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25964
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643
National Ranking
230

Overview

Scott L. Stephens is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to the study of fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, safety, risk, reliability and quality, and management, monitoring, policy and law.

Scott L. Stephens has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Fire Ecology, Forest Ecology and Management, Ecological Applications, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, and Ecosphere.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Brandon M. Collins, R.A. York, John J. Battles, Daniel E. Foster, and Alexis A. Bernal.

Recent published papers reflect a range of topics related to forest dynamics, fire ecology, and environmental management. These include:

  • How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar, 2021, GCB Bioenergy
  • Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Fire and climate change: conserving seasonally dry forests is still possible, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Pyrosilviculture Needed for Landscape Resilience of Dry Western United States Forests, 2021, Journal of Forestry

Best Publications

  • CLIMATE CHANGE AND FORESTS OF THE FUTURE: MANAGING IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY

    Constance I. Millar;Nathan L. Stephenson;Scott L. Stephens

  • How biochar works, and when it doesn't: A review of mechanisms controlling soil and plant responses to biochar

    Stephen Joseph;Annette L. Cowie;Annette L. Cowie;Lukas Van Zwieten;Lukas Van Zwieten;Nanthi Bolan;Nanthi Bolan

  • FEDERAL FOREST‐FIRE POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES

    Scott L. Stephens;Lawrence W. Ruth

  • 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

  • Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services.

    Rupert Seidl;Thomas A. Spies;David L. Peterson;Scott L. Stephens

  • Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

    S. L. Stephens;James K. Agee;P. Z. Fulé;M. P. North

  • Wildfire management in Mediterranean-type regions: paradigm change needed

    Francisco Moreira;Francisco Moreira;Davide Ascoli;Hugh Safford;Mark A Adams

  • Reform forest fire management

    M. P. North;M. P. North;S. L. Stephens;B. M. Collins;B. M. Collins;J. K. Agee

  • Experimental fuel treatment impacts on forest structure, potential fire behavior, and predicted tree mortality in a California mixed conifer forest

    Scott L. Stephens;Jason J. Moghaddas

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

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

  • Using Fire to Increase the Scale, Benefits, and Future Maintenance of Fuels Treatments

    Malcolm P. North;Brandon M. Collins;Scott L Stephens

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

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

  • Evaluation of the effects of silvicultural and fuels treatments on potential fire behaviour in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests

    Scott Lewis Stephens;Scott Lewis Stephens

  • Drought, tree mortality, and wildfire in forests adapted to frequent fire

    Scott L Stephens;Brandon M Collins;Christopher J Fettig;Mark A Finney

  • The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California

    David A. Perry;Paul F. Hessburg;Carl N. Skinner;Thomas A. Spies

  • Interactions among wildland fires in a long-established Sierra Nevada natural fire area

    Brandon M. Collins;Jay D. Miller;Andrea E. Thode;Maggi Kelly

  • 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

  • Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California's forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands

    Scott L. Stephens;Robert E. Martin;Nicholas E. Clinton

  • The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: effects of fuel reduction methods on forest vegetation structure and fuels

    Dylan W. Schwilk;Dylan W. Schwilk;Jon E. Keeley;Eric E. Knapp;James McIver

  • Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity.

    Martin Ehbrecht;Dominik Seidel;Peter Annighöfer;Holger Kreft

  • Prescribed fire mortality of Sierra Nevada mixed conifer tree species: effects of crown damage and forest floor combustion

    Scott L Stephens;Mark A Finney

  • Silvicultural and reserve impacts on potential fire behavior and forest conservation: Twenty-five years of experience from Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests

    Scott L. Stephens;Jason J. Moghaddas

  • The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon,

    David A. Perry;Paul F. Hessburg;Carl N. Skinner;Thomas A. Spies

Frequent Co-Authors

Brandon M. Collins
Brandon M. Collins University of California, Berkeley
Malcolm P. North
Malcolm P. North US Forest Service
Carl N. Skinner
Carl N. Skinner US Forest Service
John J. Battles
John J. Battles University of California, Berkeley
Sally E. Thompson
Sally E. Thompson University of Western Australia
Maggi Kelly
Maggi Kelly University of California, Berkeley
Alan H. Taylor
Alan H. Taylor Pennsylvania State University
Hugh D. Safford
Hugh D. Safford University of California, Davis
Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey
Eric E. Knapp
Eric E. Knapp US Forest Service

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