aspen in western North America

    S Trent Seager;Cristina Eisenberg;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Element accumulation patterns of deciduous and evergreen tree seedlings on acid soils: implications for sensitivity to manganese toxicity

    Samuel B. St.Clair;Jonathan P. Lynch

  • The influences of conifer succession, physiographic conditions and herbivory on quaking aspen regeneration after fire

    Eric A. Smith;Daniel O’Loughlin;Joshua R. Buck;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Plant Community Resistance to Invasion by Bromus Species: The Roles of Community Attributes, Bromus Interactions with Plant Communities, and Bromus Traits

    Jeanne C. Chambers;Matthew J. Germino;Jayne Belnap;Cynthia S. Brown

  • Base cation stimulation of mycorrhization and photosynthesis of sugar maple on acid soils are coupled by foliar nutrient dynamics

    Samuel B. St Clair;Jonathan P. Lynch

  • Conifer expansion reduces the competitive ability and herbivore defense of aspen by modifying light environment and soil chemistry

    W. John Calder;Kevin J. Horn;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Soil drying and nitrogen availability modulate carbon and water exchange over a range of annual precipitation totals and grassland vegetation types.

    Samuel B. St. Clair;Erika A. Sudderth;Marc L. Fischer;Margaret S. Torn

  • Evidence for oxidative stress in sugar maple stands growing on acidic, nutrient imbalanced forest soils

    Samuel B. St. Clair;John E. Carlson;Jonathan P. Lynch

  • Fire severity alters plant regeneration patterns and defense against herbivores in mixed aspen forests

    Ho Yi Wan;Aaron C. Rhodes;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Biotic resistance and disturbance: rodent consumers regulate post-fire plant invasions and increase plant community diversity.

    Samuel B. St. Clair;Rory O'Connor;Richard Gill;Brock McMillan

  • Photosynthetic and antioxidant enzyme responses of sugar maple and red maple seedlings to excess manganese in contrasting light environments.

    Samuel B. St. Clair;Jonathan P. Lynch

  • Growth and survival relationships of 71 tree species with nitrogen and sulfur deposition across the conterminous U.S.

    Kevin J. Horn;R. Quinn Thomas;Christopher M. Clark;Linda H. Pardo

  • Facilitation Drives Mortality Patterns Along Succession Gradients of Aspen-conifer Forests

    W. John Calder;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Legacy effects of fire size and severity on forest regeneration, recruitment, and wildlife activity in aspen forests

    Ho Yi Wan;Adam C. Olson;Kyle D. Muncey;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Developmental contributions to phenotypic variation in functional leaf traits within quaking aspen clones

    Eric A Smith;Sean B Collette;Thomas A Boynton;Tiffany Lillrose

  • Aspen increase soil moisture, nutrients, organic matter and respiration in Rocky Mountain forest communities.

    Joshua R. Buck;Samuel B. St. Clair

  • Expansive fire in Mojave Desert shrubland reduces abundance and species diversity of small mammals

    K.J. Horn;B.R. McMillan;S.B. St. Clair

  • Niche opportunities for invasive annual plants in dryland ecosystems are controlled by disturbance, trophic interactions, and rainfall.

    Richard A. Gill;Rory C. O’Connor;Rory C. O’Connor;Aaron Rhodes;Tara B. B. Bishop

Frequent Co-Authors

David D. Ackerly
David D. Ackerly University of California, Berkeley
Jonathan P. Lynch
Jonathan P. Lynch Pennsylvania State University
Margaret S. Torn
Margaret S. Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Erica A. H. Smithwick
Erica A. H. Smithwick Pennsylvania State University
Annika Nordin
Annika Nordin Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Shaun A. Watmough
Shaun A. Watmough Trent University
Mark E. Fenn
Mark E. Fenn US Forest Service
Jayne Belnap
Jayne Belnap United States Geological Survey
Paul G. Schaberg
Paul G. Schaberg US Forest Service
Juan J. Villalba
Juan J. Villalba Utah State University

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