Plattsburgh Forest Ecology Lab

Bargabos, M., J. Pruden, D. Garneau, and M.R. Lesser. 2023. White-tailed deer habitat-use patterns across forest stands of different ages. Northeastern Naturalist. 30(4): 493-510. (PDF)
 

Bushey, D., M. Osmer, H. Green, D. Garneau, and M.R. Lesser. 2023. Forest resilience
and regeneration dynamics following wildfire disturbance. Ecosphere.  14, 9. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4655. (PDF)
 

Thompson, H.M., M.R. Lesser, L. Myers, and T.B. 2022. Insect community response following wildfire in an eastern North American pine barrens. Forests 13,6. (PDF)
 

Cave, H, T. Peet, T. Jaeger, M. Adams, L. Staats, D. Garneau, and M.R. Lesser. 2021. Wildlife response to wildfire in a northern New York jack pine barrens. Forests. 12(6), 676. (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R., M. Dovciak, R. Wheat, P. Curtis, P. Smallidge, J. Hurst, D. Kramer, M. Roberts, and J. Frair. 2019. Modelling white-tailed deer impacts on forest regeneration to inform deer management options at landscape scales. Forest Ecology and Management. 448:395-408. (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R. and J.D. Fridley. 2015. Global change at the landscape level: relating regional and landscape-scale drivers of historical climate trends in the Southern Appalachians. International Journal of Climatology. (PDF)
 

Siefert, A., M.R. Lesser, and J.D. Fridley. 2015. How do climate and dispersal traits limit ranges of tree species along latitudinal and elevational gradients? Global Ecology and Biogeography. 24:581-593 (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R., T.L. Parchman, and S.T. Jackson. 2013. Development of genetic diversity, differentiation and structure over 500 years in four ponderosa pine populations. Molecular Ecology. 22:2640-2652 (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R. and S.T. Jackson. 2013. Contributions of long-distance dispersal to population growth in colonising Pinus ponderosa populations. Ecology Letters. 16:380-389 (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R. and S. Brewer. 2012. How sampling affects estimates of demographic parameters. Journal of Vegetation Science. 23:1170-1179 (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R. and S. T. Jackson. 2012 Making a stand: Five centuries of population growth in colonizing stands of Pinus ponderosa. Ecology. 95(3):1071-1081 (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R., T.L. Parchman, and C.A. Buerkle. 2012. Cross-species transferability of SSR loci developed from 454 transcriptome sequencing in lodgepole pine. Molecular Ecology Resources. 12:448-455. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03102.x (PDF)
 

Lesser, M.R. and S.T. Jackson. 2011. Reliability of woodrat (Neotoma) middens for detecting low-density tree populations. Paleobiology. 37(4):603-615  (PDF)
 

Lesser, M. R. and W. H. Parker. 2006. Comparison of canonical- and regression- based focal point seed zones of white spruce. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:1572-1586  (PDF)
 

Lesser, M. R. and W. H. Parker. 2004. Genetic variation in Picea glauca for growth and phenological traits from provenance tests in Ontario. Silvae Genetica 53(4):141-148 (PDF)
 

Lesser, M. R., M. Cherry and W.H. Parker. 2004. Investigation of limestone ecotypes of white spruce based on a provenance test series. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34:1119-1127 (PDF)