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  1. Bowen, L., Riva, F., Mohr, C., Aldridge, B., Schwartz, J., Miles, A.K., Stott, J.L. in press. Differential gene expression induced by exposure of captive mink to fuel oil; a model for the sea otter. Ecohealth. [Journal Article]

  2. Keeley, J.E. Fire as a threat to biodiversity in California shrublands. Proceedings of the Conference, Biodiversity of California Ecosystems. USDA Forest Service. In press. [Proceedings]

  3. Silverstein, R. P., J. D. Chew, J. G. Jones, R. A. McFarlan, C. Stalling, J. Sullivan, D. R. Weise, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and D. Garwood. 2004. Modeling Fuel Treatments to Reduce Fire Risk in Southwestern USA Ecosystems with SIMPPLLE/MAGIS. Forest Ecology and Manage. (in press) [Journal Article]

  4. Merriam, K.E., T.W. McGinnis. The role of fire and fire management in the invasion of nonnative plants. Park Science. In review. [Journal Article]

  5. Engles, D.L., J.O. Sickman, C.M. Moore, A.M. Esperanza, J.M. Melack, and J.E. Keeley. 2008. Biogeochemical legacy of prescribed fire in a giant sequoia-mixed conifer forest: A 16-year record of watershed balances. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 113: G01014 [Journal Article]

  6. (Jon Keeley, August 2007 ) A Critical Assessment of the Burning Index Used in Fighting Wildland Fires [Publication Brief]

  7. Keeley, J.E. 2007. Appropriate postfire management for the 2007 Griffith park Fire. Newsletter of the Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council 11(1):3-5. [Journal Article]

  8. Syphard, A.D., J. Yang, J. Franklin, H.S. He, and J.E. Keeley. 2007. Calibrating a forest landscape model to simulate frequent fire in Mediterranean-type shrublands. Environmental Modelling & Software 22:1641-1653. [Journal Article]

  9. Keeley, J. E., Fire Dynamics of Foothill Pine in the Southern Sierra Nevada (February 2007) [Publication Brief]

  10. van Wagtendonk, J. W.; Keeley, J. E.; Brooks, M. L.; Klinger, R. C., Fire in California’s Ecosystems (February 2007) [Publication Brief]

  11. van Wagtendonk, J. L., and J. A. Lutz. 2007. Fire regime attributes of wildland fires in Yosemite National Park. Fire Ecology 3(2): 34-52. [Journal Article]

  12. Jon Keeley, Human Influence on California Fire Regimes (July 2007) [Publication Brief]

  13. Syphard, A.D., V.C. Radeloff, J.E. Keeley, T.J. Hawbaker, M.K. Clayton, S.I. Stewart, and R.B. Hammer. 2007. Human influence on California fire regimes. Ecological Applications 17:1388-1402. [Journal Article]

  14. Keeley, J.E. and T.W. McGinnis. 2007. Impact of prescribed fire and other factors on cheatgrass persistence in a Sierra Nevada ponderosa pine forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 16:96-106. [Journal Article]

  15. Bell, C.E., J.M. DiTomaso, and M.L. Brooks. 2007. Invasive Plants and Wildfires in Southern California. University of California Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet. 4pp. [Popular Publication]

  16. Keeley, J. E., Prescribed Fire Effects on Cheatgrass Persistence in a Sierra Nevada Ponderosa Pine Forest, (February 2007) [Publication Brief]

  17. Knapp, E.E., D.W. Schwilk, J.M. Kane, and J.E. Keeley. 2007. Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:11-22. [Journal Article]

  18. Keeley, J. E., Role of Burning Season on Understory Vegetation in a Mixed Conifer Forest (March 2007) [Publication Brief]

  19. Brooks, M. L., Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wildfires in the Mojave Desert (January 2007) [Publication Brief]

  20. Jan van Wagtendonk, Spatial Patterns of Large Natural Fires in Sierra Nevada Wilderness Areas (April 2007) [Publication Brief]

  21. Collins, B. M., N. M. Kelly, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and S. L. Stephens. 2007. Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas. Landscape Ecology 22: 545-557. [Journal Article]

  22. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2007. The history and evolution of wildland fire use. Fire Ecology 3(2): 3-17. [Journal Article]

  23. Jon Keeley, The Role of Fuel Breaks in the Invasion of Nonnative Plants (April 2007) [Publication Brief]

  24. Merriam, K.E., J.E. Keeley, and J.L. Beyers. 2007. The role of fuel breaks in the invasion of nonnative plants. USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5185, 69 p. [Technical Report]

  25. Keeley, J.E., C.D. Allen, J. Betancourt, G.W. Chong, C.J. Fotheringham, and H.D. Safford. 2006. A 21st century perspective on postfire seeding. Journal of Forestry 104(1):1-2. [Journal Article]

  26. Grace, J.B., and J.E. Keeley. 2006. A structural equation model analysis of postfire plant diversity in California shrublands. Ecological Applications 16:503-514. [Journal Article]

  27. DiTomaso, J.M., ML Brooks, EB Allen, R Minnich, PM Rice, and GB. Kyser. 2006. Control of invasive weeds with prescribed burning. Weed Technology 20:535-548. [Journal Article]

  28. Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M. Baer-Keeley. 2006. Demographic patterns of postfire regeneration in mediterranean-climate shrublands of California. Ecological Monographs 76:235-255. [Journal Article]

  29. Fisher, R., A. Backlin, C. Brehme, D. Clark, S. Hathaway, C. Hitchcock, T. Matsuda, M. Mendelsohn, C. Rochester, S. Schuster, D. Stokes, G. Turschak, and A. Vandergast. 2006. Differential animal responses to the 2002-2003 wildfires in southern California. Third International Fire Management Congress, November 13-17, San Diego, California. [Presentation with Abstract]

  30. Brooks, M.L. 2006. Effects of fire on plant communities. P.p. 29-32 In: J.M. DiTomaso and D.W. Johnson (eds.). The Use of Fire as a Tool for Controlling Invasive Plants. California Invasive Plant Council, Cal-IPC Publication 2006-01. Berkeley, CA. 56 pp. [Popular Publication]

  31. Keeley, J. E., Factors Determining Species Diversity in Postfire California Chaparral and Sage Scrub (April 2006) [Publication Brief]

  32. van Wagtendonk, J. W. Fire as a physical process. 2006. Pages 38-57 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 578 p. [Book Chapter]

  33. Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. Fites-Kaufman. 2006. Fire as an ecological process. Pages 58-74 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 578 p. [Book Chapter]

  34. Ferrenberg, S.M., D.W. Schwilk, E.E. Knapp, E. Groth, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Fire decreases arthropod abundance but increases diversity: early and late season prescribed fire effects in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Fire Ecology 2:79-102. [Journal Article]

  35. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2006. Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada: forests born to burn. Pages 63-67 in: Wuerthner, G. (ed.). Wildfire: a century of failed forest policy. Foundation for Deep Ecology, San Francisco, CA, USA. 322 p [Book Chapter]

  36. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2006. Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada: forests born to burn. Pages 63-67 in: Wuerthner, G. (ed.). Wildfire: a century of failed forest policy. Foundation for Deep Ecology, San Francisco, CA, USA. 322 p. [Book Chapter]

  37. Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). 2006. Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 576 p. [Book]

  38. Keeley, J.E. 2006. Fire management impacts on invasive plant species in the western United States. Conservation Biology 20:375-384. [Journal Article]

  39. Keeley, J. E., Fire Management Impacts on Invasive Plants (April 2006) [Publication Brief]

  40. Keeley, J.E. 2006. Fire severity and plant age in postfire resprouting of woody plants in sage scrub and chaparral. Madroño 53:373-379. [Journal Article]

  41. Keeley, J. E., Forest Heterogeneity and Prescribed Burning (March 2006) [Publication Brief]

  42. Merriam, K.E., J.E. Keeley, and J.L. Beyers. 2006. Fuel breaks affect nonnative species abundance in California plant communities. Ecological Applications 16:515-527. [Journal Article]

  43. Keeley, J. E., Fuel Modification Impacts on Nonnative Plant Invasion (April 2006) [Publication Brief]

  44. Knapp, E.E. and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Heterogeneity in fire severity within early season and late season prescribed burns in a mixed conifer forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15:1-9. [Journal Article]

  45. Pausas, J.G., J.E. Keeley, and M. Verdu. 2006. Inferring differential evolutionary processes of plant persistence traits in Northern Hemisphere Mediterranean fire-prone ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 94:31-39. [Journal Article]

  46. Keifer, M. B., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and M. Buhler. 2006. Long-term surface fuel accumulation in burned and unburned mixed-conifer forests of the central and southern Sierra Nevada, CA (USA). Fire Ecology 2: 53-72. [Journal Article]

  47. Keeley, J. E., Postfire Plant Demography and Functional Types (May 2006) [Publication Brief]

  48. Keeley, J.E. 2006. Relative role of fuels vs weather in fire regimes of coastal California chaparral. 2002 Fire Conference, Managing Fire and Fuels in the Remaining Wildlands and Open Spaces of the Southwestern United States. USDA Forest Service. In press. [Book Chapter]

  49. Syphard, A.D., J. Franklin, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Simulating the effects of frequent fire on southern California coastal shrublands. Ecological Applications 16:1744-1756. [Journal Article]

  50. Keeley, J. E., Simulating the Effects of Frequent Fire on Southern California Shrublands (November 2006) [Publication Brief]

  51. Brooks, M.L., JR. Matchett, and C. Deuser. 2006. Technical support for Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge BAER activities on the Longstreet Fire of 2004. Technical report prepared for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, 10 pp. [Technical Report]

  52. Benjamin A. Waitman, Trent M. Draper, Todd C. Esque. 2006. The effects of sterile wheat (Triticale) seeding on a native plant community after wildfire in a pinyon pine-mountain mahogany woodland. 2005 annual report to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. 33pp. [Technical Report]

  53. Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode. 2006. The future of fire in California ecosystems. Pages 538-543 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California’s ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkeley. 578 p [Book Chapter]

  54. R. Klinger, E. C. Underwood, and P. E. Moore. 2006. The role of environmental gradients in non-native plant invasion into burnt areas of Yosemite National Park, California. Diversity and Distributions 12: 139–156. [Journal Article]

  55. Schwilk, D.W. and J.E. Keeley. 2006. The role of fire refugia in the distribution of Pinus sabiniana (Pinaceae) in the southern Sierra Nevada. Madroño 53:364-372. [Journal Article]

  56. Schwilk, D. W., Tree Mortality After Early and Late Season Burning (September 2006) [Publication Brief]

  57. Schwilk, D.W., E.E. Knapp, S.M. Ferrenberg, J.E. Keeley, and A.C. Caprio. 2006. Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Mangement 232:36-75. [Journal Article]

  58. Brooks, M. L., Using Fire for Invasive Plant Control in Wildlands (August 2006) [Publication Brief]

  59. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2006. Wildfire management on a human dominated landscape: California chaparral wildfires, pp. 69-75. In G. Wuerthner, Editor, Wildfire ---A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Island Press, Covelo, CA. [Book Chapter]

  60. Keeley, J. E., Wildfire Management on a Human-Dominated Landscape (November 2006) [Publication Brief]

  61. Keeley, J. E., A Different Perspective on Global Fire (June 2005) [Publication Brief]

  62. Keeley, J.E., M. Baer-Keeley, and C.J. Fotheringham. 2005. Alien plant dynamics following fire in mediterranean-climate California shrublands. Ecological Applications 15:2109-2125. [Journal Article]

  63. Keeley, J. E., Alien Plant Invasion Following Fire in California Shrublands (December 2005) [Publication Brief]

  64. Keeley, J.E. 2005. Chaparral fuel modification: what do we know --- and need to know? Fire Management Today 65(4):11-12. [Journal Article]

  65. Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M. Baer-Keeley. 2005. Determinants of postfire recovery and succession in mediterranean-climate shrublands of California. Ecological Applications 15:1515-1534. [Journal Article]

  66. Keeley, J. E., Early Successional Changes Following Fire in California Chaparral (October 2005) [Publication Brief]

  67. Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M.Baer-Keeley. 2005. Factors affecting plant diversity during postfire recovery and succession of mediterranean-climate shrublands in California, USA. Diversity and Distributions 11:535-537. [Journal Article]

  68. Roberts, D. A., S. Peterson, P.E. Dennison, J. Rechel, and J.W. van Wagtendonk. 2005. Fine spatial, spectral and temporal characterization of wildfire fuels through the integrated analysis of imaging spectrometry and coarser resolution broad band data Pages 85-90 in: De la Riva, J., Pérez-Cabello, F., and Chuvieco, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management: Fire Effects Assessment. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. 290 p. [Proceedings]

  69. Keeley, J.E. and P.H. Rundel. 2005. Fire and the Miocene expansion of C4 grasslands. Ecology Letters 8:683-690. [Journal Article]

  70. Keeley, J.E. 2005. Fire as a threat to biodiversity in fire-type shrublands, pp. 97-106. Proceedings of the Conference, Planning for Biodiversity: Bringing Research and Management Together. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, General Technical Report PSW-GTR-195. [Proceedings]

  71. Bond, W.J. and J.E. Keeley. 2005. Fire as global ‘herbivore’: The ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 20:387-394. [Journal Article]

  72. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2005. Fire ecology of the Sierra Nevada. In: Wuerthner, G. (ed.). Fire - Restoring Fire to the Land - Fire Ecology and Forest Health. Foundation for Deep Ecology. (in press) [Book Chapter]

  73. Fellers, G. M., Fire Effects on the Point Reyes Mountain Beaver (February 2005) [Publication Brief]

  74. Fellers, Gary M., David Pratt, and Jennifer L. Griffin. 2005. Fire Effects on the Point Reyes Mountain Beaver (Aplodontia rufa phaea). Pp. 13-19. Vision Fire: Lessons Learned from the October 1995 Fire. US Dept. Interior, National Park Service, Point Reyes National Seashore, Point Reyes, CA. 98 Pp. [Technical Report]

  75. Keeley, J.E. 2005. Fire history of the San Francisco East Bay region and implications for landscape patterns. International Journal of Wildland Fire 14:285-296. [Journal Article]

  76. Keeley, J.E. 2005. Fire management impacts on invasive species at the wildland/urban Interface in California. Pages 71-75 in C. Priosko, editor. Proceedings California Invasive Plant Council Symposium, Volume 8. California Invasive Plant Council, Berkeley, California, USA. [Proceedings]

  77. Keeley, J. E., Fire Suppression Impacts on Postfire Recovery of Sierra Nevada Chaparral Shrublands (September 2005) [Publication Brief]

  78. Keeley, J.E., A.H. Pfaff, and H.D. Safford. 2005. Fire suppression impacts on postfire recovery of Sierra Nevada chaparral shrublands. International Journal of Wildland Fire 14:255-265. [Journal Article]

  79. van Mantgem, P.J. and N.L. Stephenson. December 7, 2005. Forest changes following first and second entry burns: Twenty-one years of monitoring at Tharps Creek, Sequoia National Park, California. USGS Wildland Fire Science Workshop. Tucson, AZ. [Poster]

  80. van Mantgem, P.J., and N.L. Stephenson. 2005. Forest changes following first and second entry burns: Twenty-one years of monitoring at Tharps Creek, Sequoia National Park, California. USGS Wildland Fire Science Workshop. Tucson, AZ. [Poster]

  81. May, J, L. Brown, R. Hothem, J. Moore, and J.Gibson. 2005. French fire contaminants assessment: preliminary report, September 2005. Administrative Report prepared for the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, 31 pp. [Technical Report]

  82. Knapp, E.E., J.E. Keeley, E.A. Ballenger, and T.J. Brennan. 2005. Fuel reduction and woody debris dynamics with early season and late season prescribed fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 208:383-397. [Journal Article]

  83. van Mantgem, P. J. November 16, 2005. Fungi, fire and the fate of sugar pine in the southern Sierra Nevada. California Pest Council Annual Meeting, Woodland, CA. [Presentation with Abstract]

  84. van Mantgem, P. J. 2005. Fungi, fire and the fate of sugar pine in the southern Sierra Nevada. California Pest Council Annual Meeting, Woodland, CA. [Presentation]

  85. Mendelsohn, M.B., M.C. Madden-Smith, and R.N. Fisher. 2005. Post-Cedar Fire Arroyo Toad (Bufo californicus) Monitoring Surveys at Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, 2004. Final Report. U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sacramento, CA. Prepared for California State Parks. 42 pp. [Technical Report]

  86. Rechel, J. L., S. H. Peterson, D. A. Roberts, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2005. Predicting seasonal fuel moisture in the western United States using endmember fractions at multiple spatial and spectral resolutions. Pages 245-248 in: De la Riva, J., Pérez-Cabello, F., and Chuvieco, E. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS Applications to Forest Fire Management: Fire Effects Assessment. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. 290 p. [Proceedings]

  87. Esque, T. C., Saguaros Under Siege: Invasive Species and Fire (January 2005) [Publication Brief]

  88. Keeley, J. E., San Francisco East Bay Fire History, Landscape Changes (September 2005) [Publication Brief]

  89. Keeley, J.E., T. McGinnis and K.A. Bollens. 2005. Seed germination of Sierra Nevada postfire chaparral species. Madroño 52:175-181. [Journal Article]

  90. van Mantgem, P. J., and M.W. Schwartz. 2004. An experimental demonstration of stem damage as a predictor of fire-caused mortality for ponderosa pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 1343-1347. [Journal Article]

  91. Keeley, J.E., M.S. Witter, and R.S. Taylor. 2004. Challenges of managing fires along an urban-wildland interface --- lessons from the Santa Monica Muontains, Los Angeles, California. In the Third International Wildland Fire Conference, Sydney, Australia [Proceedings]

  92. Keeley, J. E., Climate Impacts on Fire Regimes in Coastal California (July 2004) [Publication Brief]

  93. van Wagtendonk, J. W., R. R. Root, and C. H. Key. 2004. Comparison of AVIRIS and Landsat ETM+ detection capabilities for burn severity. Remote Sensing of Environment. 92(3):397-408 [Journal Article]

  94. Keeley, J. E., Ecological Impacts of Wheat Seeding After a Sierra Nevada Wildfire (April 2004) [Publication Brief]

  95. Keeley, J.E. 2004. Ecological impacts of wheat seeding after a Sierra Nevada wildfire. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13:73-78. [Journal Article]

  96. Van Mantgem, P.J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. Effects of an introduced pathogen and fire exclusion on demography of sugar pine. Ecological Applications 14:1590-1602. [Journal Article]

  97. van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. Effects of an introduced pathogen and fire exclusion on the demography of sugar pine. Ecological Applications 14: 1590-1602. [Journal Article]

  98. Esque, T.C., S. VanderWall, C.R. Schwalbe, P.A. Medica, and R.H. Webb. 2004. Effects of fire on small animals and the potential for animals to facilitate restoration in hot desert environments. Northwest Science Association Symposium. Session on: Fire and Hazardous Fuel Reduction. Ellensburg, WA. [Presentation]

  99. Brooks, M.L., C.M. D’Antonio, D.M. Richardson, J.M. DiTomaso, J.B. Grace, R.J. Hobbs, J.E. Keeley, M. Pellant, D. Pyke. 2004. Effects of invasive alien plants on fire regimes. Bioscience 54:677-688. [Journal Article]

  100. Brooks, M. L.; Keeley, J. E., Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes (July 2004) [Publication Brief]

  101. Brooks, M.L., J.B. Grace. J.E. Keeley, D.A. Pyke. 2004. Effects of invasive alien plants on fire regimes. USGS Publication Brief. [Publication Brief]

  102. Scoles, S. J., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco, S. E. Eckert, and D. F. Haines 2004. Evaluation of post fire restoration treatments to reduce invasive plant species. Presented at the Desert Managers Group Restoration Meeting, March 2-3, 2004, Barstow, California. [Presentation]

  103. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 2004. Fire and landscapes: patterns and processes. Pages 69-78 in: Murphy, D. D., and P. A. Stine (eds). 2004. Proceedings for the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-193. 278 pages. [Proceedings]

  104. van Wagtendonk, J. W. Fire as a physical process. 2004. Chapter 3 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press). [Book Chapter]

  105. Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. Fites-Kaufman. 2004. Fire as an ecological process. Chapter 4 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press). [Book Chapter]

  106. Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). 2004. Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press). [Book]

  107. van Wagtendonk, J. W., J. Fites-Kaufman. 2004. Fire in the Sierra Nevada bioregion. Chapter 12 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press). [Book Chapter]

  108. Brooks, M.L. C.M. D’Antonio, D.M. Richardson, J. Grace, J. J. Keeley, DiTomaso, R. Hobbs, M. Pellant, and D. Pyke 2004. Fire regimes and potential for ecosystem recovery after plant invasions. Proceedings of the California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. 7:21. [Proceedings]

  109. Montenegro, G., R. Ginocchio, A. Segura, J.E. Keeley, and M. Gomez. 2004. Fire regimes and vegetation responses in two Mediterranean-climate regions. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77:455-464. [Journal Article]

  110. Brooks, M.L., J.R. Matchett, C. Wallace, and T. Esque. 2004. Fuels and fire hazard assessment in a desert ecosystem. Arid Lands Newsletter, Vol. 55. [Newsletter]

  111. van Mantgem, P. J., Fungi, Fire Exclusion, and the Fate of Sugar Pine in the Sierra Nevada (December 2004) [Publication Brief]

  112. van Mantgem, P. J. 2004. Fungi, fire, and the fate of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center. [Publication Brief]

  113. van Mantgem, P. J., How Are Trees Killed by Fire? (July 2004) [Publication Brief]

  114. Keeley, J.E. 2004. Impact of antecedent climate on fire regimes in coastal California. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13:173-182 [Journal Article]

  115. Keeley, J.E. 2004. Impact of antecedent climate on fire regimes in coastal California. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13:173-182. [Journal Article]

  116. Keeley, J.E. 2004. Invasive plants and fire management in California Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. In M. Arianoutsou (ed) 10th MEDECOS – International Conference on Ecology, Conservation and Management, Rhodes Island, Greece. [Book Chapter]

  117. Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M.A. Moritz. 2004. Lessons from the 2003 wildfires in southern California. Journal of Forestry 102(7):26-31. [Journal Article]

  118. Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M.A. Moritz. 2004. Lessons from the 2003 wildfires in southern California. Journal of Forestry 102(7):26-31. Addendum [Journal Article]

  119. Keeley, J. E., Lessons From the October 2003 Wildfires in Southern California (November 2004) [Publication Brief]

  120. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2004. Lessons learned from the wildfires, pp. 112-122. In R.W. Halsey, Fire, chaparral and survival in southern California. Sunbelt Publications, El Cajon, California. [Book Chapter]

  121. Keeley, J.E. 2004. Native American impact on fire regimes. Fire Management Today 64(3):15-16. [Journal Article]

  122. Pausas, J.G., R. Bradstock, D. Keith, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. Plant functional traits in relation to fire in crown-fire ecosystems. Ecology 85:1085-1100 [Journal Article]

  123. Keeley, J. E., Plant Functional Traits in Relation to Fire in Shrubland Crown-Fire Ecosystems (May 2004) [Publication Brief]

  124. Mendelsohn, M.B. and R.N. Fisher. 2004. Post-Cedar Fire Arroyo Toad Monitoring Surveys at CRSP. Presentation from 16-17 October 2004 symposium “The Cedar Fire and Cuyamaca Rancho State Park One Year Later: Recovery Expectations and Realities,” presented by the Anza-Borrego Institute and California State Parks, held at Cuyamaca Outdoor Camp, Descanso, CA. [Presentation with Abstract]

  125. van Wagtendonk, J. W., Z. Zhu, and E. L. Lile. 2004. Prefire risk assessment and fuels mapping. P. 49-52 in Livingston, R. K., (ed.). Third U. S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop. USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005. 67p. [Technical Report]

  126. Brooks, M.L. 2004. Research and application highlight: Effectiveness of postfire seeding to reduce cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) growth and reproduction in recently burned sagebrush steppe. Pg. 21 In Joint Fire Science Program, 2003 Business Summary. [Technical Report]

  127. T.C. Esque, C.R. Schwalbe, D.F. Haines, and W. L. Halvorson. 2004. Saguaros Under Siege: Invasive Species and Fire. Special Issue Desert Plants 20: 49-55. [Journal Article]

  128. Esque, T.C., L.A. DeFalco, S.J. Scoles, D.F. Haines, R.L. Kipp, and J.E. Rodgers. 2004. Survivorship of Joshua Trees (Yucca brevifolia) in a Harsh Desert Environment: Effects of Fire, Drought, and Herbivory in Joshua Tree National Park. 16-18 November. Mojave Desert Science Symposium. University of Redlands, CA. [Poster with Abstract]

  129. D. Weise, Greg Jones, J. Chew, M. Arbaugh, J. van Wagtendonk, M Wiitala, M. Schaaf, and J. Merzenich. 2004. Testing 3 fuel treatment simulation systems in 2 California Mediterranean landscapes. 11th Austalasian Fire Authority Conference. October 2004. [Poster with Abstract]

  130. Moritz, M.A., J.E. Keeley, E.A. Johnson, and A.A. Schaffner. 2004. Testing a basic assumption of shrubland fire management: Does the hazard of burning increase with the age of fuels? Frontiers in Ecology and the Enviroment. 2:67-72 [Journal Article]

  131. Knapp, E.E., S.L. Stephens, J.D. McIver, J.J. Moghaddas, and J.E. Keeley. 2004. The fire and fire surrogate study in the Sierra Nevada: Evaluating restoration treatments at Blodgett Experimental Forest and Sequoia National Park, pp. 79-86. In D.D. Murphy and P.A. Stine, editors. Proceedings of the Sierra Nevada Science Symposium 2002. Science for Management and Conservation. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report, PSW-GTR-193, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, California. [Proceedings]

  132. Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode. 2004. The future of fire in California ecosystems. Chapter 24 in: Sugihara, N. G., J. W. van Wagtendonk, J. Fites-Kaufman, K. E. Shaffer, and A. E. Thode (eds.). Fire in California ecosystems. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. (in press). [Book Chapter]

  133. Merriam, K.E., T.W. McGinnis and J.E. Keeley. 2004. The role of fire and fire management in the invasion of nonnative plants. Park Science 22(2):32-36,52. [Journal Article]

  134. Merriam, K.E., T.W. McGinnis and J.E. Keeley. 2004. The role of fire and fire management in the invasion of nonnative plants. Park Science 22(2):32-36,52. [Journal Article]

  135. Esque, T.C. 2004. The role of fire, rodents and ants in changing plant communities in the Mojave Desert. Dissertation. University of Nevada, Reno. 168 pp. [Thesis/Dissertation]

  136. McGinnis, T.W., J.E. Keeley, M. Brooks, R. Sanford and J. Belnap. 2003. Above and Below Ground Fire-related Temperatures in a Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) Infested Sierra Nevada Yellow Pine Forest: Effects on Cheatgrass Seeds and Native Plants. North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Corvallis, Oregon, June 16-20, 2003. [Poster]

  137. Brooks, M.L. and T.C. Esque. 2003. Alien plants and fire in desert tortoise habitat. USGS Publication Brief. [Publication Brief]

  138. Haines, D. F., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco, S. J. Scoles, M. L. Brooks and R. H. Webb. 2003. Blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) habitat, fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  139. Esque, T. C., J. E. Rogers, L. A. DeFalco, K. A. Goodwin, S. J. Scoles, D. F. Haines, S. E. Eckert and D. Flock. 2003. Challenges to Joshua tree recovery in the postfire environment: attenuated mortality and hungry rodents everywhere. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  140. Weise, D. R., R. Kimberlin, M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. Jones, J. Merzenich, M. Witala, R. Keane, M. Schaff, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2003. Comparing potential fuel treatment trade-off models. P. 15-26 in: Arthaud, G. J., and T. M. Barrett (eds.). Systems Analysis in Forest Resources. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 340 p. [Book Chapter]

  141. Brooks, M., T.C. Esque, J.R. Matchett. 2003. Current status and management of alien plants and fire in desert tortoise habitat. Presented at the 28th Annual Symposium of the Desert Tortoise Council. Las Vegas, Nevada. [Presentation]

  142. Haines, D.F., T.C. Esque, S.J. Scoles, M. L. Brooks, R.H. Webb. 2003. Do fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: cause irreversible change? A state-transition model for blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) habitat. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  143. Brooks, M.L., T. Esque, M. Pellant, and M. Whalen. 2003. Effectiveness of post-fire seedings to reduce cheatgrass - Study plan report. Technical Report Prepared for the Coordinated Intermountain Restoration Project Meeting Boise, Idaho, 31 March, 2003. 7pp.2003 Intermountain Restoration Coordination Meeting, 31 March to 1 April, Boise, Idaho. [Technical Report]

  144. Esque, T.C., C.R. Schwalbe, L.A. DeFalco, R.B. Duncan, and T.J. Hughes. 2003. Effects of desert wildfires on desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) and other small vertebrates. Southwestern Naturalist 48: 103-110. [Journal Article]

  145. Thomas W McGinnis, Jon E Keeley, Matthew L Brooks, Robert L Sanford Jr.and Jayne Belnap. Effects of fire temperatures on cheatgrass in a Sierra Nevada yellow pine forest. Invasive Plants in Natural and Managed Systems: Linking Science and Management, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, November 3-7, 2003. [Presentation]

  146. Scoles, S.J., T.C. Esque, L.A. DeFalco, S.E. Eckert, and D.F. Haines. 2003. Evaluating options for revegetation following a catastrophic fire in a pinyon-juniper community at Grand Canyon/Parashant National Monument, Arizona. Draft Annual Report to USDI-Bureau of Land Management. 21pp with appendices. [Technical Report]

  147. Keeley, J.E. 2003. Fire and invasive plants in California ecosystems. Fire Management Today 63(2):18-19 [Journal Article]

  148. Haines, D. F., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco, S. J. Scoles, M. L. Brooks and R. H. Webb. 2003. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: An irreversible change? Paper presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California. [Presentation]

  149. D.F. Haines*, T.C. Esque, M.L. Brooks, and R.H. Webb. 2003. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: An irreversible change? Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Conference. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, CA. [Presentation]

  150. Haines, DF., T.C. Esque, L.A. DeFalco, S.J. Scoles, M.L. Brooks, and R.H. Webb. 2003. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: An irreversible change? A state-transition model for blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) habitat. P. 31 in R.K. Livingston (ed.). Third U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, November 12-15, 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005, 67pp [Proceedings]

  151. Keeley, J.E., D. Lubin, and C.J. Fotheringham. 2003. Fire and grazing impacts on plant diversity and invasives in the southern Sierra Nevada. Ecological Applications 13:1355-1374 [Journal Article]

  152. Esque, T.C., S.E. Eckert, D.F. Haines, R.S. Schwartz, and C.R. Tracy. 2003. Fire behavior during a prescribed experimental fire in desert tortoise habitat on the Parashant National Monument in Pakoon Basin, Arizona. Report to the USDI-Bureau of Land Management, Parashant National Monument, Arizona. 12 pp. [Technical Report]

  153. Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, and J.R. Matchett. 2003. Fire behavior, effects, and management in unburned and previously burned blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) shrublands in the Mojave Desert. P. 17 in R.K. Livingston (ed.). Third U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, November 12-15, 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005, 67pp. [Proceedings]

  154. Allgöwer, B., J. D. Carlson, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2003. Fire danger rating and remote sensing- Will remote sensing enhance wildland fire danger prediction? Introduction in: Chuvieco, E. (ed.). Wildland fire danger estimation and mapping: the role of remote sensing data. World Scientific, London. 300 p. [Book Chapter]

  155. Brooks, M.L., J.R. Matchett, T.C. Esque, and C. Wallace. 2003. Fire hazard mapping at the Mojave National Preserve. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  156. McGinnis, T.W., J.E. Keeley, M. Brooks, R. Sanford and J. Belnap. 2003. Fire-related Temperatures in a Cheatgrass Infested Sierra Nevada Yellow Pine Forest: Effects on Cheatgrass Seeds and Native Plants. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Aug. 3-8, 2003. [Presentation]

  157. Chuvieco, E., D. Riaño, B. Allgöwer, E. Meier, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2003. Fuel loads and fuel types. Chapter 5 in: Chuvieco, E. (ed.). Wildland fire danger estimation and mapping: the role of remote sensing data. World Scientific, London. 300 p. [Book Chapter]

  158. Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, and T. Duck. 2003. Fuels and fire regimes in creosostebush, blackbrush, and interior chaparral shrublands. Technical Report for the Southern Utah Demonstration Fuels Project, USDA, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Science Lab, Missoula, Montana. 17pp. [Technical Report]

  159. van Mantgem, P., N. L. Stephenson, L. S. Mutch, V. G. Johnson, A. M. Esperanza, and D. J. Parsons. 2003. Growth rate predicts mortality of Abies concolor in both burned and unburned stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:1029-1038. [Journal Article]

  160. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2003. Historical fire regime in southern California. Fire Management Today 63(1):8-9. [Journal Article]

  161. T.C. Esque. 2003. How do wildfire , granivores and alien grasses change Mojave Desert Seed Banks? Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  162. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2003. Impact of past, present, and future fire regimes on North American Mediterranean shrublands, pp. 218-262. In T.T. Veblen, W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T.W. Swetnam (eds), Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Springer, New York. [Book Chapter]

  163. Medica, P. A., T. C. Esque, D. F. Haines, L. A. DeFalco,and R. H. Webb. 2003. Long-term responses of nocturnal rodents to wildfires in the Mojave and Great Basin Desert ecotone. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  164. Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, J.R. Matchett. 2003. Management of alien plants and fire in the Mojave and Colorado deserts. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Conference. 4 March 2003. Palm Springs, CA. [Presentation]

  165. Stephenson, N. L. 2003. Mechanisms driving forest carbon dynamics: demography, growth, fire, and research needs. Abstracts, National Research Council Workshop on "Direct and Indirect Human Contributions to Terrestrial Greenhouse Gas Fluxes." Washington, D.C. [Abstract]

  166. Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2003. Plant community patterns in unburned and burned blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) shrublands in the Mojave Desert. Western North American Naturalist 63:283-298. [Journal Article]

  167. Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2003. Plant diversity and fire effects in blackbrush shrublands. USGS Publication Brief. [Publication Brief]

  168. Brooks, M.L., T.C. Esque, J.R. Matchett, and J. D’Elia. 2003. Recent fire history in the Mojave Desert, 1980-2001. Presented at the Aridlands Restoration Workshop. 3 March 2003. Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  169. Brooks, M.L. 2003. Research highlight: fire and invasive annual grasses in western ecosystems. Pg. 14 In the Joint Fire Science Program, 2002 Business Summary. [Technical Report]

  170. van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Resistance of small trees to fire-caused stem damage. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center. [Publication Brief]

  171. van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Resistance of small trees to fire-caused stem damage. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center. [Publication Brief]

  172. 2003 van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. The effects of white pine blister rust and fire exclusion on long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Savannah, GA. [Presentation]

  173. 2003 van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. The effects of white pine blister rust and fire exclusion on long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Fourth North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Corvallis, OR. [Presentation]

  174. van Mantgem, P. J., N.L. Stephenson, M.B. Keifer, and J.E. Keeley. 2003. The effects of white pine blister rust and fire exclusion on long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Savannah, GA. [Presentation with Abstract]

  175. Brooks, M.L. and C.M. D’Antonio. 2003. The role of fire in promoting plant invasions. In M. Kelly (ed.). Proceedings of the California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. Vol. 6: 29-30. [Proceedings]

  176. Esque, T. C., P.A. Medica, S.B. VanderWall, R.H. Webb, D.F. Haines, L.A. DeFalco, and C. R. Tracy. 2003. The role of small animals, invasive plants and fire in Mojave Desert seed bank dynamics and vegetation recovery. Poster presented at the Desert Managers Group and Society for Ecological Restoration, Arid Lands Habitat Restoration Conference, Palm Springs, California. [Poster]

  177. van Wagtendonk, J. W., and R. R. Root. 2003. The use of multi-temporal Landsat Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for mapping fuels in Yosemite National Park, USA. Int. J. Rem. Sense. 24(8):1639-1651. [Journal Article]

  178. van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Which trees will be killed by fire? Pre-fire growth rate is a factor. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center. [Publication Brief]

  179. van Mantgem, P. J. 2003. Which trees will be killed by fire? Pre-fire growth rate is a factor. Publication Brief for Resource Managers. USGS, Western Ecological Research Center. [Publication Brief]

  180. Brooks, M.L., S.H. Cannon, and N.B. Kotliar. 2003. White paper on post-fire effects, including physical and biological. Pp. 53-56 in R.K. Livingston (ed.). Third U.S. Geological Survey Wildland Fire-Science Workshop, Denver, Colorado, November 12-15, 2002. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5005, 67pp. [Technical Report]

  181. van Mantgem, P. J., N. L. Stephenson, M. Keifer, and J. E. Keeley. 2003. White pine blister rust, fire and long-term demographic trends of sugar pine in the Sierra Nevada: a sticky mess? Abstracts, Fourth North American Forest Ecology Workshop, Corvallis, Oregon. p. 135. [Abstract]

  182. Esque, T.C., and C.R. Schwalbe. 2002. Alien annual plants and their relationships to fire and biotic change in Sonoran Desertscrub. Chapter 10 In Invasive exotic species in the Sonoran region. Tellman, B., ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pp. 165-194. [Book Chapter]

  183. Brooks, M.L., and T.C. Esque. 2002. Alien annual plants and wildfire in desert tortoise habitat: status, ecological effects, and management. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 4:330-340. [Journal Article]

  184. Brooks, M.L., and T.C. Esque. 2002. Alien plants and fire in desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) habitat of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. Chelonian Conservation Biology 4: 330-340. [Journal Article]

  185. Knapp, E. E., J. E. Keeley, and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Ecological impacts of season of prescribed fire in a Sierran mixed conifer forest. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium, Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002. [Poster]

  186. Scoles, S.J., T.C. Esque, L.A. DeFalco, S.E. Eckert and D.F. Haines. 2002. Evaluating options for revegetation following a catastrophic fire in a Pinyon-Juniper community at Grand Canyon/Parashaunt National Monument, Arizona. Report to USDI-Bureau of Land Management, Arizona Strip District, St. George, Utah. [Technical Report]

  187. Haines, D. F., T. C. Esque, M. L. Brooks, C. R. Schwalbe and R. H. Webb. 2002. Fire and exotics in the Mojave Desert: an irreversible change? Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona. [Abstract]

  188. M.L. Brooks*, T.C. Esque, and J. D'Elia. 2002. Fire Behavior in the Mojave Desert: Potential Effects of the El Niño/La Niña Cycle. Presented at the joint symposium of the Association of Fire Ecologists and The Wildlife Society -- Western Section. 5 December 2002. San Diego, California. [Presentation]

  189. Esque, T.C., A. Búrquez M., C.R. Schwalbe, T.R. Van Devender, Michelle J. M. Nijhuis, P. Anning. 2002. Fire ecology of the Sonoran desert tortoise. Chapter 13. In The Sonoran Desert Tortoise: Natural History, Biology, and Conservation. T.R. Van Devender, ed. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and The University of Arizona Press, Tucson. Pp. 312-333. [Book Chapter]

  190. Gebow, B.S. and W.L. Halvorson. 2002. Fire History of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. Final Report for Carlsbad Caverns National Park. USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 53 p. [Technical Report]

  191. Keeley, J.E. 2002. Fire management of California shrubland landscapes. Environmental Management 29: 395-408. [Journal Article]

  192. Keeley, J.E. 2002. Fire management of California shrublands. In K.S. Blonksi, M.E. Morales, and T.J. Morales (editors) Proceedings of the California's 2001 Wildfire Conference: 10 Years After the 1991 East Bay Hills Fire. University of California Forest Products Laboratory, Technical Report 35.01.462, Richmond, CA [Book Chapter]

  193. Brooks, M.L. 2002. Fire temperature patterns and effects on annual plants in the Mojave Desert. U.S. Geological Survey, Publication Brief for Resource Managers. [Publication Brief]

  194. Menning, K. M., J. J. Battles, T. L. Benning, and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Forest litter densities under different dominant tree species: a factor affecting ground fire spread. Sierra Nevada Science Symposium Kings Beach, California, Oct. 8-10, 2002. [Poster]

  195. Weise, D. R., M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. J. Jones, M. Witala, J. Merzenich, J. van Wagtendonk, M. Schaaf, S. Schilling, J. Sullivan, and R. Kimberlin. 2002. Importance of fire occurrence in simulation of fuel landscapes on the Angeles National Forest. Conference of Fire, Fuel Treatments and Ecological Restoration: Proper Place, Appropriate Time. April 16-18, Fort Collins, CO. [Poster]

  196. Brooks, M.L. and D. Pyke. 2002. Invasive plants and fire in the deserts of North America. U.S. Geological Survey, Publication Brief for Resource Managers. [Publication Brief]

  197. Medica, P. A., T. C. Esque, D. F. Haines, L. A. DeFalco and R. H. Webb. 2002. Long-term response of nocturnal rodents to wildfire in the Mojave and Great Basin Desert ecotone. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona. [Abstract]

  198. Keeley, J.E. 2002. Native American impacts on fire regimes of the California coastal ranges. Journal of Biogeography 29: 303-320. [Journal Article]

  199. Brooks, M.L. 2002. Peak fire temperatures and effects on annual plants in the Mojave Desert. Ecological Applications 12:1088-1102. [Journal Article]

  200. Matchett, J.R., and M.L. Brooks. Dec. 2002. Postfire successional patterns of blackbrush in the Mojave Desert. Association for Fire Ecology Meeting. San Diego, CA. [Abstract]

  201. Stephenson, N., M. Keifer, and J. Manley. 2002. Restoring Western forests: fires, saws, or both? People, Land, and Water (DOI news magazine) 8(10):18. [Popular Publication]

  202. van Mantgem, P. J., and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Searching for a general model of tree death in burned and unburned stands. Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, p. 288. [Abstract]

  203. 2002 van Mantgem, P. J., and N.L. Stephenson. Searching for a general model of tree mortality in burned and unburned stands. Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Tucson, AZ. [Presentation]

  204. Esque, T. C. and C. R. Tracy. 2002. Seed bank variation in Mojave desertscrub relative to wildfire, granivores and invasive species. Paper presented at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona. [Abstract]

  205. Stephenson, N. 2002. Sierra Nevada global change and fire research. People, Land, and Water (DOI news magazine) 8(10):18. [Popular Publication]

  206. Weise, D. R., J. van Wagtendonk, M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. J. Jones, M. Witala, J. Merzenich, M. Schaaf, S. Schilling, and R. Kimberlin. 2002. Simulation of historical fires and their impact on fuels in Yosemite National Park. Conference of Fire, Fuel Treatments and Ecological Restoration: Proper Place, Appropriate Time. April 16-18, Fort Collins, CO. [Poster]

  207. 2002 van Mantgem. P. J., M.B. Keifer, and N.L. Stephenson. The sugar pine dilemma: prescription burning, naturalness and the management of a declining tree species. California Association of Fire Ecologists annual meeting, San Diego, CA. [Presentation]

  208. van Wagtendonk, J. W., K. A. van Wagtendonk, J. B. Meyer, and K. J. Paintner. 2002. The use of geographic information for fire management planning in Yosemite National Park. The George Wright Forum. 19(1): 19-39. [Journal Article]

  209. Knapp, E. E., J. E. Keeley, and N. L. Stephenson. 2002. Tree mortality following reintroduction of fire to an old growth mixed conifer forest. Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, p. 181. [Abstract]

  210. Russell, William H., and J. R. McBride. 2002. Vegetation Change and Fire Hazard in the San Francisco Bay Area Open Spaces. Pages 27-38 in: Blonski, K.S., M.E., and T.J. Morales. Proceedings of the California’s 2001 Wildfire Conference: Ten Years After the East Bay Hills Fire; October 10-12, Oakland California. Technical Report 35.01.462. Richmond CA: University of California Forest Products Laboratory. [Proceedings]

  211. Eckert, S. E., T. C. Esque, L. A. DeFalco and D. F. Haines. 2001. Evaluating options for revegetation following a catastrophic fire in a pinyon-juniper community at Grand Canyon / Parashant National Monument, on the Arizona Strip of Mohave County, Arizona. Report to the USDI Bureau of Land Management, Arizona Strip District, St. George, Utah. [Technical Report]

  212. Esque, T.C., L.A. DeFalco, S. Scoles and D.F. Haines. 2001. Evaluating revegetation options following wildfire in a Pinyon-Juniper community, northern Arizona. Paper presented at the 6th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau, November 6, 2001. Flagstaff, AZ. [Proceedings]

  213. Johnson L.C., and J.R. Matchett. 2001. Fire and grazing regulate belowground processes in tallgrass prairie. Ecology 82:3377-3389. [Journal Article]

  214. Brooks, M. 2001. Fire and Invasive Plants in the Wildlands of California. Noxious Times: a quarterly publication of the California Interagency Noxious Weed Coordinating Committee 3(4):4-5. [Newsletter]

  215. Keeley, J.E. 2001. Fire and invasives in mediterranean-climate ecosystems of California. Pages 81-94 in K.E.M. Galley and T.P. Wilson (eds) Proceedings of the Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. Fire Conference 2000: The First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management. Miscellaneous Publication No. 11, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL. [Book Chapter]

  216. Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2001. Fire promotes exotic annual vegetation and reduces plant species richness in Mojave Desert blackbrush communities. 6th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. Flagstaff, AZ. [Abstract]

  217. Matchett, J.R., and M.L. Brooks. Nov. 2001. Fire promotes exotic annual vegetation and reduces plant species richness in Mojave Desert blackbrush communities. 6th Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau. Flagstaff, AZ. [Abstract]

  218. van Mantgem, P. 2001. Fire-induced Tree Mortality in the Mixed Conifer Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California. Dissertation. University of California, Davis. 107 pp. [Thesis/Dissertation]

  219. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. History and management of crown-fire ecosystems: A summary and response. Conservation Biology 15: 1561-1567. [Journal Article]

  220. Brooks, M.L. and D.A. Pyke. 2001. Invasive plants and fire in the deserts of North America. Pages 1-14 in K.E.M. Galley and T.P Wilson (eds.). Proceedings of the Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. Fire Conference 2000: the First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management. Miscellaneous Publication No. 11, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL. [Proceedings]

  221. Keane, R. E., R. E. Burgan, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2001. Mapping wildland fuels for fire management across multiple scales: integrating remote sensing, GIS, and biophysical modeling. International Journal of Wildland Fire 10(3&4): 301-319. [Journal Article]

  222. van Mantgem, P., M.W. Schwartz, and M.B. Keifer. 2001. Monitoring wildfire effects: Coming to terms with pseudoreplication. Natural Areas Journal 21: 266-273. [Journal Article]

  223. Brooks, M.L. and T.C. Esque. 2001. Non-native grass invasions and fire in the Mojave Desert. USGS Fact Sheet. [Fact Sheet]

  224. Keeley, J.E. and W.J. Bond. 2001. On incorporating fire into our thinking about natural ecosystems: A response to Saha and Howe. American Naturalist 158: 664-670. [Journal Article]

  225. Brooks, M.L. 2001. Peak fire temperatures and short-term ecological effects in the Mojave Desert. Symposium of the Ecological Society of America. [Abstract]

  226. Brooks, M.L. and J.R. Matchett. 2001. Plant community patterns in unburned and burned blackbrush (Coleogyne ramosissima) shrublands in the Mojave Desert. Technical Report prepared for the National Park Service, Pacific West Region, Fire Management, 1111 Jackson St. Suite 700, Oakland, CA 94607. [Technical Report]

  227. Galley K.E.M. and T.P Wilson (eds.). 2001. Proceedings of the Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. M.L. Brooks and S.G. Coloff (technical coordinators). Fire Conference 2000: the First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management. Miscellaneous Publication No. 11, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL. [Proceedings]

  228. Manley, J., M. Keifer, N. Stephenson, and W. Kaage. 2001. Restoring fire to wilderness: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Fire Management Today 61(2):24-28. [Journal Article]

  229. Manley, J., M. Keifer, N. Stephenson, and W. Kaage. 2001. Restoring fire to wilderness: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Fire Management Today 61(2):24-28. [Journal Article]

  230. Douglas, J., T. J. Mills, D. Artly, D. Ashe, A. Bartuska, R. L. Black, S. Coloff, J. Cruz, M. Edrington, J. Edwardson, R. T. Gale, S. W. Goodman, L. Hamilton, R. Landis, B. Powell, S. Robinson, R. J. Schuster, P. K. Stahlschmidt, J. Stires, and J. van Wagtendonk. 2001. Review and update of the 1995 Federal wildland fire management policy. U. S. Dep’t. of the Interior and U. S. Dep’t. of Agriculture. 78 p. [Technical Report]

  231. Gebow, B. S. and W. L. Halvorson. 2001. Search, compile, and analyze fire literature and research associated with Chihuahuan Desert Uplands. Report Submitted to Carlsbad Caverns National Park. [Technical Report]

  232. Brooks, M.L. 2001 The burning desert. Western Ecological Research Center, Annual Meeting. [Abstract]

  233. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. The historical role of fire in California shrublands. Conservation Biology 15: 1536-1548. [Journal Article]

  234. Russell, W. H., and J. R. McBride. 2001. The relative importance of fire and watercourse proximity in determining stand composition in mixed conifer riparian forests. Forest Ecology and Management 150: 259-265. [Journal Article]

  235. van Wagtendonk, K. A., J. W. van Wagtendonk, and J. B. Meyer. 2001. The use of geographic information for fire management planning in Yosemite National Park. 2001 Spatial Odyssey: a Servicewide Conference on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Related Technologies, National Park Service; Primm, NV, December 3-7, 2001. [Poster]

  236. van Wagtendonk, J. W., and R. R. Root. 2001. The use of multi-temporal Landsat Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for mapping fuels in Yosemite National Park, USA. 3rd Int. Workshop on Remote Sensing, GIS, and Fire Management; Paris, France, May 17-18, 2001. [Poster]

  237. Gutsell, S.L., E.A. Johnson, K. Miyanishi, J.E. Keeley, M. Dickinson, and S.R.J. Bridge. 2001. Varied ecosystems need different fire protection. Nature 409:377. [Journal Article]

  238. Weise, D. R., R. Kimberlin, M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. Jones, J. Merzenich, J. W. van Wagtendonk and M. Wiitala. 2000. A risk-based comparison of potential fuel treatment trade-off models. P. 96-102 in: Neuenschwander, L. F., and K. C. Ryan (Tech. Eds.). Proc. Joint Fire Sci. Conf. and Workshop, Vol. II. Univ. Idaho and Int. Assoc. Wildland Fire. 312 p. [Proceedings]

  239. Arbaugh, M. J., S. Schilling, J. Merzenich, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2000. A test of the strategic fuels management model VDDT using historical data from Yosemite National Park. P. 85-89 in: Neuenschwander, L. F., and K. C. Ryan (Tech. Eds.). Proc. Joint Fire Sci. Conf. and Workshop, Vol. II. Univ. Idaho and Int. Assoc. Wildland Fire. 312 p. [Proceedings]

  240. Stephenson, N. L., T. W. Swetnam, and T. T. Veblen. 2000. Altered disturbance regimes: fire, fuels, and forest structure. Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, p. 35. [Abstract]

  241. Brooks, M.L. 2000. An interagency approach to fire research in the Mojave Desert. West by Northwest 2000: A National Park Service, Pacific West Region, Resource Management and Interpretation Workshop. San Diego, CA. [Abstract]

  242. Brooks, M.L. and C. D’Antonio. 2000. The role of fire in promoting plant invasions. California Exotic Pest Plant Council Symposium. Concord, CA. [Abstract]

  243. Brooks, M. L. and T. C. Esque. 2000. Annual grass invasions and fire in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. U.S. Geological Survey, Biological Resources Division, National Program Review of the Invasive Species Program, Annapolis, MD. [Abstract]

  244. D. R. Weise, R. Kimberlin, M. Arbaugh, J. Chew, G. Jones, J. Merzenich, M. Witala, R. Keane, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 2000. Comparing potential fuel treatment trade-off models: initial results. Proc. Society Amer. Foresters Systems Analysis Symp. [Proceedings]

  245. Brooks, M.L. 2000. Effects of a changing fire regime in the Mojave Desert. California Association of Fire Ecology Symposium, San Diego, CA. [Abstract]

  246. Brooks, M. L., and T. C. Esque. 2000. Fire and exotic grasses changing Mojave's face. People, Land & Water (July/August): p. 25. U.S. Department of the Interior. [Popular Publication]

  247. Menning, K. M., J. J. Battles, T. L. Benning, and N. L. Stephenson. 2000. Forest litter densities under different canopy species in the mixed conifer forest of the southern Sierra Nevada: another factor affecting ground fire spread? Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, p. 159. [Abstract]

  248. van Wagtendonk, J. W., and R. R. Root. 2000. Hyperspectral analysis of multi-temporal Landsat TM data for mapping fuels in Yosemite National Park. P. 224-228 in: Neuenschwander, L. F., and K. C. Ryan (Tech. Eds.). Proc. Joint Fire Sci. Conf. and Workshop, Vol. I. Univ. Idaho and Int. Assoc. Wildland Fire. 298 p. [Proceedings]

  249. Brooks, M.L. and D. Pyke. 2000. Invasive plants and fire in the deserts of North America. Invasive Species Workshop: The Role of Fire in the Control and Spread of Invasive Species. Special Session of the Fire Conference 2000: The First National Congress on Fire, Ecology, Prevention and Management. San Diego, CA. [Abstract]

  250. Brooks, M.L. 2000. Management of alien annual plants and fire in the Mojave and Colorado deserts. Western Ecological Research Center, Center Review presentation. [Abstract]

  251. Brooks, M.L. 2000. Management of alien annual plants and fire in the Mojave and Colorado deserts. Western Section of the Wildlife Society, Riverside, CA. [Abstract]

  252. Esque, T., and C. Schwalbe. 2000. Non-native grasses and fires create double jeopardy. People, Land & Water(July/August): p. 26. . U.S. Department of the Interior. [Popular Publication]

  253. Esque, T.C., L. A. DeFalco, P. A. Medica, M. L. Brooks and R. H. Webb. 2000. Predicted changes in Mojave fire frequency related to invasive annual grasses. Effects of a Hotter and Drier Climate, a USGS Workshop. Tuscon, AZ. [Abstract]

  254. Keifer, M., N.L. Stephenson, and J. Manley. 2000. Prescribed fire as the minimum tool for wilderness forest and fire regime restoration: a case study from the Sierra Nevada, California. Pp. 266-269 in Cole, D.N., S.F. McCool, W.T. Borrie, and J. O'Loughlin, compilers. Wilderness science in a time of change conference -- Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT. Procs. RMRS-P-15-VOL-5. Ogden, UT: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. [Proceedings]

  255. Keeley, J. E. 2000. Prescribed fire, grazing impact Sierran forests. People, Land & Water (July/August): p. 25. U.S. Department of the Interior. [Popular Publication]

  256. Keeley, J. E., and N. L. Stephenson. 2000. Restoring natural fire regimes to the Sierra Nevada in an era of global change. Pages 255-265 in Cole, D. N., S. F. McCool, W. T. Borrie, and J. O'Loughlin, compilers. Wilderness science in a time of change conference -- Volume 5: Wilderness ecosystems, threats, and management; 1999 May 23-27; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-5. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. [Proceedings]

  257. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2000. Role of fire in regeneration from seed. Pp. 311-330. In M. Fenner (ed) Seeds: The Ecology of Regeneration in Plant Communities. 2nd Edition. CAB International, Oxon, UK. [Journal Article]

  258. van Wagtendonk, J.W. and P. E. Moore. 2000. Subalpine conifer fuel dynamics. Litter and woody fuel accumulation rates over 4 years for 4 subalpine Sierra Nevada conifer species, including western white pine, lodgepole pine, whitebark pine and mountain hemlock. Data are for four size classes per species. Nonspatial, georeferenced. [Database Nonspatial]

  259. Agee, J. K., B. Bahro, M. A. Finney, P. N. Omi, D. B. Sapsis, C. N. Skinner, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and C. P. Weatherspoon. 2000. The use of fuel breaks in landscape fire management. Forest Ecology and Manage. 127(1-3):55-66. [Journal Article]

  260. Brooks, M.L. 1999. Alien annual grasses and fire in the Mojave Desert. Madroño 46(1):13-19 [Journal Article]

  261. Swantek, P. J., W. L. Halvorson, and C. R. Schwalbe. 1999. Analysis of fire history in Saguaro National Park using geographic information systems. Pp 121-124 in Benson, L. and B. Gebow (eds), A Century of Parks in Southern Arizona: Second Conference on Research and Resource Management in Southern Arizona National Parks. National Park Service and USGS Sonoran Desert Field Station, University of Arizona, Tucson. [Proceedings]

  262. Carrington, M.E. and J.E. Keeley. 1999. Comparison of postfire seedling establishment between scrub communities in mediterranean- and non-mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Journal of Ecology 87:1025-1036. [Journal Article]

  263. Brooks, M., T. Esque, S. Benjamin, and D. DelSordo. 1999. Digital database of fire perimeters in the Mojave Desert. United States Department of the Interior. [Database Spatial]

  264. Brooks, M. L., T. C. Esque, and C. R. Schwalbe. 1999. Effects of exotic grasses via wildfire on desert tortoises and their habitat. Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. St. George, Utah. [Abstract]

  265. Esque, T. C., M. J. Nijhuis, D. F. Haines, J. W. Clark, P. J. Swantek, and C. R. Schwalbe. 1999. Effects of fire on desert tortoises at Saguaro National Park. In, W. Halvorson (ed.), Proceedings: Conference on a Century of Research In Parks. Tucson, Arizona, May 5-7, 1998. [Proceedings]

  266. Swantek, P.J., W.L. Halvorson, and C.R. Schwalbe. 1999. GIS database development to analyze fire history in southern Arizona and beyond: an example from Saguaro National Park. U.S. Geological Survey, Cooperative Park Studies Unit, University of Arizona, Tucson. Tech. Report No. 61. 43 p. [Technical Report]

  267. Root, R. R., and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 1999. Hyperspectral analysis of multi-temporal Landsat TM data for mapping fuels in Yosemite National Park. Annual Conf. Amer. Soc. Photog. and Remote Sensing. Portland, OR. [Poster]

  268. Keeley, J.E., G. Ne'eman, and C.J. Fotheringham. 1999. Immaturity risk in a fire-dependent pine. Journal of Mediterranean Ecology 1:41-48. [Journal Article]

  269. Esque, T., S. Eckert, L. Evers, T. Duck, B. Bracken, T. Bartlett. 1999. Interagency cooperation and a large-scale habitat manipulation: the effects of alien plants and granivores on ecological recovery following wildfire (poster presentation). Mojave Desert Science Symposium, Las Vegas, NV. [Poster]

  270. Esque, T. C. 1999. Managing fire and invasive plants in the Mojave Desert: defining an integrated research program to address knowledge gaps. In, 25-27. Jeffrey Lovich (ed.), Proceedings: Mojave Desert Science Symposium. Las Vegas, NV. [Proceedings]

  271. Keeley, J.E. and W.J. Bond. 1999. Mast flowering and semelparity in bamboos: The bamboo fire cycle hypothesis. American Naturalist 154:383-391. [Journal Article]

  272. Brooks, M.L. and T. Esque. 1999. Non-native grass invasions and fire in the Mojave Desert. USGS Fact Sheet, last updated 8 September, 2001. Available online at http://www.werc.usgs.gov/invasivespecies/mojavegrassfire.html [Fact Sheet]

  273. Ne’eman, G., C.J. Fotheringham, and J.E. Keeley. 1999. Patch to landscape patterns in post-fire recruitment of a serotinous conifer. Plant Ecology 145:235-242 [Journal Article]

  274. Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M. Morais. 1999. Reexamining fire suppression impacts on brushland fire regimes. Science 284:1829-1832. [Journal Article]

  275. Keeley, J.E. and M.B. Keeley. 1999. Role of charred wood, heat-shock and light in germination of postfire phrygana species from the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Israel Journal of Plant 47:11-16. [Journal Article]

  276. Schwalbe, C.R., T.C. Esque, M.J. Nijhuis, D.F. Haines, J.W. Clark, P.J. Swantek.1999. Effects of fire on Arizona Upland desertscrub at Saguaro National Park. Pages 107-109 in, Proceedings: Conference on a Century of Parks in Southern Arizona: Second Conference on Research and Resource Management in Southern Arizona National Parks, Extended Abstracts. Edited by L. Benson and B. Gebow. National Park Service, Southern Arizona Office and USGS. Sonoran Desert Field Station, The University of Arizona, Tucson. [Proceedings]

  277. Esque, T.C., C.R. Schwalbe, M.J. Nijhuis, D.F. Haines, and J.W. Clark. 1999. Short-term effects of fire on desert tortoises at Saguaro National Park. In, B. Bartholomew (ed.), Proceedings: The 23th Annual Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. Tucson, Arizona, April 3-5, 1998. [Proceedings]

  278. Keeley, J.E., M.B. Keeley, and W.J. Bond. 1999. Stem demography and postfire recruitment of a resprouting serotinous conifer. Journal of Vegetation Science 10:69-76. [Journal Article]

  279. Menning, K. M., J. J. Battles, T. M. Benning, and N. L. Stephenson. 1999. Structural variability of a Sierra Nevadan forest analyzed in prelude to restoration by fire. Abstracts, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, p. 107. [Abstract]

  280. Menning, K. M., T. L. Benning, J. J. Battles, and N. L. Stephenson. 1999. Variability in forest fire fuel loads across a montane valley with high variability in forest structure. Proceedings of the 5th World Congress of the International Association of Landscape Ecology, p. 148. [Abstract]

  281. Brooks, M.L. 1998. Effects of fire on the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). Proceedings of the International Conference on Turtles and Tortoises. Dominguez Hills, CA [Abstract]

  282. van Wagtendonk, J. 1998. Fire and fuels in a Sierra Nevada ecosystem. P. 609 in, M.J. Mac, P.A. Opler, C.E. Puckett Haecker, and P.D. Doran (eds.), Status and Trends of the Nation’s Biological Resources 2 vols. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA. [Journal Article]

  283. van Wagtendonk, J. W., J. M. Benedict, and W. M. Sydoriak. 1998. Fuel bed characteristics of Sierra Nevada conifers. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 13(3): 73-84. [Journal Article]

  284. Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 1998. Mechanism of smoke-induced seed germination in a post-fire chaparral annual. Journal of Ecology 86:27-36. [Journal Article]

  285. Keeley, J.E. 1998. Postfire ecosystem recovery and management: The October 1993 large fire episode in California, pp. 69-90. In J.M. Moreno (ed), Large Forest Fires. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. [Book Chapter]

  286. Russell, William H., Joe R. McBride, and Rowan Rowntree. 1998. Revegetation after four stand-replacing fires in the Lake Tahoe basin. Madrono 45(1):40-46. [Journal Article]

  287. Schwilk, D.W. and J.E. Keeley. 1998. Rodent populations after a large wildfire in California chaparral and coastal sage scrub. Southwestern Naturalist 43:480-483. [Journal Article]

  288. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1998. Use of thematic mapper imagery to map fuel models. Proceedings 13th Conf. on Fire and Forest Meteorology. International Assoc. Wildland Fire. 13:215-224. [Proceedings]

  289. Wells, M., S. Hathaway, and M. Simovich. 1997. Branchiopod cyst resistance to fire. Hydrobiologia 359: 199-202. [Journal Article]

  290. Roller, P. S. and W. L. Halvorson, 1997. Fire and Pima Pineapple Cactus (Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina Schott) in southern Arizona. Pp 267-274 in Proceedings: Fire Effects on Rare and Endangered Species and Habitats Conference, International Association of Wildland Fire, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. [Proceedings]

  291. van Wagtendonk, J.W. and P. E. Moore. 1997. Montane conifer fuel dynamics, Yosemite National Park. Litter and woody fuel accumulation rates over 7 years for 7 montane Sierra Nevada conifer species, including giant sequoia, ponderosa pine, sugar pine, Jeffrey pine, incense-cedar and white fir. Data are from four sites per size class per species with four size classes each. Nonspatial, georeferenced. [Database Nonspatial]

  292. Keeley, J.E. 1997. Seed longevity of non-fire recruiting chaparral shrubs. Four Seasons. 10(3):36-42. [Journal Article]

  293. Schwilk, D.W., J.E. Keeley, and W. Bond. 1997. The intermediate disturbance hypothesis does not explain fire and diversity pattern in fynbos. Plant Ecology 132:77-84. [Journal Article]

  294. Swantek. P.J., W.L. Halvorson, and C.R. Schwalbe. 1997. Will Increased Fire Cause a Shift in Species Composition of the Arizona Upland Subdivision in the Sonoran Desert? Development of a GIS System to Analyze the Fire History of Southern Arizona. Pp 210-217 in Harmon, D. Making Protection Work, Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Research and Resource Management in Parks and on Public Lands. The George Wright Society, Hancock. MI. [Proceedings]

  295. Schwalbe, C.R., T.C. Esque, P.J. Swantek, W.L. Halvorson, J.L. Oldemeyer. 1996. A regional approach to understanding fire effects in the Arizona Upland Subdivision of the Sonoran Desert. In, Proceedings: Interagency Conference, Effects of fire on the Madrean Province Ecosystems. Tucson, Arizona. [Proceedings]

  296. McKelvey, K. S., C. N. Skinner, C. Chang, D. C. Erman, S. J. Husari, D. J. Parsons, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and C. P. Weatherspoon. 1996. Fire in the Sierra Nevada, an overview. In: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final report to Congress, Volume II, Chapter 37. Univ. Calif., Davis, Wildland Resources Center Rep. 37. 1528 p. [Book Chapter]

  297. Parsons, D. J., and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 1996. Fire research and management in the Sierra Nevada national parks. P. 25-48 In Halvorson, W. , and G. E. Davis (Eds.) Science and ecosystem management in the national parks. Univ. Arizona Press, Tucson. 364 p. [Book Chapter]

  298. van Wagtendonk, J. W., J. M. Benedict, and W. M. Sydoriak. 1996. Physical properties of woody fuel particles of Sierra Nevada conifers. International Journal of Wildland Fire 6(3):117-123. [Journal Article]

  299. Keeley, J.E. 1996. Postfire vegetation recovery in the Santa Monica Mountains under two alternative management programs. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 95:103-119. [Journal Article]

  300. Semenoff-Irving, M. 1996. Rare Plant Monitoring, Vision Fire Burn Area. Annual Report. 23 pp. [Technical Report]

  301. Keeley, J.E. 1996. San Clemente Island Biological Assessment of Fire Impacts. San Clemente Island Conservancy, San Clemente, CA. [Technical Report]

  302. Brooks, M.L. 1996. Testing hypotheses about wildland fires in the western Mojave Desert: results of experimental burns in August 1995. Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, NV. [Abstract]

  303. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1996. Use of a deterministic fire growth model to test fuel treatments. In: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final report to Congress, Volume II, Chapter 43. Univ. Calif., Davis, Wildland Resources Center Rep. 37. 1528 p. [Book Chapter]

  304. Brooks, M.L and K.H. Berry. 1995. Alien annual grasses and fire in the western Mojave Desert: a plan to evaluate their effects on desert plant communities. Desert Tortoise Council Symposium, Las Vegas, NV. [Abstract]

  305. Keeley, J.E. 1995. Bibliography on Fire Ecology and General Biology of Mediterranean-type Ecosystems in Australia, Chile, the Mediterranean Basin and South Africa. Intern. Asso. Wildland Fire, Fairfield, WA. 232 p.+ disks in Endnote(r)Plus bibliographic form. [Technical Report]

  306. Keeley, J.E. 1995. Bibliography on Fire Ecology and General Biology of Mediterranean-type Ecosystems in California. International Association of Wildland Fire, Fairfield,Washington. 426 p.+ disks in Endnote(r) Plus bibliographic format. [Technical Report]

  307. Hathaway, S., M. Wells, and M. Simovich. 1995. Branchiopod cyst resistance to fire. International Branchiopod Research Symposium. [Abstract]

  308. Keeley, J.E. and T. Scott (editors). 1995. Brushfires in California: Ecology and Resource Management. International Association of Wildland Fire, Fairfield, Washington. 220 p. [Book]

  309. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1995. Dr. Biswell's influence on the development of prescribed burning in California. P. 11-15 in: Weise, D. R. and R. E. Martin (Tech. Coords.). The Biswell Symposium: Fire Issues and Solutions in Urban and Wildland Ecosystems. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR 158. 199 p. [Proceedings]

  310. Philpot, C., C. Schechter, A. Bartuska, K. Beartusk, D. Bosworth, S. Coloff, J. Douglas, M. Edrington, R. Gale, M. J. Lavin, L. K. Rosenkrance, R. Streeter, and J. van Wagtendonk. 1995. Federal wildland fire management policy & program review. U. S. Dep’t. of the Interior and U. S. Dep’t. of Agriculture. 78 p. [Technical Report]

  311. Keeley, J.E. 1995. Future of California floristics and systematics: wildfire threats to the California flora. Madroño 42:175-179. [Journal Article]

  312. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1995. Large fires in wilderness areas. P. 113-116 in Proc. Symp. on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-GTR 320. 283 p. [Proceedings]

  313. Keeley, J.E., M. Carrington, and S. Trnka. 1995. Overview of management issues raised by the 1993 wildfires in southern California, pp. 83-89. In J.E. Keeley and T. Scott (eds), Brushfires in California: Ecology and Resource Management. International Assoc. Wildland Fire, Fairfield, Washington. [Book Chapter]

  314. Keeley, J.E. 1995. Postfire management: workshop summary. Fremontia 23(3):24-25. [Popular Publication]

  315. Keeley, J.E. 1995. Seed germination patterns in fire prone Mediterranean climate regions, pp. 239-273. In M.T.K. Arroyo, P.H. Zedler, and M.D. Fox (eds), Ecology and Biogeography of Mediterranean Ecosystems in Chile, California and Australia. Springer-Verlag. [Book Chapter]

  316. Stephenson, N. L. 1994. Effects of two millennia of changing climate and fire regimes on giant sequoia populations. Ecosystem Management and Restoration for the 21st Century. 21st annual Natural Areas Conference, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, p. 63. [Abstract]

  317. Esque, T.C., T. Hughes, L.A. DeFalco, B.E. Hatfield, and R.B. Duncan. 1994. Effects of wildfire on desert tortoises and their habitats. In, pp. 153-154, A. Fletcher (ed.), Proceedings: The 19th Annual Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. Tucson, Arizona. [Proceedings]

  318. Duck, T.A., T.C. Esque, T. Hughes. 1994. Fighting wildfires in desert tortoise habitat: Considerations for land managers. In, pp. 58-67, Anne Fletcher (ed.), Proceedings: The 19th Annual Desert Tortoise Council Symposium. Tucson, Arizona. [Proceedings]

  319. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1994. Spatial patterns of lightning strikes and fires in Yosemite National Park. Proc. 12th Conf. Fire and Forest Meteorology. 12:223-231. [Proceedings]

  320. van Wagtendonk, J.W. 1993. Park goals and current fire policy. Renewable Resources Journal 11(1):19. [Journal Article]

  321. Haidinger, T.L. and J.E. Keeley. 1993. Role of high fire frequency in destruction of mixed chaparral. Madroño 40:141-147. [Journal Article]

  322. Keeley, J.E. 1993. Smoke-induced flowering in the fire-lily Cyrtanthus ventricosus. South African Journal of Botany 59:638. [Journal Article]

  323. Keeley, J.E. 1992. Demographic structure of California chaparral in the long-term absence of fire. Journal of Vegetation Science 3:79-90. [Journal Article]

  324. Weatherspoon, C. P., S. J. Husari, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 1992. Fire and fuels management in relation to owl habitat in forests in the Sierra Nevada and southern California. P. 247-260 in: Verner, J., K. S. McKelvey, B. R. Noon, R. J. Gutierrez, G. I. Gould, and T. W. Beck (tech. coords.). The California spotted owl: a technical assessment of its current status. USDA, Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-133. 285 p. [Technical Report]

  325. Keeley, J.E. 1991. A continent on fire [book review] Burning bush: a fire history of Australia, by S.J. Pyne. Natural History, April: 82-85. [Book Review]

  326. Steele, N.L.C. and J.E. Keeley. 1991. Chaparral & fire ecology: role of fire in seed germination. American Biology Teacher 53:432-435. [Popular Publication]

  327. Keeley, J.E. 1991. Fire management for maximum biodiversity of California chaparral, pp. 11-14. In S.C. Nodvin and T.A.Waldrop (eds), Proceed. Symp. Fire and the Environment: Ecological and Cultural Perspectives. USDA Forest Service, SE Forest Experiment Sta. [Proceedings]

  328. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1991. GIS applications in fire management and research. P. 212-214 in: Nodvin, S. C., and T. W. Waldrop (eds.). Proc. Symp. on Fire and the Environment. USDA, Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. SE-69. 429 p. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1991. [Proceedings]

  329. Stephenson, N. L. 1991. Recent research on giant sequoia fire ecology: progress and implications. Abstracts, Fourth Biennial Conference of Research in California's National Parks, p. 26. [Abstract]

  330. Keeley, J.E. 1991. Resilience to fire does not imply adaptation to fire: an example from the California chaparral, pp. 113-119. Proceedings of the Conference High-Intensity Fire in Wildlands: Management Challenges and Options. Tall Timbers Res. Sta.Tallahassee, FL. [Proceedings]

  331. Stephenson, N. L., D. J. Parsons, and T. W. Swetnam. 1991. Restoring natural fire to the sequoia-mixed conifer forest: should intense fire play a role? Proceedings of the Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference 17:321-337. [Proceedings]

  332. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1991. The evolution of National Park Service fire policy. P. 328-332 in: Nodvin, S. C., and T. W. Waldrop (eds.). Proc. Symp. on Fire and the Environment. USDA, Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. SE-69. 429 p. [Proceedings]

  333. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1991. The evolution of National Park Service fire policy. Fire Manage. Notes. 52(4):10-15. [Journal Article]

  334. Keeley, J.E. 1990. [Book review] Prescribed burning in California wildland vegetation management, by H. Biswell. Fremontia 18(3):110-111. [Book Review]

  335. Stephenson, N. L., D. J. Parsons, and T. W. Swetnam. 1990. Effects of fire history on forest structure in sequoia-mixed conifer forests. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 71:336. [Abstract]

  336. Little, R. and C. Schonewald-Cox. 1990. Fire management policy and boundary effects on parks: Lassen Volcanic National Park -- A case study. pp. 249-256. In C. van Riper III, T. J. Stohlgren, S. D. Veirs, Jr., and S. C. Hillyer (eds.), Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference on California Parks. 268p. [Proceedings]

  337. Stephenson, N. L., D. J. Parsons, and H. T. Nichols. 1990. Replies from the fire gods. American Forests 96 (3&4):35,70. [Journal Article]

  338. Keeley, J.E. 1989. [Book review] The biogeography of fire in the San Bernardino Mountains of California---a historical study, by R.A. Minnich. Madroño 36:287-288. [Book Review]

  339. Keeley, J.E. and S.C. Keeley. 1989. Allelopathy and the fire induced herb cycle, pp. 65-72. In S. Keeley (ed), California Chaparral: Paradigms Re-examined. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series No. 34, Los Angeles, CA. [Book Chapter]

  340. Keeley, J.E., P.H. Zedler, C.A. Zammit, and T.J. Stohlgren. 1989. Workshop Summary. Fire and demography, pp. 151-153. In S. Keeley (ed), California Chaparral: Paradigms Re-examined. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles Co., Science Series No. 34, Los Angeles, CA. [Book Chapter]

  341. Keeley, J.E. 1988. Bibliographies on Chaparral and the Fire Ecology of Other Mediterranean Systems. Second Edition. California Water Resources Center, Report No. 69, University of California, Davis. 328 p. [Technical Report]

  342. Montygierd-Loyba, T.M. and J.E. Keeley. 1987. Demographic structure of Ceanothus megacarpus chaparral in the long absence of fire. Ecology 68:211-213. [Journal Article]

  343. van Wagtendonk, J. W., and C. A. Sydoriak. 1987. Fuel accumulation rates after prescribed fires in Yosemite National Park. Proc. 9th Conf. Fire and Forest Meteorology. 9:101-105. [Proceedings]

  344. Keeley, J.E. 1987. Role of fire in the seed germination of woody taxa in California chaparral. Ecology 68:434-443. [Journal Article]

  345. Keeley, J.E. and S.C. Keeley. 1987. The role of fire in the germination of chaparral herbs and suffrutescents. Madroño 34:240-249. [Journal Article]

  346. Keeley, J.E. and S.C. Keeley. L987. The role of fire in the germination of chaparral herbs and suffrutescents. Madroño 34:240 249. [Journal Article]

  347. Keeley, J.E. and S.C. Keeley. 1986. Chaparral and wildfires. Fremontia 14(3):6-9. [Journal Article]

  348. Keeley, J.E., A. Brooks, T. Bird, S. Cory, H. Parker, and E. Usinger. 1986. Demographic structure of chaparral under extended fire-free conditions, pp. 133-137. In J.J. DeVries (ed), Proceedings of the Chaparral Ecosystems Research Conference. California Water Resources Center, Report No. 62, University of California, Davis. [Proceedings]

  349. Parsons, D. J., D. M. Graber, J. K. Agee, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 1986. Natural fire management in national parks. Environ. Manage. 10(1):21-24. [Journal Article]

  350. Keeley, J.E. and T.J. Soderstrom. 1986. Post fire recovery of chaparral along an elevational gradient in southern California. Southwestern Naturalist 31:177-184. [Journal Article]

  351. Ryan, H., F. Albeita, L. Bancroft, W. L. McCleese, H. N. Miller, R. Mutch, H. Poitevint, P. Range, M. J. Rogers, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and R. Wilson. 1986. Prescribed fire plan guide. Nat'l. Wildfire Coord. Group. 96 p. [Technical Report]

  352. Keeley, J.E. 1986. Resilience of Mediterranean shrub communities to fire, pp. 95-112. In B. Dell, A.J.M. Hopkins, and B.B. Lamont (eds), Resilience in Mediterranean-type Ecosystems. Dr. W. Junk, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. [Book Chapter]

  353. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1986. The role of fire in the Yosemite Wilderness. P. 2-9 in: Proc. Nat'l Wilderness Res. Conf.: Current Res. USDA, For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-212. 553 p. [Proceedings]

  354. Halvorson, W. L. 1985. Exotic Fireweed, Erectites arguta. A Report to the Superintendent, Channel Islands National Park. [Technical Report]

  355. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1985. Prescribed fire ignition with fusee dropper. P. 121-127 in: Mutch, R. W., (tech. ed.). Prescribed Fire by Aerial Ignition, Proceedings of a Workshop. Intermountain Fire Council, Missoula, MT. 217 p. [Proceedings]

  356. Ferry, G., F. Albeita, L. Bancroft, W. L. McCleese, H. N. Miller, R. Mutch, H. Ryan, J. W. van Wagtendonk, R. Wilson, and F. Zontek. 1985. Prescribed fire smoke management guide. Nat'l. Wildfire Coord. Group. 24 p. [Technical Report]

  357. Keeley, J.E. 1984. Bibliographies on Chaparral and the Fire Ecology of Other Mediterranean Systems. California Water Resources Center, Report No. 58. University of California, Davis. 190 p. [Technical Report]

  358. Bancroft, L., T. Nichols, D. Parsons, D. Graber, B. Evison, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 1984. Evolution of the natural fire management program at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. P. 174-180 in: Proc. Symp. and Workshop on Wilderness Fire. USDA, For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-182. 424 p. [Proceedings]

  359. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1984. Fire suppression effects on fuels and succession in short fire interval wilderness ecosystems. P. 119-126 in: Proc. Symp. and Workshop on Wilderness Fire. USDA, For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-182. 424 p. [Proceedings]

  360. van Wagtendonk, J. W., and S. J. Botti. 1984. Modeling behavior of prescribed fires in Yosemite National Park. J. Forestry 82(8):479-484. [Journal Article]

  361. Keeley, J.E. and S.C. Keeley. 1984. Post-fire recovery of California coastal sage scrub. American Midland Naturalist 111:105-117. [Journal Article]

  362. Douglas, C. L. and P. G. Sanchez. 1984. Wildlife and feral livestock census and distribution following the Saline Fire. Death Valley. 5pp. [Technical Report]

  363. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1983. Prescribed fire effects on forest understory mortality. Proc. 7th Conf. Fire and Forest Meteorology. 7:136-138. [Proceedings]

  364. Howell, J.A. 1982. Bay Area Eucalyptus fire hazard. US Dept. Interior. NPS. San Francisco, CA. 12 pp. [Technical Report]

  365. Keeley, J.E. 1982. Distribution of lightning and man-caused wildfires in California, pp. 431-437. In C.E. Conrad and W.C. Oechel (eds), Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Dynamics and Management of Mediterranean Type Ecosystems. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report PSW-58. [Proceedings]

  366. van Wagtendonk, J. W., L. Bancroft, G. Ferry, R. French, J.T. Hance, J. Hickman, W. L. McCleese, R. Mutch, F. Zontek, and D. Butts. 1982. Prescribed fire monitoring and evaluation guide. Nat'l. Wildfire Coord. Group. 16 p. [Technical Report]

  367. Lotan, J. E., M. E. Alexander, S. F. Arno, R. E. French, O.G. Langdon, R. M. Loomis, R. E. Norum, R. C. Rothermel, W. C. Schmidt, and J. W. van Wagtendonk. 1981. Effects of fire on flora: a state of knowledge review. USDA, For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-16. 71 p. [Technical Report]

  368. Keeley, J.E. and S.C. Keeley. 1981. Post fire regeneration of southern California chaparral. American Journal of Botany 68:524 530. [Journal Article]

  369. Keeley, J.E. and S.C. Keeley. 1981. Post-fire regeneration of southern California chaparral. American Journal of Botany 68:524-530. [Journal Article]

  370. Keeley, S.C., J.E. Keeley, S.M. Hutchinson, and A.W. Johnson. 1981. Post-fire succession of the herbaceous flora in southern California chaparral. Ecology 62:1608-1621. [Journal Article]

  371. Keeley, J.E. 1981. Reproductive cycles and fire regimes, pp. 231-277. In H.A. Mooney, T. Bonnicksen, N.L. Christensen, J. Lotan, and W.Reiners (eds), Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire Regimes and Ecosystems Properties. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report WO-26. [Proceedings]

  372. McCleese, W. L., L. Bancroft, G. Ferry, R. French, J.T. Hance, J. Hickman, R. Mutch, J. W. van Wagtendonk, and F. Zontek. 1979. Prescribed fire job qualification guide. Nat'l. Wildfire Coord. Group. 8 p. [Technical Report]

  373. Keeley, J.E. and P.H. Zedler. 1978. Reproduction of chaparral shrubs after fire: a comparison of sprouting and seeding strategies. American Midland Naturalist 99:142-161. [Journal Article]

  374. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1978. Wilderness fire management in Yosemite National Park. P. 324-335 in: Schofield, E. A. (ed.). EARTHCARE: Global Protection of Natural Areas. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 838 p. [Book Chapter]

  375. Keeley, J.E. 1977. Fire dependent reproductive strategies in Arctostaphylos and Ceanothus, pp. 391-396. In H.A. Mooney and G.E. Conrad (eds), Symposium on the Environmental Consequences of Fire and Fuel Management in Mediterranean Ecosystems. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report WO-3. [Proceedings]

  376. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1977. Fire management in the Yosemite mixed conifer ecosystem. P. 459-463 in: Proc. Symp. Environ. Consequences of Fire and Fuel Manage. in Mediterranean Ecosystems. USDA, For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-3. 498 p. [Proceedings]

  377. Keeley, J.E. 1977. Seed production, seed populations in the soil and seedling production after fire for two congeneric pairs of sprouting and nonsprouting chaparral shrubs. Ecology 58:820-829. [Journal Article]

  378. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1974. Refined burning prescriptions for Yosemite National Park. USDI, Nat'l. Park Serv. Occ. Pap. 2. 21 p. [Technical Report]

  379. van Wagtendonk, J. W. 1972. Fire and fuel relationships in mixed conifer ecosystems of Yosemite National Park. Unpub. Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. Calif., Berkeley. 163 p. [Thesis/Dissertation]

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