Garrett W. Meigs

Washington Department of Natural Resources — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

27h-index3.5kcitations57works3.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(37), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(20), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(15), Forest Insect Ecology and Management(11), Forest ecology and management(10)

Publications57 total

Conserving climate‐change refugia: Insights from research and practice
Conservation Science and Practice·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Fire refugia in forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, <scp>USA</scp> : Science and applications for conservation, adaptation, and stewardship
Conservation Science and Practice·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Big trees burning: Divergent wildfire effects on large trees in open‐ vs. closed‐canopy forests
Ecosphere·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Biodiversity in primary vs. managed forests: Biological legacies of old living and large dead trees drive lichen diversity
Forest Ecosystems·2025Open Access
Rewilding beech-dominated temperate forest ecosystems: effects on carbon stocks and biodiversity indicators
iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Learning from wildfires: A scalable framework to evaluate treatment effects on burn severity
Ecosphere·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Reconciling species conservation and ecosystem resilience: Northern spotted owl habitat sustainability in a fire-dependent forest landscape
Forest Ecology and Management·2024· 9 citedOpen Access
Reconciling Species Conservation and Ecosystem Resilience: Northern Spotted Owl Habitat Sustainability in a Fire-Dependent Forest Landscape
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2023· 145 citedOpen Access
Fire severity and the legacy of mountain pine beetle outbreak: high-severity fire peaks with mixed live and dead vegetation
Environmental Research Letters·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
Drought, wildfire and forest transformation: characterizing trailing edge forests in the eastern Cascade Range, Washington, USA
Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research·2022· 13 citedOpen Access
The complexity of biological disturbance agents, fuels heterogeneity, and fire in coniferous forests of the western United States
Forest Ecology and Management·2022· 11 citedOpen Access
Natural disturbance impacts on trade-offs and co-benefits of forest biodiversity and carbon
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2021· 47 citedOpen Access
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
Ecological Applications·2021· 356 citedOpen Access
Does conserving roadless wildland increase wildfire activity in western US national forests?
Environmental Research Letters·2021· 15 citedOpen Access
Where and why do conifer forests persist in refugia through multiple fire events?
Global Change Biology·2021· 29 citedOpen Access
Refugia from Climate Change: Emerging Concepts and Applications
2020
Climate‐change refugia: biodiversity in the slow lane
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment·2020· 298 citedOpen Access
Disturbance refugia within mosaics of forest fire, drought, and insect outbreaks
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment·2020· 143 citedOpen Access
Influence of topography and fuels on fire refugia probability under varying fire weather conditions in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA
Canadian Journal of Forest Research·2020· 61 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Meg A. Krawchuk(14), Robert E. Kennedy(9), William S. Keeton(8), Derek J. Churchill(6), Daniel C. Donato(6), William M. Downing(6), John L. Campbell(5), Jonathan D. Coop(5), Martin Mikoláš(5), Miroslav Svoboda(5), Warren B. Cohen(4), Christopher J. Dunn(4), C. Alina Cansler(4), Joshua S. Halofsky(4), Jonathan T. Kane(4), Van R. Kane(4), Paul F. Hessburg(3), Susan J. Prichard(3), Matthew J. Reilly(3), James D. Johnston(3)