Ramona J. Butz

US Forest Service — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

11h-index647citations28works1.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(17), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(11), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(10), Tree-ring climate responses(6), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(4)

Publications28 total

Fire Ecology – Case Study Low-intensity wildfire in old-growth Douglas fir and western hemlock forest consumed deep duff, thinned from below, and created challenges for fire management – a case study from the west slopes of the Cascades
2025Open Access
A novel methodology to assess fuel treatment effectiveness: application to California’s forests
International Journal of Wildland Fire·2025Open Access
Fuel Treatment Efficacy Across California’s Forests: How do Wildfire  Covariates Impact the Treatment Outcome?            
2024
Post-fire resurveys reveal predictability of long-term conifer recruitment in severely burned California dry forests
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Ecological integrity of whitebark pine ecosystems in California’s national forests
Canadian Journal of Forest Research·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
The effects of a half century of warming and fire exclusion on montane forests of the Klamath Mountains, California, USA
Ecological Monographs·2022· 5 cited
Reestablishing natural fire regimes to restore forest structure in California’s red fir forests: The importance of regional context
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 7 citedOpen Access
Fire Ecology of the North American Mediterranean-Climate Zone
Managing forest ecosystems·2021· 22 cited
Data from: "Snowmelt Timing Regulates Community Composition, Phenology, and Physiological Performance of Alpine Plants"
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)·2021Open Access
California chaparral case study
2021
Repeated, high-severity wildfire catalyzes invasion of non-native plant species in forests of the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA
Biological Invasions·2020· 35 cited
Subalpine sentinels: Understanding & managing whitebark pine in California
2020· 1 cited
Assessing spatial and temporal patterns of canopy decline across a diverse montane landscape in the Klamath Mountains, CA, USA using a 30-year Landsat time series
Landscape Ecology·2019· 11 cited
Early seral pathways of vegetation change following repeated short-interval, high-severity wildfire in a low-elevation, mixed conifer – hardwood forest landscape of the Klamath Mountains, California
Canadian Journal of Forest Research·2019· 17 cited
Fire Regime Alteration in Natural Areas Underscores the Need to Restore a Key Ecological Process
Natural Areas Journal·2019· 11 cited
Range-wide population structure and dynamics of a serotinous conifer, knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata L.), under an anthropogenically-altered disturbance regime
Forest Ecology and Management·2019· 22 cited
Managing Effects of Drought in California
2019· 2 cited
Snowmelt Timing Regulates Community Composition, Phenology, and Physiological Performance of Alpine Plants
Frontiers in Plant Science·2018· 92 citedOpen Access
From the stand scale to the landscape scale: predicting the spatial patterns of forest regeneration after disturbance
Ecological Applications·2018· 104 cited
Patterns and Drivers of Recent Tree Mortality in Diverse Conifer Forests of the Klamath Mountains, California
Forest Science·2018· 10 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Erik S. Jules(8), Matthew J. Reilly(7), Hugh D. Safford(4), Shana Gross(4), Marc D. Meyer(4), Drew S. Bost(4), Melissa H. DeSiervo(4), Matthew J. Germino(3), Lara M. Kueppers(3), Michelle Coppoletta(3), Becky L. Estes(3), Kyle E. Merriam(3), Nicole A. Molinari(3), Kevin R. Welch(2), Daniel E. Winkler(2), Keith Reinhardt(2), Millen G. McCord(2), Amarina Wuenschel(2), Malcolm P. North(2), Michèle R. Slaton(2)