Research Briefs
Evaluating the impact of prescribed surface fire on seedlings in the Central Hardwood Region, USA
Sarah A. Cuprewich and Mike R. Saunders, January 2024
Changes in canopy cover and forest structure following dormant season and early growing season prescribed burns in the Southern Appalachians, USA
Allison L. Melcher, et.al, April 2023
Plant richness increases with surrounding habitat and management burns over 30-years in suburban forest understories
Philip P. Johnson, Scott Kobal, Wendy Leonard, and Emily S. Minor, July 2023
Spatial heterogeneity increases diversity and stability in grassland bird communities
Torre J.Hovick, R. Dwayne Elmore, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, David M. Engle, and Robert G. Hamilton April 2015
Prescribed Fire Causes Wounding and Minor Tree Quality Degradation in Oak Forests
Saunders, M.R.; Mann, D.P.; Stanis, S.; Wiedenbeck, J.K.; Dey, D.C.; Schuler, T.M., 2023
Growing or dormant season burns: the effects of burn season on bee and plant communities
Brenna L. Decker and Alexandra N. Harmon‑Threatt, 2019
Litter trait driven dampening of flammability following deciduous forest community shifts in eastern North America
Jeffrey M. Kane, Jesse K. Kreye, Raul Barajas-Ramirez, J. Morgan Varner, 2021
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. Skowronski, 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
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
Genetic restoration in the eastern collared lizard under prescribed woodland burning
Neuwald and Templeton, 2013
What fire frequency is appropriate for shortleaf pine regeneration and survival?
Stambaugh et al., 2006
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