Pacific Southwest Research Station

Pacific Southwest Research Station
800 Buchanan Street
West Annex Building
Albany, CA 94710-0011

(510) 559-6300

Ecological restoration of fire-adapted forest ecosystems using fire and fire surrogate treatments. Scientific affiliation with the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study installations at the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area and Sequoia National Park.

Response of overstory and understory plant species to season of prescribed fire; understanding how changes to the fire regime have affected plant and animal populations.

Impact of mechanical fuel treatments (mastication) on fire behavior, soil heating, and shrub response.

Manager, Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest.

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Knapp, E.E., D.W. Schwilk, J.M. Kane, and J.E. Keeley. 2007. Role of burning season on initial understory vegetation response to prescribed fire in a mixed conifer forest. Can. J. For. Res. 37: 11-22 (2007).

Youngblood A., H. Bigler-Cole, C.J. Fettig, C. Fiedler, E.E. Knapp, J.F. Lehmkuhl, K.W. Outcalt, C.N. Skinner, S.L. Stephens, and T.A. Waldrop. 2007. Making fire and fire surrogate science available: A summary of regional workshops with clients. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station General Technical Report
PNW-GTR-727 July 2007.

Busse, M., C. Shestak, E. Knapp, G. Fiddler, and K. Hubbert. 2006. Lethal soil heating during burning of masticated fuels: effects of soil moisture and texture. Proceedings of the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Nov. 13-17, San Diego , CA.

Ferrenberg S. M. , D.W. Schwilk, E.E. Knapp, E. Groth, and J.E. Keeley. 2006. Fire decreases arthropod abundance but increases diversity: early and late seasson prescribed fire effects in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. Fire Ecology
Vol.2 No.2. December 2006. pages 79-101.

Kane, J. M., E.E. Knapp, and J. M. Varner. 2006. Variability in loading of mechanically masticated fuel beds in northern California and southwestern Oregon . In Andrews, P.L., and Butler , B.W., comps., Fuel Management – How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings, March 28-30, 2006 , Portland OR . U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Proceedings RMRS-P-41, pages 341-350.

Kane, J., J.M. Varner, and E. Knapp. 2006. Initial Understory Vegetation Response to Mechanical Mastication Fuel Treatments: Balancing Biodiversity and Fire Hazard Reduction. Proceedings of the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Nov. 13-17, San Diego, CA.

Knapp, E., M.Busse, J. Morgan Varner III, C. Skinner, and R. Powers. 2006. Behavior and short-term effects of fire in masticated fuel beds. Proceedings of the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Nov. 13-17, San Diego, CA.

Knapp, E. E.,and J. E. Keeley. 2006. Heterogeneity in fire severity with early season and late season prescribed burns in a mixed conifer forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire.15:37-45.

Schwilk, D.W., E. E. Knapp, S.M. Ferrenberg, J.E. Keeley, and A.C. Caprio. 2006. Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 232: 36-45

Knapp, E. E., J.E. Keeley, E. A. Ballenger, and T. J. Brennan. 2005. Fuel reduction and coarse woody debris dynamics with early season and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management 208:383-397.

Youngblood, A., K. L. Metlen, E. E. Knapp, K. W. Outcalt, S. L. Stephens, T. A. Waldrop, and D. Yaussy. Implementation of the Fire and Fire Surrogate Study – A national research effort to evaluate the consequences of fuel reduction treatments. In: C. E. Peterson, and D. A. Maguire, eds., Balancing Ecosystem Values: Innovative Experiments for Sustainable Forestry, Proceedings of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations workshop. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-635. Pgs. 315-321.

Knapp, E. E., S. L. Stephens, J. D. McIver, J. J. Moghaddas, and J. E. Keeley. 2004. The Fire and Fire Surrogate study in the Sierra Nevada: Evaluating restoration treatments at Blodgett Experimental Forest and Sequoia National Park. In Proceedings of the Sierra Science Symposium, Oct. 8-10, 2002, Kings Beach, CA (eds. D.D. Murphy and P.A. Stine), pp. 79-86. General Technical Report PSW-GTR-193. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany CA.

Knapp, E. E., M. A. Goedde, and K. J. Rice. 2001. Pollen limited reproduction in blue oak: implications for wind-pollination in fragmented landscapes. Oecologia 128:48-55.

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Rice, K. J., and E. E. Knapp. 2000. Evolutionary factors affecting the probability of local adaptation or should we expect to see ecotypes behind every rock? In J. E. Keeley, M. Baer-Keeley, and C. J. Fotheringham (eds.) 2 nd interface between ecology and land development in California. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-62.

Knapp, E. E., and P. G. Connors. 1999. Genetic consequences of a single-founder population bottleneck in Trifolium amoenum (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany 86: 124-130.

Knapp, E. E. and K. J. Rice. 1998. Comparison of isozymes and quantitative traits for evaluating patterns of genetic variation in purple needlegrass (Nassella pulchra). Conservation Biology 12:1031-1041.

Knapp, E. E. and A. R. Dyer. 1997. When do genetic considerations require special approaches to ecological restoration? Pages 345-363 in P. L. Fiedler, and P. Kareiva (eds.) Conservation Biology for the Coming Decade, 2 nd edition. Chapman and Hall, New York, New York.

Knapp, E. E. and K. J. Rice. 1996. Genetic structure and gene flow in Elymus glaucus: implications for native grassland restoration. Restoration Ecology 4:1-10.

Knapp, E. E. and K. J. Rice. 1994. Starting from seed: Genetic issues in using native grasses for restoration. Restoration and Management Notes 12(1):40-45.