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Barton Clinton
Barton Clinton 

Employee Information
Name: Barton Clinton 
Title: Research Ecologist
Unit: Forest Watershed Science (4353)
Phone: 828-524-2128 Ext.124
Fax: 828-369-6768 - Location Fax
E-Mail: bclinton@fs.fed.us

Location Information
Mailing
Address:		 USDA-Forest Service
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory
3160 Coweeta Lab Road
(10 miles south of Franklin and west 3 miles from US-441)
Otto, NC 28763
Shipping
Address:		 Same
   
Location
Phone:		 828-524-2128 + extension

Research Information

Education:
B.S., University of Georgia, Forest Resources, 1979; M.S., University of Georgia, Forest Ecology, 1989

Current Research:
Plant species diversity and response to disturbance - canopy gaps, silvicultural treatments; Above- and below-ground carbon cycling - respiration of plant components as they are affected by environmental factors; Above-ground and forest floor nutrient pools - shifts in pools over time on sites receiving the fell and burn prescription; Prescribed fire - consumption of woody fuels as it relates to fire intensity; Long-term litter and wood decomposition experiment (Long-term Ecological Research [LTER]) - a 10 year reciprocal decomposition study involving 28 sites in North and Central America, and Puerto Rico, each using leaf litter and fineroot material from common species, Canopy gap dynamics - effects of small scale disturbances on forest processes with emphasis on populations and microclimate; Ecology of Rhododendron maximum - relative to above- and below-ground causes of competitive exclusion of woody species; Long-term effects of Hurricane Opal in the southern Appalachians - pit and mound topography and its contribution to tree replacement processes; Long-term forest stand dynamics in the southern Appalachians - recruitment, growth, and mortality in opposing watersheds; Plant water relations and phytoremediation of groundwater pollutants - water use by eastern cottonwood planted on a dry site in central Texas for the removal of a groundwater pollutant; Functional diversity in southern Appalachian forests - examination of the affects of the removal of forest understory components.

Collaborative Research:
Plant water relations; prescribed fire; canopy gap dynamics; open to other areas, as well.

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