Alan Taylor
Professor of Geography

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202 Walker
University Park, PA - aht1@psu.edu
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Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Topography Fire Severity Vegetation Wildfire Canopy Wildfires Fire Regime Climate Fires Fire Behavior Fuels (Fire Ecology) Prescribed Burning Climate Change National Park National Parks Fire History Vegetation Types Weather Forest Canopy Chaparral Quercus Effect Coniferous Forests OakMost Recent Papers
Topography, Climate and Fire History Regulate Wildfire Activity in the Alaskan Tundra
Arif Masrur, Alan Taylor, Lucas Harris, Jennifer Barnes, Andrey Petrov, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Changes in fire behavior caused by fire exclusion and fuel build-up vary with topography in California montane forests, USA
Catherine Airey-Lauvaux, Andrew D. Pierce, Carl N. Skinner, Alan H. Taylor, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
Prescribed fire alters structure and composition of a mid-Atlantic oak forest up to eight years after burning
Cody L. Dems, Alan H. Taylor, Erica A.H. Smithwick, Jesse K. Kreye, Margot W. Kaye, 2021, Fire Ecology
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
R. K. Hagmann, P. F. Hessburg, S. J. Prichard, N. A. Povak, P. M. Brown, P. Z. Fulé, R. E. Keane, E. E. Knapp, J. M. Lydersen, K. L. Metlen, M. J. Reilly, A. J. Sánchez Meador, S. L. Stephens, J. T. Stevens, A. H. Taylor, L. L. Yocom, M. A. Battaglia, D. J. Churchill, L. D. Daniels, D. A. Falk, P. Henson, J. D. Johnston, M. A. Krawchuk, C. R. Levine, G. W. Meigs, A. G. Merschel, M. P. North, H. D. Safford, T. W. Swetnam, A. E.M. Waltz, 2021, Ecological Applications
Mixed-severity wildfire as a driver of vegetation change in an arizona madrean sky island system, usa
Helen M. Poulos, Michael R. Freiburger, Andrew M. Barton, Alan H. Taylor, 2021, Fire
Controls on spatial patterns of wildfire severity and early post-fire vegetation development in an Arizona Sky Island, USA
Alan H. Taylor, Helen M. Poulos, Jennifer Kluber, Rachel Issacs, Natalie Pawlikowski, Andrew M. Barton, 2021, Landscape Ecology on p. 2637-2656
Drivers of fire severity shift as landscapes transition to an active fire regime, Klamath Mountains, USA
Alan H. Taylor, Lucas B. Harris, Stacy A. Drury, 2021, Ecosphere
Simulated fire regimes favor oak and pine but affect carbon stocks in mixed oak forests in Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Anthony Zhao, Alan H. Taylor, Erica A.H. Smithwick, Margot Kaye, Lucas B. Harris, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management
Prescribed fire and fire suppression operations influence wildfire severity under severe weather in Lassen Volcanic National Park, California, USA
Lucas B. Harris, Stacy A. Drury, Calvin A. Farris, Alan H. Taylor, 2021, International Journal of Wildland Fire on p. 536-551
Strong Legacy Effects of Prior Burn Severity on Forest Resilience to a High-Severity Fire
Lucas B. Harris, Stacy A. Drury, Alan H. Taylor, 2021, Ecosystems on p. 774-787
Most-Cited Papers
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
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
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
Climate, Environment, and Disturbance History Govern Resilience of Western North American Forests
Paul F. Hessburg, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Nicholas A. Povak, Alan H. Taylor, Philip E. Higuera, Susan J. Prichard, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Matthew D. Hurteau, Andrew J. Larson, Craig D. Allen, Scott L. Stephens, Hiram Rivera-Huerta, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Lori D. Daniels, Ze'ev Gedalof, Robert W. Gray, Van R. Kane, Derek J. Churchill, R. Keala Hagmann, Thomas A. Spies, C. Alina Cansler, R. Travis Belote, Thomas T. Veblen, Mike A. Battaglia, Chad Hoffman, Carl N. Skinner, Hugh D. Safford, R. Brion Salter, 2019, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
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
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
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
Previous burns and topography limit and reinforce fire severity in a large wildfire
Lucas Harris, Alan H. Taylor, 2017, Ecosphere
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
News Articles Featuring Alan Taylor
Aug 13, 2019
Forest carbon still plentiful post-wildfire after century of fire exclusion
Forests in Yosemite National Park hold more carbon today than they did 120 years ago despite burning in a severe wildfire in 2013, according to a Penn State-led team of researchers.
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