C. Alina Cansler
Contact
Office Locations
Forest Resilience Lab
Missoula Fire Science Lab, Missoula, MT
Supervising Faculty
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Resources, 2015
Research Areas
- Fire ecology
- Landscape ecology
- Plant community ecology
- Global change
Honors and Awards
- USDA Forest Service National Wilderness Award for Excellence in Wilderness Stewardship Research, 2013
Current Sponsored Projects
Selected Publications
Cansler, C.A., M.E. Swanson, T.J. Furniss, A.J. Larson, J.A. Lutz. 2019. Surface fuels before and after reintroduced fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Fire Ecology. 15:16 10.1186/s42408-019-0035-y
Haugo, R.D., B.S Kellogg, C.A. Cansler, C.A. Kolden, K.B. Kemp, J. Robertson. K.L. Metlen. N.M. Vaillant, C.M. Restaino. 2019. The Missing Fire: Quantifying human exclusion of wildfire in Pacific Northwest forests, USA. Ecosphere: e02702. 10.1002/ecs2.2702
Hood, S.M., J.M. Varner, P. van Mantgem, C.A. Cansler. Fire and tree death: Understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality. Environmental Research Letters. 13: 113004. 10.1088/1748-9326/aae934
Meddens, A.J.H., C.A. Kolden, J.A. Lutz, A.M.S. Smith, C.A. Cansler, J.T. Abatzoglou, G.W. Meigs, W.M. Downing, M.A. Krawchuk. 2018. Fire refugia: What are they and why do they matter for global change?Bioscience. 68:944-954. 10.1093/biosci/biy103
Cansler, C.A., D. McKenzie, C.B. Halpern. 2018. Fire enhances the complexity of forest structure in alpine treeline ecotones. Ecosphere. 9:e02091. 10.1002/ecs2.2091
Cansler, C.A., D. McKenzie, C. Halpern. 2017. Area burned in alpine treeline ecotones reflects region-wide trends. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25:1209-1220. 10.1071/WF16025
Larson, A.J., C.A. Cansler, S.G. Cowdery, S. Hiebert, T.J. Furniss, M.E. Swanson, and J.A. Lutz. 2016. Post-fire morel (Morchella) mushroom abundance, spatial structure, and harvest sustainability. Forest Ecology and Management. 337:16-25. 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.06.038
Cansler, C.A., D. McKenzie. 2014. Climate, fire size, and ecological setting influence severity and spatial pattern of wildfires. Ecological Applications. 24:1037-1056. doi: 10.1890/13-1077.1
Cansler, C.A., D. McKenzie. 2012. How robust are burn severity indices when applied in a new region? Evaluation of alternate field-based and remote-sensing methods. Remote Sensing. 4:456-483. doi:10.3390/rs4020456