Samuel J. McNaughton
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- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Ecology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Joseph McNaughton is an American ecologist and professor at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. at University of Texas-Austin in 1964, and was tenured to Syracuse University in 1966. Research Sam McNaughton is mainly known for his studies of plant–herbivore interactions and consequences of herbivory to ecosystems. His focus is on ecosystem metabolism. His team’s research concentrates on these processes and, particularly, the coupling between trophic levels in ecosystems.
Samuel J. McNaughton's Published Works
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Published Works
- Ecology of a Grazing Ecosystem: The Serengeti (1985) (1313)
- Grazing as an Optimization Process: Grass-Ungulate Relationships in the Serengeti (1979) (1209)
- Compensatory plant growth as a response to herbivory (1983) (1147)
- Ungulate effects on the functional species composition of plant communities; herbivore selectivity and plant tolerance (1998) (1069)
- Grazing Lawns: Animals in Herds, Plant Form, and Coevolution (1984) (993)
- Ecosystem-level patterns of primary productivity and herbivory in terrestrial habitats (1989) (664)
- Diversity and Stability of Ecological Communities: A Comment on the Role of Empiricism in Ecology (1977) (618)
- Serengeti Grassland Ecology: The Role of Composite Environmental Factors and Contingency in Community Organization (1983) (484)
- Serengeti Migratory Wildebeest: Facilitation of Energy Flow by Grazing (1976) (481)
- Large Mammals and Process Dynamics in African EcosystemsHerbivorous mammals affect primary productivity and regulate recycling balances (1988) (428)
- Dominance and the Niche in Ecological Systems (1970) (380)
- ECOLOGY OF AFRICAN GRAZING AND BROWSING MAMMALS (1986) (373)
- The ecology of the earth's grazing ecosystems: Profound functional similarities exist between the Serengeti and Yellowstone (1998) (315)
- Regulation of shrub dynamics by native browsing ungulates on East African rangeland (2004) (299)
- Effects of resource distribution on animal-plant interactions (1994) (298)
- Mineral nutrition and spatial concentrations of African ungulates (1988) (295)
- Silica as a Defense against Herbivory and a Growth Promotor in African Grasses (1985) (295)
- Grazing and the dynamics of nutrient and energy regulated microbial processes in the Serengeti grasslands (1987) (264)
- Structure and Function in California Grasslands (1968) (261)
- Mineral nutrition and seasonal movements of African migratory ungulates (1990) (253)
- FEEDBACKS BETWEEN SOIL NUTRIENTS AND LARGE HERBIVORES IN A MANAGED SAVANNA ECOSYSTEM (2003) (253)
- Science and Management: Too Many Deer?@@@The Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Management (1998) (244)
- Relationships among Functional Properties of Californian Grassland (1967) (238)
- ROOT BIOMASS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN A GRAZING ECOSYSTEM: THE SERENGETI (1998) (230)
- Stability increases with diversity in plant communities: empirical evidence from the 1988 Yellowstone drought (1991) (224)
- Biodiversity and Function of Grazing Ecosystems (1994) (219)
- Effect of animal husbandry on herbivore-carrying capacity at a regional scale (1992) (216)
- Ecotype Function in the Typha Community‐Type (1966) (211)
- Grass leaf silicification: Natural selection for an inducible defense against herbivores. (1983) (210)
- Plant Adaptation in an Ecosystem Context: Effects of Defoliation, Nitrogen, and Water on Growth of an African C4 Sedge (1983) (210)
- On Plants and Herbivores (1986) (206)
- The Ecology of Plants, Large Mammalian Herbivores, and Drought in Yellowstone National Park (1992) (199)
- Stress Effects on Natural Ecosystems (1981) (186)
- Interactive Effects of Ungulate Herbivores, Soil Fertility, and Variable Rainfall on Ecosystem Processes in a Semi-arid Savanna (2006) (185)
- Effect of stress and time for recovery on the amount of compensatory growth after grazing (2004) (177)
- How can net Primary Productivity be Measured in Grazing Ecosystems (1996) (169)
- Evidence for the promotion of aboveground grassland production by native large herbivores in Yellowstone National Park (1993) (161)
- Determinants of biodiversity regulate compositional stability of communities (1999) (159)
- STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF SUCCESSIONAL VASCULAR PLANT COMMUNITIES IN CENTRAL NEW YORK (1975) (156)
- Effects of Phosphorus Nutrition and Defoliation on C4 Graminoids from the Serengeti Plains (1985) (149)
- r- and K-Selection in Typha (1975) (146)
- Serengeti Ungulates: Feeding Selectivity Influences the Effectiveness of Plant Defense Guilds (1978) (144)
- Stability and diversity of ecological communities (1978) (136)
- Autotoxic Feedback in Relatin to Germination and Seedling Growth in Typha Latifolia (1968) (131)
- Grasses and Grazers, Science and Management. (1993) (130)
- Heavy Metal Tolerance in Typha Latifolia without the Evolution of Tolerant Races (1974) (127)
- Diversity and stability (1988) (122)
- Stability and Diversity at Three Trophic Levels in Terrestrial Successional Ecosystems (1971) (122)
- Ecological conditions that determine when grazing stimulates grass production (1989) (120)
- Simulated Effects of Grazing on Soil Nitrogen and Mineralization in Contrasting Serengeti Grasslands (1992) (118)
- Source-sink carbon relations in two Panicum-coloratum ecotypes in response to herbivory (1991) (118)
- Aboveground biomass estimation with the canopy intercept method: a plant growth form caveat (1990) (108)
- Elemental and fibre contents of savanna grasses : variation with grazing, soil type, season and species (1990) (106)
- Compensatory Photosynthetic Responses of Three African Graminoids to Different Fertilization, Watering, and Clipping Regimes (1984) (105)
- Forage Nutritive Quality in the Serengeti Ecosystem: The Roles of Fire and Herbivory (2007) (104)
- Rainfall and soils modify plant community response to grazing in Serengeti National Park. (2007) (100)
- Biomass and mineral element responses of a Serengeti short-grass species to nitrogen supply and defoliation: compensation requires a critical [N] (1998) (95)
- The propagation of disturbance in savannas through food webs (1992) (94)
- Carbon partitioning patterns of mycorrhizal versus non-mycorrhizal plants: real-time dynamic measurements using 11 CO2. (1989) (93)
- Intraspecific variation in the response of Themeda triandra to defoliation: the effect of time of recovery and growth rates on compensatory growth (1988) (87)
- Spatial variation in forage nutrient concentrations and the distribution of Serengeti grazing ungulates (1992) (85)
- Grassland fire dynamics in the serengeti ecosystem, and a potential method of retrospectively estimating fire energy (1989) (82)
- The Cybernetic Nature of Ecosystems (1981) (78)
- Scale-dependent relationships between the spatial distribution of a limiting resource and plant species diversity in an African grassland ecosystem (2004) (77)
- Effects of Low Soil Temperature on Transpiration, Photosynthesis, Leaf Relative Water Content, and Growth Among Elevationally Diverse Plant Populations (1973) (71)
- Temporal Asynchrony in Soil Nutrient Dynamics and Plant Production in a Semiarid Ecosystem (2004) (70)
- Lack of compensatory growth under phosphorus deficiency in grazing-adapted grasses from the Serengeti Plains (1989) (69)
- Modelling primary production of perennial graminoids 3$̄uniting physiological processes and morphometric traits (1984) (68)
- LABORATORY-SIMULATED GRAZING: INTERACTIVE EFFECTS OF DEFOLIATION AND CANOPY CLOSURE ON SERENGETI GRASSES' (1992) (62)
- Physiological and Ecological Implications of Herbivory (1983) (61)
- Ammonia volatilization and the effects of large grazing mammals on nutrient loss from East African grasslands (1988) (59)
- EFFECTS OF ELEVATED CO2 AND DEFOLIATION ON GRASSES: A COMPARATIVE ECOSYSTEM APPROACH (1997) (58)
- Responses of an African graminoid (Themeda triandra Forsk.) to frequent defoliation, nitrogen, and water: a limit of adaptation to herbivory (1985) (54)
- Elemental analysis of mineral lick soils from the Serengeti National Park, the Konza Prairie and Yellowstone National Park (1995) (54)
- Grazing Lawns: On Domesticated and Wild Grazers (1986) (53)
- COMBUSTION IN NATURAL FIRES AND GLOBAL EMISSIONS BUDGETS (1998) (53)
- Temporally variable rainfall does not limit yields of Serengeti grasses (1998) (47)
- The effects of clipping, nitrogen source and nitrogen concentration on the growth responses and nitrogen uptake of an east african sedge (1983) (46)
- Photosynthesis and Photorespiration in Typha latifolia. (1970) (45)
- Primary and Secondary Production in Terrestrial Ecosystems (1991) (45)
- Effects of Water Stress and Simulated Grazing on Leaf Elongation and Water Relations of an East African Grass, Eustachys paspaloides (1987) (42)
- 9 – C4 Plants and Herbivory (1999) (41)
- Responses of an African tall-grass (Hyparrhenia filipendula stapf.) to defoliation and limitations of water and nitrogen (1985) (40)
- Nutrient acquisition and physiological responses of dominant Serengeti grasses to variation in soil texture and grazing (2006) (39)
- EFFECTS OF CLIPPING AND FOUR LEVELS OF NITROGEN ON THE GAS EXCHANGE, GROWTH, AND PRODUCTION OF TWO EAST AFRICAN GRAMINOIDS (1985) (38)
- Natural Selection at the Enzyme Level (1974) (38)
- Interactions between grazers and a cyanogenic grass, Cynodon plectostachyus (1988) (37)
- Simulated effects of precipitation and nitrogen on Serengeti grassland productivity (1993) (36)
- Interactive effect of flooding and grazing on the growth of Serengeti grasses (1991) (36)
- Simulation study of east-African perennial graminoid responses to defoliation (1984) (36)
- Urea as a promotive coupler of plant-herbivore interactions (1984) (35)
- Multi‐scale analysis of plant species richness in Serengeti grasslands (2007) (35)
- Comparative Photosynthesis of Quebec and California Ecotypes of Typha Latifolia (1973) (34)
- Developmental Control of Net Productivity in Typha Latifolia Ecotypes (1974) (33)
- Enzymic Thermal Adaptations: The Evolution of Homeostasis in Plants (1972) (33)
- Ecosystem Catalysis: Soil Urease Activity and Grazing in the Serengeti Ecosystem (1997) (33)
- Photosynthetic Adaptability of Two Fern Species of a Northern Hardwood Forest (1993) (30)
- 6 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Grasslands (2003) (30)
- Thermal Inactivation Properties of Enzymes from Typha latifolia L. Ecotypes. (1966) (29)
- Tradeoff between height and relative growth rate in a dominant grass from the Serengeti ecosystem (1995) (27)
- Elk grazing and vegetation responses following a late season fire in Yellowstone National Park (1997) (26)
- 14 – Dryland Herbaceous Perennials (1991) (25)
- Molecular, physiological, and growth responses to sodium stress in C4 grasses from a soil salinity gradient in the Serengeti ecosystem. (2001) (24)
- Interactive regulation of grass yield and chemical properties by defoliation, a salivary chemical, and inorganic nutrition (1985) (24)
- Differential Enzymatic Activity in Ecological Races of Typha latifolia L (1965) (22)
- Herbivory in Terrestrial Ecosystems (2000) (21)
- Will increases in atmospheric CO2 affect regrowth following grazing in C4 grasses from tropical grasslands? A test with Sporobolus kentrophyllus (1994) (19)
- Shoot growth and morphometric analyses of Serengeti graminoids (1985) (19)
- Photosynthetic System II: Racial Differentiation in Typha latifolia (1967) (19)
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in grasslands. (1996) (19)
- GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL OF GLYCOLIC ACID OXIDASE ACTIVITY IN ECOTYPIC POPULATIONS OF TYPHA LATIFOLIA (1969) (18)
- Fitness Sets for Typha (1970) (14)
- The Use of the 11 C Technique to Measure Plant Responses to Herbivorous Soil Nematodes (1991) (12)
- The effects of clipping and fertilization on nitrogen nutrition and allocation by mycorrhizal and nonmycorrhizal Panicum coloratum L., a C4 grass (2004) (9)
- Light-stimulated Oxygen Uptake and Glycolic Acid Oxidase in Typha latifolia L. Leaf Disks (1966) (9)
- Large herbivores in rangelands (1993) (8)
- Herbivory and Trophic Interactions (2001) (8)
- Ecological consequences of nuclear war (1986) (7)
- Community ordering and niche width. (1970) (6)
- The Role of Diversity in the Energetics of Plant Communities (1974) (6)
- Stability and diversity in grassland communities (reply) (1979) (6)
- Influence of nutrient availability and tree wildling density on nutrient uptake by Oxalis acetosella and Acer saccharum. (2001) (6)
- Numerical and temporal relationships in a three-level food chain (2004) (5)
- Comparative foliage and twig chemistry of co-occurring Myrica gale and Chamaedaphne calyculata (1993) (4)
- Oxidase Activity in Ecotypic Populations of Typha Latifolia L. (1966) (4)
- Terrestrial Plant‐Herbivore Interactions: Integrating Across Multiple Determinants and Trophic Levels (2013) (4)
- Vegetation Dynamics in Grasslands, Heathlands and Mediterranean Ligneous Formations. Symposium of the Working Groups for Succession Research on Permanent Plots, and Data-Processing in Phytosociology of the International Society for Vegetation Science, Held at Montpellier, France, September 1980.P. P (1983) (2)
- Measuring Heterotroph-Induced Source-Sink Relationships in Panicum Coloratum with ^1^1C Technology. (1993) (2)
- Science and Management: Too Many Deer? (1998) (1)
- Interactive Ecology of Plants and Large Mammal Herbivores in the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park (1987) (1)
- Definition and Quantitation in Ecology (1968) (1)
- Stress on Ecosystems (1983) (1)
- Genetic Control of Bud Bursting in Altitudinally Diverse Cascade Forest Community Samples (1967) (1)
- Climates of Organisms (1969) (0)
- Inside Look at African Fieldwork (1995) (0)
- Ecology of Venezuelan Savannas (1984) (0)
- Age, location, and stability of ecosystems. (1972) (0)
- Book Review:The Grazing Land Ecosystems of the African Sahel. Henry Noel Le Houerou (1990) (0)
- Effects of C-additions on ecosystem processes in the Serengeti: The role of grazing mammals and implications for global change research (1994) (0)
- Grassland Ecosystem Productivity (1992) (0)
- Effects of water stress and simulated grazing on leaf elongation and water relations of an East African grass, Eustachys paspaloides [native grasslands; wildlife effects] (1987) (0)
- Nitrogen: Mostly In Agro‐Ecosystems (1982) (0)
- A masterful orchestration (1999) (0)
- Eminent Ecologist Award (1958) (0)
- regulate compositional stability of communities (1999) (0)
- Effects of elevated CO{sub 2} on plant-grazer interactions: The importance of urine-hits and simulated grazing on the response of a C{sub 3} grass from Yellowstone National Park (1995) (0)
- Relative Consumer Species Diversity with-Respect to Producer Diversity and Net Productivity. (1972) (0)
- Annual Aboveground Production and Consumption by Large Mammalian Herbivores in the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park (1989) (0)
- Response : Age, Location, and Stability of Ecosystems (1972) (0)
- George Mercer Award: J. Timothy Wootton (1994) (0)
- Response : Relative Consumer Species Diversity with-Respect to Producer Diversity and Net Productivity (1972) (0)
- The Interaction of Fire, Vegetation, and Large Mammalian Herbivores on Ecosysystem Processes in Yellowstone National Park (1990) (0)
- What Is Good Science (2016) (0)
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