Arthur, M.A., Blankenship, B.A., Schörgendorfer, A., Alexander, H.D. 2017. Alterations to the fuel bed after single and repeated prescribed fires in an Appalachian hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 403,126-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.08.011.

Harper, C.A., Ford, W.M., Lashley, M.A. et al. 2016. Fire Effects on Wildlife in the Central Hardwoods and Appalachian Regions, USA. Fire Ecology, 12, 127–159. https://doi.org/10.4996/fireecology.1202127

Marschall, J. M., Stambaugh, M. C., Jones, B. C., Guyette, R. P., Brose, P. H., & Dey, D. C. 2016. Fire Regimes of Remnant Pitch Pine Communities in the Ridge and Valley Region of Central Pennsylvania, USA. Forests, 7(10), 224. https://doi.org/10.3390/f7100224

Mahoney, K.R., Russell, K.R., Ford, W.M., Rodrigue, J.L., Riddle, J.D., Schuler, T.M., Adams, M B. 2016. Woodland salamander responses to a shelterwood harvest-prescribed burn silvicultural treatment within Appalachian mixed-oak forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 359, 277-285. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2015.09.042.

Perry, R.W., McDaniel, V.L. 2015. Temperatures below leaf litter during winter prescribed burns: implications for litter-roosting bats. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 24, 544–549. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF14119

Schweitzer, C. 2015. The conundrum of creating understory light conditions conducive to promoting oak reproduction: midstory herbicide and prescribed fire treatments.

The Fire–Oak Literature of Eastern North America: Synthesis and Guidelines

Brose, P.H., Dey, D.C., Phillips, R.J., Waldrop, T.A. 2013. A Meta-Analysis of the Fire-Oak Hypothesis: Does Prescribed Burning Promote Oak Reproduction in Eastern North America? Forest Science, 59 (3), 322–334. https://doi.org/10.5849/forsci.12-039

Greenberg, C.H., Waldrop, T.A., Tomcho, J., Phillips, R.J., Simon, D. 2013. Bird response to fire severity and repeated burning in upland hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 304, 80-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.04.035.

Klaus, N. A., Rush, S. A., Keyes, T. S., Petrick, J., & Cooper, R. J. 2010. Short-Term Effects of Fire on Breeding Birds in Southern Appalachian Upland Forests. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 122(3), 518–531. https://doi.org/10.1676/09-105.1