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Ecology and Evolution

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104
Citations
46918
World Ranking
220
National Ranking
91

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jon E. Keeley is a researcher affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's research centers on topics including Fire effects on ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, Landslides and related hazards, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

Jon E. Keeley has authored multiple papers, such as:

  • Large California wildfires: 2020 fires in historical context, 2021, Fire Ecology
  • Evolutionary Ecology of Fire, 2022, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Frequent co-authors in their work include Alexandra D. Syphard, Juli G. Pausas, Phillip J. van Mantgem, William J. Bond, and Janin Guzman-Morales.

Their research has been published in several notable venues, including:

  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • American Journal of Botany
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Fire Ecology
  • Ecological Applications

Jon E. Keeley has been recognized with the Fellow of the Ecological Society of America award in 2014 and was named Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1985.

Best Publications

  • Fire in the Earth System

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Fire as a global 'herbivore': the ecology and evolution of flammable ecosystems.

    William J. Bond;Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley

  • Fire intensity, fire severity and burn severity: a brief review and suggested usage

    Jon E. Keeley

  • Effects of Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes

    Matthew L. Brooks;Carla M. D'antonio;David M. Richardson;James B. Grace

  • A burning story: The role of fire in the history of life

    Juli G. Pausas;Jon E. Keeley

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Fire as an evolutionary pressure shaping plant traits

    Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley;Juli G. Pausas;Philip W. Rundel;William J. Bond

  • The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

    Erika J. Edwards;Colin P. Osborne;Caroline A.E. Strömberg;Stephen A. Smith

  • PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAITS IN RELATION TO FIRE IN CROWN-FIRE ECOSYSTEMS

    Juli G. Pausas;Ross A. Bradstock;David A. Keith;Jon E. Keeley

  • HUMAN INFLUENCE ON CALIFORNIA FIRE REGIMES

    Alexandra D. Syphard;Volker C. Radeloff;Jon E. Keeley;Todd J. Hawbaker

  • Fire in Mediterranean Ecosystems: Ecology, Evolution and Management

    Jon E. Keeley;William J. Bond;Ross A. Bradstock;Juli G. Pausas

  • Evolutionary ecology of resprouting and seeding in fire-prone ecosystems

    Juli G. Pausas;Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley

  • Seed germination and life history syndromes in the California chaparral

    Jon E. Keeley

  • Reexamining fire suppression impacts on brushland fire regimes

    Jon E. Keeley;C. J. Fotheringham;Marco Morais

  • Reproduction of chaparral shrubs after fire: a comparison of sprouting and seeding strategies

    Jon E. Keeley;Paul H. Zedler

  • Fire treatment effects on vegetation structure, fuels, and potential fire severity in western U.S. forests

    Scott L. Stephens;Jason J. Moghaddas;Carl Edminster;Carl E. Fiedler

  • Role of Fire in Seed Germination of Woody Taxa in California Chaparral

    Jon E. Keeley

  • Wildfires and global change

    Juli G Pausas;Jon E Keeley;Jon E Keeley

  • Resilience of mediterranean shrub communities to fires

    Jon E. Keeley

  • Fire management impacts on invasive plants in the western United States.

    Jon E. Keeley

  • Fire and the Miocene expansion of C4 grasslands

    Jon E. Keeley;Jon E. Keeley;Philip W. Rundel

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra D. Syphard
Alexandra D. Syphard Conservation Biology Institute
Juli G. Pausas
Juli G. Pausas University of Valencia
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Philip W. Rundel
Philip W. Rundel University of California, Los Angeles
Eric E. Knapp
Eric E. Knapp US Forest Service
Ross A. Bradstock
Ross A. Bradstock University of Wollongong
Dylan W. Schwilk
Dylan W. Schwilk Texas Tech University
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis
Scott L. Stephens
Scott L. Stephens University of California, Berkeley
Phillip J. van Mantgem
Phillip J. van Mantgem United States Geological Survey

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