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Scott B. Franklin

Assistant Professor

• Associate Professor: Department of Biology, University of Memphis, TN (2003-2008)
• Assistant Professor: Department of Biology, University of Memphis, TN (1997-2003)
• Ph.D.: Plant Ecology, Southern Illinois University (1996)
• Ph.D.: Biology/Forestry, University of Joensuu, Finland (1996)
• M.S.: Forest Ecology, Southern Illinois University (1990)
• B.S.: Biology/Conservation Management, Upper Iowa University (1988)

Contact information

• Email: scott.franklin@unco.edu
• Phone: (970) 351-2650
• Fax: (970) 351-2335
• Office: Ross Hall 1510
• Office hours: by appointment
• Course web site: TBD
• Laboratory web site: TBD

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Courses taught

• BIO 360 (Ecology)

Course web site: TBD

Research interests

My research interests settle around the dynamics of vegetation in relation to disturbance. I am interested in the short and long-term response of vegetation communities to natural and applied (restoration) disturbance. I am also interested in the spatial and temporal patterns of disturbances, which have an obvious effect on their severity. The two main disturbances that I have researched are fire and flooding.

Grants, awards, and professional honors

External grants

• Franklin, Scott, John Ouellette, and Brian Baldwin. 2007-2010. River Cane Habitat Restoration in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - $80,000.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., S. Reza Pezeshki, Maciej Biernacki & John Preece. 2006. Restoration of Canebrake Ecosystems. National Fish & Wildlife Foundation - $25,934.
• Ouellette John R., Michelle Correia, Scott B. Franklin, Frank T. van Manen, Brian J. Rude, Charles Brady, and Herb Roberts. 2006. Memphis Zoo's International Conservation Programs. USDA Forest Service - $200,000.
• Rude, Brina J., John R. Ouellette, Xuehua Liu, Scott B. Franklin, Brian Baldwin, and Andy Kouba. 2006. Determining the Impact of Bamboo Harvest on Bamboo Stand Recruitment and Physiological Characteristics of Individual Ramets. Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong - $27,228
• Franklin, Scott B. & John Ouellette. 2006. Regeneration of bamboo in relation to edges and herbivory; Year V. Memphis Zoological Association - $57,488.00
• Kupfer, John A., Scott B. Franklin, S. Reza Pezeshki, Clifton Dixon, Jerry Griffith, George Raber & Carl Reese. 2005. Effects of Hurricane Katrina on southern Mississippi coastal forests and projected post-hurricane response: a multi-scale perspective. University of South Carolina - $25,000.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., John Ouellette, Wei Wang & Caroline M. Davies. 2005. Regeneration of bamboo in relation to edges and herbivory; Year IV. Memphis Zoological Association - $92,000.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., John Ouellette, Wei Wang & Caroline M. Davies. 2004. Regeneration of bamboo in relation to edges and herbivory; Year III. Memphis Zoological Association - $32,660.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., John Ouellette, Wei Wang & Caroline M. Davies. 2003. Regeneration of bamboo in relation to edges and herbivory; Year II. Memphis Zoological Association - $32,105.00.
• Ouellette, John R., Scott Franklin, Frank van Manen, Caroline Davies, Michael Pelton, Wang Wei, and Meghan Carr. 2002. Supporting the Memphis Zoo's Forest Health Activities Associated with the QinLing Mountains. USDA Forest Service International Programs - $75,000.
• Margaret C. Cirtain, Scott B. Franklin, John E. Preece and Adam Turtle. 2002. Restoration of Arundinaria gigantea canebrakes (Year One). Memorandum of Understanding among UM, Strawberry Plains Audubon Society Wildlife Sanctuary and USFWS- $3,000.00+internship.
• Franklin, Scott B., John Ouellette, Wei Wang & Caroline M. Davies. Regeneration of bamboo in relation to edges and herbivory. Conservation Action Network, Memphis Zoological Association - $18,400.00.
• Kupfer, John A., George Malanson & Scott B. Franklin. Identify the Biodiversity Research Needs Related to Forest Fragmentation. National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry (NCSSF) – $65,000.00.
• Grubaugh, Jack W., Matt Parris, Scott B. Franklin & Thad Wasklewicz. 2001. Improvements to the Edward J. Meeman Biological Field Station. National Science Foundation FSML - $182,000.00.
• Wasklewicz, Thad & Scott B. Franklin. 2001. Sedimentation of a tributary stream into the Hatchie River, TN. The Nature Conservancy’s Hatchie River Project. - $8,200.00
• Franklin, Scott B. & Michael L. Kennedy. 2000. White-tailed deer browse impact study. Arnold Air Force Base - $49,500.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., Reza Pezeshki, John A. Kupfer & John W. Smith. 1999. The Forest Communities and Hydrology of western Tennessee, Year II. US Army Corps Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Environmental Laboratory - $91,050.00.
• Franklin, Scott B. & John A. Kupfer. 1999. Restoration of a natural shortleaf pine community at Land Between The Lakes. Tennessee Valley Authority - $14,500.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., John A. Kupfer, Jack Grubaugh & Michael Kennedy. 1998. Assessment of Biotic Diversity of Natchez Trace State Forest. Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, Natural Heritage Division - $20,000.00.
• Franklin, Scott B. 1998. Ten Years of Change in a Natural Shortleaf Pine Forest. Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University - $2,000.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., Reza Pezeshki, John A. Kupfer & John W. Smith. 1998. The Forest Communities and Hydrology of western Tennessee. US Army Corps Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Environmental Laboratory - $64,941.00.
• Franklin, Scott B. 1998. Assessing the seed pool of a natural shortleaf pine forest. The Center For Field Biology, APSU - $2,500.00.
• Franklin, Scott B., Reza Pezeshki, John A. Kupfer & John W. Smith. 1997. Forest Communities and Hydrology of Stokes Creek Prior to Dechannelization. Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation - $10,464.00.
• Franklin, Scott B. 1994. Fire temperature heterogeneity in relation to litter biomass and height above ground in upland hardwood forests. Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research - $450.00.
• Fralish, James S. & Scott B. Franklin. 1994. A general gradient model to describe the effects of disturbance on the central hardwood forest. Funded by U.S.D.A. Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station, Columbia, MO - $2030.00 (subsequently declined).
• Franklin, Scott B., Philip A. Robertson, Brian P. Klubek & James S. Fralish. 1994. Physiological diversity of soil microbial groups in burned upland hardwood forest stands. Funded by U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Jefferson City, MO - $6,500.00.
• Franklin, Scott B. 1994. Effects of fire on microorganism populations. Illinois State Academy of Sciences - $125.00.
• Robertson, Philip A. & Scott B. Franklin. 1990. Effect of Prescribed Burning on Pinus echinata and Associated Hardwoods at the Pine Hills Ecologic Area, Union County, Illinois. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Shawnee Hills, IL - $3000.00.

Peer-reviewed publications

• Augenfeld, Kimberly H., Scott B. Franklin, and David H. Snyder. 2008. Breeding bird communities of upland hardwood forest 12 years after shelterwood logging. Forest Ecology & Management 255:1271-1282.
• Kupfer, J.A, M.A. Roberts, S. Walker, J.L. Pinckney, J.E. Moore, J.M. Quattro and S.B. Franklin. 2007. Ecological impacts and coastal ecosystem resiliency following Hurricane Katrina. Southeastern Biology 54:407-418.
• Greulich, Sabine, Scott Franklin, Thad Wasklewicz and Jack Grubaugh. 2007. Hydrogeomorphology and forest composition of Sunrise Island in the lower Mississippi River. Southeastern Naturalist 6: 217-234.
• Wang, Wei, Scott B. Franklin & John Ouellette. 2007. Clonal regeneration of arrow bamboo, Fargesia qinlingensis, following giant panda herbivory. Plant Ecology 192: 97-106.
• Wang, Wei, Scott B. Franklin & Margaret C. Cirtain. 2007. Seed germination and seedling growth in the arrow bamboo Fargesia qinlingensis. Ecological Research 22: 467-474.
• Wang, Wei, Scott B. Franklin, Yi Ren & John R. Ouellette. 2006. Growth of bamboo Fargesia qinlingensis and regeneration of trees in a mixed hardwood-conifer forest in the Qinling Mountains, China. Forest Ecology & Management 234:107-115.
• Kupfer, John A., George P. Malanson, & Scott B. Franklin. 2006. Not seeing the ocean for the islands: the mediating influence of matrix-based processes on forest fragmentation effects. Global Ecology & Biogeography 15:8-20.
• Wasklewicz, Thad A., Scott B. Franklin & Jack W. Grubaugh. 2005. Assessing the potential use of rehabilitation along the Upper Mississippi River as a model for the Lower Mississippi River. Pp. 1-15 In: Buijse, A.D., F. Klijn, R.S.E.W. Leuven, H. Middelkoop, F. Schiemer, J.H. Thorp & H.P. Wolfert (eds.), Rehabilitating large regulated rivers. Archiv fuer Hydrobiologie Supplement 155 (Large Rivers 15). E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart. 738 pp.
• Wasklewicz, Thad A., Sabine Greulich, Scott B. Franklin & Jack W. Grubaugh. 2004. The 20th Century Hydrologic Regime of the Mississippi River. Physical Geography 25:208-224.
• Cirtain, Margaret C., Scott B. Franklin & S. Reza Pezeshki. 2004. Effects of nitrogen and moisture regimes on Arundinaria gigantea (Walt.) Walt. Ex Muhl. seedling growth. Natural Areas Journal 24:251-257.
• Kupfer, John A., Amy Webbeking & Scott B. Franklin. 2004. Landscape fragmentation affects vegetation recovery in Belize, C.A. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 103:509-518.
• Franklin, Scott B., John A. Kupfer, Jack W. Grubaugh, & Michael L. Kennedy. 2004. An assessment of biotic diversity of Natchez Trace State Forest. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 93:30-54.
• Franklin, Scott. B. & John A. Kupfer. 2004. Forest Communities of Natchez Trace State Forest, western Tennessee Coastal Plain. Castanea 69:15-29.
• Franklin, Scott B., Philip A. Robertson & James S. Fralish. 2003. Effect of fire, thinning, and herbicide treatments on upland Quercus stand composition, structure, and soil nutrients. Forest Ecology & Management 184:315-335.
• Franklin, Scott B., Pye, John M., Duncan, Brean W., Matlack, Glenn R., Rudis, Victor A. & Seagle, Steven W. 2003. Forest fragmentation and biodiversity in the southeast; symposium summary. Southeastern Biology 50:335-346.
• Franklin, Scott B., Thad Wasklewicz, Jack W. Grubaugh & Sabine Gruelich. 2003. Temporal periodicity of the Mississippi River before and after systematic channel modifications. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 39:637-648.
• Claridge, Kevin & Scott B. Franklin. 2002. Compensation and plasticity in an invasive plant species. Biological Invasions 4:339-347.
• Franklin, Scott B., John A. Kupfer, S. Reza Pezeshki, Tanya Scheff, Ryan Hanson & Randy Gentry. 2001. Floristic, edaphic, and hydrologic conditions of Stokes Creek, TN prior to dechannelization. Physical Geography 22:254-274.
• Kupfer, John A. & Scott B. Franklin. 2000. Implementation and evaluation of an ecological land type classification system, Natchez Trace State Forest, western Tennessee, USA. Landscape and Urban Planning 49:179-190.
• Franklin, Scott B & Mirjami Tolonen. 2000. Temporally-explicit models of fire and forest. Plant Ecology 146:145-68.
• Campbell, Jonathan C., Scott B. Franklin, David J. Gibson & Jonathan Newman. 1998. Permutation of two-term local quadrat variance analysis: general concepts for interpretation of peaks. Journal of Vegetation Science 9:41-44.
• Franklin, Scott B., Philip A. Robertson & James S. Fralish. 1997. Small-scale fire temperature patterns in upland Quercus communities. Journal of Applied Ecology 34:613-630.
• Basinger, Mark A., Scott B. Franklin & Jody P. Shimp. 1996. Vegetation of a sandstone outcrop along the Ohio River in Hardin County, Illinois. Castanea 61:327-338.
• Franklin, Scott B., David J. Gibson, Philip A. Robertson, John T. Pohlmann & James S. Fralish. 1995. Parallel analysis: a method for determining significant principal components. Journal of Vegetation Science 6:99-106.
• Franklin, Scott B. 1994. Late-Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation history of Land Between The Lakes, Kentucky and Tennessee. Transactions of the Tennessee Academy of Sciences 55:6-19.
• Franklin, Scott B., Philip A. Robertson, James S. Fralish & Stephan M. Kettler. 1993. Overstory vegetation and successional trends of Land Between The Lakes, U.S.A. Journal of Vegetation Science 4:509-520.

Book chapters and books

• David M. Close, James S. Fralish & Scott B. Franklin. 2002. The climate, soil, and vegetation of Land Between The Lakes. Pp. 53-68. In: James S. Fralish & Edward W. Chester (eds.) Land Between The Lakes, Kentucky and Tennessee: Four Decades of Tennessee Valley Authority Stewardship. Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
• Franklin, Scott B., David M. Close & James S. Fralish. 2002. History, classification, and effects of disturbance on forest communities in Land Between The Lakes. Pp. 285-322 In: James S. Fralish & Edward W. Chester (eds.) Land Between The Lakes, Kentucky and Tennessee: Four Decades of Tennessee Valley Authority Stewardship. Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN.
• Fralish, James S. & Scott B. Franklin. 2002. Taxonomy and ecology of woody plants in North American forests (excluding Mexico). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., NY, 612 p.
• Wasklewicz, Thad, Scott Franklin, Sabine Greulich & Jack Grubaugh. 2001. Changes in the hydrologic periodicity of the Mississippi River, USA. Pp. 53-61. In: R.A. Falconer & W.R. Blain (eds.) River Basin Management, WITpress, Southampton, Boston.
• Franklin, Scott B., John A. Kupfer, S. Reza Pezeshki, Natasja van Gestel & Randy Gentry. 2001. Channelization effects on floodplain functions in western Tennessee. Pp. 189-201 In: R.A. Falconer & W.R. Blain (eds.) River Basin Management, WITpress, Southampton, Boston.
• Fralish, James S., Scott B. Franklin & David D. Close. 1999. Open woodland communities of southern Illinois, western Kentucky, and middle Tennessee. Pp. 171-189. In: R.C. Andersen & J.S. Fralish (eds.) Savannas, Barrens and Rock Outcrop Plant Communities of North America, John Wiley & Sons, NY.
• Fralish, James S., Scott B. Franklin, Philip A. Robertson, Stephan M. Kettler & Fred B. Crooks. 1993. An ordination of compositionally stable and unstable forest communities at Land Between The Lakes, Kentucky and Tennessee. Pp. 247-267 In: J.S. Fralish, R.P. McIntosh & O.L. Loucks (eds.) John T. Curtis -- Fifty Years of Wisconsin Plant Ecology, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.

Recently presented papers

• 2008. Franklin, Scott. Fire, flood and fragmentation: case studies in disturbance ecology. University of Northern Colorado.
• Franklin, Scott B., Margaret Cirtain, John Preece, S. Reza Pezeshki, and Maciej Biernacki. 2007. Restoration and Ecology of Arundinaria gigantea: field and laboratory studies, Ecological Society of America annual meeting, San Jose, CA.
• Franklin, S.B., Wei Wang and Zhijun Lu. 2007. Effect of mass flowering on Fargesia qinlingensis regeneration and chemical constituent allocation. International Association of Vegetation Science, Aukland, New Zealand.
• Lu, Zijun, Ming Dong, and Scott Franklin. 2007. Clonal integration and expansion of bamboo (Bashania fargesii) into old-fields. Association of Southeastern Biologists Annual Meeting, Columbus, SC.
• Kupfer, John A., Scott B. Franklin, S. Reza Pezeshki & Skeeter Dixon. 2006. Effects of hurricane Katrina on southern Mississippi coastal forests and projected post-hurricane responses. Coastal Resiliency Information Systems Initiative for the Southeast National Summit, Columbia, SC.
• 2006. Franklin, Scott. Regeneration of bamboo following disturbance. Chinese Academy of Science, Institute of Botany.
• Lu, Zhijun, Scott Franklin & Wei Wang. 2006. Clonal integration enhances the regeneration capacity of Bashania fargesii in the Qinling Mountains, China. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN. Wang, Wei, Scott B. Franklin & John Ouellette.
• 2005. Spatial pattern of ramets in two bamboo species, Bashania fargesii and Fargesia qinlingensis. Ecological Society of America annual meeting.
• Kupfer, John A., George Malanson & Scott B. Franklin. 2005. Forest fragmentation and landscape representation: the influence of matrix-based processes on forest fragmentation effects. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting.
• Wang, Wei, Scott B. Franklin & John Ouellette. 2004. Regeneration patterns of Bashania fargesii in China. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Portland, OR.