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Carl N. Skinner

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
10936
World Ranking
4975
National Ranking
1707

Carl N. Skinner publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carl N. Skinner sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 92 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Carl N. Skinner D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carl N. Skinner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Carl N. Skinner is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular expertise in global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The main topics of Skinner's work include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Seedling growth and survival studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies

Skinner has published frequently in several venues, with notable publications in:

  • Ecological Applications
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Landscape Ecology

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Alan H. Taylor
  • Lucas B. Harris
  • Catherine Airey-Lauvaux
  • Scott L. Stephens
  • Andrew D. Pierce

Recent published papers highlight the scope and focus of their research:

  • "Severity patterns of the 2021 Dixie Fire exemplify the need to increase low-severity fire treatments in California's forests," 2022, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Changes in fire behavior caused by fire exclusion and fuel build-up vary with topography in California montane forests, USA," 2021, Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Spatial patterns of nineteenth century fire severity persist after fire exclusion and a twenty-first century wildfire in a mixed conifer forest landscape, Southern Cascades, USA," 2020, Landscape Ecology
  • "Climate and fire impacts on tree recruitment in mixed conifer forests in northwestern Mexico and California," 2023, Ecological Applications
  • "The national Fire and Fire Surrogates study at twenty years," 2025, Ecological Applications

Best Publications

  • Basic principles of forest fuel reduction treatments

    James K. Agee;Carl N. Skinner

  • The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management.

    James K. Agee;Bernie Bahro;Mark A. Finney;Philip N. Omi

  • Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests

    Scott L. Stephens;Jason J. Moghaddas;Carl Edminster;Carl E. Fiedler

  • Calibration and validation of the relative differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) to three measures of fire severity in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains, California, USA

    Jay D. Miller;Eric E. Knapp;Carl H. Key;Carl N. Skinner

  • SPATIAL PATTERNS AND CONTROLS ON HISTORICAL FIRE REGIMES AND FOREST STRUCTURE IN THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS

    Alan H. Taylor;Carl N. Skinner

  • Fire history and landscape dynamics in a late-successional reserve, Klamath Mountains, California, USA

    Alan H. Taylor;Carl N. Skinner

  • The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California

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

  • Ecological Effects of Prescribed Fire Season: A Literature Review and Synthesis for Managers

    Eric E. Knapp;Becky L. Estes;Carl N. Skinner

  • The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels

    Dylan W. Schwilk;Dylan W. Schwilk;Jon E. Keeley;Eric E. Knapp;James McIver

  • Trends and causes of severity, size, and number of fires in northwestern California, USA

    J. D. Miller;Carl Skinner;H. D. Safford;H. D. Safford;Eric E. Knapp

  • 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

  • Fire regimes, past and present

    Carl N. Skinner;Chiru Chang

  • The influence of fuels treatment and landscape arrangement on simulated fire behavior, Southern Cascade range, California

    David A. Schmidt;David A. Schmidt;Alan H. Taylor;Carl N. Skinner

  • Dendrochronology-based fire history of Jeffrey pine - mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico

    Scott L. Stephens;Carl N. Skinner;Samantha J. Gill

  • Socioecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire–climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600–2015 CE

    Alan H. Taylor;Valerie Trouet;Carl N. Skinner;Scott Stephens

  • 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

  • An assessment of factors associated with damage to tree crowns from the 1987 wildfires in northern California

    C. Phillip Weatherspoon;Carl N. Skinner

  • Postglacial vegetation and fire history, eastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA:

    Jerry A. Mohr;Cathy Whitlock;Carl N. Skinner

  • An Overview of Fire in the Sierra Nevada

    K.S. McKelvey;C.N. Skinner;C. Chang;D.C. Erman

  • Probability of wildfire-induced tree mortality in an interior pine forest of northern California: effects of thinning and prescribed fire

    Martin W. Ritchie;Carl N. Skinner;Todd A. Hamilton

  • The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon,

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan H. Taylor
Alan H. Taylor Pennsylvania State University
Scott L. Stephens
Scott L. Stephens University of California, Berkeley
Eric E. Knapp
Eric E. Knapp US Forest Service
Valerie Trouet
Valerie Trouet University of Arizona
Ralph E. J. Boerner
Ralph E. J. Boerner The Ohio State University
Brandon M. Collins
Brandon M. Collins University of California, Berkeley
Paul F. Hessburg
Paul F. Hessburg United States Department of Agriculture
Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis
James K. Agee
James K. Agee University of Washington

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Hugh D. Safford

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Malcolm P. North

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Peter Z. Fulé

Peter Z. Fulé

Northern Arizona University

Publications: 47

J. Morgan Varner

J. Morgan Varner

US Forest Service

Publications: 42

Alan H. Taylor

Alan H. Taylor

Pennsylvania State University

Publications: 39

Eric E. Knapp

Eric E. Knapp

US Forest Service

Publications: 38

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Matthew D. Hurteau

University of New Mexico

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United States Geological Survey

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US Forest Service

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Cathy Whitlock

Montana State University

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Thomas W. Swetnam

University of Arizona

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Mark A. Finney

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