| Invasion of Microstegium vimineum (Poaceae), An Exotic, Annual, Shade-Tolerant, C4 Grass, into a North Carolina Floodplain LS Barden American Midland Naturalist, 40-45, 1987 | 235 | 1987 |
| Forest development in canopy gaps of a diverse hardwood forest of the southern Appalachian Mountains LS Barden Oikos, 205-209, 1981 | 172 | 1981 |
| Tree replacement in small canopy gaps of a Tsuga canadensis forest in the Southern Appalachians, Tennessee LS Barden Oecologia 44, 141-142, 1979 | 128 | 1979 |
| Tree replacement in a cove hardwood forest of the southern Appalachians LS Barden Oikos, 16-19, 1980 | 125 | 1980 |
| Effects of fire on pine and pine-hardwood forests in the southern Appalachians LS Barden, FW Woods Forest Science 22 (4), 399-403, 1976 | 122 | 1976 |
| Historic prairies in the Piedmont of North and South Carolina, USA LS Barden Natural Areas Journal, 149-152, 1997 | 100 | 1997 |
| Lightning fires in southern Appalachian forests LS Barden | 94 | 1974 |
| Vascular flora of Piedmont prairies: evidence from several prairie remnants JE Davis Jr, C McRae, BL Estep, LS Barden, JF Matthews Castanea, 1-12, 2002 | 61 | 2002 |
| Self-maintaining populations of Pinus pungens Lam. in the southern Appalachian Mountains LS Barden Castanea, 316-323, 1977 | 57 | 1977 |
| Serotiny and seed viability of Pinus pungens in the southern Appalachians LS Barden Castanea, 44-47, 1979 | 42 | 1979 |
| Change in abundance of honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) and other ground flora after prescribed burning of a piedmont pine forest LS Barden, JF Matthews Castanea, 257-260, 1980 | 41 | 1980 |
| Drought and survival in a self-perpetuating Pinus pungens population: equilibrium or nonequilibrium? LS Barden American Midland Naturalist, 253-257, 1988 | 32 | 1988 |
| Size, age, and growth rate of trees in canopy gaps of a cove hardwood forest in the southern Appalachians LS Barden Castanea, 19-23, 1983 | 22 | 1983 |
| Maintenance of Pinus pungens Lam.(Table Mountain Pine) After a Century Without Fire LS Barden Natural Areas Journal 20, 227-23, 2000 | 21 | 2000 |
| The linear relation between stand yield and integrated light in a shade-adapted annual grass LS Barden Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 122-125, 1996 | 18 | 1996 |
| Regrowth of shrubs in grassy balds of the Southern Appalachians after prescribed burning LS Barden Castanea, 238-246, 1978 | 16 | 1978 |
| Corrections of the chromosome number, distribution and misidentifications of the federally endangered sunflower, Helianthus schweinitzii T&G JF Matthews, LS Barden, CR Matthews Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 198-209, 1997 | 14 | 1997 |
| A common species at the edge of its range: conservation of bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia) and its low elevation rocky summit community in North Carolina (USA). LS Barden | 13 | 2000 |
| Pine reproduction in the Thompson River Watershed, North Carolina LS Barden Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 110-113, 1976 | 7 | 1976 |
| A comparison of growth efficiency of plants on the east and west sides of a forest canopy gap LS Barden Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 240-242, 1996 | 6 | 1996 |
