Autumn Sabo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Biology
Room 115, Laboratory Classroom Building

Autumn Sabo, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of biology, who teaches general biology, ecology, forestry and environmental science courses.  

Dr. Sabo’s classes bring students to the outdoors for field-based lessons in ecology and environmental science. Whether she’s guiding students through a forest understory or examining the impacts of urbanization on soils, her classroom moves beyond four walls. Each semester, Dr. Sabo collaborates on research with students on native plants, spotted lanternflies, ecology, and more. 

Dr. Sabo’s classes help prepare students for a variety of career options including:

  • Forestry technician
  • Wildlife technician
  • Environmental educator
  • Park manager
  • Environmental consultant
  • Environmental scientist
  • Field ecologist
  • Restoration ecologist
  • Research ecologist
  • Conservation biologist 
  • Plant community ecology
  • Silviculture
  • Conservation
  • Restoration ecology

Assessing the status of sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) genetic diversity and population structure throughout eleven states, AoB Plants - September, 2025
Collaborators: Isabella Petitta, Co-Author; Margarita López-Uribe, Co-Author

Complex interactions of deer herbivory, soil chemistry, and competing vegetation explain oak–hickory forest tree regeneration in central Pennsylvania, USA, Canadian Journal of Forest Research - October, 2024
Collaborators: Danielle Begley-Miller, Co-Author; Duane Diefenbach, Co-Author; Emily Domoto, Co-Author; Patrick Drohan, Co-Author; Phillip Jones, Co-Author; Marc Mc Dill, Co-Author; Christopher Rosenberry, Co-Author; Bret Wallingford, Co-Author

The biology and management of wild lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) , Plant Ecology - December, 2023
Collaborators: Isabella Petitta, Co-Author; Margarita Lopez-Uribe, Co-Author

Herbaceous plant height is an early indicator of groundlayer response to an experimental manipulation of forest structure and deer pressure, Forest Ecology and Management - May, 2023
Collaborators: Jodi Forrester, Co-Author; Eric Kruger, Co-Author; David Mladenoff, Co-Author

SAF national conference proceedings: Competing vegetation treatments provide little short-term benefit in Northcentral Appalachian forests, Journal of Forestry - March, 2023
Collaborators: Phillip Jones; Patrick Drohan; Duane Diefenbach; Marc Mc Dill

Northern hardwood seedlings respond to a complex of environmental factors when deer herbivory is limited, Forest Ecology and Management - January, 2023
Collaborators: Philip Jones, Co-Author; Jodi Forrester, Co-Author; David Mladenoff, Co-Author; Marc Mc Dill, Co-Author

Ixodes scapularis density in US temperate forests shaped by deer, earthworms, and disparate factors at two scales, Ecosphere - February, 2022
Collaborators: Scott Larson, Co-Author; Eric Kruger, Co-Author; Phillip Jones, Co-Author; Susan Paskewitz, Co-Author

SAF national convention proceedings: Crown and stem form of regeneration improves with reduced deer pressure, Journal of Forestry - February 22, 2021
Collaborators: David Mladenoff, Co-Author; Jodi Forrester, Co-Author

Ungulate exclusion accentuates increases in woody species richness and abundance with canopy gap creation in a temperate hardwood forest, Forest Ecology and Management - 2019
Collaborators: Jodi Forrester, Co-Author; Julia Burton, Co-Author; Philip Jones, Co-Author; Eric Kruger, Co-Author

Impacts of browsing and grazing ungulates on plant characteristics and dynamics - November, 2019
 

Deer-mediated changes in environment compound the direct impacts of herbivory on understorey plant communities, Journal of Ecology - 2017
Collaborators: Katie Frerker, Co-Author; Don Waller, Co-Author; Eric Kruger, Co-Author

Long-term regional shifts in plant community composition are largely explained by local deer impact experiments, PLOS ONE - 2014
Collaborators: Katie Frerker, Co-Author; Don Waller, Co-Author

Book review of Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Handbook, Ecological Restoration - 2011
 

Robinia pseudoacacia invasions and control in North America and Europe - 2000
 

B.S. in Biology, Pennsylvania State University

M.S. in Natural Resource Science and Management, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Ph.D. in Forestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison