Claire Tortorelli, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Becky K. Kerns, Gregg M. Riegel, Nathan Wade, Deborah G. Nemens, Claire Tortorelli, Danielle H. Berger, Maureen C. Kennedy, G. L. Williams, Susan Prichard. 2026. Long-term forest understory recovery and tradeoffs in response to prescribed fire return interval
• Claire Tortorelli, Alison Dean, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky K. Kerns. 2026. Prescribed fire drives divergent invasive annual grass responses in a dry forest-mosaic landscape
• Michelle A. Day, Claire Tortorelli, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Karen C. Short, Jessi L. Brown, Sofia Koutzoukis, Julia Olszewski, Alan Ager, Jeanne C. Chambers. 2025. Optimizing woody fuel treatments to reduce wildfire risk to sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin of the western US
• Sylvia Kantor, Jeanne C. Chambers, Duncan Leao, Jessica L. Brown, Brice Hanberry, Matt C. Reeves, Karen C. Short, Claire Tortorelli, Alexandra K. Urza. 2025. Right fuel treatment, right place: Managing wildfire in sagebrush country
• Ty C. Nietupski, John B. Kim, Claire Tortorelli, Rebecca Lemons, Becky K. Kerns. 2024. Ventenata dubia projected to expand in the western United States despite future novel conditions
• Claire Tortorelli, Derek J.N. Young, Matthew Reilly, Ramona J. Butz, Hugh D. Safford, Nina E. Venuti, Kevin R. Welch, Andrew M. Latimer. 2024. Post-fire resurveys reveal predictability of long-term conifer recruitment in severely burned California dry forests
• Jeanne C. Chambers, Eva K. Strand, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Claire Tortorelli, Alexandra K. Urza, Michele R. Crist, Richard F. Miller, Matt C. Reeves, Karen C. Short, Claire L. Williams. 2024. Review of fuel treatment effects on fuels, fire behavior and ecological resilience in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Western U.S.
• Janet S. Prevéy, Catherine S. Jarnevich, Ian S. Pearse, Seth M. Munson, Jens Stevens, Kevin J. Barrett, Jonathan D. Coop, Michelle A. Day, David Firmage, Paula J. Fornwalt, Katharine M. Haynes, James D. Johnston, Becky K. Kerns, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky A. Miller, Ty C. Nietupski, Jacquilyn Roque, Judith D. Springer, Camille S. Stevens‑Rumann, Michael T. Stoddard, Claire Tortorelli. 2024. Non‑native plant invasion after fire in western USA varies by functional type and with climate
• Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, Matt C. Reeves, Eva K. Strand, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Claire Tortorelli, Alexandra K. Urza, Karen C. Short. 2024. Fuel treatment response groups for fire‑prone sagebrush landscapes
• Claire L. Williams, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Eva K. Strand, Matt C. Reeves, Scott E. Shaff, Karen C. Short, Jeanne C. Chambers, Beth A. Newingham, Claire Tortorelli. 2023. Fuel treatments in shrublands experiencing pinyon and juniper expansion result in trade‑offs between desired vegetation and increased fire behavior
• Claire Tortorelli, John B. Kim, Nicole M. Vaillant, Karin Riley, Alex Dye, Ty C. Nietupski, Kevin C. Vogler, Rebecca Lemons, Michelle A. Day, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky K. Kerns. 2023. Feeding the fire: Annual grass invasion facilitates modeled fire spread across Inland Northwest forest‐mosaic landscapes
• Claire Tortorelli, Becky K. Kerns, Meg A. Krawchuk. 2022. Community invasion resistance is influenced by interactions between plant traits and site productivity
• William M. Downing, Meg A. Krawchuk, Jonathan D. Coop, Garrett W. Meigs, Sandra L. Haire, Ryan B. Walker, Ellen Whitman, Geneva Chong, Carol L. Miller, Claire Tortorelli. 2020. How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and firegenerated early‐seral vegetation?
• Claire Tortorelli, Meg A. Krawchuk, Becky K. Kerns. 2020. Expanding the invasion footprint: Ventenata dubia and relationships to wildfire, environment, and plant communities in the Blue Mountains of the Inland Northwest, USA
• Becky K. Kerns, Claire Tortorelli, Michelle A. Day, Ty Nietupski, Ana M.G. Barros, John B. Kim, Meg A. Krawchuk. 2020. Invasive grasses: A new perfect storm for forested ecosystems?

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

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• Program
  

  Fire, Fuels, and Smoke

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/pnw/programs/ffs
  Station

  Pacific Northwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Climate Adaptive Landscape Monitoring (CALM)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/projects/post-fire-climate-adaptive-landscape-monitoring
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station

• Oregon State University, Ph.D Forest Ecosystems & Society, Fire Ecology, 2022
• Colorado State University, B.S., Forest Biology, 2015