Scott L. Stephens

Point Blue Conservation Science — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

76h-index23.7kcitations345works3.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(273), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(151), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(84), Forest ecology and management(46), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(43)

Publications345 total

Yosemite’s Merced Grove of giant sequoias: critical restoration continues despite legal challenges
Fire Ecology·2025Open Access
Managing public lands requires a new kind of leader
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment·2025Open Access
Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire
Fire Ecology·2025Open Access
A tale of two fire systems: indigenous fire stewardship in British Columbia and California
Fire Ecology·2025Open Access
The national Fire and Fire Surrogates study at twenty years
Ecological Applications·2025Open Access
Carbon costs of different pathways for reducing fire hazard in the Sierra Nevada
Ecological Applications·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Multi-scale assessment of wildfire use on carbon stocks in the Sierra Nevada, CA
Fire Ecology·2025Open Access
Australia and the United States have many similarities and differences in prescribed fire management: learning from each other
Fire Ecology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Drivers of fire severity in repeat fires: implications for mixed-conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada, California
Fire Ecology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Extreme Weather Magnifies the Effects of Forest Structure on Wildfire, Driving Increased Severity in Industrial Forests
Global Change Biology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Finding floral and faunal species richness optima among active fire regimes
Conservation Biology·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: Effects of fuel treatments in the Western and Eastern United States after 20 years
Ecological Applications·2025· 8 citedOpen Access
Repeated fuel treatments fall short of fire‐adapted regeneration objectives in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest, <scp>USA</scp>
Ecological Applications·2024· 4 cited
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests
Fire Ecology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Fire history in northern Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests across a distinct gradient in productivity
Fire Ecology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Realignment of federal environmental policies to recognize fire’s role
Fire Ecology·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Early impacts of fire suppression in Jeffrey pine – Mixed conifer forests in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Mexico
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 4 cited
Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States
Fire Ecology·2024· 24 citedOpen Access
Prescribed fires effects on actual and modeled fuel loads and forest structure in southern coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) forests
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Trends in prescribed fire weather windows from 2000 to 2022 in California
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Brandon M. Collins(18), Malcolm P. North(11), Carl N. Skinner(9), Jason J. Moghaddas(6), Thomas A. Spies(5), James D. McIver(5), Paul F. Hessburg(5), Derek J. Churchill(5), Alan H. Taylor(5), Hugh D. Safford(4), Peter Z. Fulé(4), Christopher J. Fettig(4), Dylan W. Schwilk(4), Nicholas A. Povak(4), James K. Agee(3), Jerry F. Franklin(3), Carl E. Fiedler(3), Jon E. Keeley(3), Eric E. Knapp(3), Andrew Youngblood(3)