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Dirac Twidwell is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on rangeland and wildlife management, as well as ecosystem dynamics and conservation.

The main fields of study in which Twidwell has contributed include:

  • Environmental Science

Key subfields of their work are:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Environmental Chemistry

Twidwell's research topics cover a wide range of ecological and environmental themes, including:

  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Turfgrass Adaptation and Management

Recent papers authored by Twidwell include:

  • Improving Landsat predictions of rangeland fractional cover with multitask learning and uncertainty (2021, Methods in Ecology and Evolution)
  • The last continuous grasslands on Earth: Identification and conservation importance (2022, Conservation Science and Practice)
  • Panarchy: opportunities and challenges for ecosystem management (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment)
  • Herbaceous production lost to tree encroachment in United States rangelands (2022, Journal of Applied Ecology)
  • Woody Plant Encroachment and the Sustainability of Priority Conservation Areas (2020, Sustainability)

Twidwell frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Craig R. Allen
  • Caleb P. Roberts
  • Victoria M. Donovan
  • Brady Allred
  • Daniel R. Uden

Their work is regularly published in various scientific journals and venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Rangeland Ecology & Management
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Society
  • Ecological Applications

Best Publications

  • Ecosystem services lost to oil and gas in North America

    Brady W. Allred;W. Kolby Smith;W. Kolby Smith;Dirac Twidwell;Julia H. Haggerty

  • Improving Landsat predictions of rangeland fractional cover with multitask learning and uncertainty

    Brady W. Allred;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer;Chad S. Boyd;Christopher Brown

  • The rising Great Plains fire campaign: citizens' response to woody plant encroachment

    Dirac Twidwell;William E Rogers;Samuel D Fuhlendorf;Carissa L Wonkka

  • Quantifying spatial resilience

    Craig R. Allen;David G. Angeler;Graeme S. Cumming;Carl Folke;Carl Folke

  • The last continuous grasslands on Earth: Identification and conservation importance

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  • Refining thresholds in coupled fire-vegetation models to improve management of encroaching woody plants in grasslands

    Dirac L. Twidwell Jr;Samuel D. Fuhlendorf;Charles A. Taylor Jr;William E. Rogers

  • Heterogeneity as the Basis for Rangeland Management

    Samuel D. Fuhlendorf;Richard W. S. Fynn;Devan Allen McGranahan;Dirac Twidwell

  • National-scale assessment of ecological content in the world's largest land management framework

    Dirac Twidwell;Brady W. Allred;Samuel D. Fuhlendorf

  • Surging wildfire activity in a grassland biome

    Victoria M. Donovan;Carissa L. Wonkka;Dirac Twidwell

  • Soil Moisture Affects Growing-Season Wildfire Size in the Southern Great Plains

    Erik S. Krueger;Tyson E. Ochsner;David M. Engle;J. D. Carlson

  • Extreme prescribed fire during drought reduces survival and density of woody resprouters

    Dirac Twidwell;William E. Rogers;Carissa L. Wonkka;Charles A. Taylor

  • Untapped capacity for resilience in environmental law.

    Ahjond Garmestani;Ahjond Garmestani;J. B. Ruhl;Brian C. Chaffin;Robin K. Craig

  • Adaptive capacity in ecosystems

    David G. Angeler;Hannah Fried-Petersen;Craig R. Allen;Ahjond Garmestani

  • Enhancing quantitative approaches for assessing community resilience

    W. C. Chuang;A. Garmestani;T. N. Eason;T. L. Spanbauer

  • Long-Term Effects of Fire, Livestock Herbivory Removal, and Weather Variability in Texas Semiarid Savanna

    Charles A. Taylor;Dirac Twidwell;Nick E. Garza;Colin Rosser

  • Long-Term Effects of Fire, Livestock Herbivory Removal, and Weather Variability in Texas Semiarid Savanna

    Charles A. Taylor;D.r.c. Twidwell;Nick E. Garza;C.l.n. Rosser

  • Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains

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  • Impact of Eastern Redcedar Proliferation on Water Resources in the Great Plains USA—Current State of Knowledge

    Chris B. Zou;Dirac Twidwell;Christine H. Bielski;Dillon T. Fogarty

  • Concurrent and antecedent soil moisture relate positively or negatively to probability of large wildfires depending on season

    Erik S. Krueger;Tyson E. Ochsner;J. D. Carlson;David M. Engle

  • Smokey comes of age: unmanned aerial systems for fire management

    Dirac L. Twidwell Jr.;Craig R. Allen;Carrick Detweiler;James Higgins

  • Plant Invasions or Fire Policy: Which Has Altered Fire Behavior More in Tallgrass Prairie?

    Dirac Twidwell;Andrew S. West;William B. Hiatt;Abbey L. Ramirez

  • Beyond Inventories: Emergence of a New Era in Rangeland Monitoring☆

    Matthew O. Jones;David E. Naugle;Dirac Twidwell;Daniel R. Uden

  • Surface Fuel Sampling Strategies: Linking Fuel Measurements and Fire Effects

    Dirac Twidwell;Samuel D. Fuhlendorf;David M. Engle;Charles A. Taylor

  • Soil Moisture Affects Growing-Season Wildfire Size in the Southern Great Plains Soil Physics & Hydrology

    Tyson E. Ochsner;David M. Engle;Dirac Twidwell;D. Fuhlendorf

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig R. Allen
Craig R. Allen University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Samuel D. Fuhlendorf
Samuel D. Fuhlendorf Oklahoma State University
Brady W. Allred
Brady W. Allred University of Montana
David E. Naugle
David E. Naugle University of Montana
Ahjond S. Garmestani
Ahjond S. Garmestani Environmental Protection Agency
William E. Rogers
William E. Rogers Texas A&M University
David A. Wedin
David A. Wedin University of Nebraska–Lincoln
David G. Angeler
David G. Angeler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
David M. Engle
David M. Engle Oklahoma State University
Tyson Ochsner
Tyson Ochsner Oklahoma State University

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