Publications

letters after peer-review publications correspond to my primary research areas: plant community assembly (PC), changing disturbance regimes (DR), and conservation and management (CM)

Peer-Reviewed Publications

8. Carter TA et al. 2025. Fine-Root Traits Coordinate with Aboveground Strategies yet Poorly Predict Species’ Response to Spruce Mortality. Plant and Soil. (PC)

7. Carter TA and Buma B. 2024. Understory Plant Biodiversity is Inversely Related to Carbon Storage in a Carbon Dense Ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution. (PC; CM)

6. Carter TA and Buma B. 2024. The Distribution of Tree Biomass Carbon within the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest, a Disproportionally Carbon Dense Forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. (CM)

5 .Rodman KC, …, Carter TA, et al. 2022. Rocky Mountain forests poised to recover following recent bark beetle outbreaks, but with altered composition. Journal of Ecology. (DR)

4. Hayes KR, Carter TA, et al. 2022. Supporting Graduate Field Leadership through Community-Sourced Advice, Action, and Policy. Ecosphere.

3. Carter TA, Hayes KR, and Buma B. 2022. Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A Synthesis of Spruce Beetle and Fire Interactions in North American Subalpine Forests. Landscape Ecology. (DR)

2. Carter TA et al. 2022. Understory Plant Community Responses to Widespread Spruce Mortality in a Subalpine Forest. Journal of Vegetation Science. (PC)

1. Carter TA, Agneray AC, and Leger EA. 2020. Variability of Whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) Leaf Traits in the Great Basin. Nevada State Undergraduate Research Journal. (PC; DR)

Other Publications

Wessel SA, …, Carter TA, et al. 2021. Exploring vegetation virtually with the Global Vegetation Project. International Associate for Vegetation Science. Bulletin.

Code and Data Products

3. Data from: The distribution of tree biomass carbon within the pacific coastal temperate rainforest, a disproportionally carbon dense forest. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3tx95x6nn

2. Data from: Rocky Mountain forests poised to recover following recent bark beetle outbreaks, but with altered composition. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7sqv9s4sh

1. Data from: Understory Plant Community Responses to Widespread Spruce Mortality in a Subalpine Forest. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2022-0016