Shifting tree species composition of upland oak forests alters leaf litter structure, moisture, and flammability

Open forest ecosystems: An excluded state

(2020) Brice B. Hanberry et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Non-additive effects of leaf and twig mixtures from different tree species on experimental litter-bed flammability

(2019) Weiwei Zhao et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Could canopy, bark, and leaf litter traits of encroaching non-oak species influence future flammability of upland oak forests?

(2019) Emily Babl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mesophytic litter dampens flammability in fire-excluded pyrophytic oak-hickory woodlands

(2018) Jesse K. Kreye et al.   Ecosphere

Do relationships between leaf traits and fire behaviour of leaf litter beds persist in time?

(2018) Zorica Kauf et al.   PLoS One

Shifts in forest composition in the eastern United States

(2018) Jonathan A. Knott et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Alterations to the fuel bed after single and repeated prescribed fires in an Appalachian hardwood forest

(2017) Mary A. Arthur et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Species mixture effects on flammability across plant phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size and the special role for non-Pinus Pinaceae

(2016) Weiwei Zhao et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Fire Effects on Wildlife in the Central Hardwoods and Appalachian Regions, USA

(2016) Craig A. Harper et al.   Fire Ecology

Suites of Fire-Adapted Traits of Oaks in the Southeastern USA: Multiple Strategies for Persistence

(2016) J. Morgan Varner et al.   Fire Ecology

Clarifying the role of fire in the deciduous forests of eastern North America: reply to Matlack

(2015) Michael C. Stambaugh et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Burn or rot: leaf traits explain why flammability and decomposability are decoupled across species

(2015) Saskia Grootemaat et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Changes in Tree Species Composition and Stand Structure in a Mature Upland Oak-Dominated Forest Reflect Differences in Recruitment, Survival, and Longevity

(2015) J. Stephen Brewer   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Flammability across the gymnosperm phylogeny: the importance of litter particle size

(2015) William K. Cornwell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing Red Maple Leaf Litter Alters Decomposition Rates and Nitrogen Cycling in Historically Oak-Dominated Forests of the Eastern U.S.

(2014) H. D. Alexander et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Flammability of litter sampled according to two different methods: comparison of results in laboratory experiments

(2014) Anne Ganteaume et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Toward a mechanism for eastern North American forest mesophication: differential litter drying across 17 species

(2013) Jesse K. Kreye et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

A Meta-Analysis of the Fire-Oak Hypothesis: Does Prescribed Burning Promote Oak Reproduction in Eastern North America?

(2013) Patrick H. Brose et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Leaf traits and litter flammability: evidence for non-additive mixture effects in a temperate forest

(2013) Rita M. Q. de Magalhães et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seasonal Variation in Flammability Characteristics of Quercus marilandica and Quercus mtellata Leaf Litter Burned in the Laboratory

(2013) John R. Weir et al.   Fire Ecology

Patterns of flammability of the California oaks: the role of leaf traits

(2012) Eamon A. Engber et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Linking complex forest fuel structure and fire behaviour at fine scales

(2012) E. Louise Loudermilk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Scaling from leaf traits to fire behaviour: community composition predicts fire severity in a temperate forest

(2011) Dylan W. Schwilk et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Implications of a predicted shift from upland oaks to red maple on forest hydrology and nutrient availability

(2010) Heather D. Alexander et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Multiple interacting ecosystem drivers: toward an encompassing hypothesis of oak forest dynamics across eastern North America

(2010) Ryan W. McEwan et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Oak and red maple seedling survival and growth following periodic prescribed fire on xeric ridgetops on the Cumberland Plateau

(2010) Stephanie R. Green et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Foliar morphology and chemistry of upland oaks, red maple, and sassafras seedlings in response to single and repeated prescribed fires

(2009) H.D. Alexander et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The Demise of Fire and “Mesophication” of Forests in the Eastern United States

(2008) Gregory J. Nowacki et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Fire history and the establishment of oaks and maples in second-growth forests

(2008) Todd F. Hutchinson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The influence of fuelbed properties on moisture drying rates and timelags of longleaf pine litter

(2008) Ralph M. Nelson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders

(2008) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Laboratory determination of factors influencing successful point ignition in the litter layer of shrubland vegetation

(2008) Matt P. Plucinski et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Current and Historical Composition and Size Structure of Upland Forests Across a Soil Gradient in North Mississippi

(2008) Sherry B. Surrette et al.   SOUTHEASTERN NATURALIST