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Joseph J. O'Brien

Joseph J. O'Brien

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
6655
World Ranking
5125
National Ranking
1749

Overview

Joseph J. O'Brien is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their body of work centers predominantly on environmental science, with specific focus across multiple subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, and environmental engineering.

Their research topics cover diverse aspects of fire ecology and ecosystem dynamics. Key themes include fire effects on ecosystems, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, rangeland and wildlife management, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, fire dynamics and safety research, forest ecology and management, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Joseph J. O'Brien has contributed to several recent scientific papers, which illustrate their involvement in understanding fire behavior, plant physiology, and ecological consequences of wildfires. Recent publications include:

  • Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda (2020), published in Fire Ecology
  • Tree crown injury from wildland fires: causes, measurement and ecological and physiological consequences (2021), published in New Phytologist
  • Vegetation's influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel (2022), published in Fire Ecology
  • Coupling terrestrial laser scanning with 3D fuel biomass sampling for advancing wildland fuels characterization (2020), published in Forest Ecology and Management
  • Integrating plant physiology into simulation of fire behavior and effects (2023), published in New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Joseph J. O'Brien include:

  • E. Louise Loudermilk
  • J. Kevin Hiers
  • Scott Collis
  • Maxwell Grover
  • Matthew Tuftedal

Their work appears regularly in a variety of scientific venues. Notable journals and publication platforms include:

  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • Fire Ecology
  • ACS ES&T Air
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of digital and film hemispherical photography and spherical densiometry for measuring forest light environments.

    Sylvia R Englund;Joseph J O'Brien;David B Clark

  • 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

  • Whole tree xylem sap flow responses to multiple environmental variables in a wet tropical forest

    J. J. O'brien;S. F. Oberbauer;S. F. Oberbauer;D. B. Clark

  • 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

  • Spatial and temporal variation in soil CO2 efflux in an old-growth neotropical rain forest, La Selva, Costa Rica

    Luitgard Schwendenmann;Edzo Veldkamp;Tania Brenes;Joseph J. O''Brien

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

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

  • Sea‐Level Rise and the Reduction in Pine Forests in the Florida Keys

    Michael S. Ross;Joseph J. O'Brien;Leonel da Silveira Lobo Sternberg

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • Climate seasonality limits leaf carbon assimilation and wood productivity in tropical forests

    Fabien H. Wagner;Bruno Hérault;Damien Bonal;Clément Stahl;Clément Stahl

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

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

  • Disturbance and the rising tide: the challenge of biodiversity management on low-island ecosystems

    Michael S Ross;Joseph J O'Brien;R Glenn Ford;Keqi Zhang

  • Ecological site classification of Florida keys terrestrial habitats

    Michael S. Ross;Joseph J. O'Brien;Laura J. Flynn

  • Have changing forests conditions contributed to pollinator decline in the southeastern United States

    James L. Hanula;Scott Horn;Joseph J. O’Brien

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

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

  • Calibration of a Frequency Domain Reflectometry Sensor for Humid Tropical Soils of Volcanic Origin

    Edzo Veldkamp;Joseph J. O'Brien

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Kevin Hiers
J. Kevin Hiers Texas A&M University
Andrew T. Hudak
Andrew T. Hudak US Forest Service
Steven F. Oberbauer
Steven F. Oberbauer Florida International University
Mac A. Callaham
Mac A. Callaham US Forest Service
J. Morgan Varner
J. Morgan Varner US Forest Service
Michael S. Ross
Michael S. Ross Florida International University
Robert J. Mitchell
Robert J. Mitchell La Trobe University
Gregory Starr
Gregory Starr University of Alabama
Lee A. Dyer
Lee A. Dyer University of Nevada Reno
Roger D. Ottmar
Roger D. Ottmar US Forest Service

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