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37
Citations
5163
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6904
National Ranking
2325

Overview

Scott C. Stark is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, contributing to 76 publications in this field. Key subfields of study include Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Engineering, and Insect Science.

Their published work covers a range of topics, with notable emphasis on Remote Sensing in Agriculture, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Forest Ecology and Management, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Scott C. Stark has coauthored multiple papers with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Bruce Nelson
  • Marielle N. Smith
  • Gabriel de Oliveira
  • Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida
  • S. R. Saleska

Their research has been published repeatedly in selected venues, demonstrating a consistent presence in the scientific community. These venues include:

  • Forests
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Recent publications exemplify the range and focus of their work:

  • Monitoring restored tropical forest diversity and structure through UAV-borne hyperspectral and lidar fusion, 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large-scale hydrological refugia from drought?, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Forest fragmentation impacts the seasonality of Amazonian evergreen canopies, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Rapid Recent Deforestation Incursion in a Vulnerable Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon and Fire-Driven Emissions of Fine Particulate Aerosol Pollutants, 2020, Forests
  • Detecting successional changes in tropical forest structure using GatorEye drone-borne lidar, 2020, Biotropica

Best Publications

  • Microbially Mediated Plant Functional Traits

    Maren L. Friesen;Stephanie S. Porter;Scott C. Stark;Eric J. von Wettberg

  • Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests.

    Jin Wu;Loren P. Albert;Aline P. Lopes;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe;Natalia Restrepo-Coupe

  • Amazon forest carbon dynamics predicted by profiles of canopy leaf area and light environment

    Scott C Stark;Veronika Leitold;Jin L Wu;Maria O Hunter

  • A general integrative model for scaling plant growth, carbon flux, and functional trait spectra

    Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Andrew J. Kerkhoff;Scott C. Stark;Nathan G. Swenson

  • Characterisation of the dilute HCl extraction method for the identification of metal contamination in Antarctic marine sediments.

    I. Snape;R.C. Scouller;S.C. Stark;J. Stark

  • Monitoring restored tropical forest diversity and structure through UAV-borne hyperspectral and lidar fusion

    Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Eben North Broadbent;Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira;Paula Meli

  • Monitoring the structure of forest restoration plantations with a drone-lidar system

    Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Eben North Broadbent;Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano;Benjamin E. Wilkinson

  • Age‐dependent leaf physiology and consequences for crown‐scale carbon uptake during the dry season in an Amazon evergreen forest

    Loren P. Albert;Loren P. Albert;Jin Wu;Jin Wu;Neill Prohaska;Plinio Barbosa de Camargo

  • The effectiveness of lidar remote sensing for monitoring forest cover attributes and landscape restoration

    D.R.A. Almeida;S.C. Stark;R. Chazdon;B.W. Nelson

  • Biological processes dominate seasonality of remotely sensed canopy greenness in an Amazon evergreen forest

    Jin Wu;Jin Wu;Hideki Kobayashi;Scott C. Stark;Ran Meng

  • Optimizing the Remote Detection of Tropical Rainforest Structure with Airborne Lidar: Leaf Area Profile Sensitivity to Pulse Density and Spatial Sampling

    Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Scott C. Stark;Gang Shao;Juliana Schietti

  • Seasonal and drought-related changes in leaf area profiles depend on height and light environment in an Amazon forest

    Marielle N. Smith;Marielle N. Smith;Scott C. Stark;Tyeen C. Taylor;Mauricio L. Ferreira

  • Leaf area density from airborne LiDAR: Comparing sensors and resolutions in a temperate broadleaf forest ecosystem

    Aaron G. Kamoske;Kyla M. Dahlin;Scott C. Stark;Shawn P. Serbin

  • Linking canopy leaf area and light environments with tree size distributions to explain Amazon forest demography.

    Scott C. Stark;Scott C. Stark;Brian J. Enquist;Brian J. Enquist;Scott R. Saleska;Veronika Leitold

  • Ecosystem heterogeneity and diversity mitigate Amazon forest resilience to frequent extreme droughts

    Marcos Longo;Marcos Longo;Ryan G Knox;Naomi M Levine;Luciana Ferreira Alves

  • Persistent effects of fragmentation on tropical rainforest canopy structure after 20 yr of isolation.

    Danilo R. A. Almeida;Scott C. Stark;Juliana Schietti;Jose L. C. Camargo

  • A new era in forest restoration monitoring

    Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Scott C. Stark;Rubén Valbuena;Eben N. Broadbent

  • Toward accounting for ecoclimate teleconnections: intra- and inter-continental consequences of altered energy balance after vegetation change

    Scott C. Stark;David D. Breshears;Elizabeth S. Garcia;Darin J. Law

  • Contrasting fire damage and fire susceptibility between seasonally flooded forest and upland forest in the Central Amazon using portable profiling LiDAR

    Danilo Roberti Alves de Almeida;Bruce Walker Nelson;Juliana Schietti;Eric Bastos Gorgens

  • Rapid Recent Deforestation Incursion in a Vulnerable Indigenous Land in the Brazilian Amazon and Fire-Driven Emissions of Fine Particulate Aerosol Pollutants

    Gabriel de Oliveira;Jing M. Chen;Guilherme A. V. Mataveli;Michel E. D. Chaves

  • A null model of exotic plant diversity tested with exotic and native species-area relationships.

    Scott C. Stark;Daniel E. Bunker;Walter P. Carson

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott R. Saleska
Scott R. Saleska University of Arizona
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe
Natalia Restrepo-Coupe University of Technology Sydney
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão
Luiz E. O. C. Aragão National Institute for Space Research
Ruben Valbuena
Ruben Valbuena Bangor University
Bruce Walker Nelson
Bruce Walker Nelson Amazon (United States)
David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Carlos A. Silva
Carlos A. Silva University of Florida
Juliana Schietti
Juliana Schietti Federal University of Amazonas
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo
Plínio Barbosa de Camargo Universidade de São Paulo

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