William J. Platt
Louisiana State University
107 Papers
1.6K Citations
William J. Platt is an academic researcher from Louisiana State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fire regime & Biology. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 103 publications.
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Papers
The Population Dynamics of a Long-Lived Conifer (Pinus palustris)
TL;DR: The authors investigated the demography and spatial pattern of an old-growth longleaf pine population using a large plot in which all trees of at least 2 cm in dbh were mapped and tagged for individual recognition.
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How global biodiversity hotspots may go unrecognized: Lessons from the North American Coastal Plain
Reed F. Noss,William J. Platt,Bruce A. Sorrie,Alan S. Weakley,D. Bruce Means,Jennifer K. Costanza,Robert K. Peet +6 more
TL;DR: The authors identified the North American Coastal Plain (NACP) as a global hotspot based on the classic definition, a region with > 1500 endemic plant species and > 70% habitat loss.
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Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers
Kendra K. McLauchlan,Philip E. Higuera,Jessica R. Miesel,Brendan M. Rogers,Jennifer A. Schweitzer,Jacquelyn K. Shuman,Alan J. Tepley,J. Morgan Varner,Thomas T. Veblen,Solny A. Adalsteinsson,Jennifer K. Balch,Patrick J. Baker,Enric Batllori,Erica Bigio,Paulo M. Brando,Megan E. Cattau,Melissa L. Chipman,Janice L. Coen,Raelene M. Crandall,Lori D. Daniels,Neal J. Enright,Wendy S. Gross,Brian J. Harvey,Jeff A. Hatten,Sharon M. Hermann,Rebecca E. Hewitt,Leda N. Kobziar,Jennifer B. Landesmann,Michael M. Loranty,S. Yoshi Maezumi,Linda O. Mearns,Max A. Moritz,Jonathan Myers,Juli G. Pausas,Adam F. A. Pellegrini,William J. Platt,Jennifer Roozeboom,Hugh D. Safford,Fernanda Santos,Robert M. Scheller,Rosemary L. Sherriff,Kevin G. Smith,Melinda D. Smith,Adam C. Watts +43 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the diversity of ways in which fire operates as a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process on Earth is described, and the need to study fire across temporal scales, to assess the mechanisms underlying a variety of ecological feedbacks involving fire and to improve representation of fire in a range of modelling contexts.
Gap light regimes influence canopy tree diversity.
TL;DR: How changes in latitude influence gap light regimes and, hence, replacement patterns of canopy trees in temperate and tropical forests is discussed.
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