Terry Carleton specializes in forest vegetation and ecology. His research interests include quantitative analysis of vegetation data, forest stand structure and dynamics, and ecology of forest mosses. Detailed research interests, publications, and graduate students. My research focuses on the community ecology of forest vegetation, with an emphasis on survey methods, and the multivariate analysis of vegetation data. In the past, attention focused mainly on the Canadian boreal forest but in recent years our laboratory has expanded interests into temperate, broadleaved forests. Particular attention has been placed on the interaction between forest site characteristics and the dynamics of forest recovery after disturbance. During the past decade our laboratory has studied the effects of clear-cutting on regenerating boreal forest plant communities in comparison with the effects of wildfire. This work has indicated strong differences in response to the two types of disturbance. Ongoing work by Preeti Ramprasad is examining the plant community responses to more benign forest cutting activities and to the landscape scale consequences of extensive clear-cutting on boreal forest vegetation. Current interests in our laboratory focus on issues of spatial scale in relation to forest plant community assembly. This ranges from microsite characteristics on the forest floor to the geographic scale of all of Ontario and southern Quebec. At the large end of this scale our laboratory is assembling an atlas of the abundance patterns of forest plant species, using GIS, based on a large forest vegetation dataset from the laboratory of P.F. Maycock, Erindale College. On the methodological side our laboratory is currently pursuing three main areas. James MacLellan is modeling rational forest harvesting, on a spatially explicit basis, from the perspective of two contrasting paradigms. Robert Kruus is examining species envelope response curve fitting to large-scale environmental gradients in the forest plant atlas data. Carleton and Gradowski are examining the potential of multiple correspondence analysis to explore multi-scale plant species-environment relationships. Refereed journal publications (last five years): In Press Bazely, D.R., Carleton, T.J., Watt, Trudy A. and Koh, Saewan. The long term effect of herbivory of white-tailed deer (Oedocoileus virginianus) on woodland ground flora. Journal of Applied Veg. Sci. Wilson, S.J. & T.J. Carleton. The experimental effects of forest fire, mechanical logging and prior boreal mixedwood vegetation on early post-disturbance vegetation: a components of variance approach. Forest Ecology & Management. Published Carleton, T.J. and P.F. Maycock. 2000. The forest vegetation of extreme southern Ontario, Canada. (Journal of Vegetation Science). Carleton, T.J. 2000. Vegetation responses to the managed forest landscape of central and northern Ontario. In. Perera, A., Euler, D., and Thompson, I. (editors), Ecology of a Managed Terrestrial Landscape: patterns and processes of forest landscapes in Ontario. U. of British Columbia Press. Pp. 179-197. Skinner, W.R., R.L. Jefferies, T.J. Carleton, R.F. Rockwell and K.F. Abraham. 1998. Prediction of reproductive success and failure in lesser snow geese based on early season climatic variables. Global Change Biology. 4: 3-16.. Price, A.G., K. Dunham, T.J. Carleton and L.E. Band. 1997. Variability of water fluxes through the black spruce canopy and feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi) carpet in the boreal forest of northern Manitoba. Journal of Hydrology. 196: 310-323. Carleton, T.J., P.F. Maycock, R. Arnup and A.M. Gordon. 1996. In situ regeneration of white and red pine in the Great Lakes region of Canada. Journal of Vegetation Science. 7:431-444. Koh, S., T.A. Watt, D.R. Bazely, D.L. Pearl, M. Tang, T.J. Carleton. 1996. Impact of herbivory of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) on plant community composition. Aspects of Applied Biology . 44:1-6. Carleton, T.J., R. Stitt & J. Nieppola. 1996. Constrained indicator species analysis (COINSPAN): an extension of TWINSPAN. Journal of Vegetation Science. 7: 125-130. Current Graduate Students
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