Phillip J. van Mantgem

United States Geological Survey — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(60), Forest ecology and management(29), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(26), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(23), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(17)

Publications93 total

Recent large-scale prescribed fire treatments reduced Carr Fire severity at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
Fire Ecology·2025Open Access
Effects of restoration thinning on live tree carbon in northern secondary coastal redwood forests
Forest Ecology and Management·2025
Sentinel imagery detects the presence of live trees following large wildfires in California
Environmental Research Ecology·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Basal Area Loss from Fire Using Field-Calibrated Remote Sensing Refines Western U.S. Fire Severity Measurements
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Vegetation community monitoring: Forest structure in Klamath Network parks
2025
Drought Responses Across Diverse Conifer Species, Habitats, and Competitive Gradients in Northern California
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Drought before fire increases tree mortality after fire
Ecosphere·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
Sequoia sempervirens and Pseudotsuga menziesii tree growth and drought resistance following restoration thinning in secondary northern coast redwood forests of California
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Learning from a high-severity fire event—Conditions following the 2018 Carr Fire at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World·2024Open Access
Corrigendum: Spatially explicit models of seed availability improve predictions of conifer regeneration following the 2018 Carr Fire in northern California
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2023Open Access
Spatially explicit models of seed availability improve predictions of conifer regeneration following the 2018 Carr Fire in northern California
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis
International Journal of Wildland Fire·2023· 40 citedOpen Access
Growth, drought response, and climate‐associated genomic structure in whitebark pine in the Sierra Nevada of California
Ecology and Evolution·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
The energy–water limitation threshold explains divergent drought responses in tree growth, needle length, and stable isotope ratios
Global Change Biology·2023· 15 cited
Drought survival strategies differ between coastal and montane conifers in northern California
Ecosphere·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Best practices for distributing and deploying U.S. Geological Survey Shiny applications
Techniques and methods·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Forest structure and residual tree growth at the Northwest Gateway project area, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California
Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World·2023Open Access
Robinson et al. 2023 Conifer Drought Data.xlsx
Figshare·2023Open Access
Predictive accuracy of post‐fire conifer death declines over time in models based on crown and bole injury
Ecological Applications·2022· 14 cited
Fire and tree mortality database (FTM) (2nd Edition)
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Nathan L. Stephenson(23), Adrian J. Das(14), Mark W. Schwartz(7), J. Morgan Varner(6), Jonathan C. B. Nesmith(5), MaryBeth Keifer(5), Sharon M. Hood(5), C. Alina Cansler(5), Jon E. Keeley(5), Hugh D. Safford(5), John J. Battles(4), Jeffrey M. Kane(4), Donald A. Falk(4), Micah Wright(4), Jerry F. Franklin(3), Mark E. Harmon(3), Anthony C. Caprio(3), Timothy M. Shearman(3), Peter Z. Fulé(2), Alan H. Taylor(2)