Selected Publications

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(My full C.V. can be found here.)

• De Steven, D. and R. R. Sharitz. 2007. Transplanting native dominant plants to facilitate community development in restored Coastal Plain wetlands. Wetlands 27:972-978.
• Allen, B. P., R. R. Sharitz and P. C. Goebel. 2007. Are lianas increasing in importance in temperate floodplain forests in the southeastern United States? Forest Ecology and Management 242:17-23.
• Landman, G. B., R. K. Kolka and R. R. Sharitz. 2007. Soil seed bank analysis of planted and naturally revegetating thermally-disturbed riparian wetland forests. Wetlands 27:211-223.
• Young, A. S., S.-M. Chang and R. R. Sharitz. 2007. Reproductive ecology of a federally endangered legume, Baptisia arachnifera, and its more widespread congener, B. lanceolata (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany 94:228-236.
• De Steven, D., R. R. Sharitz, J. H. Singer, and C. D. Barton. 2006. Testing a passive revegetation approach for restoring coastal plain depression wetlands. Restoration Ecology 14: 452-460.
• Sharitz, R. R., C. D. Barton and D. De Steven. 2006. Tree plantings in depression wetland restorations show mixed success (South Carolina). Ecological Restoration 24:114-115.
• Battaglia, L. L. and R. R. Sharitz. 2006. Responses of floodplain forest species to spatially condensed gradients: a test of the flood-shade tolerance tradeoff hypothesis. Oecologia 147:108-118.
• Zhao, D., B. P. Allen, and R. R. Sharitz. 2006. Twelve year response of old-growth southeastern bottomland hardwood forests to disturbance from Hurricane Hugo. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 3136-3147.
• Lajeunesse, S. D., J. J. Dilustro, R. R. Sharitz, and B. S. Collins. 2006. Ground layer carbon and nitrogen cycling and legume nitrogen inputs following fire in mixed pine forests. Am. J. Bot. 2006 93: 84-93.
• Allen, B. P., R. R. Sharitz, and P. C. Goebel. 2005. Twelve years post-hurricane liana dynamics in an old-growth southeastern floodplain forest. Forest Ecology and Management 218:259-269.
• Mulhouse, J. M., D. De Steven, R. F. Lide and R. R. Sharitz. 2005. Effects of dominant species on vegetation change in Carolina bay wetlands following a multi-year drought. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 132:411-420.
• Mulhouse, J. M., L. E. Burbage and R. R. Sharitz. 2005. Seed bank-vegetation relationships in herbaceous Carolina bays: responses to climatic variability. Wetlands 25:738-747.
• Tsyusko, O. V., M. H. Smith, R. R. Sharitz and T. C. Glenn. 2005. Genetic and clonal diversity of two cattail species, Typha latifolia and T. angustifolia (Typhaceae), from Ukraine. American Journal of Botany 92:1161-1169.
• Collins, B. S., R. R. Sharitz and D. P. Coughlin. 2005. Elemental composition of native wetland plants in constructed mesocosm treatment wetlands. Bioresource Technology 96:937-948.
• Collins, B. S., J. V McArthur and R. R. Sharitz. 2004. Plant effects on microbial assemblages and remediation of acidic coal pile runoff in mesocosm treatment wetlands. Ecological Engineering 23:107-115.
• Sharitz, R. R. 2003. Carolina Bay wetlands: Unique habitats of the southeastern United States. Wetlands 23:550-562.
• Edwards, A. L. and R. R. Sharitz. 2003. Clonal diversity in two rare perennial plants: Sagittaria isoetiformis and Sagittaria teres (Alismataceae). International Journal of Plant Sciences 164:181-188.
• Dilustro, J. J., B. S. Collins, L. K. Duncan and R. R. Sharitz. 2002. Soil texture, land use intensity, and vegetation of Fort Benning upland forest sites. Journal of the Torrey Botantical Society 129:289-297.
• Miller, S. P., and R. R. Sharitz. 2000. Manipulation of flooding and arbuscular mycorrhiza formation influences growth and nutrition of two semiaquatic grass species. Functional Ecology 14:738-748.
• Battaglia, L. L., S. A. Fore, and R. R. Sharitz. 2000. Seedling emergence, survival and size in relation to light and water availability in two bottomland hardwood species. Journal of Ecology 88:1041-1050.
• Edwards, A. L., and R. R. Sharitz. 2000. Population genetics of two rare perennials in isolated wetlands: Sagittaria isoetiformis and S. teres (Alismataceae). American Journal of Botany 87:1147-1158.
• Battaglia, L. L., R. R. Sharitz, and P. R. Minchin. 1999. Patterns of seedling and overstory composition along a gradient of hurricane disturbance in an old-growth bottomland hardwood community. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29:144-156.
• Jones, R. H. and R. R. Sharitz. 1998. Survival and growth of woody plant seedlings in floodplain forest understories, South Carolina. Journal of Ecology 86:574-587.
• Sharitz, R. R. and C. A. Gresham. 1997. Pocosins and Carolina bays. In Southern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management. M. G. Messina and W. H. Conner (eds.). CRE/Lewis Publ., pp. 343-377.
• Keeland, B. D. and R. R. Sharitz. 1997. The effects of water-level fluctuations on weekly tree growth in a southeastern USA swamp. American Journal of Botany 84:131-139.
• Jones, R. H., B. P. Allen, and R. R. Sharitz. 1997. Why do early-emerging tree seedlings have a survival advantages?: A test using Acer rubrum (Aceraceae). American Journal of Botany, 84:1714-1718.
• Sharitz, R. R. and W. J. Mitsch. 1993. Southern floodplain forests. In Biodiversity of the Southeastern United States. W. H. Martin, S. G. Boyce and A. C. Echternacht (eds.). John Wiley, pp. 311-372.
• Sharitz, R. R., L. R. Boring, D. H. Van Lear and J. E. Pinder, III. 1992. Integrating ecological concepts with natural resource management of southern forests. Ecological Applications 2:226-237.