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Ecology and Evolution

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42
Citations
9480
World Ranking
5468
National Ranking
1864

Overview

Andrew J. Larson is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Environmental Science with specific contributions across subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Insect Science, and Plant Science.

Their work addresses diverse scientific topics such as Fire effects on ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Forest ecology and management, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Plant and animal studies.

Frequent publication venues where Andrew J. Larson's research appears include Forest Ecology and Management, Forest Service Research Data Archive, SSRN Electronic Journal, Nature Communications, and Ecosphere.

They have collaborated extensively with several coauthors, among whom James A. Lutz, Derek J. Churchill, Van R. Kane, C. Alina Cansler, and Mark R. Kreider stand out as frequent partners.

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Andrew J. Larson include:

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity (2021, Forest Ecology and Management)
  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide (2021, Nature Communications)

Best Publications

  • Widespread increase of tree mortality rates in the western United States

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson;John C. Byrne;Lori D. Daniels

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Restoring forest resilience: From reference spatial patterns to silvicultural prescriptions and monitoring

    Derek J. Churchill;Andrew J. Larson;Matthew C. Dahlgreen;Jerry F. Franklin

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

    Paul F. Hessburg;Derek J. Churchill;Andrew J. Larson;Ryan D. Haugo

  • Tree spatial patterns in fire-frequent forests of western North America, including mechanisms of pattern formation and implications for designing fuel reduction and restoration treatments

    Andrew J. Larson;Derek Churchill

  • Ecological importance of large-diameter trees in a temperate mixed-conifer forest.

    James A. Lutz;Andrew J. Larson;Mark E. Swanson;James A. Freund

  • Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of Western North American forests

    Paul F. Hessburg;Paul F. Hessburg;Carol L. Miller;Sean A. Parks;Nicholas A. Povak

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California

    Paul F. Hessburg;Thomas A. Spies;David A. Perry;Carl N. Skinner

  • Latent resilience in ponderosa pine forest: effects of resumed frequent fire.

    Andrew J. Larson;R. Travis Belote;C. Alina Cansler;Sean A. Parks

  • The importance of large-diameter trees to forest structural heterogeneity.

    James A. Lutz;Andrew J. Larson;James A. Freund;Mark E. Swanson

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Spatial aspects of tree mortality strongly differ between young and old‐growth forests

    Andrew J. Larson;James A. Lutz;Daniel C. Donato;James A. Freund

  • Competition alters tree growth responses to climate at individual and stand scales

    Kevin R. Ford;Kevin R. Ford;Ian K. Breckheimer;Jerry F. Franklin;James A. Freund

  • Shifting conceptions of complexity in forest management and silviculture

    Robert T. Fahey;Brandon C. Alveshere;Julia I. Burton;Anthony W. D'Amato

  • Potential site productivity influences the rate of forest structural development.

    Andrew J. Larson;James A. Lutz;Rolf F. Gersonde;Jerry F. Franklin

  • Spatially nonrandom tree mortality and ingrowth maintain equilibrium pattern in an old-growth Pseudotsuga–Tsuga forest

    James A. Lutz;Andrew J. Larson;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel C. Donato

  • Patterns of conifer tree regeneration following an autumn wildfire event in the western Oregon Cascade Range, USA

    Andrew J. Larson;Jerry F. Franklin

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Lutz
James A. Lutz Utah State University
Jerry F. Franklin
Jerry F. Franklin University of Washington
Paul F. Hessburg
Paul F. Hessburg United States Department of Agriculture
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
R. Travis Belote
R. Travis Belote The Wilderness Society (United States)
Robert W. Howe
Robert W. Howe University of Wisconsin–Green Bay

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