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A forest reconstruction model to assess changes to Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest during the fire suppression era

article by Molly A.F. Barth et al published October 2015 in Forest Ecology and Management

A physiological model for predicting dynamics of tree stem‐wood non‐structural carbohydrates

scholarly article

Advancing Fire Science with Large Forest Plots and a Long-Term Multidisciplinary Approach

Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide

scientific article

Assessing fire effects on forest spatial structure using a fusion of Landsat and airborne LiDAR data in Yosemite National Park

scientific article published in 2014

BIOMASS AND BURNING CHARACTERISTICS OF SUGAR PINE CONES

article by Anton T. Gabrielson et al published December 2012 in Fire Ecology

CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change.

scientific article

Can low-severity fire reverse compositional change in montane forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?

article

Canopy closure exerts weak controls on understory dynamics: a 30-year study of overstory–understory interactions

article

Chemical Similarity of Co-occurring Trees Decreases With Precipitation and Temperature in North American Forests

scientific article

Climate Contributors to Forest Mosaics: Ecological Persistence Following Wildfire

scholarly article by Crystal A. Kolden et al published August 2015 in Northwest Science

Climate extremes may be more important than climate means when predicting species range shifts

scientific article published in 2020

Climate warming may weaken stabilizing mechanisms in old forests

scientific article published in 2022

Climate, lightning ignitions, and fire severity in Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Climatic influences on interannual variability in regional burn severity across western US forests

Climatic water deficit, tree species ranges, and climate change in Yosemite National Park

article by James A. Lutz et al published May 2010 in Journal of Biogeography

Community composition and allometry of Leucothoe davisiae, Cornus sericea, and Chrysolepis sempervirens

article

Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach

scientific article

Comparisons between field- and LiDAR-based measures of stand structural complexity

article

Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects

scientific article

Continental‐scale parameterization and prediction of leaf phenology for the North American forests

scientific article published in 2022

Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees

scientific article published in 2022

Dancing with Douglas‐fir: Determinism dominates fungal community assembly processes

scientific article published in 2022

Decline of an ecotone forest: 50 years of demography in the southern boreal forest

article published in 2019

Demographic composition, not demographic diversity, predicts biomass and turnover across temperate and tropical forests

scientific article published on 20 February 2022

Density-dependent processes fluctuate over 50 years in an ecotone forest

scientific article published on 17 October 2019

Detecting tree mortality with Landsat-derived spectral indices: Improving ecological accuracy by examining uncertainty ⬇️

scholarly article

Detecting unburned areas within wildfire perimeters using Landsat and ancillary data across the northwestern United States

scholarly article by Arjan J.H. Meddens et al published December 2016 in Remote Sensing of Environment

Determinants of spatial patterns of canopy tree species in a tropical evergreen forest in Gabon

scholarly article

Determination of burn severity models ranging from regional to national scales for the conterminous United States

scientific article

Determining the sensitivity of grassland area burned to climate variation in Xilingol, China, with an autoregressive distributed lag approach

scientific article published in 2019

Development and testing of a snow interceptometer to quantify canopy water storage and interception processes in the rain/snow transition zone of the North Cascades, Washington, USA

article

Differences in regeneration niche mediate how disturbance severity and microclimate affect forest species composition

scientific article published in 2023

Differences in wildfires among ecoregions and land management agencies in the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA

scientific article published in 2012

Direct and indirect effects of climate on richness drive the latitudinal diversity gradient in forest trees

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Distribution of biomass dynamics in relation to tree size in forests across the world

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Drone-acquired data reveal the importance of forest canopy structure in predicting tree diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological Importance of Small-Diameter Trees to the Structure, Diversity and Biomass of a Tropical Evergreen Forest at Rabi, Gabon

scientific article

Ecological importance of large-diameter trees in a temperate mixed-conifer forest

scientific article

Ecological network inference is not consistent across scales or approaches

Effects of fire radiative energy density dose on Pinus contorta and Larix occidentalis seedling physiology and mortality

article

Elevated mortality rates of large trees allow for increased frequency of intermediate trees: A hypothesis supported by demographic model comparison with plot and LiDAR data

scientific article published in 2023

Environment‐ and trait‐mediated scaling of tree occupancy in forests worldwide

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Estimating historical forest density from land-survey data: a response to Baker and Williams (2018)

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Evaluating a new method for reconstructing forest conditions from General Land Office survey records

scientific article

Evaluating observational methods to quantify snow duration under diverse forest canopies

article published in 2015

Examining conifer canopy structural complexity across forest ages and elevations with LiDAR data

article

Fire Frequency, Area Burned, and Severity: A Quantitative Approach to Defining a Normal Fire Year

scientific article published in 2011

Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change?

scientific article

Fire Regime Attributes of Wildland Fires in Yosemite National Park, USA

scientific article published in 2007

Fire and the Distribution and Uncertainty of Carbon Sequestered as Aboveground Tree Biomass in Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Fixing a snag in carbon emissions estimates from wildfires

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA

scholarly article by Jeremy S. Littell et al published 18 May 2010 in Climatic Change

Forest structure and pattern vary by climate and landform across active-fire landscapes in the montane Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in 2019

Forest structure predictive of fisher (Pekania pennanti) dens exists in recently burned forest in Yosemite, California, USA

scholarly article

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

scientific article

Front Cover

Frost-Associated Defoliation in Populus tremuloides Causes Repeated Growth Reductions Over 185 years

scientific article published on 7 November 2022

Global importance of large-diameter trees

scientific article published in 2018

Globally, tree fecundity exceeds productivity gradients

scientific article published on 23 April 2022

Ground-based testing of MODIS fractional snow cover in subalpine meadows and forests of the Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in 2013

Individual species-area relationships in temperate coniferous forests

Interactions between all pairs of neighboring trees in 16 forests worldwide reveal details of unique ecological processes in each forest, and provide windows into their evolutionary histories

scientific article published in 2021

Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence

scientific article published on 16 August 2021

Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree‐ring records of ten globally distributed forests

scientific article published in 2021

Landscape-scale effects of fire severity on mixed-conifer and red fir forest structure in Yosemite National Park

article by Van R. Kane et al published January 2013 in Forest Ecology and Management

Large-diameter trees and deadwood correspond with belowground ectomycorrhizal fungal richness

scientific article published on 4 January 2023

Large-diameter trees dominate snag and surface biomass following reintroduced fire

scientific article

Large‐diameter trees affect snow duration in post‐fire old‐growth forests

scientific article published in 2022

Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities

scientific article published on 28 February 2024

Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery

scientific article published on 02 May 2022

Linking seed size and number to trait syndromes in trees

scientific article published on 7 March 2023

Lower forest density enhances snow retention in regions with warmer winters: A global framework developed from plot-scale observations and modeling

article

Mapped versus actual burned area within wildfire perimeters: Characterizing the unburned

scholarly article by Crystal A. Kolden et al published December 2012 in Forest Ecology and Management

Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients

scientific article published in 2023

Mid-career graduate students in ecology

scientific article published in 2008

Mixed severity fire effects within the Rim fire: Relative importance of local climate, fire weather, topography, and forest structure

article published in 2015

Modeling the Effects of Fire Severity and Spatial Complexity on Small Mammals in Yosemite National Park, California

scientific article published in 2008

Multi-decadal establishment for single-cohort Douglas-fir forests

article by James A. Freund et al published September 2014 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Mycorrhizal type influences plant density dependence and species richness across 15 temperate forests

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Observations of distributed snow depth and snow duration within diverse forest structures in a maritime mountain watershed

Patch dynamics and the development of structural and spatial heterogeneity in Pacific Northwest forests

article

Patterns of nitrogen‐fixing tree abundance in forests across Asia and America

scholarly article

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

scientific article

Post-fire landscape evaluations in Eastern Washington, USA: Assessing the work of contemporary wildfires

scientific article published in 2022

Post-fire morel ( Morchella ) mushroom abundance, spatial structure, and harvest sustainability

scientific article published in 2016

Postfire treatments alter forest canopy structure up to three decades after fire

scientific article published in 2022

Potential site productivity influences the rate of forest structural development

scientific article

Predicting soil mineralized nitrogen dynamics with fine root growth and microbial processes in temperate forests

scientific article published in 2022

Predicting the influence of climate on grassland area burned in Xilingol, China with dynamic simulations of autoregressive distributed lag models

scientific article published on 03 April 2020

Preface: Special Issue on Wildland Fires

Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity

scientific article published in 2022

Reconciling niches and neutrality in a subalpine temperate forest

scientific article published in 2017

RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks

scientific article published in February 2023

Reducing Deer Damage to Woody and Herbaceous Plants

scholarly article

Remnants of an ancient forest provide ecological context for Early Miocene fossil apes

scientific article

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published in Science

Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale"

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Restoring forest resilience: From reference spatial patterns to silvicultural prescriptions and monitoring

scientific article published in 2013

SCALE: Skin Changes at Life's End: Final Consensus Statement: October 1, 2009.

scientific article published on May 2010

Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

article

Scale‐dependent species–area relationship: Niche‐based versus stochastic processes in a typical subtropical forest

scientific article published in 2022

Seasonal weather and climate prediction over area burned in grasslands of northeast China

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Shared friends counterbalance shared enemies in old forests

scientific article published in 2021

Shrub Communities, Spatial Patterns, and Shrub-Mediated Tree Mortality Following Reintroduced Fire in Yosemite National Park, California, USA

scientific article published in 2017

Soil Enzyme Activity and Soil Nutrients Jointly Influence Post-Fire Habitat Models in Mixed-Conifer Forests of Yosemite National Park, USA

scientific article published on 23 September 2020

Spatial aspects of tree mortality strongly differ between young and old-growth forests

scientific article published in November 2015

Spatial patterns of seedlings dominated by proximity to deadwood and adult trees for Pinus flexilis and Pinus longaeva

scientific article published in 2023

Spatially explicit modeling of overstory manipulations in young forests: Effects on stand structure and light

scientific article published in 2009

Spatially nonrandom tree mortality and ingrowth maintain equilibrium pattern in an old-growth Pseudotsuga-Tsuga forest

scientific article

Spatiotemporal patterns of unburned areas within fire perimeters in the northwestern United States from 1984 to 2014

scientific article published in 2018

Species Diversity Associated with Foundation Species in Temperate and Tropical Forests

Structure of early old-growth Douglas-fir forests in the Pacific Northwest

scientific article published in 2015

TREE MORTALITY DURING EARLY FOREST DEVELOPMENT: A LONG-TERM STUDY OF RATES, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES

article

Tamm Review: Ecological principles to guide post-fire forest landscape management in the Inland Pacific and Northern Rocky Mountain regions

scientific article published on 23 November 2021

The Evolution of Long-Term Data for Forestry: Large Temperate Research Plots in an Era of Global Change

scholarly article by James A. Lutz published August 2015 in Northwest Science

The Post-Fire Assembly Processes of Tree Communities Based on Spatial Analysis of a Sierra Nevada Mixed-Conifer Forest

scientific article published in 2020

The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

The Survival of Pinus ponderosa Saplings Subjected to Increasing Levels of Fire Behavior and Impacts on Post-Fire Growth

scientific article

The distribution of woody species in relation to climate and fire in Yosemite National Park, California, USA

scientific article published in 2020

The importance of large-diameter trees to forest structural heterogeneity

scientific article

The importance of small fire refugia in the central Sierra Nevada, California, USA

scientific article

Tip the SCALE toward quality end-of-life skin care ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Topographic variation in tree group and gap structure in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests with active fire regimes

scientific article published in 2020

Towards a new paradigm in fire severity research using dose–response experiments

article

Tree Canopies Reflect Mycorrhizal Composition

scientific article published on 20 May 2021

Tree Circumference Dynamics in Four Forests Characterized Using Automated Dendrometer Bands.

scientific article

Uncertainty analysis: an evaluation metric for synthesis science

scientific article published in 2015

Unprecedented remote sensing data over King and Rim megafires in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California

scientific article

Using Fiber-Optic Distributed Temperature Sensing to Measure Ground Surface Temperature in Thinned and Unthinned Forests

Using climate-driven leaf phenology and growth to improve predictions of GPP in North America forests

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Water balance and topography predict fire and forest structure patterns

article published in 2015

Wildfire and drought moderate the spatial elements of tree mortality

scientific article published in 2020

Wildfire severity and postfire salvage harvest effects on long‐term forest regeneration

scientific article published in 2020

allodb : An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plots

scientific article published on 23 November 2021

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