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2024 Publications

2024

Rudolph, A.J., Snell, R.J., McCarthy, B.C. 2024. A decades-long case study: Understanding the effects of mesophication on the forest community with emphasis on Carya spp. dynamics. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, 152(1), 10-22. https://doi.org/10.3159/TORREY-D-24-00017

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Howie, N.A., Goode, J.D., Hart, J.L., Dey, D.C. 2024. Prescribed fire effects on understory woody plants and fuels in Quercus–Pinus mixedwoods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 54(10): 1100-1113. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0027

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Ford, B.T., Kim, J.T., Dong, Z., Williams, R., Kumar, M. 2024. Wildland Fire Rate of Spread Estimation Using an Autonomous Unmanned Aerial System: A Case Study. AIAA 2024-0093. AIAA SCITECH 2024

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Williams, G.L., Brewer, J.S. 2024. Causes of a seedling recruitment advantage for an encroaching oak over a historically dominant oak in a fire-restored open oak woodland. Forest Ecology and Management, 556, 121733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121733.

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Reed, S. P., Royo, A. A., Carson, W. P., Olmsted, C. F., Frelich, L. E., Reich, P. B. 2025. Multiple disturbances, multiple legacies: Fire, canopy gaps and deer jointly change the forest seed bank. Journal of Ecology, 113, 353–370. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14459

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Nowacki, G.J., Thomas-Van Gundy, M.A. 2024. Using witness trees as pyro-indicators to depict past fire environments across the eastern United States. Fire Ecology, 20, 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00247-1

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Dong, Z., Williams, R. A. 2024. Characterization of Wildland Fuels Based on Topography and Forest Attributes in North-Central Appalachia. Fire, 7(4), 145. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7040145

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Keyser, T.L., Greenberg, C.H. 2024. Season of burn has minimal effect on groundlayer community structure and composition in an Appalachian mixed-oak forest. Restoration Ecology, 32: e14131. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14131

2024

Pile Knapp, L.S., Dey, D.C., Stambaugh, M.C. et al. 2024. Managing forward while looking back: reopening closed forests to open woodlands and savannas. Fire Ecology, 20, 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00312-9

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Saladyga, T., Maxwell, R.S., Manning, D.R. 2024. Pine woodland fire dynamics mirror industrial history at New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, West Virginia, USA. Trees, Forests and People, 18, 100676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100676.

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Smithwick, E.A.H., Wu, H., Spangler, K. et al. 2024. Barriers and opportunities for implementing prescribed fire: lessons from managers in the mid-Atlantic region, United States. Fire Ecology, 20, 77. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00315-6

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Speer, J. H., Rubino, D. L., & Robb, J. R. 2024. The Effect of Fire on Multiple Tree Species in the Eastern Deciduous Forest. Fire, 7(1), 22. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire7010022

2024

Vachula, R.S., Balascio, N.L., Karmalkar, A.V., Stockton, JA., Landolt, B. 2024. Central Appalachian paleofire reconstruction reveals fire-climate vegetation dynamics across the last glacial-interglacial transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, 338, 108805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108805.

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Wilk, A.J., Peterman, W.E. 2024. Impacts of Wildfire Burn Severity on Plethodontid Salamander Populations of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Herpetologica, 80(2), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.1655/Herpetologica-D-23-00050

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Ochs, A.E., Swihart, R.K., Saunders, M.R. 2024. Population-level effects of prescribed fires on terrestrial salamanders. Forest Ecology and Management, 560, 121842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121842.

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Hutchinson, T.F., Adams, B.T., Dickinson, M.B., Heckel, M., Royo, A.A., Thomas‐Van Gundy, M.A. 2024. Sustaining eastern oak forests: Synergistic effects of fire and topography on vegetation and fuels. Ecological Applications. 34(3): e2948. 24p. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2948.

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Craycroft, J., Schweitzer, C.J. 2024. Case study of UAS ignition of prescribed fire in a mixedwood on the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama. Fire Ecology, 20, 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00263-1

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Turner, M.A., Bones, J.T., Marshall, S.G., Harper, C.A. 2024. Canopy reduction and fire seasonality effects on deer and turkey habitat in upland hardwoods. Forest Ecology and Management, 553, 121657. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121657.

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Cuprewich, S.A., Saunders, M.R. 2024. Evaluating the impact of prescribed surface fire on seedlings in the Central Hardwood Region, USA. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, 97(1), 94–106. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpac064

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