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32
Citations
6747
World Ranking
7994
National Ranking
2650

Overview

Phillip J. van Mantgem is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, atmospheric science, and plant science.

Their recent research contributions include publications across several notable venues. Among these are Forest Ecology and Management, Fire Ecology, Ecological Applications, International Journal of Wildland Fire, and Ecosphere. They have published four papers in Forest Ecology and Management, three in Fire Ecology, three in Ecological Applications, two in the International Journal of Wildland Fire, and two in Ecosphere.

Phillip J. van Mantgem's main research topics cover:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses, 2022, Fire Ecology
  • Effects of postfire climate and seed availability on postfire conifer regeneration, 2020, Ecological Applications
  • A large database supports the use of simple models of post-fire tree mortality for thick-barked conifers, with less support for other species, 2020, Fire Ecology
  • Crowding, climate, and the case for social distancing among trees, 2021, Ecological Applications

Frequently collaborating co-authors include Micah Wright, Adrian J. Das, Nathan L. Stephenson, Hugh D. Safford, and C. Alina Cansler.

Best Publications

  • Widespread increase of tree mortality rates in the western United States

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson;John C. Byrne;Lori D. Daniels

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • Apparent climatically induced increase of tree mortality rates in a temperate forest.

    Phillip J. Van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson

  • Climatic stress increases forest fire severity across the western United States

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Jonathan C. B. Nesmith;MaryBeth Keifer;Eric E. Knapp

  • 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

  • Forest turnover rates follow global and regional patterns of productivity

    Nathan L. Stephenson;Phillip J. van Mantgem

  • The contribution of competition to tree mortality in old-growth coniferous forests

    Adrian Das;John Battles;Nathan L. Stephenson;Phillip J. van Mantgem

  • Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates

    Nathan L. Stephenson;Phillip J. van Mantgem;Andrew Godard Bunn;Howard Bruner

  • Spatial elements of mortality risk in old-growth forests.

    Adrian Das;John Battles;Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson

  • The relationship between tree growth patterns and likelihood of mortality: a study of two tree species in the Sierra Nevada

    Adrian J. DasA.J. Das;Adrian J. DasA.J. Das;John J. BattlesJ.J. Battles;John J. BattlesJ.J. Battles;Nathan L. StephensonN.L. Stephenson;Nathan L. StephensonN.L. Stephenson;Phillip J. van MantgemP.J. van Mantgem;Phillip J. van MantgemP.J. van Mantgem

  • Bark heat resistance of small trees in Californian mixed conifer forests: testing some model assumptions

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Mark Schwartz

  • Characterizing interactions between fire and other disturbances and their impacts on tree mortality in western U.S. Forests

    Jeffrey M. Kane;J. Morgan Varner;Margaret R. Metz;Phillip J. van Mantgem

  • Long-term effects of prescribed fire on mixed conifer forest structure in the Sierra Nevada, California

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson;Eric Knapp;John Battles

  • Climatic correlates of tree mortality in water- and energy-limited forests.

    Adrian J. Das;Nathan L. Stephenson;Alan Flint;Tapash Das

  • Growth rate predicts mortality of Abies concolor in both burned and unburned stands

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson;Linda S. Mutch;Veronica G. Johnson

  • Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses

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  • EFFECTS OF AN INTRODUCED PATHOGEN AND FIRE EXCLUSION ON THE DEMOGRAPHY OF SUGAR PINE

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson;MaryBeth Keifer;Jon E. Keeley

  • Does Prescribed Fire Promote Resistance to Drought in Low Elevation Forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA?

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Anthony C. Caprio;Nathan L. Stephenson;Adrian J. Das

  • Thinning, tree-growth, and resistance to multi-year drought in a mixed-conifer forest of northern California

    Michael J. Vernon;Rosemary L. Sherriff;Phillip J. van Mantgem;Jeffrey M. Kane

  • Forest reproduction along a climatic gradient in the Sierra Nevada, California

    Phillip J. van Mantgem;Nathan L. Stephenson;Jon E. Keeley

  • Increasing elevation of fire in the Sierra Nevada and implications for forest change

    Mark W. Schwartz;Nathalie Butt;Christopher R. Dolanc;Christopher R. Dolanc;Andrew Holguin

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathan L. Stephenson
Nathan L. Stephenson United States Geological Survey
Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
Mark W. Schwartz
Mark W. Schwartz University of California, Davis
John J. Battles
John J. Battles University of California, Berkeley
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis
Peter Z. Fulé
Peter Z. Fulé Northern Arizona University
Mark E. Harmon
Mark E. Harmon Oregon State University
J. Morgan Varner
J. Morgan Varner US Forest Service
Donald A. Falk
Donald A. Falk University of Arizona
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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