PUBLICATIONS
(Refereed journal articles only)
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1. Tracy, J. E. G, Sharma, A., Bohlman, S., Kumar, L.g, Johnson, D. J. (2025). Dormant season submergence as a predictor of forest seedling survival in a connected floodplain. Trees, Forests and People, 100858.
2. Shell, A. G, Sharma, A., Willis, J. L., Tracy, J., Polinko, A., Ojha, S., Vogel, J. (2025). Growth dynamics of longleaf pine during conversion to uneven-aged stands. Forest Ecosystems, 13, 100305.
3. Willis, J. L., Sharma, A., Shearman, T. M., Varner, J. M., McKeithen, J. (2025). Longleaf and shortleaf pine seedling fire tolerance is more sensitive to shade than encroaching hardwood species. Forest Ecology and Management, 589, 122782.
4. Leopard, J. G, Sharma, A., Maggard, A., Ding, C., Cristan, R., Vogel, J. (2025). Replacing peat with biochar: Can adding biochar to peat moss reduce carbon dioxide fluxes? Sustainability, 17(9), 4139.
5. Zampieri, N., Cannon, J., Platt, W., Fortuin, C., Gilliam, F., Sharma, A. (2025). Advancing hurricane ecology to improve ecological resilience in endangered systems. Bioscience, biaf086.
6. Lad, B., Khudsar, F., Sharma, A., Singh, R. 2025. Finance for sustainability: Exploring the BIOFIN framework for government investment in conserving native and indigenous livestock breeds in central India. PLoS One 20(8): e0330728.
7. Munro, H., Woodall, C.W., Anderegg, W.R.L., Atkins, J.W. Beier, C.M., Bullock, B.P., DeLyser, K., Diaz, D.D., Eskelson, B., Evans, M.E.K., Foppert, J.D., Foster, B.C., Fox, T.R., Frank, J.M., Froese, R.E., Gaines III, G.C., Gould, P., Hailemariam, T., Hall, E.S., Heckman, K.A., Helmer, E.H., Hogan, J.A., Hoover, C.M., Kinane, S.M., MacFarlane, D.W., Murray, L.T., Paradis, G., Poudel, K.P., Prisley, S.P., Rakestraw, J.L., Restrepo, H., Sharma, A., Shaw, J.D., Smith-Mateja, E., VanderSchaaf, C.L., Vatandaslar, C., Weiskittel, A.R., Yang, S. (2025). Challenges and strategic recommendations for enhancing quantification and projection of forest carbon dynamics. Journal of Forestry. (In Press)
8. Lapierre, G.g, Andreu, M., Reinhardt, C., Miller, D., Hedman, C., Sharma, A. (2025). Testing seed mixtures featuring ruderal grasses in restoration of pine savannas in the southeastern, USA. Restoration Ecology, e70136.
9. Bueno, I.p, Silva, C., Hamamura, C., Donovan, V., Sharma, A., Qiu, J., Xia, J., Brock, K., Schlickmann, M., Atkins, J., Valle, D., Vogel, J., Susaeta, A., Karasinski, M., Klauberg, C.
(2025). Aboveground biomass density maps for post-hurricane Ian forest monitoring in Florida. Scientific Data. 12(1), 1189.
10. Clarke, M., Stein, T., Sharma, A., Vogel, J., Nowak, J., (2025). Family forest landowners’ decision-making about reforestation and timber salvaging post hurricane. Trees, Forests, and People, 20, 100812.
11. Shukla, G., Nath, A. J., Chakravarty, S., Panwar, P., Sharma, A. (2024). Land degradation and forest management. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7, 1525397.
12. Tracy, J. E.G, Sharma, A., Deitch, M., Colee, J., Johnson, D. J. (2024). Investigating Thresholds for Drought Resistance in Floodplain Forest Tree Species. Forest Science, fxae021.
13. Tracy, J.G, Sharma, A., Deitch, M., Colee, J., Thetford, M., Johnson, D. Flood dynamics and tree resilience: First-year seedlings of five floodplain forest species responding to diverse inundation scenarios. Forest Ecology and Management 556, 121724.
14. Moller, J.C.g, Susaeta, A., Deegen, P., Sharma, A. (2024). Profitability analysis of southern plantations through timber alone or timber and carbon integration in pine-sweetgum mixes. Forest Policy and Economics 161, 103163.
15. Clark, M., Sharma, A., Stein, T., Vogel, J., Nowak, J. (2023). Forest disturbances and nonindustrial forest landowners: Management of invasive plants, fire hazards and wildlife habitats after a hurricane. Journal of Forestry, fvad022.
16. Minogue, P. J., Lauer, D. K., Sharma, A., Keserauskis Kunzer, M., McKeithen, J., Mott, J. (2023). Herbicide control of titi (Cyrilla racemiflora) in restoration of ephemeral wetlands. Restoration Ecology, e13971.
17. Deomurari, A.g, Sharma, A., Ghose, D., Singh, R. (2023). Potential range map dataset of Indian Birds. Data 8 (9), 144.
18. Pope, C.G, Cannon, J., Bigelow, S. W., Sharma, A. (2023). Effects of hurricane canopy gaps on longleaf pine and upland oak sapling growth. Forest Ecology and Management, 529, 120684.
19. Panda, D., Krishna, J. S., Sharma, A., Pandey, P., Lee, H., & Singh, R. (2023). Ecosystem services provided by striped hyenas in the human-dominated landscape of Rajasthan, India. Science of The Total Environment, 166267.
20. Deomurari, A.g, Sharma, A., Ghose, D., Singh, R. (2023). Projected Shifts in Bird Distribution in India under Climate Change. Diversity, 15(3), 404.
21. Panda, D.g, Mohanty, S., Allen, M. L., Dheer, A., Sharma, A., Pandey, P., Lee, H., Singh, R. (2023). Competitive interactions with dominant carnivores affect carrion acquisition of striped hyena in a semi-arid landscape of Rajasthan, India. Mammal Research, 68, 129-141.
22. Polinko, A., Willis, J.L., Sharma, A., Guldin, J. (2022). Stand-level structural characteristics dictate hurricane resistance and resilience more than silvicultural regime in longleaf pine woodlands. Forest Ecology and Management, 526, 120585.
23. Susaeta, A., Sharma, A., Klizentyte, K.g, Adams, D.C. (2022). Economic analysis of unevenaged forest management in the southeastern United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First. (https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0109)
24. Shell, A.B.G, Sharma, A., Vogel. J.G., Willis, J.W. (2022). Converting plantations to unevenaged stands: Effects of harvest type, group opening size, orientation, and canopy position on residual tree development. Trees, Forests and People, 10, 100342.
25. Maletha, A., Maikhuri, R.K., Bargali, S.S., Sharma, A., Negi, V.S., Rawat, L.S (2022). Vegetation dynamics and soil nutrient availability in a temperate forest along altitudinal gradient of Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya, India. PLOS ONE. 17(10): e0275051.
26. Baniya, B.G, Bigelow, S.W., Sharma, A., Taylor, R.S., Vogel, J.G., Brantley, S.T. (2022). Reassembly of the longleaf pine ecosystem: Effects of groundcover seeding on understory community, fire behavior and soil properties. Forests, 13, 519.
27. Silva, C.A., Hudak, A.T., Vierling, L.A., Valbuena, R., Cardil, A., Mohan, M., de Almeida, D.R.A., Broadbent, E.N., Almeyda Zambrano, A.M., Wilkinson, B., Sharma, A., Drake, J.B., Medley, P.B., Vogel, J.G., Prata, G.A., Atkins, J.W., Hamamura, C., Johnson, D.J., Klauberg, C. (2022). Treetop: A shiny‐based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13, 1164–1176.
28. Brethauer, D.K.G, Sharma, A., Vogel, J.G., Miller, D.L., van Santen, E. (2021). Longleaf pine seedling growth and survival: Effects of season and intensity of simulated prescribed burning. Forest Ecology and Management, 502, 119719.
29. Willis, J.L., Sharma, A., Kush, J.S. (2021) Seasonality of biennial burning has no adverse effects on mature longleaf pine survival or productivity. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, 684087.
30. Susaeta, A., Klizentyte, K.g, Sharma, A., Adams, D.C. (2021). Can uneven-aged management improve the economic performance of longleaf pine? Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51(9), 1307–1315.
31. Shell, A.B.G, Ojha, S.K.p, Sharma, A. (2021). Region-wide characterization of structural diversity of the U.S. Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forests Province. Forest Ecology and Management, 488, 118979.
32. Sharma, A., Ojha, S.K.p, Dimov, L., Vogel, J.G., Nowak, J. (2021). Long-term effects of catastrophic wind on southern US coastal forests: Lessons from a major hurricane. PLoS ONE, 16(1), e0243362.
33. Frazier, J.E.G, Sharma, A., Johnson, D.J., Andreu, M.G., Bohn, K.K. (2021). Group selection silviculture for converting pine plantations to uneven-aged stands. Forest Ecology and Management, 481, 118729.
34. Prata, G.A.p, Broadbent, E.N., de Almeida, D.R.A., St. Peter, J., Drake, J., Medley, P., Corte, A.P.D., Vogel, J.G., Sharma, A., Silva, C.A., Zambrano, A.M.A., Valbuena, R., Wilkinson, B. (2020). Single-pass UAV-borne GatorEye LiDAR sampling as a rapid assessment method for surveying forest structure. Remote Sensing, 12, 4111.
35. Sharma, A., Brethauer, D.K.G, McKeithen, J.T, Bohn, K.K., Vogel, J.G. (2020b). Prescribed burn effects on natural regeneration in pine flatwoods: Implications for uneven-aged stand conversion from a Florida study. Forests, 11(3), 328.
36. Sharma, A, Cory, B.U, McKeithen, JT, Frazier, J.E.G (2020a). Structural diversity of the longleaf pine ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management, 462, 117987.
37. Sharma, A., Bohn, K.K., McKeithen, J.T, Singh, A. (2019). Effects of conversion harvests on light regimes in a southern pine ecosystem in transition from intensively managed plantations to uneven-aged stands. Forest Ecology and Management, 432, 140-149.
38. Sharma, A., Bohn, K.K., Jose, S., Miller, D.L. (2018). Seed bank- vegetation dynamics along a restoration gradient in pine flatwoods ecosystems of Florida Gulf Coast. Natural Areas Journal, 38(1), 26-43.
39. Sharma, A., Bohn, K.K., Nowak, J., Dwivedi, P. (2018). Economic feasibility of and vegetation responses to biomass harvest in managed loblolly pine plantations. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 37(5), 445-458.
40. Sharma, A., Bohn, K.K., Jose, S., Dwivedi, P. (2016). Even-aged vs. uneven-aged silviculture: Implications for multifunctional management of southern pine ecosystems. Forests, 7, 86.
41. Dwivedi, P., Khanna, M., Sharma, A., Susaeta, A. (2016). Efficacy of carbon and bioenergy markets in mitigating carbon emissions on reforested lands: A case study from southern United States. Forest Policy and Economics, 67, 1-9.
42. Roy, P.S., Behera, M.D., Murthy, M.S.R., Roy, A., Singh, S., Kushwaha, S.P.S., Jha, C.S., Sudhakar, S., Joshi, P.K., Reddy, C.S., Gupta, S., Pujar, G., Dutt, C.B.S., Srivastava, V.K., Porwal, M.C., Tripathi, P., Singh, J.S., Chitale, V., Skidmore, A.K., Rajshekhar, G., Kushwaha, D., Karnatak, H., Saran, S., Giriraj, A., Padalia, H., Kale, M., Nandy, S., Jegannath, C., Singh, C.P., Biradar, C.M., Pattanaik, C., Singh, D.K., Devagiri, G.M., Talukdar, G., Panigrahy, R., Singh, H., Sharma, J.R., Haridasan, K., Trivedi, S., Singh, K.P., Kannan, L., Daniel, M., Misra, M.K., Niphadkar, M., Nagabhatla, N., Prasad, N., Tripathi, O.P., Prasad, P.R.C., Dash, P., Qureshi, Q., Tripathi, S.K., Ramesh, B.R., Gowda, B., Tomar, S., Romshoo, S., Giriraj, S., Ravan, S.A., Behera, S.K., Paul, S., Das, A.K., Ranganath, B.K., Singh, T.P., Sahu, T.R., Shankar, U., Menon, A.R.R., Srivastava, G., Neeti, Sharma, S., Mohapatra, U.B., Peddi, A., Rashid, H., Salroo, I., Krishan, P.H., Hajra, P.K., Vergheese, A.O., Matin, S., Chaudhary, S.A., Ghosh, S., Lakshmi, U., Rawat, D., Ambastha, K., Malik, H.M., Devi, B.S.S., Gowda, B., Sharma, K.C., Mukharjee, P., Sharma, A., Davidar, P., Raju, R.R.V., Uniyal, B.P., Debnath, B., Rout, D.K., Thapa, R., Joseph, S., Chhetri, P., Ramachandran, R.M. (2015). New vegetation type map of India prepared using satellite remote sensing: its comparison with global vegetation maps and utilities. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 39, 142-159.
43. Sharma, A., Bohn, K.K., Jose, S., Cropper, W.P. Jr. (2014). Converting even-aged plantations to uneven-aged stand conditions: A simulation analysis of silvicultural regimes with slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.). Forest Science, 60(5), 893-906.
44. Sharma, A., Jose, S., Bohn, K.K., Andreu, M.G. (2012). Effects of reproduction methods and overstory species composition on understory light availability in longleaf pine - slash pine ecosystems. Forest Ecology and Management, 284, 23-33.
45. Dwivedi, P., Bailis, R., Carter, D.R., Sharma, A. (2012). A landscape-based approach for assessing spatiotemporal impacts of forest biomass-based electricity generation on the age structure of surrounding forest plantations in the Southern United States. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy, 4(3), 342-357.
46. Kaul, M.K., Kumar, A., Sharma, A. (2005). Reproductive biology of Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal. Current Science, 88(9), 1375-1377.