SEFS Professor Brian Harvey and students in his lab recently published papers on wildfire and forest management, including how fire potential and carbon storage after beetle outbreaks can be changed by forest management decades prior (Ecosystems), how forest resilience is affected by the combination of wildfire severity and post-fire climate conditions across the western US (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), and how wildfire severity in areas experiencing more than one fire in recent decades are reshaping forest landscapes and forest resilience across the northwest US (Global Ecology and Biogeography). Harvey and students, as well as SEFS Assistant Professor Brittany Johnson, also presented at the Oregon Post-fire Research and Monitoring Symposium in February, including the following recorded talks:
- Spatial patterns of burn severity in Western Cascadia: characteristics, drivers, and implications for post-fire landscapes
- Evaluating the occurrence and spatial patterns of soil water repellency in the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon
- Examining wildfires from other regions and fire regimes yields insights into future patterns of burn severity in western Cascadia
- Impacts of forest structure and fire severity on reburn potential in western Cascadia
- Patterns and drivers of conifer regeneration following stand-replacing wildfire in western Cascadia
- Composition and diversity of early-seral forest communities vary with burn severity and pre-fire stand age following fire in western Cascadia