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J. Morgan Varner

J. Morgan Varner

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
7890
World Ranking
4846
National Ranking
1672

Overview

J. Morgan Varner is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States and has focused their research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics covered in Varner's research include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Fire dynamics and safety research

Varner's frequent collaborators are researchers such as J. Kevin Hiers, Timothy M. Shearman, Jeffrey M. Kane, Jesse K. Kreye, and Sharon M. Hood. These coauthors have worked alongside Varner on multiple projects, reflecting an ongoing professional partnership within the field of fire ecology and forest management.

Their contributions have been published consistently in specialized venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Fire Ecology (9 publications)
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (4 publications)
  • Forest Ecology and Management (4 publications)
  • Ecosphere (3 publications)
  • Journal of Ecology (2 publications)

Some notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Varner are:

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda, 2020, Fire Ecology
  • Biogeography of fire regimes in western U.S. conifer forests: A trait-based approach, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Mesophication of Oak Landscapes: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Research, 2020, BioScience
  • Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene, 2022, PNAS Nexus

Best Publications

  • Prescribed fire in North American forests and woodlands: history, current practice, and challenges

    Kevin C Ryan;Eric E Knapp;J Morgan Varner

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

    Kendra K. McLauchlan;Philip E. Higuera;Jessica Miesel;Brendan M. Rogers

  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • 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

  • Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality

    Sharon M. Hood;J. Morgan Varner;Phillip van Mantgem;C. Alina. Cansler

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

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

  • Post-fire regeneration across a fire severity gradient in the southern Cascades

    Justin S. Crotteau;J. Morgan Varner;Martin W. Ritchie

  • The Flammability of Forest and Woodland Litter: a Synthesis

    J. Morgan Varner;Jeffrey M Kane;Jesse K Kreye;Eamon A Engber

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

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

  • 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

  • Impediments to prescribed fire across agency, landscape and manager: an example from northern California

    Lenya N. Quinn-Davidson;J. Morgan Varner

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

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

  • 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

  • Mesophication of Oak Landscapes: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Research

    Heather D Alexander;Courtney Siegert;J Stephen Brewer;Jesse Kreye

  • 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

  • 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

  • Novel fuelbed characteristics associated with mechanical mastication treatments in northern California and south-western Oregon, USA

    Jeffrey M. Kane;J. Morgan Varner;Eric E. Knapp

  • Fire behavior in masticated fuels: A review

    Jesse K. Kreye;Nolan W. Brewer;Nolan W. Brewer;Penelope Morgan;J. Morgan Varner

  • Ecological value of retaining pyrophytic oaks in longleaf pine ecosystems

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

  • Long-term effects of fire severity on oak-conifer dynamics in the southern Cascades.

    Matthew I. Cocking;J. Morgan Varner;Eric E. Knapp

  • The Effects of Conifer Encroachment and Overstory Structure on Fuels and Fire in an Oak Woodland Landscape

    Eamon A. Engber;J. Morgan Varner;Leonel A. Arguello;Neil G. Sugihara

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Kevin Hiers
J. Kevin Hiers Texas A&M University
Eric E. Knapp
Eric E. Knapp US Forest Service
Joseph J. O'Brien
Joseph J. O'Brien US Forest Service
David M. Rizzo
David M. Rizzo University of California, Davis
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
A. Carla Staver
A. Carla Staver Yale University
Doria R. Gordon
Doria R. Gordon University of Florida
Phillip J. van Mantgem
Phillip J. van Mantgem United States Geological Survey
Mary A. Arthur
Mary A. Arthur University of Kentucky
Daniel C. Dey
Daniel C. Dey US Forest Service

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