Research Briefs

Can restoration of fire-dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick-borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?

Michael R. Gallagher, Jesse K. Kreye, Erika T. Machtinger, Alexis Everland, Nathaniel Schmidt, Nicholas S. Skowronsk, October 2022

Management and climate variability effects on understory productivity of forest and savanna ecosystems in Oklahoma, USA

Arjun Adhikari, Ronald E. Masters, Kumar P. Mainali, Chris B. Zou, Omkar Joshi, Rodney E. Will. Ecosphere, June 2021

Delayed Tree Mortality After Prescribed Fires in Mixed Oak Forests in Northwestern Ohio

Scott R. Abella, LaRae A. Sprow, and Timothy A. Schetter, August 2021

Reviewing fire, climate, deer, and foundation species as drivers of historically open oak and pine forests and transition to closed forests

Brice B. Hanberry, Marc D. Abrams, Mary A. Arthur, J. Morgan Varner, May 2020

Characterizing the Context and Demand for the US Forest Service’s Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program in 2020

Chad Kooistra, Emily Sinkular, Courtney Schultz, August 2021

Grass invasion reduces the resilience of tree regeneration to fire in the Central Hardwoods

Ronald K. Salemme, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, 2021.

Direct and Indirect Effects of Fire on Eastern Box Turtles

Katie A. Harris, Joseph D. Clark, R. Dwayne Elmore, Craig A. Harper, 2020

Pyroaerobiology: the aerosolization and transport of viable microbial life by wildland fire

Kobziar, L. N., M. R. A. Pingree, H. Larson, T. J. Dreaden, S. Green, and J. A. Smith, 2018.

Prescribed fire promotes acorn survival and seedling emergence from simulated caches

Skye M. Greenler, Robert K. Swihart, and Michael R. Saunders, 2020

Vegetation response to canopy disturbance and season of burn during oak woodland and savanna restoration in Tennessee

Andrew L. Vander Yacht, Seth A. Barrioz, Patrick D. Keyser, Craig A. Harper, David S. Buckley, David A. Buehler, and Roger D. Applegate, 2020

The influence of prescribed fire on wild turkeys in the Southeastern United States: A review and synthesis

Gregory T.Wann, James A.Martin, and Michael J.Chamberlain, 2020

Multi-scale synthesis of historical fire regimes along the south-central US prairie-forest border

Molly V. Rooney and Michael C. Stambaugh, 2019

The Phenology of Ticks and the Effects of Long-Term Prescribed Burning on Tick Population Dynamics in Southwestern Georgia and Northwestern Florida

Gleim et al. 2014

Landscape and site level responses of woody structure and ground flora to repeated prescribed fire in the Missouri Ozarks

Maginel et al. 2019

Reptile and amphibian response to season of burn in an upland hardwood forest

Greenberg et al. 2018

Fourth National Climate Assessment: Regional Fire Science Implications

Reidmiller et al. (eds.) 2018

Slow recolonization of burned oak-juniper woodlands by Ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei): Ten years of succession after crown fire

Reemts and Hansen 2008

Effects of Oak-hickory Woodland Restoration Treatments on Native Groundcover and the Invasive Grass, Microstegium vimineum

Brewer et al., 2015

Prescription side effects: Long-term, high-frequency controlled burning enhances nitrogen availability in an Illinois oak-dominated forest

Taylor and Midgley, 2018

Pyric-carnivory: Raptor use of prescribed fires

Hovick et al., 2017

Genetic restoration in the eastern collared lizard under prescribed woodland burning

Neuwald and Templeton, 2013

Prescribed Burning and Erosion Potential in Mixed Hardwood Forests of Southern Illinois

Singh et al., 2017

Fire frequency and tree canopy structure influence plant species diversity in a forest-grassland ecotone

Peterson and Reich, 2008

What fire frequency is appropriate for shortleaf pine regeneration and survival?

Stambaugh et al., 2006

Suites of fire-adapted traits of oaks in the southeastern USA: multiple strategies for persistence

Varner et al., 2014

Fire damage effects on red oak timber product value

Marschall et al., 2014

Brood Cover and Food Resources for Wild Turkeys Following Silvicultural Treatments in Mature Upland Hardwoods

McCord et al., 2014

Fire and non-native grass invasion interact to suppress tree regeneration in temperate deciduous forests

Flory et al., 2015

Structure and composition of an oak-hickory forest after over 60 years of repeated prescribed burning in Missouri, U.S.A

Knapp et al., 2015

Prescribed fire: What influences public approval?

McCaffrey, 2006

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Relationships between bat occupancy and habitat and landscape structure along a savanna, woodland, forest gradient in the Missouri Ozarks

Starbuck et al., 2014

Frequency of prescribed burning in an upland oak forest determines soil and litter properties

Williams et al., 2012

Arthropods

Effects of fire intensity on litter arthropod communities in Ozark oak forests, Arkansas, U.S.A.

Verble-Pearson and Yanoviak, 2014

Reversing legacy effects in the understory of an oak-dominated forest

Thomas-Van Gundy et al., 2014

Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges

Ryan et al., 2013

Forage availability for white-tailed deer following silvicultural treatments in hardwood forests

Lashley et al., 2011

Effects of late growing-season and late dormant-season prescribed fire on herbaceous vegetation in restored pine-grassland communities

Sparks et al., 1998

The importance of shortleaf pine for wildlife and diversity in mixed oak-pine forests and in pine-grassland woodlands

Masters, 2006

Refining the oak-fire hypothesis for management of oak-dominated forests of the eastern United States

Arthur et al., 2012

Prescribing fire in eastern oak forests: is time running out?

Abrams, 2005

2015 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report

Mark A. Melvin

Predicting fire frequency with chemistry and climate

Guyette et al., 2012 RB 06