Maxine A. Watson

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University

Plant and animal studies Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies Plant Parasitism and Resistance Lichen and fungal ecology Bryophyte Studies and Records

Publications

Citations

2,113

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Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 1975

Research summary

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Maxine A. Watson studies the ecology and life cycles of plants, with particular attention to clonal herbs that spread through underground stems (rhizomes) in forest understory environments. Recent work examines how the timing of plant development, the movement and storage of carbon (energy), and interactions with soil fungi (mycorrhizae) shape plant growth and population dynamics.

Plant ecology and population dynamicsClonal plant growth and rhizome functionDevelopmental timing (phenology)Carbon movement and storage in plantsPlant-fungal (mycorrhizal) associations

Publication activity has been low and intermittent over the past decade, with roughly one paper appearing every few years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.2/year recently

Recent publications

Interactions between developmental phenology, carbon movement, and storage constrain demography in the understory clonal herb Podophyllum peltatum L.
Frontiers in Plant Science · 2024
Variation in the location and timing of experimental severing demonstrates that the persistent rhizome serves multiple functions in a clonal forest understorey herb
Functional Ecology · 2021
Many triggerplants (Stylidium spp.; Stylidiaceae) form arbuscular mycorrhizal associations
Carnivorous Plant Newsletter · 2017

Publishes in

Frontiers in Plant Science×1
Plant and Soil×1
Functional Ecology×1
Carnivorous Plant Newsletter×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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