Charlotte Reed, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Charlotte Reed, Sharon M. Hood, Aaron R. Ramirez, Anna Sala. 2026. Fire-caused injuries to conifers can result in a period of reduced tree growth and elevated drought vulnerability within the first two years after fire
• Charlotte Reed, Sharon M. Hood, Aaron R. Ramirez, Anna Sala. 2025. Fire directly affects tree carbon balance and indirectly affects hydraulic function: Consequences for post-fire mortality in two conifers
• Rachael H. Nolan, Charlotte Reed, Sharon M. Hood. 2024. Mechanisms of fire-caused tree death are far from resolved
• Adrienne Bernhard, Sharon M. Hood, Charlotte Reed. 2024. Trees dying, dangers rising: Major tree mortality events rapidly increase forest fuels and snag hazards
• Charlotte Reed, Sharon M. Hood. 2024. Nonstructural carbohydrates explain post-fire tree mortality and recovery patterns
• Charlotte Reed, Sharon M. Hood, Daniel R. Cluck, Sheri L. Smith. 2023. Fuels change quickly after California drought and bark beetle outbreaks with implications for potential fire behavior and emissions
• Rachel M. Keen, Steven L. Voelker, S.-Y Simon Wang, Barbara J. Bentz, Michael L. Goulden, Cody R. Dangerfield, Charlotte Reed, Sharon M. Hood, Adam Z. Csank, Todd E. Dawson, Andrew G. Merschel, Christopher J. Still. 2022. Changes in tree drought sensitivity provided early warning signals to the California drought and forest mortality event
• Sharon M. Hood, Charlotte Reed, Daniel R. Cluck, Beverly Bulaon, Stacy Hishinuma, Andrea Hefty, Sheri Smith. 2021. Chapter 11 - Tree mortality and fuel changes due to extreme drought and concurrent bark beetle outbreaks in California
• Charlotte Reed, Sharon M. Hood. 2021. Few generalizable patterns of tree-level mortality during extreme drought and concurrent bark beetle outbreaks
• Sharon M. Hood, Charlotte Reed, Jeffrey M. Kane. 2020. Axial resin duct quantification in tree rings: A functional defense trait

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Charlotte C. Reed, Ashley P. Ballantyne, L. Annie Cooper, Anna Sala. 2018. Limited evidence for CO²‐related growth enhancement in northern Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine populations across climate gradients. Global change biology, 24(9), 3922-3937.

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Quantifying Resin Ducts

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/dataandtools/quantifying-resin-ducts

• Program
  

  Fire, Fuel, and Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/firefuelsmoke
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Predicting Tree Growth and Beetle Susceptibility After Fire

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/treegrowthandbeetles
• Project
  

  Tree Mortality and Fuel Changes from an Extreme Drought and Bark Beetle Outbreaks in California

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/outbreaksincalifornia
• Project
  

  Fuels and Potential Fire Behavior in Balsam Woolly Adelgid-impacted Forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/balsamwoolly
• Project
  

  Fuels and potential fire behavior in balsam woolly adelgid-impacted forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bwa
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  A window of vulnerability: Fire causes short-term reduced tree growth and elevated drought stress

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/articles/window-vulnerability-fire-causes-short-term-reduced-tree-growth-and-elevated
• Article
  

  Postfire tree mortality and recovery: It’s all about the carbs

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/postfire-tree-mortality-and-recovery-its-all-about-carbs
• Article
  

  Warning signals of tree mortality masked by extreme drought and bark beetles

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/warning-signals-tree-mortality-masked-extreme-drought-and-bark-beetles

Other Publications

• General
  

  How Fire Kills Trees Poster

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/understory/how-fire-kills-trees-poster

Multimedia

• Webinars

  Fire impacts on the physiology of western U.S. conifers and implications for drought vulnerability

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/products/multimedia/webinars/fire-impacts-physiology-western-us-conifers-and-implications

• University of Montana, Ph.D, Ecology and Evolution, 2025
• University of Montana, M.S. Systems Ecology, Forest Ecology, 2017
• University of California Santa Cruz, B.A. Environmental Studies, Plant Ecophysiology, 2015