Selected Publications

Articles

Smith, E. A., Collette, S. B., Boynton, T. A., Lillrose, T., Stevens, M., Bekker, M., Eggett, D., St Clair, S.  "Developmental contributions to phenotypic variation in functional leaf traits within quaking aspen clones."  Tree Physiology.  Vol. 31 (2011): 68-77. 

St Clair, S., Lynch, J.  "The opening of Pandora’s Box: climate change impacts on soil fertility and crop nutrition in developing countries.."  .  Vol. 335 (2010): 101-115. 

Calder, J., Lifferth, G., Moritz, M., St Clair, S.  "Physiological effects of smoke exposure on deciduous and evergreen tree species."  .  Vol. 438930 (2010): 1-7. 

Currit, N., St Clair, S.  "Assessing the impact of extreme climatic events on aspen defoliation using MODIS imagery."  .  Vol. 25 (2010): 133-147. 

St Clair, S., Guyon, J., Donaldson, J.  "Quaking aspen’s current and future status in western North America: the role of succession, climate, biotic agents and its clonal nature."  .  Vol. 71 (2010): 371-400. 

St Clair, S., Mock, K., Lamalfa, E., Campbell, R., Ryel, R.  " Genetic contributions to phenotypic variation in physiology, growth and vigor of aspen (Populus tremuloides) clones."  .  Vol. 56 (2010): 222-230. 

St Clair, S., Monson, S., Smith, E., Cahill, D., Calder, W.  "Altered leaf morphology, leaf resource dilution and defense chemistry induction in frost-defoliated aspen (Populus tremuloides)."  Tree Physiology.  Vol. 29 (2009): 1259-1268. 

St Clair, S., Sudderth, E. A., Fischer, M. L., Torn, M. S., Stuart, S. A., Salve, R., Eggett, D., Ackerly, D. D.  "Soil drying and nitrogen availability modulate carbon and water exchange over a range of annual precipitation totals and grassland vegetation types."  Global Change Biology.  Oct. 2009: 3018-3030. 

St Clair, S., Sudderth, E., Castanha, C., Torn, M., Ackerly, D.  "Plant responsiveness to variation in precipitation and nitrogen is consistent across the compositional diversity of a California annual grassland."  Journal of Vegetation Science.  Vol. 20 (2009): 860-870. 

St Clair, S., Sharpe, W. E., Lynch, J. P.  "Key interactions between nutrient limitation and climatic factors in temperate forests: a synthesis of the sugar maple literature." Canadian Journal of Forest Research.  Vol. 38 (2008): 401-414. 

Thayer, S. S., St Clair, S., Somerville, S. C., Field, C. B.  "Accentuation of phosphorus limitation by nitrogen deposition in Geranium dissectum: an ecological genomics study."  Global Change Biology.  Vol. 14 (2008): 1877-1890. 

St Clair, S., Lynch, J. P.  "The differential success of sugar maple and red maple seedlings on acid soils is influenced by nutrient dynamics and light environment. In Adjustment of photosynthetic processes of plants and cells to light environment, Ed. Tom Sharkey."  Plant, Cell and Environment.  Vol. 30 (2007). 

Wullschleger, S. D., Leakey, A., St Clair, S.  "Functional genomics and ecology: a tale of two scales."  New Phytologist.  Vol. 176 (2007): 735-739. 

St. Clair, L. L., Johansen, J. R., St Clair, S., Knight, K. B.  "The influence of grazing and abiotic factors on vascular plant and lichen community structure along an alpine tundra ridge in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA."  Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research.  Vol. 39 (2007): 603-613. 

St Clair, S., Carlson, J. E., Lynch, J. P.  "Evidence for oxidative stress in sugar maple stands on acidic, nutrient imbalanced forest soils."  Oecologia.  Vol. 145 (2005): 258-269. 

St Clair, S., Lynch, J. P.  "Base cation stimulation of mycorrhization and photosynthesis of sugar maple on acid soils are coupled by foliar nutrient dynamics."  New Phytologist.  Vol. 165 (2005): 581-590. 

St Clair, S., Lynch, J. P.  "The differential success of sugar maple and red maple seedlings on acid soils is influenced by nutrient dynamics and light environment."  Plant, Cell & Environment.  Vol. 28 (2005): 874-885. 

St Clair, S., Lynch, J. P.  "Element accumulation patterns of deciduous and evergreen tree seedlings on acid soils and its implications for sensitivity to manganese toxicity." Tree Physiology.  Vol. 25 (2005): 85-92. 

St Clair, S., Lynch, J. P.  "Photosynthetic and antioxidant enzyme responses of sugar maple and red maple to excess manganese in contrasting light environments." Functional Plant Biology.  Vol. 31 (2004): 1005-1014. 

Lynch, J. P., St Clair, S.  "Mineral stress: the missing link in understanding how global climate change will affect plants in real world soils."  Field Crops Research.  Vol. 90 (2004): 101-115. 

Knight, K. B., St Clair, S., Hunter, W., Jackson, G., StClair, L.  "Habitat-induced morphological differences in two populations of the vagrant lichens Rhizoplaca haydenii and Xanthoparmelia vagans.."  Botanical Society of America, Snowbird.  2004. 

St Clair, S., Sharpe, W. E., Lynch, J. P.  "Excess manganese reduces chlorophyll in sugar maple leaves."  Maple Syrup Digest.  Vol. 15 (2003): 28-31. 

St Clair, S., St. Clair, L. L., Mangelson, N. F., Weber, D. J., Eggett, D. L.  "Element accumulation patterns in foliose and fruticose lichens from rock and bark substrates in Arizona."  Bryologist.  Vol. 105 (2002): 415-421. 

St Clair, S., St. Clair, L. L., Mangelson, N. F., Weber, D. J.  "Influence of growth form on the accumulation of airborne copper by lichens."  Atmospheric Environment.  Vol. 36 (2002): 5637-5644. 

Smith, E. A., Collette, S., Boynton, T., Lillrose, T., Stevens, M., Bekker, M., St Clair, S.  "Developmental contributions to phenotypic trait variation in clonal aspen (Populus tremuloides)."  Tree Physiology.  0. 

Books

St Clair, S., Cooper, L. S., Stewart, L. J., Newberry, C. C., St. Clair, L. L.  "The lichen flora of Stony Pass, an alpine tundra site in southwestern Colorado."  Lichenographia Thomsoniana: North American Lichenology.  Ed. Glenn M, Cole M, Dirig R, Harris.  Aug. 1998.