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J. Kevin Hiers is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States and has made significant contributions to the field of environmental science, particularly focusing on fire ecology and its interactions with ecosystems. Their research output encompasses a range of topics centered on fire effects, rangeland and wildlife management, and advanced remote sensing techniques.

The researcher's primary fields of study include environmental science with specialized work in subfields such as global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental engineering, and policy and law related to environmental management. These areas provide a multidisciplinary foundation for their investigations into fire dynamics and ecosystem responses.

Main topics covered in their publications include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Fire dynamics and safety research

J. Kevin Hiers has published extensively in venues that focus on fire ecology and wildland fire management. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Fire Ecology
  • Fire
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Scientific Data

Notable recent papers include:

  • Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda (2020), Fire Ecology
  • Climate change projected to reduce prescribed burning opportunities in the south-eastern United States (2020), International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Robust projections of future fire probability for the conterminous United States (2021), The Science of The Total Environment
  • Coupling terrestrial laser scanning with 3D fuel biomass sampling for advancing wildland fuels characterization (2020), Forest Ecology and Management
  • Pyrodiversity promotes pollinator diversity in a fire-adapted landscape (2021), Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Their work has been coauthored frequently with colleagues such as Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Morgan Varner, Rodman Linn, E. Louise Loudermilk, and Chad M. Hoffman. These collaborations span multiple studies within the same thematic area of fire ecology and environmental science.

Best Publications

  • Foundations of translational ecology

    Carolyn A. F. Enquist;Stephen T. Jackson;Gregg M. Garfin;Frank W. Davis

  • Restoring Fire to Long‐Unburned Pinus palustris Ecosystems: Novel Fire Effects and Consequences for Long‐Unburned Ecosystems

    J. Morgan Varner;Doria R. Gordon;Francis E. Putz;J. Kevin Hiers

  • Silviculture that sustains: the nexus between silviculture, frequent prescribed fire, and conservation of biodiversity in longleaf pine forests of the southeastern United States

    R J Mitchell;J K Hiers;J J O'Brien;S B Jack

  • Imputation of individual longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) tree attributes from field and LiDAR data

    Carlos A. Silva;Andrew T. Hudak;Lee A. Vierling;E. Louise Loudermilk

  • Future climate and fire interactions in the southeastern region of the United States

    Robert J. Mitchell;Yongqiang Liu;Joseph J. O’Brien;Katherine J. Elliott

  • Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda

    J. Kevin Hiers;Joseph J. O’Brien;J. Morgan Varner;Bret W. Butler

  • FOREST FLOOR DEPTH MEDIATES UNDERSTORY VIGOR IN XERIC PINUS PALUSTRIS ECOSYSTEMS

    J. Kevin Hiers;Joseph J. O'Brien;Rodney E. Will;Robert J. Mitchell

  • Ecological Forestry in the Southeast: Understanding the Ecology of Fuels

    R.J. Mitchell;J.K. Hiers;J. O’Brien;G. Starr

  • The burning characteristics of southeastern oaks: Discriminating fire facilitators from fire impeders

    Jeffrey M. Kane;J. Morgan Varner;J. Kevin Hiers

  • The wildland fuel cell concept: an approach to characterize fine-scale variation in fuels and fire in frequently burned longleaf pine forests

    J. Kevin Hiers;Joseph J. O’Brien;R. J. Mitchell;John M. Grego

  • Toward a mechanism for eastern North American forest mesophication: Differential litter drying across 17 species

    Jesse K. Kreye;J. Morgan Varner;J. Kevin Hiers;John Mola

  • Modeling silviculture after natural disturbance to sustain biodiversity in the longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) ecosystem: balancing complexity and implementation

    Brian J. Palik;Robert J. Mitchell;J.Kevin Hiers

  • Ground-based LIDAR: a novel approach to quantify fine-scale fuelbed characteristics

    E.L. Loudermilk;J.K. Hiers;J.J. O’Brien;R.J. Mitchell

  • Linking knowledge to action: the role of boundary spanners in translating ecology

    Hugh D Safford;Hugh D Safford;Sarah C Sawyer;Susan D Kocher;J Kevin Hiers

  • Post-fire tree stress and growth following smoldering duff fires

    J. Morgan Varner;Francis E. Putz;Joseph J. O’Brien;J. Kevin Hiers

  • Overstory tree mortality resulting from reintroducing fire to long-unburned longleaf pine forests: the importance of duff moisture

    J.M. Varner;J.K. Hiers;R.D. Ottmar;D.R. Gordon

  • Measurements of convective and radiative heating in wildland fires

    David Frankman;Brent W. Webb;Bret W. Butler;Daniel Jimenez

  • The effects of fire regime on legume reproduction in longleaf pine savannas: is a season selective?

    J. Kevin Hiers;Robert Wyatt;Robert J. Mitchell

  • QUIC-fire: A fast-running simulation tool for prescribed fire planning

    Rodman Linn;Scott L. Goodrick;Sara Brambilla;Michael J. Brown

  • The Precision Problem in Conservation and Restoration

    J. Kevin Hiers;Stephen T. Jackson;Stephen T. Jackson;Richard J. Hobbs;Emily S. Bernhardt

  • Acute Physiological Stress and Mortality Following Fire in a Long-Unburned Longleaf Pine Ecosystem

    Joseph J. O’Brien;J. Kevin Hiers;R. J. Mitchell;J. Morgan Varner

  • High-resolution infrared thermography for capturing wildland fire behaviour: RxCADRE 2012

    Joseph J. O’Brien;E. Louise Loudermilk;Benjamin Hornsby;Andrew T. Hudak

  • Ecological value of retaining pyrophytic oaks in longleaf pine ecosystems

    J. Kevin Hiers;Jeffrey R. Walters;Robert J. Mitchell;J. Morgan Varner

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph J. O'Brien
Joseph J. O'Brien US Forest Service
J. Morgan Varner
J. Morgan Varner US Forest Service
Robert J. Mitchell
Robert J. Mitchell La Trobe University
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Gregory Starr
Gregory Starr University of Alabama
Stephen T. Jackson
Stephen T. Jackson United States Geological Survey
Mac A. Callaham
Mac A. Callaham US Forest Service
Brett Williams
Brett Williams Monash University
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis
Roger D. Ottmar
Roger D. Ottmar US Forest Service

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