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Scott C Stark

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Forestry
Verified email at msu.edu
Cited by 3291

Microbially mediated plant functional traits

ML Friesen, SS Porter, SC Stark… - Annual review of …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
Plants are rife with bacteria and fungi that colonize roots and shoots both externally and
internally. By providing novel nutritional and defense pathways and influencing plant …

Leaf development and demography explain photosynthetic seasonality in Amazon evergreen forests

…, M Hayek, KT Wiedemann, K Guan, SC Stark… - Science, 2016 - science.org
In evergreen tropical forests, the extent, magnitude, and controls on photosynthetic seasonality
are poorly resolved and inadequately represented in Earth system models. Combining …

Computer generated pyrolysis modeling: on-the-fly generation of species, reactions, and rates

LJ Broadbelt, SM Stark, MT Klein - Industrial & Engineering …, 1994 - ACS Publications
The development of an integrated system for the computer generation of kinetic models is
described. Required input is the structureof the reactants, the reaction rules, and the …

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

SC Stark, V Leitold, JL Wu, MO Hunter… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forest structural variation across heterogeneous landscapes may control above‐ground
carbon dynamics. We tested the hypothesis that canopy structure (leaf area and light …

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

BJ Enquist, AJ Kerkhoff, SC Stark, NG Swenson… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Linking functional traits to plant growth is critical for scaling attributes of organisms to the
dynamics of ecosystems 1 , 2 and for understanding how selection shapes integrated botanical …

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

…, GA Prata, D de Almeida Papa, SC Stark… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Remote sensors, onboard orbital platforms, aircraft, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
have emerged as a promising technology to enhance our understanding of changes in …

The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?

FRC Costa, J Schietti, SC Stark, MN Smith - New Phytologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forest function is of global significance to climate change responses, and critically
determined by water availability patterns. Groundwater is tightly related to soil water through …

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

…, P Meli, EB Gorgens, CA Silva, SC Stark… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
We are in an unprecedented moment for promoting forest restoration globally, with international
and regional pledges to restore at least 350 million hectares by 2030. To achieve these …

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

DRA Almeida, SC Stark, R Chazdon, BW Nelson… - Forest Ecology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ambitious pledges to restore over 400 million hectares of degraded lands by 2030 have been
made by several countries within the Global Partnership for Forest Landscape Restoration …

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

J Wu, H Kobayashi, SC Stark, R Meng, K Guan… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite observations of Amazon forests show seasonal and interannual variations, but the
underlying biological processes remain debated. Here we combined radiative transfer …