Publications
Publications with advisees: *doctoral student, ˆmasters student, +undergraduate
2025
Sheban, K.C. *, Kuebbing, S.E., Duguid, M.C., Ashton, M.S., McAlvay, A.C., Munsell, J.F., Orefice, J. and Bradford, M.A., 2025. Keeping forests on the agroforestry agenda. Nature Climate Change, 15(6), pp.581-584.
Hardy, N.G.*, Kuebbing, S.E., Duguid, M.C., Ashton, M.S., Sheban, K.C., Inman, S.E. and Martin, M.P., 2025. Non‐native invasive plants in tropical dry forests: a global review of presence, impacts, and management. Restoration Ecology, 33(1), p.e14288.
Lienau, J.R.ˆ*, Duguid, M.C. and Schmitz, O.J., 2025. Ground beetle trophic interactions alter available nitrogen in forest soil. Oikos, p.e10638.
2024
Ward, E.B.*, Ashton, M.S., Wikle, J.L.ˆ, Duguid, M. and Bradford, M.A., 2024. Local controls modify the effects of timber harvesting on surface soil carbon and nitrogen in a temperate hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 572, p.122268.
Nagele, E.ˆ, Co, M., Forrest, T.A., DeLuca, E.A., Ashton, M.S., Harris, T.B.* and Duguid, M.C., 2024. A century of change in a mature urban forest: The Thain Family Forest of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York. Journal of Forestry. DOI: 10.1093/jofore/fvad057
Nagele, E.ˆ, Co, M., Forrest, T.A., DeLuca, E.A., Ashton, M.S., Harris, T.B.* and Duguid, M.C., 2024. Using Geologic Features to Visualize Long-Term Changes in Urban Forest Structure and Composition: Thain Family Forest of the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York. Journal of Forestry.
2023
Alshwairikh, Y.A.*, Fanton, A.C.*, Prats, K.A.*, Burak, M.K.*, Duguid, M.C. and Rowland, F.E., 2023. Habits and attitudes toward writing affect the publication output of environmental biology trainees. Ecosphere, 14(10), p.e4664.
Rowland, F.E*, Prats, K.A*, Alshwairikh, Y.A. *, Burak, M.K*, Fanton, A.C.* and Duguid, M.C., 2023. Overemphasis on publications may disadvantage historically excluded groups in STEM before and during COVID-19: A North American survey-based study. Plos one, 18(9).
2022
Ward, E. B.*, Duguid, M. C., Kuebbing, S. E., Lendemer, J. C., & Bradford, M. A. 2022. The functional role of ericoid mycorrhizal plants and fungi on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forests. New Phytologist.
Zamuda, K.M.ˆ, M. C. Duguid, and O.J. Schmitz. 2022. Human land‐use effects on mammalian mesopredator occupancy of a northeastern Connecticut landscape. Ecology and Evolution 12.7.
Craig, R.J., Duguid, M.C., and Ashton, M.S. 2022. Breeding forest birds of northeastern Connecticut show a long-term population increase and high species turnover. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
Doroski, D.D.*, Bradford, M.A., Duguid, M.C., Hallett, R.A., Pregitzer, C.C., Ashton, M.A. 2022. Patch size predicts forest conditions and successional trajectories in the urban forest matrix. Ecosphere.
Spicer, M.E., Radhamoni, H.V.N.*, Duguid, M.C., Queenborough, S.A., Comita, L.S. 2022. The importance of herbaceous plants to forest diversity. Plant Ecology.
Sheban, K.C.ˆ, Woodbury, D.*, Duguid, M.C., 2022. Importance of Environmental Factors on Plantings of Wild-Simulated American Ginseng. Agroforestry Systems.
2021
Borden, C.G.+, Duguid, M.C., Ashton, M.S., 2021. The legacy of fire: Long term changes to the forest understory from periodic burns in a New England oak-hickory forest. Fire Ecology.
Carpenter, R.+, Ward, E.B.*, Wikle, J.ˆ, Duguid, M.C., Bradford, M.A., and Ashton, M.S., 2021. Soil nutrient recharge after shelterwood timber harvesting in a temperate oak hardwood forest, Insights using a twenty-five-year chronosequence. Forest Ecology and Management.
Ward, E.*, Duguid, M.C., Kuebbing, S., Lendermer, J., Warren, R., Bradford, M. 2021. Ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs alter the relationship between tree mycorrhizal dominance and soil carbon and nitrogen. Journal of Ecology.
Martin, M., Woodbury, D.*, Glogower, Y.ˆ, Duguid, M., Frey, B. and Ashton, M., 2021. Within-gap position shapes fifty years of forest dynamics in a temperate hardwood forest in Connecticut, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 494, p.119311.
Spake, R., Mori, A.S., Beckmann, M., Martin, P.A., Christie, A.P., Duguid, M.C. and Doncaster, C.P., 2021. Implications of scale dependence for cross‐study syntheses of biodiversity differences. Ecology Letters.
Doroski, D.A.*, Duguid, M.C., Ashton, M.S., 2021. Forest patch size predicts seed bank composition in urban areas. Applied Vegetation Science, p.e12534.
2020
Green, L.ˆ, Duguid, M.C., 2020 Vascular plant diversity of forested wetlands in southern New England. Rhodora.
Doroski, D.A.*, Ashton, M.S. and Duguid, M.C., 2020. The future urban forest—A survey of tree planting programs in the Northeastern United States. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 55, p.126816.
Hanle, J.ˆ, Duguid, M.C., Ashton, M.S., 2020. Legacy forest structure increases bird diversity and abundance in aging young forests. Ecology and evolution, 10(3), pp.1193-1208.
2019
Wikle, J.ˆ, Duguid, M., & Ashton, M. S., 2019. Legacy forest structures in irregular shelterwoods differentially affect regeneration in a temperate hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 454, 117650.
Mossman+, A., Lambert, M. R., Ashton, M. S., Wikle, J.ˆ, & Duguid, M. C., 2019. Two salamander species respond differently to timber harvests in a managed New England forest. PeerJ, 7, e7604.
2013 – 2018
Lefland, A.B.ˆ, Duguid, M. C., Morin, R. S., & Ashton, M. S., 2018. The demographics and regeneration dynamic of hickory in second-growth temperate forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 419(420), 187-196.
Chamberlain, J.; Davis, J.; Duguid, M.C.; et al. 2018. Chapter 2—Non-Timber Forest Products & Production. In: Assessment of nontimber forest products in the United States under changing conditions. Eds: Chamberlain, J. L., Emery, M. R., & Patel-Weynand, T. General Technical Report SRS-232, US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 1-268.
Covey, K.R., Bueno de Mesquita C.P., Oberle, B., Maynard, D.S., Bettigole, C., Crowther T.W., Duguid, M.C., Steven, B., Zanne, A.E., Lapin M., Ashton, M.S., Oliver, C.D., Lee, X., & Bradford, M.A. 2016. Greenhouse Trace Gases in Deadwood. Biogeochemistry 130 (3): 215-226.
Duguid, M.C., Morrell, E.H.ˆ, Goodale, E., and Ashton, M.S. 2016. Changes in breeding bird abundance and species composition over a 20 year chronosequence following shelterwood harvests in oak-hardwood forests. Forest Ecology and Management 376: 221–230.
Crowther, T.W., Glick, H.B., Covey, K.R., Bettigole, C., Maynard, D.S., Thomas, S.M., Smith, J.R., Hintler, G., Duguid, M.C., et al. 2015. Mapping tree density at a global scale. Nature 525: 201–205.
Covey, K.R., Carroll, C.J., Duguid, M.C., Dorji, K., Dorji, T., Tashi, S., Wangdi, T., Ashton, M.S. 2015. Developmental dynamics following selective logging of an evergreen oak forest in the Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan: Structure, composition, and spatial pattern. Forest Ecology and Management 336: 163-173.
Ashton, M.S., Duguid, M.C., Barrett, A.L., Kristofer Covey, K. 2015. Yale School Forests, New England, United States of America, In: Forest Plans of North America, Eds: Siry, J., Bettinger, P., Merry, K., Grebner, D.L., Boston, K., and Cieszewski. Academic Press, New York. 482 pps.
Duguid, M.C., Ashton, M.S., 2013. A meta-analysis of the effect of forest management for timber on understory plant species diversity in temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management 303: 81-90.
Duguid, M.C. Frey, B.R., Ellum, D.S., Kelty, M., Ashton, M.S., 2013. The influence of ground disturbance and gap position on understory plant diversity in upland forests of southern New England. Forest Ecology and Management 303: 148-159.
Frey, B.R., Campbell, R., Duguid, M.C., Ashton, M.S., 2013. A century of silvicultural research and demonstration in working forests. In: Camp, A.E., Irland, L.C., Carroll, C.J.W. (Eds.), Long-term Silvicultural & Ecological Studies: Results for Science and Management: Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT, pp. 15-30.