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Overview

Dylan W. Schwilk is affiliated with Texas Tech University in the United States and focuses on research within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work primarily addresses areas related to fire ecology, plant science, and ecosystem dynamics.

The main fields of study for Dylan W. Schwilk include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Their research also spans several subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key topics explored throughout their work cover:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Dylan W. Schwilk has published multiple recent papers, including:

  • "Biogeography of fire regimes in western U.S. conifer forests: A trait-based approach," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene," 2022, PNAS Nexus
  • "A handbook for the standardised sampling of plant functional traits in disturbance-prone ecosystems, with a focus on open ecosystems," 2020, Australian Journal of Botany
  • "Burn hot or tolerate trees: flammability decreases with shade tolerance in grasses," 2022, Oikos
  • "Fire intensity impacts on physiological performance and mortality in Pinus monticola and Pseudotsuga menziesii saplings: a dose-response analysis," 2023, Tree Physiology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dylan W. Schwilk are:

  • Alistair M. S. Smith
  • Alessandra Fidélis
  • Xiulin Gao
  • Timothy J. Curran
  • Stephanie G. Yelenik

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • American Journal of Botany
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Australian Journal of Botany
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

  • A TRAIT-BASED TEST FOR HABITAT FILTERING: CONVEX HULL VOLUME

    William K Cornwell;L Dylan W Schwilk;David D Ackerly

  • The Effects of Forest Fuel-Reduction Treatments in the United States

    Scott L. Stephens;James D. McIver;Ralph E. J. Boerner;Christopher J. Fettig

  • Flammability and serotiny as strategies: correlated evolution in pines

    Dylan W. Schwilk;David D. Ackerly

  • Niche evolution and adaptive radiation: testing the order of trait divergence.

    D D Ackerly;Dylan Schwilk;C O Webb

  • Flammability as an ecological and evolutionary driver

    Juli G. Pausas;Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley;Dylan W. Schwilk

  • 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

  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • Fire‐adapted traits of Pinus arose in the fiery Cretaceous

    Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Tianhua He;Juli G. Pausas;Claire M. Belcher;Dylan W. Schwilk

  • Flammability is a niche construction trait: canopy architecture affects fire intensity.

    Dylan W. Schwilk

  • Spatial patterns of phylogenetic diversity

    Hélène Morlon;Dylan W. Schwilk;Jessica A. M. Bryant;Pablo A. Marquet;Pablo A. Marquet

  • Forest wildfire and grassland prescribed fire effects on soil biogeochemical processes and microbial communities: Two case studies in the semi-arid Southwest

    Lisa M. Fultz;Jennifer Moore-Kucera;Josefine Dathe;Marko Davinic

  • The intermediate disturbance hypothesis does not explain fire and diversity pattern in fynbos

    Dylan Schwilk;J E Keeley;W J Bond

  • Scaling from leaf traits to fire behaviour: community composition predicts fire severity in a temperate forest.

    Dylan W. Schwilk;Anthony C. Caprio

  • Leaf traits and litter flammability: evidence for non‐additive mixture effects in a temperate forest

    Rita M. Q. de Magalhães;Dylan W. Schwilk

  • Dimensions of plant flammability.

    Dylan W. Schwilk

  • The economics of alternative fuel reduction treatments in western United States dry forests: Financial and policy implications from the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study

    Bruce R. Hartsough;Scott Abrams;R. James Barbour;Erik S. Drews

  • Biogeography of fire regimes in western U.S. conifer forests: A trait-based approach

    Jens T. Stevens;Matthew M. Kling;Dylan W. Schwilk;J. Morgan Varner

  • Ecological effects of alternative fuel-reduction treatments: highlights of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS)

    James D. McIver;Scott L. Stephens;James K. Agee;Jamie Barbour

  • Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest

    Dylan W. Schwilk;Eric E. Knapp;Scott M. Ferrenberg;Jon E. Keeley

  • Is there a cost to resprouting? Seedling growth rate and drought tolerance in sprouting and nonsprouting Ceanothus (Rhamnaceae)

    Dylan W. Schwilk;David D. Ackerly

  • Limiting similarity and functional diversity along environmental gradients

    Dylan W. Schwilk;David D. Ackerly

  • Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest

    Eric E. Knapp;Dylan W. Schwilk;Jeffrey M. Kane;Jon E. Keeley

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand
Eric E. Knapp
Eric E. Knapp US Forest Service
Caroline E. R. Lehmann
Caroline E. R. Lehmann University of Edinburgh
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Scott L. Stephens
Scott L. Stephens University of California, Berkeley
David D. Ackerly
David D. Ackerly University of California, Berkeley
Juli G. Pausas
Juli G. Pausas University of Valencia
Tianhua He
Tianhua He Curtin University
Byron B. Lamont
Byron B. Lamont Curtin University

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