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Position at Coweeta LTER:  Principle Investigator
Specialty:  Forest Processes
Habitat:  Forests
Organism:  Plants
Core Area(s):  Primary Production (1),  

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

Appointments:
Research Ecologist, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, 1993 - present
Associate Ecologist, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, 1990 - 1993
Research Coordinator, University of Georgia, School of Forest Resources, 1990
Research Technician, University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology, 1989 - 1990
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia, School of Forest Resources, 1988 - 1989
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Georgia, School of Forest Resources, 1987 - 1988
Forestry Consultant, Self Employed, Crawford, Georgia, 1983 - 1988

Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Clinton B.D., L.R. Boring, W.T. Swank. 1993. Canopy gap characteristics and drought influences in oak forests of the Coweeta Basin. Ecology 75(4):1551-1558.

Clinton, B.D., J.M. Vose, W.T. Swank. 1996. Shifts in aboveground and forest floor carbon and nitrogen pools after felling and buring in the southern Appalachians. For. Sci. 42(4):431-441.

Clinton, B.D., and J.M. Vose. 1999. Fine root respiration in mature eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in situ: the importance of CO2 in controlled environments. Tree Physiol. 19:475-479.

 Clinton, B.D., L.R. Boring, W.T. Swank. 1994. Regeneration patterns in canopy gaps of mixed-oak forests of the southern Appalachians: influences of topographic position and evergreen understory. Am. Midl. Nat. 132:308-319.

 Clinton, B.D., C.R. Baker. 2000. Catastrophic windthrow in the southern Appalachians: characteristics of pits and mounds and initial vegetation responses. For. Ecol. and Manage. 126:51-60.