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Scott R. Abella is affiliated with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, plant science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Rangeland and wildlife management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Botany, ecology, and taxonomy studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Plant and animal studies

Scott R. Abella has published research in a variety of venues. Notably, they have contributed the most to Ecological Restoration, with six publications, followed by Invasive Plant Science and Management with four, Restoration Ecology with three, Plant Ecology with two, and Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society with one.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Scott R. Abella include:

  • Lindsay P. Chiquoine
  • Timothy A. Schetter
  • Karen S. Menard
  • LaRae A. Sprow
  • Charles D. Schelz

Some of the recent notable papers authored by or involving Scott R. Abella are:

  • Resilience and alternative stable states after desert wildfires, 2020, published in Ecological Monographs
  • Rapid and transient changes during 20 years of restoration management in savanna-woodland-prairie habitats threatened by woody plant encroachment, 2020, published in Plant Ecology
  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis, 2022, published in Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (authored by Mari-Liis Viljur but listed among recent papers)

Other recent contributions include studies on juvenile conifer growth characteristics in the southwestern United States published in Ecosphere, and research on biotic and abiotic treatments for restoring plant communities and soil functions published in Restoration Ecology.

Best Publications

  • The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis

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  • Disturbance and Plant Succession in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the American Southwest

    Scott R. Abella

  • Sustainability of utility‐scale solar energy – critical ecological concepts

    Kara A. Moore-O'Leary;Rebecca R. Hernandez;Dave S. Johnston;Scott R. Abella

  • Rapidly restoring biological soil crusts and ecosystem functions in a severely disturbed desert ecosystem.

    Lindsay P. Chiquoine;Scott R. Abella;Matthew A. Bowker

  • Ten years of vegetation assembly after a North American mega fire

    Scott R. Abella;Paula J. Fornwalt

  • Estimating Organic Carbon from Loss-On-Ignition in Northern Arizona Forest Soils

    Scott R. Abella;Brian W. Zimmer

  • Abiotic and biotic factors explain independent gradients of plant community composition in ponderosa pine forests

    Daniel C. Laughlin;Scott R. Abella

  • Effects of tree cutting and fire on understory vegetation in mixed conifer forests

    Scott R. Abella;Judith D. Springer

  • Post-Fire Plant Recovery in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of Western North America

    Scott R. Abella

  • Spatial variation in reference conditions: historical tree density and pattern on a Pinus ponderosa landscape

    Scott R. AbellaS.R. Abella;Scott R. AbellaS.R. Abella;Charles W. DentonC.W. Denton;Charles W. DentonC.W. Denton

  • Vegetation recovery in a desert landscape after wildfires: influences of community type, time since fire and contingency effects

    E. Cayenne Engel;Scott R. Abella

  • Identifying Native Vegetation for Reducing Exotic Species during the Restoration of Desert Ecosystems

    Scott R. Abella;Donovan J. Craig;Stanley D. Smith;Alice C. Newton

  • Monitoring an Arizona Ponderosa Pine Restoration: Sampling Efficiency and Multivariate Analysis of Understory Vegetation

    Scott R. Abella;W. Wallace Covington

  • Species richness and soil properties in Pinus ponderosa forests: A structural equation modeling analysis

    Daniel C. Laughlin;Scott R. Abella;W. Wallace Covington;James B. Grace

  • A systematic review of species performance and treatment effectiveness for revegetation in the Mojave Desert, USA

    Scott R. Abella;Alice C. Newton

  • Factors affecting exotic annual plant cover and richness along roadsides in the eastern Mojave Desert, USA

    Donovan J. Craig;Jill E. Craig;Scott R. Abella;Cheryl H. Vanier

  • Vegetation-environment relationships and ecological species groups of an Arizona Pinus ponderosa landscape, USA

    Scott R. Abella;W. Wallace Covington

  • Effectiveness of Exotic Plant Treatments on National Park Service Lands in the United States

    Scott R. Abella

  • Climate, trees, pests, and weeds: Change, uncertainty, and biotic stressors in eastern U.S. national park forests

    Nicholas A. Fisichelli;Scott R. Abella;Matthew Peters;Frank J. Krist

  • Diameter caps for thinning southwestern ponderosa pine forests: Viewpoints, effects, and tradeoffs

    Scott R. Abella;Peter Z. Fule;W. Wallace Covington

  • Assessing an exotic plant surveying program in the Mojave Desert, Clark County, Nevada, USA.

    Scott R. Abella;Jessica E. Spencer;Joshua Hoines;Carrie Nazarchyk

  • Long‐term response of a Mojave Desert winter annual plant community to a whole‐ecosystem atmospheric CO2 manipulation (FACE)

    Stanley D. Smith;Therese N. Charlet;Stephen F. Zitzer;Scott R. Abella

  • Post-fire plant recovery in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of western

    S. R. Abella

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Wallace Covington
W. Wallace Covington Northern Arizona University
Stanley D. Smith
Stanley D. Smith University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Peter Z. Fulé
Peter Z. Fulé Northern Arizona University
Jeffrey E. Lovich
Jeffrey E. Lovich United States Geological Survey
Daniel C. Laughlin
Daniel C. Laughlin University of Wyoming
Penelope Morgan
Penelope Morgan University of Idaho
Thomas Kolb
Thomas Kolb Northern Arizona University
Michael R. Rosen
Michael R. Rosen United States Geological Survey
Miriam Muñoz-Rojas
Miriam Muñoz-Rojas University of New South Wales
David J. Merritt
David J. Merritt University of Western Australia

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