Department of Plant Biology

Publications/Proceedings

Baer, S.G., J. M. Church, K. W. J. Williard, and J. W. Groninger. 2006. Changes in intrasystem N cycling from N2-fixing shrub encroachment in grassland: multiple positive feedbacks. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 115:174-182.

Baer, S. G., S. L. Collins, J. M. Blair, A. K. Knapp and A. Fiedler.  2005.  Soil heterogeneity effects on tallgrass prairie community heterogeneity: An application of ecological theory to restoration ecology.  Restoration Ecology 13:413-424.

Blattel, C.R., K.W.J. Williard, S. G. Baer and J. J. Zaczek.  2005.  Abatement of groundwater phosphate in giant cane and forest riparian buffers.  Journal of the American Water Resources Association  41:301-301. 

Baer, S. G., Blair, J. M., Collins, S. L., and A. K. Knapp. 2004. Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration. Oecologia  139:617-639.

Baer, S. G. and J. W. Groninger. 2004.  Herbicide and tillage effects on volunteer vegetation composition and diversity during reforestation.  Restoration Ecology 12:258-267.

Groninger, J. W. and S. G. Baer.  2004. Planted green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica Marsh.) and herbaceous vegetation responses to competition control during the first three years of afforestation Forest Ecology and Management 189:161-170.

Baer, S. G., J. M. Blair, S. L. Collins, and A. K. Knapp. 2003.  Soil resources regulate productivity and diversity in newly established tallgrass prairie.  Ecology 84:724-735.

Blattel, C.R., K.W.J. Williard, and S.G. Baer.  2003. Groundwater phosphate attenuation by giant cane and forest riparian buffers.  In:  J.D. Williams and D. Kolpin, eds.  Proceedings of the American Water Resources Association, 2003 Spring Specialty Conference on Agricultural Hydrology and Water Quality.  May 12-14, 2003, Kansas City, MO.

Romano, S. P., J. J. Zaczek, K. W. J. Williard, S. Baer, A. D. Carver, and J. C. Mangun. 2003. Riparian forest communities of the lower Kaskaskia River bottoms. In Proceedings 13th Central Hardwood Forest Conference, April 1-3, 2002, Champaign, IL.  USDA Forest Service General Technical Report NC-234.  Edited by J. W. Van Sambeek, J. O. Dawson, F. Ponder, Jr., E. F. Louwenstein, and J. S. Fralish. North Central Research Station, St. Paul, Minnesota. pp. 169-176.

Baer, S. G., D. J. Kitchen, J. M. Blair, and C. W. Rice. 2002. Changes in ecosystem structure and function along a chronosequence of grasslands restored through the Conservation Reserve Program. Ecological Applications 12:1688-1701.

Baer, S. G., E. R. Siler, S. Eggert, and J. B. Wallace. 2001.  Colonization and production of macroinvertebrates on artificial substrates: upstream-downstream responses to a leaf litter exclusion manipulation. Freshwater Biology 46:347-365.

Baer, S. G., C. W. Rice, and J. M. Blair.  2000.  Assessment of soil quality in fields with short- and long term enrollment in the CRP.  Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 55:142-146.

Baer, S. G., J. M. Blair, and A. K. Knapp.  1999.  Manipulation of soil resource heterogeneity in a tallgrass prairie restoration.  Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conference 16:78-87.

Proceedings

Crum, M. L., J. J. Zaczek, J. E. Preece, and S. G. Baer.  In Press. The impact of thinning and fertilization on sap sugar concentration and sap volume of silver maple (Acer saccharinum L.)  In Proceedings, 15^th Central Hardwood Forest Conference. Feb 27 March 1, 2006, Knoxville, TN. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report NE-xxx.  Northeastern Research Station, Newton Square, Pennsylvania. (in press)

Zaczek, J. J., K. W. J. Williard, S. G. Baer, J. W. Groninger, and R. L. Sexton.  2005.  Propagation of giant cane (Arundinaria gigantea) using rhizome cuttings. Combined Proceedings of the International Plant Propagators Society. Volume 54:408-411.

Church, J.M., K.W.J. Williard, S. G. Baer, J.W. Groninger, and J.J. Zaczek. 2004. Nitrogen leaching below riparian autumn olive during the dormant season. Pages 211-216 in D.A. Yaussey, D. Hix, R.P. Long, and G.P. Goebel (editors).  Proceedings. 14^th Central Hardwood Forest Conference, March 16-19, 2004, Wooster, OH. Gen. Tech. Report NE-316.  U.S. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Northeastern Research Station, Newton Square, PA.