Undergraduates are regularly involved in my research. Undergraduate authors in bold below (17 papers and 9 as first author):

Yacucci, A.C., W.P. Carson, J.C. Martineau, C.D. Burns, B.P. Riley, A.A. Royo, T.P. Diggins, I.J. Renne. 2024. Native tree species prosper while exotics falter during gap-phase regeneration, but only where deer densities are near historical levels. New Forests 55:1083-1100.

Betras, T.L., E. de Cortie, A. Carrol, R. Utz, and W.P. Carson. 2022. Do invasive species provide a refuge from browsers? A test of associational resistance in a peri-urban habitat plagued by deer. Forest Ecology and Management 510:120086.

Sutton, S., S.C. Pasquini, T.D. Swanson, and W.P. Carson. 2021. On the occurrence of a highly-localized outbreak of a saturniid in lowland east Ecuador: A case study and literature review. Neotropical Biodiversity 7:39-44.

Spicer, M.E., H. Mellor, and W.P. Carson. 2020. Seeing beyond the trees: a comparison of tropical and temperate plant growth forms and their vertical distribution. Ecology 101:e02974.

Spicer, M.E., K.F. Suess, J.W. Wenzel, and W.P. Carson. 2018. Does salvage logging erase a key physical legacy of a tornado blowdown: A case study of tree tip-up mounds. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 48:976-982.

Stacey, V., C.J. Majetic, and W.P. Carson. 2018. Percentage cover of lichens and bryophytes on three host tree species in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and northern Wisconsin. Great Lakes Botanist 57:15-22.

Frigoletto, E., P. Wylie, S.C. Pasquini, and W.P. Carson. 2017. Excluding deer increases the proportion of beech saplings originating from seed versus those of root sprout origin. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 144:379-384.

Pendergast, T.H., IV, S.M. Hanlon, Z.M. Long, A.A. Royo, and W.P. Carson. 2016. The legacy of deer overabundance: Long-term delays in herbaceous understory recovery. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 46:362-369. [CJFR Editors’ Choice May 2016]

Chips, M.J., E.H. Yerger, A. Hervanek, T. Nuttle, A.A. Royo, J.N. Pruitt, T.P. McGlynn, C.L. Riggall, and W.P. Carson. 2015. The indirect impact of long-term overbrowsing on insects in the Allegheny National Forest region of Pennsylvania. Northeastern Naturalist 22(4):782-797.

Chips, M.J., M.R. Magliocca, B. Hasson, and W.P. Carson. 2014. Quantifying deer and turkey leaf litter disturbances in the eastern deciduous forest: Have nontrophic effects of consumers been overlooked? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44:1128-1132.

Hirsch, B.T., D. Martinez, E.L. Kurten, D.D. Brown, and W.P. Carson. 2014. Mammalian insectivores exert top-down effects on Azteca ants. Biotropica 46(4):489-494.

Goetsch, C., J. Wigg, A.A. Royo, T. Ristau, and W.P. Carson. 2011. Chronic over browsing and biodiversity collapse in a forest understory in Pennsylvania: Results from a 60 year-old deer exclusion plot. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 138(2):220-224.

Kain, M., L. Battaglia, A. Royo, and W.P. Carson. 2011. Over-browsing in Pennsylvania creates a depauperate forest dominated by an understory tree: Results from a 60-year-old deer exclosure. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 138(3):322-326.

Banta, J.A., S.C. Stark, M.H.H. Stevens, T.H. Pendergast, IV, A. Baumert, and W.P. Carson. 2008. Light reduction predicts widespread patterns of dominance between asters and goldenrods. Plant Ecology 199:65-76.

Stark, S.C., D.E. Bunker, and W.P. Carson. 2006. A null model of exotic plant diversity tested with exotic and native species-area relationships. Ecology Letters 9:136-141.

Banta, J.A., A.A. Royo, C. Kirschbaum, and W.P. Carson. 2005. Plant communities growing on boulders in the Allegheny National Forest: Evidence for boulders as refugia from deer and as a bioassay of overbrowsing. Natural Areas Journal 25(2):10-18.

Comisky, L., A.A. Royo, and W.P. Carson. 2005. Deer browsing creates rock refugia gardens on large boulders in the Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania. American Midland Naturalist 154(1):201-206.