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Research Briefs

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McNitt, D.C., Alonso, R.S., Cherry, M.J., Fies, M.L., Kelly, M.J. 2020. Influence of forest disturbance on bobcat resource selection in the central Appalachians. Forest Ecology and Management, 465, 118066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118066.

Zhao, F., Liu, Y., Goodrick, S., Hornsby, B., Schardt, J. 2019. The contribution of duff consumption to fire emissions and air pollution of the Rough Ridge Fire. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 28, 993–1004. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18205

Stambaugh, M. C., Marschall, J. M., Abadir, E. R., Jones, B. C., Brose, P. H., Dey, D. C., Guyette, R, P. 2019. Successful hard pine regeneration and survival through repeated burning: An applied historical ecology approach. Forest Ecology and Management, 437: 246-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.01.012.

Black, D.E., Poynter, Z.W., Cotton, C.A. et al. 2018. Post-wildfire recovery of an upland oak−pine forest on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky, USA. Fire Ecology, 14, 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-018-0013-9

Kreye, J. K., Varner, J.M., Hamby, G.W., Kane, J.M. 2018. Mesophytic litter dampens flammability in fire-excluded pyrophytic oak–hickory woodlands. Ecosphere, 9(1):e02078. 10.1002/ecs2.2078

Lorber, J., Thomas-Van Gundy, M., Croy, S. 2018. Characterizing effects of prescribed fire on forest canopy cover in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. Research Paper NRS-31. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 30 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-RP-31.

Keyser, T. L., McDaniel, V. L., Klein, R. N., Drees, D.G., Burton, J. A., Forder, M. M. 2018. Short-term stem mortality of 10 deciduous broadleaved species following prescribed burning in upland forests of the southern US. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27(1): 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF17058

Brose, P.H. 2017. An evaluation of seven methods for controlling mountain laurel thickets in the mixed-oak forests of the central Appalachian Mountains, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 401, 286-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.041.

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