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Researches pyroecophysiology, fire ecology, remote sensing, fire social science, lidar, and anything else that interests me. Prof and Chair - Earth and Spatial Sciences - College of Science - University of Idaho
Delighted to be a part of this groundbreaking new paper in BioScience led by Sam Gilvarg at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry with many others including Shirley Luckhart Martin Dovciak
doi.org/10.1093/bios...
Pyrohealth synchrony: integrating wildland fire into One Health to benefit plants, animals, ecosystems, and people
Abstract. One Health's interdisciplinary approach has been effective at the nexus of human and animal health but often overlooks environmental health, incl
doi.org
June 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Excited to share our newest synthesis paper where we review studies that have used real fires and 'fire-proxies' to better understand fire-induced tree mortality. We also highlight recent advances in pyroecophysiology.

www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF24136
Methods to assess fire-induced tree mortality: review of fire behaviour proxy and real fire experiments
Background The increased interest in why and how trees die from fire has led to several syntheses of the potential mechanisms of fire-induced tree mortality. However, these generally neglect to consid...
www.publish.csiro.au
January 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Delighted to see yet another paper from my former doctoral student - Dr. Stephen Fillmore - we looked at decision factors relevant to the wildfire decision making in the USA since 2009:
www.publish.csiro.au/WF/WF23129
January 13, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Welcome Stefan Doerr @sdoerr.bsky.social
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November 17, 2023 at 1:49 AM
Reposted by pyroecophys
A nice highlight of recent work by Professor Grant Harley and his team with colleagues from Indiana University.
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
November 16, 2023 at 8:36 PM
Welcome @dylanschwilk.bsky.social - I hope to continue helping you advance understanding of tree physiology one stressed tree at a time :) 🔥🌲🌳🌴🔥
September 5, 2023 at 1:57 PM
Welcome treephysdj.bsky.social - I hope to continue helping you advance understanding of tree physiology one stressed tree at a time :) 🔥🌲🌳🌴🔥
September 5, 2023 at 1:00 PM
In our newest Quantitative Fire Severity paper we also show how saplings in 5 different tree species respond to fires of varying intensities - in terms of % mortality and impacts on net photosynthesis at 4 weeks after the experimental fires
https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad051
August 16, 2023 at 12:27 AM
In our newest Quantitative Fire Severity paper we show that the dNBR and dCSI spectral indices can be used to predict species mortality in saplings of two contrasting tree species - in fires over a range of intensities
https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad051
August 16, 2023 at 12:23 AM
Delighted to be a CoPI on a new EPSCoR Track 2 NSF project to investigate how people in rural communities perceive the extent of climate change and how this perception affects their ability to adapt.
https://www.uidaho.edu/news/news-articles/news-releases/2023/080723-climatechangeperception
August 9, 2023 at 1:47 PM
Hey Everyone, my lab focuses on Quantitative Fire Severity. We do lab and #RxFire experiments focusing on how heat from fires impact trees and #PlantScience, #ecophysiology, fire-induced mortality, and when they live: long-term growth. We assess interactions of fire with stressors such as #drought.
August 3, 2023 at 2:30 PM