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62
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2065
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749

Overview

Robert E. Keane is affiliated with the US Forest Service in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions to the understanding of global and planetary change, ecology, earth-surface processes, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's work emphasizes several main topics, including:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Forest insect ecology and management
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Forest ecology and management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert E. Keane include:

  • Patrick A. Hesp
  • Graziela Miot da Silva
  • Rachel A. Loehman
  • Paul F. Hessburg
  • Susan J. Prichard

Key publication venues where their research has appeared frequently are:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Ecological Applications
  • Journal of Coastal Research
  • Fire Ecology
  • Science

Recent papers by Robert E. Keane include:

  • "Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene," 2020, published in Science
  • "Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests," 2021, published in Ecological Applications
  • "Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions," 2021, published in Ecological Applications
  • "Simulation Modeling of Complex Climate, Wildfire, and Vegetation Dynamics to Address Wicked Problems in Land Management," 2020, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Review and direct evidence of transgressive aeolian sand sheet and dunefield initiation," 2022, published in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Best Publications

  • Fire and biodiversity in the Anthropocene

    Luke T. Kelly;Katherine M. Giljohann;Andrea Duane;Nuria Aquilue

  • FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System

    Duncan C. Lutes;Robert E. Keane;John F. Caratti;Carl H. Key

  • Mapping wildland fuels for fire management across multiple scales: Integrating remote sensing, GIS, and biophysical modeling

    Robert E. Keane;Robert E. Burgan;Jan W. Van Wagtendonk

  • Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: processes, data, models, and challenges

    Shuguang Liu;Benjamin Bond-Lamberty;Jeffrey A. Hicke;Rodrigo Vargas

  • Objectives and considerations for wildland fuel treatment in forested ecosystems of the interior western United States

    Elizabeth D. Reinhardt;Robert E. Keane;David E. Calkin;Jack D. Cohen

  • The use of historical range and variability (HRV) in landscape management

    Robert E. Keane;Paul F. Hessburg;Peter B. Landres;Fred J. Swanson

  • Temperate and boreal forest mega-fires: characteristics and challenges

    Scott L Stephens;Neil Burrows;Alexander Buyantuyev;Robert W Gray

  • Wildland Fuel Fundamentals and Applications

    Robert E. Keane

  • Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests.

    R. K. Hagmann;P. F. Hessburg;P. F. Hessburg;S. J. Prichard;N. A. Povak

  • A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics

    Robert E Keane;Geoffrey J Cary;Ian D Davies;Michael D Flannigan

  • Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles

    Paul F. Hessburg;Derek J. Churchill;Andrew J. Larson;Ryan D. Haugo

  • Ecological effects of large fires on US landscapes: benefit or catastrophe?

    Robert E. Keane;James K. Agee;Peter Fule;Jon E. Keeley

  • Are old forests underestimated as global carbon sinks

    Eileen V. Carey;Anna Sala;Robert Keane;Ragan M. Callaway

  • First Order Fire Effects Model: FOFEM 4.0, user's guide

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  • Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions.

    Susan J. Prichard;Paul F. Hessburg;Paul F. Hessburg;R. Keala Hagmann;Nicholas A. Povak

  • Challenges of assessing fire and burn severity using field measures, remote sensing and modelling

    Penelope Morgan;Robert E. Keane;Gregory K. Dillon;Theresa B. Jain

  • Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather

    Geoffrey J. Cary;Robert E. Keane;Robert H. Gardner;Sandra Lavorel

  • The cascading effects of fire exclusion in Rocky Mountain ecosystems

    R.E. Keane;K.C. Ryan;T. Veblen;Craig D. Allen

  • Cascading effects of fire exclusion in Rocky Mountain ecosystems: a literature review

    Robert E. Keane;Kevin C. Ryan;Tom T. Veblen;Craig D. Allen

  • Measurement and remote sensing of LAI in Rocky Mountain montane ecosystems

    Joseph D. White;Steven W Running;Ramakrishna R. Nemani;Robert E. Keane

  • Estimating historical range and variation of landscape patch dynamics: limitations of the simulation approach

    Robert E Keane;Russell A Parsons;Paul F Hessburg

  • Whitebark pine communities: ecology and restoration.

    D. F. Tomback;S. F. Arno;R. E. Keane

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey J. Cary
Geoffrey J. Cary Australian National University
Paul F. Hessburg
Paul F. Hessburg United States Department of Agriculture
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
Andrew J. Hansen
Andrew J. Hansen Montana State University
Carol Miller
Carol Miller US Forest Service
Zhiliang Zhu
Zhiliang Zhu United States Geological Survey
David L. Peterson
David L. Peterson University of Washington
Steven W. Running
Steven W. Running University of Montana
Thomas T. Veblen
Thomas T. Veblen University of Colorado Boulder
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico

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