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Overview

Charles B. Halpern is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics, and rangeland and wildlife management. Other areas of study include forest ecology and biodiversity, forest management and policy, forest insect ecology and management, and plant responses to elevated CO2.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Insect Science
  • Plant Science

Frequent research topics in their work feature:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Halpern has published extensively in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Scientific Data
  • Ecological Applications
  • Forests
  • Restoration Ecology

Recent significant papers include:

  • "Burn severity and pre-fire seral state interact to shape vegetation responses to fire in a young, western Cascade Range forest," 2022, Forest Ecology and Management
  • "Level and spatial pattern of overstory retention impose trade-offs for regenerating and retained trees," 2021, Ecological Applications
  • "Rates, patterns, and drivers of tree reinvasion 15 years after large-scale meadow-restoration treatments," 2021, Restoration Ecology
  • "The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire," 2020, Scientific Data
  • "Long-Term Effects of Fuels Treatments, Overstory Structure, and Wildfire on Tree Regeneration in Dry Forests of Central Washington," 2020, Forests

Collaborations with other researchers are common in their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jonathan D. Bakker
  • David W. Peterson
  • C. Alina Cansler
  • Sharon M. Hood
  • J. Morgan Varner

Best Publications

  • Plant Species Diversity in Natural and Managed Forests of the Pacific Northwest

    Charles B. Halpern;Thomas A. Spies

  • PLANT DIVERSITY IN MANAGED FORESTS: UNDERSTORY RESPONSES TO THINNING AND FERTILIZATION

    Sean C. Thomas;Charles B. Halpern;Donald A. Falk;Denise A. Liguori

  • Early Successional Patterns of Forest Species: Interactions of Life History Traits and Disturbance

    Charles B. Halpern

  • EARLY SUCCESSIONAL PATHWAYS AND THE RESISTANCE AND RESILIENCE OF FOREST COMMUNITIES

    Charles B. Halpern

  • TREE MORTALITY DURING EARLY FOREST DEVELOPMENT: A LONG-TERM STUDY OF RATES, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES

    James A. Lutz;Charles B. Halpern

  • Edge-related gradients in microclimate in forest aggregates following structural retention harvests in western Washington

    Troy D. Heithecker;Charles B. Halpern

  • INITIAL RESPONSES OF FOREST UNDERSTORIES TO VARYING LEVELS AND PATTERNS OF GREEN-TREE RETENTION

    Charles B. Halpern;Donald McKenzie;Shelley A. Evans;Douglas A. Maguire

  • Canopy closure exerts weak controls on understory dynamics: a 30-year study of overstory–understory interactions

    Charles B. Halpern;James A. Lutz

  • Variation in microclimate associated with dispersed-retention harvests in coniferous forests of western Washington

    Troy D. Heithecker;Charles B. Halpern

  • Effects of environment and grazing disturbance on tree establishment in meadows of the central Cascade Range, Oregon, USA

    Eric A. Miller;Charles B. Halpern

  • Potential response of pacific northwestern forests to climatic change, effects of stand age and initial composition

    Dean L. Urban;Mark E. Harmon;Charles B. Halpern

  • Overstory influences on herb and shrub communities in mature forests of western Washington, U.S.A.

    Donald McKenzie;Charles B. Halpern;Cara R. Nelson

  • Variable-retention harvests in the Pacific Northwest: A review of short-term findings from the DEMO study

    Keith B. Aubry;Charles B. Halpern;Charles E. Peterson

  • The structure and dynamics of Abies magnifica forests in the southern Cascade Range, USA

    Alan H. Taylor;Charles B. Halpern

  • Short-term effects of timber harvest and forest edges on ground-layer mosses and liverworts

    Cara R Nelson;Charles B Halpern

  • Soil seed banks in young, closed-canopy forests of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington: potential contributions to understory reinitiation

    Charles B Halpern;Shelley A Evans;Sarah Nielson

  • Community and ecosystem consequences of giant knotweed (Polygonum sachalinense) invasion into riparian forests of western Washington, USA

    Lauren S. Urgenson;Sarah H. Reichard;Charles B. Halpern

  • Combining local- and large-scale models to predict the distributions of invasive plant species.

    Chad C. Jones;Steven A. Acker;Charles B. Halpern

  • Trends in bole biomass accumulation, net primary production and tree mortality in Pseudotsuga menziesii forests of contrasting age.

    S. A. Acker;C. B. Halpern;M. E. Harmon;C. T. Dyrness

  • EDGE-RELATED RESPONSES OF UNDERSTORY PLANTS TO AGGREGATED RETENTION HARVEST IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

    Cara R. Nelson;Charles B. Halpern

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph A. Antos
Joseph A. Antos University of Victoria
Jonathan D. Bakker
Jonathan D. Bakker University of Washington
Cara R. Nelson
Cara R. Nelson University of Montana
Jerry F. Franklin
Jerry F. Franklin University of Washington
Douglas A. Maguire
Douglas A. Maguire Oregon State University
James A. Lutz
James A. Lutz Utah State University
Mark E. Harmon
Mark E. Harmon Oregon State University
Tim Wardlaw
Tim Wardlaw Forestry Tasmania
Keith B. Aubry
Keith B. Aubry US Forest Service
Thomas A. Spies
Thomas A. Spies US Forest Service

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