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Joseph B. Fontaine

Joseph B. Fontaine

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
6844
World Ranking
7682
National Ranking
290

Overview

Joseph B. Fontaine is affiliated with Murdoch University in Australia and specializes in Environmental Science, having contributed to 103 publications in this field. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, and Insect Science.

Their scientific work predominantly addresses topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, rangeland and wildlife management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, plant parasitism and resistance, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Fontaine include Neal J. Enright, Ben P. Miller, Katinka X. Ruthrof, Russell G. Miller, and David J. Merritt.

Fontaine's research has been published in various journals with notable frequency in the Australian Journal of Botany, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Forest Ecology and Management, and Austral Ecology.

Recent publications illustrate diverse aspects of Fontaine's research interests and contributions:

  • Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Proximal Drivers of Large Fires: A Pyrogeographic Study, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Seed traits determine species' responses to fire under varying soil heating scenarios, 2020, Functional Ecology

Best Publications

  • Interval squeeze: altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

    Neal J Enright;Joseph B Fontaine;David Mjs Bowman;Ross A Bradstock

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

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

  • Post-wildfire logging hinders regeneration and increases fire risk.

    D. C. Donato;Joseph B. Fontaine;Joseph B. Fontaine;J. L. Campbell;J. L. Campbell;W. D. Robinson;W. D. Robinson

  • Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis

    Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Philip J. Burton

  • Taxonomic considerations in listing subspecies under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

    Susan M. Haig;Erik A. Beever;Steven M. Chambers;Hope M. Draheim;Hope M. Draheim

  • Primed for change: Developing ecological restoration for the 21st century

    Nancy Shackelford;Richard J. Hobbs;Joanna M. Burgar;Todd E. Erickson

  • Meta-analysis of avian and small-mammal response to fire severity and fire surrogate treatments in U.S. fire-prone forests.

    Joseph B. Fontaine;Patricia L. Kennedy

  • Resistance and resilience to changing climate and fire regime depend on plant functional traits

    Neal J. Enright;Joseph B. Fontaine;Byron B. Lamont;Byron B. Lamont;Ben P. Miller;Ben P. Miller

  • A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems.

    Peter J. Clarke;Michael J. Lawes;Brett P. Murphy;Jeremy Russell-Smith

  • Vegetation response to a short interval between high-severity wildfires in a mixed-evergreen forest

    Daniel C. Donato;Joseph B. Fontaine;W. Douglas Robinson;J. Boone Kauffman

  • Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves

    David D. Breshears;Joseph B. Fontaine;Katinka X. Ruthrof;Jason P. Field

  • Conifer regeneration in stand-replacement portions of a large mixed-severity wildfire in the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains

    Daniel C. DonatoD.C. Donato;Daniel C. DonatoD.C. Donato;Joseph B. FontaineJ.B. Fontaine;Joseph B. FontaineJ.B. Fontaine;John L. CampbellJ.L. Campbell;John L. CampbellJ.L. Campbell;W. Douglas RobinsonW.D. Robinson;W. Douglas RobinsonW.D. Robinson

  • Subcontinental heat wave triggers terrestrial and marine, multi-taxa responses.

    Katinka X. Ruthrof;David D. Breshears;Joseph B. Fontaine;Ray H. Froend

  • Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States

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  • Mixed-severity fire regimes: lessons and hypotheses from the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion

    J. E. Halofsky;D. C. Donato;D. E. Hibbs;J. L. Campbell

  • Bird communities following high-severity fire: Response to single and repeat fires in a mixed-evergreen forest, Oregon, USA

    Joseph B. Fontaine;Daniel C. Donato;W. Douglas Robinson;Beverly E. Law

  • The Impacts of Changing Disturbance Regimes on Serotinous Plant Populations and Communities

    Brian Buma;Carissa D. Brown;Dan C. Donato;Joseph B. Fontaine

  • Mechanisms of Fire Seasonality Effects on Plant Populations

    Russell G. Miller;Ryan Tangney;Neal J. Enright;Joseph B. Fontaine

  • How drought-induced forest die-off alters microclimate and increases fuel loadings and fire potentials

    Katinka X. Ruthrof;Joseph B. Fontaine;George Matusick;George Matusick;David D. Breshears

  • Bat response to differing fire severity in mixed-conifer forest California, USA.

    Michael R. Buchalski;Joseph B. Fontaine;Paul A. Heady;John P. Hayes

  • Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity.

    Simon Thorn;Anne Chao;Kostadin B. Georgiev;Kostadin B. Georgiev;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller

  • Taxonomic Considerations in Listing SubspeciesUnder the U.S. Endangered Species Act

    Susan M. Haig;Erik A. Beever;Steven M. Chambers;Hope M. Draheim

  • Altered fire regimes and demographic responses interact to threaten woody species persistence as climate changes

    N. Enright;J. Fontaine

Frequent Co-Authors

Neal J. Enright
Neal J. Enright Murdoch University
Daniel C. Donato
Daniel C. Donato University of Washington
Giles E. St. J. Hardy
Giles E. St. J. Hardy Murdoch University
Ben P. Miller
Ben P. Miller University of Western Australia
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University
Rachel J. Standish
Rachel J. Standish Murdoch University
David D. Breshears
David D. Breshears University of Arizona
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Mark K. J. Ooi
Mark K. J. Ooi University of New South Wales
David J. Merritt
David J. Merritt University of Western Australia

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