Faculty

Autumn Sabo

Associate Professor of Biology (Beaver)

112 General Classroom Building
Monaca, PA

Email axs182@psu.edu
Phone 724-773-3885

Overview

How anthropogenic stressors affect plant communities, conservation, and restoration options. Recent work has focused on how deer and silvicultural techniques impact forest understories, with future projects likely extending to rare and invasive plant biology as well as climate change adaptation.

Areas of Expertise

Deer Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Deer Keyphrases
Plant Community Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Deer Herbivory Keyphrases
Understory Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Lupinus Perennis Agricultural and Biological Sciences
White-tailed Deer Keyphrases
Hardwood Forests Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Assessing the status of sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) genetic diversity and population structure throughout its distribution
Isabella R. Petitta, Autumn E. Sabo, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Oct 1 2025, In: AoB PLANTS
Date: Oct 1 2025

Complex interactions of deer herbivory, soil chemistry, and competing vegetation explain oak–hickory forest tree regeneration in central Pennsylvania, USA
Danielle Begley-Miller, Duane R. Diefenbach, Emily J. Domoto, Patrick J. Drohan, Phillip Jones, Marc E. McDill, Christopher S. Rosenberry, Autumn E. Sabo, Bret D. Wallingford, Nov 2024, In: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Date: Nov 2024

Herbaceous plant height is an early indicator of groundlayer response to an experimental manipulation of forest structure and deer pressure
Autumn E. Sabo, Jodi A. Forrester, Eric L. Kruger, David J. Mladenoff, May 15 2023, In: Forest Ecology and Management
Date: May 15 2023

Biology and management of wild lupine (Lupinus perennis L.)
Isabella R. Petitta, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Autumn E. Sabo, 2023, In: Plant Ecology
Date: 2023

Northern hardwoods seedlings respond to a complex of environmental factors when deer herbivory is limited
Phillip D. Jones, Autumn E. Sabo, Jodi A. Forrester, David J. Mladenoff, Marc E. McDill, Jan 1 2023, In: Forest Ecology and Management
Date: Jan 1 2023

Ixodes scapularis density in US temperate forests shaped by deer, earthworms, and disparate factors at two scales
Scott R. Larson, Autumn E. Sabo, Eric Kruger, Phillip Jones, Susan M. Paskewitz, Feb 2022, In: Ecosphere
Date: Feb 2022

Ungulate exclusion accentuates increases in woody species richness and abundance with canopy gap creation in a temperate hardwood forest
Autumn E. Sabo, Jodi A. Forrester, Julia I. Burton, Phillip D. Jones, David J. Mladenoff, Eric L. Kruger, Feb 15 2019, In: Forest Ecology and Management
Date: Feb 15 2019

Deer-mediated changes in environment compound the direct impacts of herbivory on understorey plant communities
Autumn E. Sabo, Katie L. Frerker, Donald M. Waller, Eric L. Kruger, Sep 2017, In: Journal of Ecology
Date: Sep 2017

Long-term regional shifts in plant community composition are largely explained by local deer impact experiments
Katie Frerker, Autumn Sabo, Donald Waller, Dec 31 2014, In: PloS one
Date: Dec 31 2014

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Long-term regional shifts in plant community composition are largely explained by local deer impact experiments
Katie Frerker, Autumn Sabo, Donald Waller, Dec 31 2014, In: PloS one
Citations: 77

Biology and management of wild lupine (Lupinus perennis L.)
Isabella R. Petitta, Margarita M. López-Uribe, Autumn E. Sabo, 2023, In: Plant Ecology
Citations: 5