Alan Taylor

Professor of Geography

Alan Taylor

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Climate Fire Severity Climate Change Canopy Wildfire Fire Regime Topography Wildfires Coniferous Tree Fire Behavior Ecology Effect Fuels (Fire Ecology) Water Forest Canopy Chaparral Carbon Sequestration Coniferous Forests Fires Mixed Forests Carbon Buffers Dry Forest National Park National Parks

Most Recent Papers

Precipitation alters the CO<sub>2</sub> effect on water-use efficiency of temperate forests

Soumaya Belmecheri, R. Stockton Maxwell, Alan H. Taylor, Kenneth J. Davis, Rossella Guerrieri, David J.P. Moore, Shelly A. Rayback, 2021, Global Change Biology on p. 1560-1571

Spatial patterns of tree cover change at a dry forest margin are driven by initial conditions, water balance and wildfire

Lucas B. Harris, Alan H. Taylor, 2021, Landscape Ecology on p. 353-371

Spatial patterns of nineteenth century fire severity persist after fire exclusion and a twenty-first century wildfire in a mixed conifer forest landscape, Southern Cascades, USA

Alan H. Taylor, Catherine Airey-Lauvaux, Becky Estes, Lucas Harris, Carl N. Skinner, 2020, Landscape Ecology on p. 2777-2790

Hunter and Non-Hunter Perceptions of Costs, Benefits, and Likelihood of Outcomes of Prescribed Fire in the Mid-Atlantic Region

Zachary D. Miller, Hong Wu, Katherine Zipp, Cody L. Dems, Erica Smithwick, Margot Kaye, Peter Newman, Anthony Zhao, Alan Taylor, 2020, Society and Natural Resources on p. 1321-1327

Rain-shadow forest margins resilient to low-severity fire and climate change but not high-severity fire

Lucas B. Harris, Alan H. Taylor, 2020, Ecosphere

Carbon isotope ratios in tree rings respond differently to climatic variations than tree-ring width in a mesic temperate forest

R. Stockton Maxwell, Soumaya Belmecheri, Alan H. Taylor, Kenneth J. Davis, Troy W. Ocheltree, 2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Strong Legacy Effects of Prior Burn Severity on Forest Resilience to a High-Severity Fire

Lucas B. Harris, Stacy A. Drury, Alan H. Taylor, 2020, Ecosystems

Spatial and temporal dynamics of 20th century carbon storage and emissions after wildfire in an old-growth forest landscape

Lucas B. Harris, Andrew E. Scholl, Amanda B. Young, Becky L. Estes, Alan H. Taylor, 2019, Forest Ecology and Management

Low-Cost VR Applications to Experience Real Word Places Anytime, Anywhere, and with Anyone

Jan Oliver Wallgrun, Arif Masrur, Jiayan Zhao, Alan Taylor, Eric Knapp, Jack Shen Kuen Chang, Alexander Klippel, 2019,

Spatial dynamics of tree group and gap structure in an old-growth ponderosa pine-California black oak forest burned by repeated wildfires

Natalie C. Pawlikowski, Michelle Coppoletta, Eric Knapp, Alan H. Taylor, 2019, Forest Ecology and Management on p. 289-302

Most-Cited Papers

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, Scott L. Stephens, Alan Henry Taylor, Jerry F. Franklin, Brenda McComb, Greg Riegel, 2011, Forest Ecology and Management on p. 703-717

Multi-scale controls of historical forest-fire regimes

Donald A. Falk, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Peter M. Brown, Calvin Farris, Peter Z. Fulé, Donald McKenzie, Thomas W. Swetnam, Alan H. Taylor, Megan L. Van Horne, 2011, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on p. 446-454

Tamm Review

Paul F. Hessburg, Thomas A. Spies, David A. Perry, Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor, Peter M. Brown, Scott L. Stephens, Andrew J. Larson, Derek J. Churchill, Nicholas A. Povak, Peter H. Singleton, Brenda McComb, William J. Zielinski, Brandon M. Collins, R. Brion Salter, John J. Keane, Jerry F. Franklin, Greg Riegel, 2016, Forest Ecology and Management on p. 221-250

Influence of Vegetation Structure on Lidar-derived Canopy Height and Fractional Cover in Forested Riparian Buffers During Leaf-Off and Leaf-On Conditions

Leah Wasser, Rick Day, Laura Chasmer, Alan Taylor, 2013, PLoS One

Climate change, fire management, and ecological services in the southwestern US

Matthew D. Hurteau, John B. Bradford, Peter Z. Fulé, Alan H. Taylor, Katherine L. Martin, 2014, Forest Ecology and Management on p. 280-289

Socioecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire-climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600-2015 CE

Alan H. Taylor, Valerie Trouet, Carl N. Skinner, Scott Stephens, 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 13684-13689

Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States

Peter Z. Fulé, Thomas W. Swetnam, Peter M. Brown, Donald A. Falk, David L. Peterson, Craig D. Allen, Gregory H. Aplet, Mike A. Battaglia, Dan Binkley, Calvin Farris, Robert E. Keane, Ellis Q. Margolis, Henri Grissino-Mayer, Carol Miller, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Carl Skinner, Scott L. Stephens, Alan Taylor, 2014, Global Ecology and Biogeography on p. 825-830

High severity fire and mixed conifer forest-chaparral dynamics in the southern Cascade Range, USA

Catherine Airey Lauvaux, Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor, 2016, Forest Ecology and Management on p. 74-85

Topography, Fuels, and Fire Exclusion Drive Fire Severity of the Rim Fire in an Old-Growth Mixed-Conifer Forest, Yosemite National Park, USA

Lucas Harris, Alan H. Taylor, 2015, Ecosystems on p. 1192-1208

Use of random forests for modeling and mapping forest canopy fuels for fire behavior analysis in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, USA

Andrew D. Pierce, Calvin A. Farris, Alan H. Taylor, 2012, Forest Ecology and Management on p. 77-89