Brian R. Miranda

Treesearch Publications

• Zaixing Zhou, Eric J. Gustafson, Scott V Ollinger, Andrew Ouimette, Brian R. Miranda, Matthew Duveneck, Jane Foster, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Dustin Bronson, Danelle Laflower. 2025. Integrating nitrogen and carbon cycling into LANDIS-II/PnET-Succession to improve forest landscape modeling: methods and sensitivity analyses
• Gordon Reese, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Caren C. Dymond, Kathleen M. Quigley, Matthew Duveneck, Melissa S. Lucash, Eric J. Gustafson, Robert M. Scheller, Matthew B. Russell, Brian R. Miranda. 2025. Best practices for calibration of forest landscape models using fine-scaled reference information
• Eric J. Gustafson, Melissa S. Lucash, Anatoly Z. Shvidenko, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Hana Matsumoto. 2024. Climate change and disturbance interact to alter landscape reflectivity (albedo) in boreal forests across a large latitudinal gradient in Siberia
• Jane Foster, Brian R. Miranda, Robert Scheller, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, David J. Mladenoff. 2024. Forecasting Changes in Oak Forests Following Spongy Moth (Lymantria dispar) Invasion With a Landscape Simulation Model
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Matthew J. Duveneck. 2024. Overcoming conceptual hurdles to accurately represent trees as cohorts in forest landscape models
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Zaixing Zhou. 2023. PnET-Succession v 5.1: Comprehensive description of an ecophysiological succession extension within the LANDIS-II forest landscape model
• Lucia A. Fitts, Jacob S. Fraser, Brian R. Miranda, Grant M. Domke, Matthew B. Russell, Brian R. R. Sturtevant. 2023. An iterative site-scale approach to calibrate and corroborate successional processes within a forest landscape model
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. Miranda, Tyler J. Dreaden, Cornelia Wilson, Douglass F. Jacobs. 2022. Beyond blight: Phytophthora root rot under climate change limits populations of reintroduced American chestnut
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. Miranda, Anatoly Z. Shvidenko, Brian R. R. Sturtevant. 2020. Simulating Growth and Competition on Wet and Waterlogged Soils in a Forest Landscape Model
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant. 2020. How do forest landscapes respond to elevated CO₂ and ozone? Scaling Aspen‐FACE plot‐scale experimental results
• Eric J. Gustafson, Christel C. Kern, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Dustin Bronson, John M. Kabrick. 2020. Climate adaptive silviculture strategies: How do they impact growth, yield, diversity and value in forested landscapes?
• Harald Bugmann, Rupert Seidl, Florian Hartig, Friedrich Bohn, Josef Brůna, Maxime Cailleret, Louis François, Jens Heinke, Alexandra-Jane Henrot, Thomas Hickler, Lisa Hülsmann, Andreas Huth, Ingrid Jacquemin, Chris Kollas, Petra Lasch-Born, Manfred J. Lexer, Ján Merganič, Katarína Merganičová, Tobias Mette, Brian R. Miranda, Daniel Nadal-Sala, Werner Rammer, Anja Rammig, Björn Reineking, Edna Roedig, Santi Sabaté, Jörg Steinkamp, Felicitas Suckow, Giorgio Vacchiano, Jan Wild, Chonggang Xu, Christopher P. O. Reyer. 2019. Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long-term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale
• Paula E. Marquardt, Brian R. Miranda, Frank W. Telewski. 2019. Shifts in Climate–Growth Relationships of Sky Island Pines
• Eric J. Gustafson, Mark E. Kubiske, Brian R. Miranda, Yasutomo Hoshika, Elena Paoletti. 2018. Extrapolating plot-scale CO₂ and ozone enrichment experimental results to novel conditions and scales using mechanistic modeling
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Arjan M. G. de Bruijn, Nathanael Lichti, Douglass F. Jacobs, Daniel M. Kashian, Brian R. Miranda, Philip A. Townsend. 2018. Forecasting effects of tree species reintroduction strategies on carbon stocks in a future without historical analog
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant. 2018. Can Future CO₂ Concentrations Mitigate the Negative Effects of High Temperature and Longer Droughts on Forest Growth?
• Paula E. Marquardt, Brian R. Miranda, Shane Jennings, Ginger Thurston, Frank W. Telewski. 2018. Variable climate response differentiates the growth of Sky Island Ponderosa Pines
• Francesco Tonini, Chris Jones, Brian R. Miranda, Richard C. Cobb, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Ross K. Meentemeyer. 2018. Modeling epidemiological disturbances in LANDIS-II
• Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. Miranda, Arjan M.G. De Bruijn, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Mark E. Kubiske. 2017. Do rising temperatures always increase forest productivity? Interacting effects of temperature, precipitation, cloudiness and soil texture on tree species growth and competition
• Nathan R. De Jager, Jason J. Rohweder, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Timothy Fox, Mark C. Romanski. 2017. Modelling moose-forest interactions under different predation scenarios at Isle Royale National Park, USA
• Eric J. Gustafson, Arjan de Bruijn, Nathanael Lichti, Douglass F. Jacobs, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Jane Foster, Brian R. Miranda, Harmony J. Dalgleish. 2017. The implications of American chestnut reintroduction on landscape dynamics and carbon storage
• Nathan R. De Jager, Patrick J. Drohan, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Susan L. Stout, Alejandro A. Royo, Eric J. Gustafson, Mark C. Romanski. 2017. Simulating ungulate herbivory across forest landscapes: A browsing extension for LANDIS-II
• Eric J. Gustafson, Arjan M. G. De Bruijn, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, J. Thompson. 2016. Implications of mechanistic modeling of drought effects on growth and competition in forest landscape models
• Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Isabelle Schmelzer, Frederik Doyon, Peter Wolter. 2016. Vegetation recovery following fire and harvest disturbance in central Labrador — a landscape perspective
• Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Peter T. Wolter, Patrick M.A. James, Marie-Josée Fortin, Philip A. Townsend. 2014. Forest recovery patterns in response to divergent disturbance regimes in the Border Lakes region of Minnesota (USA) and Ontario (Canada)
• A. De Bruijn, Eric J. Gustafson, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, J.R. Foster, Brian R. Miranda, N.I. Lichti, D.F. Jacobs. 2014. Toward more robust projections of forest landscape dynamics under novel environmental conditions: embedding PnET within LANDIS-II
• Eric J. Gustafson, Mark E. Kubiske, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda. 2013. Scaling Aspen-FACE experimental results to century and landscape scales
• Peter T. Wolter, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Sue M. Lietz, Phillip A. Townsend, John Pastor. 2012. Forest land cover change (1975-2000) in the Greater Border Lakes region
• Brian R. Miranda, Douglas J Shinneman, Eric J. Gustafson, Peter T. Wolter, Brian R. R. Sturtevant. 2012. Comparing modern and presettlement forest dynamics of a subboreal wilderness: Does spruce budworm enhance fire risk?
• Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Susan I. Stewart, Roger B. Hammer. 2012. Spatial and temporal drivers of wildfire occurrence in the context of rural development in northern Wisconsin, USA
• Frederik Doyon, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Michael J. Papaik, Andrew Fall, Brian R. Miranda, Daniel D. Kneeshaw, Christian Messier, Marie-Josee Fortin, Patrick M.A. James. 2012. Assessing knowledge ambiguity in the creation of a model based on expert knowledge and comparison with the results of a landscape succession model in central Labrador. Chapter 10.
• Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Robert M. Scheller, Brian R. Miranda, Douglas Shinneman, Alexandra Syphard. 2009. Simulating dynamic and mixed-severity fire regimes: a process-based fire extension for LANDIS-II
• Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Jian Yang, Hong S. He, Eric J. Gustafson, Robert M. Scheller. 2009. Studying fire mitigation strategies in multi-ownership landscapes: balancing the management of fire-dependent ecosystems and fire risk
• Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Jian Yang, Eric J. Gustafson. 2009. Comparing fire spread algorithms using equivalence testing and neutral landscape models
• Jian Yang, Hong S. He, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Eric J. Gustafson. 2008. Comparing effects of fire modeling methods on simulated fire patterns and succession: a case study in the Missouri Ozarks

• Project
  

  Future Forests, Water, and Quality of Life in Northeastern Minnesota

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/future-forests
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Experimental Forest or Range
  

  Rhinelander Experimental Forest

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/forestsandranges/locations/rhinelander
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Program
  

  Landscape Ecology and Sustainability in the Lake States Forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/programs/landscape-ecology
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Forest Management to Save the Moose in Minnesota

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/minnesota-moose
  Station

  Northern Research Station

Multimedia

• Webinars
  

  LANDIS-II: PnET Succession, Assisted Migration, and National Forest Planning

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/products/multimedia/webinars/landis-ii-pnet-succession-assisted-migration-and-national-forest

• SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, M.S., Fish and Wildlife Biology and Management, 2002
• SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, B.S., Environmental and Forest Biology, 1999