Malcolm P. North, PhD

Ecologist

Pacific Southwest Research Station

malcolm.p.north@usda.gov

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Kristen N. Wilson, Kristen L. Shive, John N. Williams, Malcolm P. North, Michelle Coppoletta, J. Nicholas Hendershot, Charlotte K. Stanley. 2026. Perspectives: The pace and scale challenge: Leveraging wildfire footprints to increase forest resilience to future high-severity fire
Paige V Kouba, Andrew M. Latimer, Derek J.N. Young, Maxwell Odkins, Dawson M. Bell, Ian R. Clark, Malcolm P. North. 2025. Prescribed and natural fire help restore fire-adapted conditions in an Eastern Sierra Jeffrey pine forest
Malcolm P. North, Sarah M. Bisbing, Don L. Hankins, Paul F. Hessburg, Matthew D. Hurteau, Leda N. Kobziar, Marc D. Meyer, Allison E. Rhea, Scott L. Stephens, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann. 2024. Strategic fire zones are essential to wildfire risk reduction in the Western United States
Matthew Hurteau, Marissa Goodwin, Christopher Marsh, Harold Zald, Brandon Collins, Marc Meyer, Malcolm P. North. 2024. Managing fire‐prone forests in a time of decreasing carbon carrying capacity
Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Matthew M. Aghai, Ariella Chichilnisky du Lac, Rebecca Downer, Joseph Fargione, Diane L. Haase, Tyler Hoecker, Olga A. Kildisheva, Alix Murdoch, Shaw Newman, Malcolm P. North, Phil Saksa, Matt Sjoholm, Tom Baribault, Michele S. Buonanduci, Marin E. Chambers, Lisa Gonzales-Kramer, Brian J. Harvey, Matthew D. Hurteau, Jonathan Loevner, Hugh D. Safford, Joshua Sloan. 2024. ‘Mind the Gap’—reforestation needs vs. reforestation capacity in the western United States
Alex Jonko, Julia Oliveto, Teresa Beaty, Adam Atchley, Michael A. Battaglia, Matthew B. Dickinson, Michael R. Gallagher, Ash Gilbert, Daniel Godwin, John A. Kupfer, J. Kevin Hiers, Chad Hoffman, Malcolm P. North, Joseph Restaino, Carolyn H. Sieg, Nicholas Skowronski. 2024. How will future climate change impact prescribed fire across the contiguous United States?
Harold Zald, Carolina J. May, Andrew Gray, Malcolm P. North, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2024. Thinning and prescribed burning increase shade-tolerant conifer regeneration in a fire excluded mixed-conifer forest
Caden P. Chamberlain, Gina R. Cova, C. Alina Cansler, Malcolm P. North, Marc D. Meyer, Sean M.A. Jeronimo, Van R. Kane. 2023. Consistently heterogeneous structures observed at multiple spatial scales across fire-intact reference sites
Jonathan W. Long, Dana Walsh, Michelle Coppoletta, Ryan E. Tompkins, Marc D. Meyer, Clint Isbell, Gabrielle N. Bohlman, Malcolm P. North. 2023. Interventions to restore wildfire-altered forests in California
Van R. Kane, Bryce N. Bartl-Geller, Gina R. Cova, Caden P. Chamberlain, Liz van Wagtendonk, Malcolm P. North. 2023. Where are the large trees? A census of Sierra Nevada large trees to determine their frequency and spatial distribution across three large landscapes
Carolina J. May, Harold Zald, Malcolm P. North, Andrew Gray, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2023. Repeated burns fail to restore pine regeneration to the natural range of variability in a Sierra Nevada mixed‐conifer forest, U.S.A.
Marissa Goodwin, Lucy Kerhoulas, Harold Zald, Malcolm P. North, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2023. Conifer water-use patterns across temporal and topographic gradients in the southern Sierra Nevada
Gina Cova, Van R. Kane, Susan Prichard, Malcolm P. North, C. Alina. Cansler. 2023. The outsized role of California’s largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale
Gavin M. Jones, Emily K. Vraga, Paul F. Hessburg, Matthew D. Hurteau, Craig D. Allen, Robert E. Keane, Thomas Spies, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Mark A. Finney, Jamie Lydersen, A. Leroy. Westerling. 2022. Counteracting wildfire misinformation
Kyle E. Merriam, Marc D. Meyer, Michelle Coppoletta, Ramona J. Butz, Becky Estes, Calvin A. Farris, Malcolm P. North. 2022. Reestablishing natural fire regimes to restore forest structure in California’s red fir forests: The importance of regional context
Z. Steel, M. Meyer, Malcolm P. North, A. Wuenschel, S Ostoja. 2022. Reforestation tool for tree mortality landscapes
Hannah M. Fertel, Malcolm P. North, Andrew M. Latimer, Jan Ng. 2022. Growth and spatial patterns of natural regeneration in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests with a restored fire regime
Harold Zald, Chance C. Callahan, Matthew D. Hurteau, Marissa J. Goodwin, Malcolm P. North. 2022. Tree growth responses to extreme drought after mechanical thinning and prescribed fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, USA
David W. Huffman, Jose Iniguez, Kurt F. Kipfmueller, Stanley G. Kitchen, Keith Lombardo, Donald McKenzie, Andrew G. Merschel, Kerry L. Metlen, Jesse Minor, Christopher D. O'Connor, Laura Platt, William J. Platt, Thomas Saladyga, Amanda B. Stan, Scott Stephens, Colleen Sutheimer, Ramzi Touchan, Peter J. Weisberg, Ellis Q. Margolis, Christopher H. Guiterman, Raphael D. Chavardes, Jonathan D. Coop, Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, Denyse A. Dawe, Donald A. Falk, James D. Johnston, Evan Larson, Hang Li, Joseph M. Marschall, Cameron E. Naficy, Adam T. Naito, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Jeanne Portier, Helen M. Poulos, Kevin M. Robertson, James H. Speer, Michael Stambaugh, Thomas W. Swetnam, Alan J. Tepley, Ichchha Thapa, Craig D. Allen, Yves Bergeron, Lori D. Daniels, Peter Z. Fule, David Gervais, Martin P. Girardin, Grant L. Harley, Jill E. Harvey, Kira M. Hoffman, Jean M. Huffman, Matthew D. Hurteau, Lane B. Johnson, Charles W. Lafon, Manuel K. Lopez, R. Stockton Maxwell, Jed Meunier, Malcolm P. North, Monica T. Rother, Micah R. Schmidt, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Lauren A. Stachowiak, Alan Taylor, Erana J. Taylor, Valerie Trouet, Miguel L. Villarreal, Larissa L. Yocom, Karen B. Arabas, Alexis H. Arizpe, Dominique Arseneault, Alicia Azpeleta Tarancon, Christopher Baisan, Erica Bigio, Franco Biondi, Gabriel D. Cahalan, Anthony Caprio, Julian Cerano-Paredes, Brandon M. Collins, Daniel C. C. Dey, Igor Drobyshev, Calvin Farris, M. Adele Fenwick, William Flatley, M. Lisa Floyd, Ze'ev Gedalof, Andres Holz, Lauren F. Howard. 2022. The North American tree-ring fire-scar network
Malcolm P. North, Ryan E. Tompkins, Alexis A. Bernal, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens, Robert A. York. 2022. Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests
Marissa J. Goodwin, Harold Zald, Malcolm P. North, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2021. Climate‐driven tree mortality and fuel aridity increase wildfire's potential heat flux
R. K. Hagmann, Paul F. Hessburg, S. J. Prichard, Nicholas Povak, P. M. Brown, P. Z. Fulé, Robert E. Keane, Eric E. Knapp, J. M. Lydersen, K. L. Metlen, Matthew Reilly, A. J. Sánchez Meador, S. L. Stephens, Jens Stevens, A. H. Taylor, L. L. Yocom, Michael A. Battaglia, D. J. Churchill, L. D. Daniels, D. A. Falk, P. Henson, J. D. Johnston, M. A. Krawchuk, C. R. Levine, G. W. Meigs, A. G. Merschel, Malcolm P. North, Hugh Safford, T. W. Swetnam, A. E. M. Waltz. 2021. Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
Scott L. Stephens, Michael A. Battaglia, Derek J. Churchill, Brandon M. Collins, Michelle Coppoletta, Chad M. Hoffman, Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Russell A. Parsons, Scott Ritter, Jens Stevens. 2021. Forest restoration and fuels reduction: Convergent or divergent?
M.C. Odland, M.J. Goodwin, B.V. Smithers, M.D. Hurteau, Malcolm P. North. 2021. Plant community response to thinning and repeated fire in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest understories
Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg, R. Keala Hagmann, Nicholas Povak, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Matthew D. Hurteau, Van R. Kane, Robert E. Keane, Leda N. Kobziar, Crystal A. Kolden, Malcolm P. North, Sean A. Parks, Hugh D. Safford, Jens Stevens, Larissa L. Yocom, Derek J. Churchill, Robert W. Gray, David W. Huffman, Frank K. Lake, Pratima Khatri‐Chhetri. 2021. Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions
Marc D. Meyer, Jonathan W. Long, Hugh D. Safford, Sarah Sawyer, Malcolm P. North, Angela M. White. 2021. Principles of postfire restoration
Malcolm P. North, R York, Brandon M. Collins, M Hurteau, Gavin M. Jones, Eric E. Knapp, L Kobziar, H McCann, M Meyer, S Stephens, R Tompkins, C L. Tubbesing. 2021. Pyrosilviculture needed for landscape resilience of dry western United States forests
H. Anu Kramer, Gavin M. Jones, Van R. Kane, Bryce Bartl-Geller, Jonathan T. Kane, Sheila A. Whitmore, William J. Berigan, Brian P. Dotters, Kevin N. Roberts, Sarah Sawyer, John J. Keane, Malcolm P. North, R. J. Gutierrez, M. Zachariah Peery. 2021. Elevational gradients strongly mediate habitat selection patterns in a nocturnal predator
Zachary Steel, M. J. Goodwin, M. D. Meyer, G. A. Fricker, H. S. J. Zald, M. D. Hurteau, Malcolm P. North. 2021. Do forest fuel reduction treatments confer resistance to beetle infestation and drought mortality?
Brian V Smithers, Franklin Alongi, Malcolm P. North. 2021. Live fast, die young: Climate shifts may favor Great Basin bristlecone pine or limber pine in sub-alpine forest establishment
Christian P. Giardina, Gregory S. Gilbert, Faith Imran‐Narahari, Creighton M. Litton, James A. Lutz, Malcolm P. North, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Lawren Sack, Richard P. Phillips, Daniel Sousa, Joshua B. Fisher, Fernando Romero Galvan, Ryan P. Pavlick, Susan Cordell, Thomas W. Giambelluca. 2021. Tree canopies reflect mycorrhizal composition
Michelle Coppoletta, Marc D. Meyer, Malcolm P. North. 2021. Natural range of variation for red fir and subalpine forests in northwestern California and southwestern Oregon
Michael J. Koontz, Andrew M. Latimer, Leif Mortenson, Christopher J. Fettig, Malcolm P. North. 2021. Cross-scale interaction of host tree size and climatic water deficit governs bark beetle-induced tree mortality
Eric E. Knapp, Alexis A. Bernal, Jeffrey M. Kane, Christopher J. Fettig, Malcolm P. North. 2021. Variable thinning and prescribed fire influence tree mortality and growth during and after a severe drought
Gavin M. Jones, R. J. Gutierrez, William M. Block, Peter C. Carlson, Emily J. Comfort, Samuel A. Cushman, Raymond J. Davis, Stephanie A. Eyes, Alan B. Franklin, Joseph L. Ganey, Shaula Hedwall, John J. Keane, Rodd Kelsey, Damon B. Lesmeister, Malcolm P. North, Susan L. Roberts, Jeremy T. Rockweit, Jamie S. Sanderlin, Sarah C. Sawyer, Ben Solvesky, Douglas J. Tempel, Ho Yiwan, A. Leroy Westerling, Gary C. White, M. Zachariah Peery. 2020. Spotted owls and forest fire: Comment
Brian V Smithers, Malcolm P. North. 2020. Mechanisms of species range shift: germination and early survival of Great Basin bristlecone pine and limber pine
Marissa J. Goodwin, Malcolm P. North, Harold S. J. Zald, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2020. Changing climate reallocates the carbon debt of frequent‐fire forests
Michael J. Koontz, Malcolm P. North, Chhaya M. Werner, Stephen E. Fick, Andrew M. Latimer. 2020. Local forest structure variability increases resilience to wildfire in dry western U.S. coniferous forests
Jan Ng, Malcolm P. North, Alec J. Arditti, Monica R. Cooper, James A. Lutz. 2020. Topographic variation in tree group and gap structure in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests with active fire regimes
Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Shelley D. Crausbay, Philip E. Higuera, Matthew D. Hurteau, Alan Tepley, Ellen Whitman, Timothy Assal, Brandon M. Collins, Kimberley T. Davis, Solomon Dobrowski, Donald A. Falk, Paula J. Fornwalt, Peter Z. Fule, Brian J. Harvey, Van R. Kane, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Ellis Q. Margolis, Malcolm P. North, Marc-Andre Parisien, Susan Prichard, Kyle C. Rodman. 2020. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes
Eric E. Knapp, Bob Carlson, Malcolm P. North, Jamie Lydersen, Brandon M. Collins. 2020. Restoring forest heterogeneity with thinning and prescribed fire: Initial results from the central Sierra Nevada, California
Van R. Kane, Bryce N. Bartl-Geller, Malcolm P. North, Jonathan T. Kane, Jamie Lydersen, Sean M.A. Jeronimo, Brandon M. Collins, L. Monika Moskal. 2019. First-entry wildfires can create opening and tree clump patterns characteristic of resilient forests
Geoffrey A. Fricker, Jonathan D. Ventura, Jeffrey A. Wolf, Malcolm P. North, Frank W. Davis, Janet Franklin. 2019. A convolutional neural network classifier identifies tree species in mixed-conifer forest from hyperspectral imagery
Christopher J. Fettig, Amarina Wuenschel, Jennifer Balachowski, Ramona J. Butz, Anna L. Jacobsen, Malcolm P. North, Steven M. Ostoja, R. Brandon Pratt, Richard B. Standiford. 2019. Managing Effects of Drought in California
Brandon M. Lind, Malcolm P. North, Patricia E. Maloney, Andrew J. Eckert. 2019. Effect of fire and thinning on fine-scale genetic structure and gene flow in fire-suppressed populations of sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana Dougl.)
Matthew D. Hurteau, Malcolm P. North, George W. Koch, Bruce A. Hungate. 2019. Opinion: Managing for disturbance stabilizes forest carbon
Malcolm P. North, M. Meyer. 2019. Natural range of variation of red fir and subalpine forests in the Sierra Nevada Bioregion
Sean M.A. Jeronimo, Van R. Kane, Derek J. Churchill, James A. Lutz, Malcolm P. North, Gregory P. Asner, Jerry F. Franklin. 2019. Forest structure and pattern vary by climate and landform across active-fire landscapes in the montane Sierra Nevada
Paul F. Hessburg, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Nicholas Povak, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Thomas Spies, Alina Cansler, Michael A. Battaglia, Carl N. Skinner. 2019. Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of Western North American forests
Scott Stephens, Leda Kobziar, Brandon Collins, Raymond Davis, Peter Fulé, William Gaines, Joseph L. Ganey, Jim M. Guldin, Paul F. Hessburg, Kevin Hiers, Serra J. Hoagland, John J. Keane, Ronald Masters, Ann McKellar, Warren Montague, Malcolm P. North, Thomas Spies. 2019. Is fire “for the birds”? How two rare species influence fire management across the US
Malcolm P. North, Jens Stevens, David F. Greene, Michelle Coppoletta, Eric E. Knapp, Andrew M. Latimer, Christina M. Restaino, Ryan E. Tompkins, Kevin R. Welch, Rob A. York, Derek J.N. Young, Jodi N. Axelson, Tom N. Buckley, Becky Estes, Rachel N. Hager, Jonathan W. Long, Marc D. Meyer, Steven M. Ostoja, Hugh D. Safford, Kristen L. Shive, Carmen L. Tubbesing, Heather Vice, Dana Walsh, Chhaya M. Werner, Peter Wyrsch. 2019. Tamm Review: Reforestation for resilience in dry western U.S. forests
Geoffrey A. Fricker, Nicholas W. Synes, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Malcolm P. North, Frank W. Davis, Janet Franklin. 2019. More than climate? Predictors of tree canopy height vary with scale in complex terrain, Sierra Nevada, CA (USA)
Jan W. van Wagtendonk, Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, Hugh D. Safford, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins. 2018. Sierra Nevada Bioregion
Marissa J. Goodwin, Malcolm P. North, Harold S.J. Zald, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2018. The 15-year post-treatment response of a mixed-conifer understory plant community to thinning and burning treatments
J. Mason Earles, Jens Stevens, Or Sperling, Jessica Orozco, Malcolm P. North, Maciej A. Zwieniecki. 2018. Extreme mid-winter drought weakens tree hydraulic-carbohydrate systems and slows growth
Scott L Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, Christopher J. Fettig, Mark A. Finney, Chad M Hoffman, Eric E. Knapp, Malcolm P. North, Hugh Safford, Rebecca B Wayman. 2018. Drought, tree mortality, and wildfire in forests adapted to frequent fire
Brian V. Smithers, Malcolm P. North, Connie I. Millar, Andrew M. Latimer. 2017. Leap frog in slow motion: Divergent responses of tree species and life stages to climatic warming in Great Basin subalpine forests
Jens Stevens, Brandon M. Collins, Jay D. Miller, Malcolm P. North, Scott L. Stephens. 2017. Changing spatial patterns of stand-replacing fire in California conifer forests
Eric E. Knapp, Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins. 2017. Efficacy of variable density thinning and prescribed fire for restoring forest heterogeneity to mixed-conifer forest in the central Sierra Nevada, CA
Malcolm P. North, Jonathan T. Kane, Van R. Kane, Gregory P. Asner, William Berigan, Derek J. Churchill, Scott Conway, R.J. Gutiérrez, Sean Jeronimo, John J. Keane, Alexander Koltunov, Tina Mark, Monika Moskal, Tom E. Munton, Zachary Peery, Carlos Ramirez, Rahel Sollmann, Angela M. White, Sheila Whitmore. 2017. Cover of tall trees best predicts California spotted owl habitat
M. Zachariah Peery, R.J. Gutiérrez, Patricia N. Manley, Peter Stine, Malcolm P. North. 2017. Synthesis and interpretation of California spotted owl research within the context of public forest management
Malcolm P. North, Mark W. Schwartz, Brandon M. Collins, John J. Keane. 2017. Current and projected condition of mid-elevation Sierra Nevada forests
Carrie R. Levine, Charles V. Cogbill, Brandon M. Collins, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Malcolm P. North, Christina M. Restaino, Hugh D. Safford, Scott L. Stephens, John J. Battles. 2017. Evaluating a new method for reconstructing forest conditions from General Land Office survey records
Brandon M. Collins, Jens Stevens, Jay D. Miller, Scott L. Stephens, Peter M. Brown, Malcolm P. North. 2017. Alternative characterization of forest fire regimes: incorporating spatial patterns
Jonathan W. Long, Leland Tarnay, Malcolm P. North. 2017. Aligning smoke management with ecological and public health goals
Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Hugh Safford, Nathan L. Stephenson. 2016. Montane forests
Scott L. Stephens, Jay D. Miller, Brandon M. Collins, Malcolm P. North, John J. Keane, Susan L. Roberts. 2016. Wildfire impacts on California spotted owl nesting habitat in the Sierra Nevada
Jens Stevens, Brandon M. Collins, Jonathan W. Long, Malcolm P. North, Susan J. Prichard, Leland Tarnay, Angela M. White. 2016. Evaluating potential trade-offs among fuel treatment strategies in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada
Danelle M. Laflower, Matthew D. Hurteau, George W. Koch, Malcolm P. North, Bruce A. Hungate. 2016. Climate-driven changes in forest succession and the influence of management on forest carbon dynamics in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State, USA
Matthew D. Hurteau, Shuang Liang, Katherine L. Martin, Malcolm P. North, George W. Koch, Bruce A. Hungate. 2016. Restoring forest structure and process stabilizes forest carbon in wildfire-prone southwestern ponderosa pine forests
Jens Stevens, Hugh D. Safford, Malcolm P. North, Jeremy S. Fried, Andrew Gray, Peter M. Brown, Christopher R. Dolanc, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Donald A. Falk, Calvin A. Farris, Jerry F. Franklin, Peter Z. Fulé, R. Keala Hagmann, Eric E. Knapp, Jay D. Miller, Douglas F. Smith, Thomas W. Swetnam, Alan H. Taylor, Julia A. Jones. 2016. Average stand age from forest inventory plots does not describe historical fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America
Esther M. Cole, Rosemary Hartman, Malcolm P. North. 2016. Hydroperiod and cattle use associated with lower recruitment in an r-selected amphibian with a declining population trend in the Klamath Mountains, California
Gabrielle N. Bohlman, Malcolm P. North, Hugh D. Safford. 2016. Shrub removal in reforested post-fire areas increases native plant species richness
Carol L. Miller, Thomas Spies, Malcolm P. North, Nicholas Povak, R. Travis Belote, Peter Singleton, William L. Gaines, Robert E. Keane, Gregory H. Aplet, Scott L. Stephens, Penelope Morgan, Pete Bisson, Ryan D. Haugo, Bruce E. Rieman, Brion Salter, Gordon Reeves, Paul F. Hessburg, Derek J. Churchill, Andrew J. Larson. 2015. Restoring fire-prone Inland Pacific landscapes: seven core principles
Van R. Kane, C. Alina Cansler, Nicholas Povak, Jonathan T. Kane, Robert McGaughey, James A. Lutz, Derek J. Churchill, Malcolm P. North. 2015. Mixed severity fire effects within the Rim fire: Relative importance of local climate, fire weather, topography, and forest structure
J. Mason Earles, Or Sperling, Lucas C. R. Silva, Andrew J. McElrone, Craig R. Brodersen, Malcolm P. North, Maciej A. Zwieniecki. 2015. Bark water uptake promotes localized hydraulic recovery in coastal redwood crown
Mark W. Schwartz, Nathalie Butt, Christopher R. Dolanc, Andrew Holguin, Max A. Moritz, Malcolm P. North, Hugh D. Safford, Nathan L. Stephenson, James H. Thorne, Phillip J. van Mantgem. 2015. Increasing elevation of fire in the Sierra Nevada and implications for forest change
Katherine L. Martin, Matthew D. Hurteau, Bruce A. Hungate, George W. Koch, Malcolm P. North. 2015. Carbon tradeoffs of restoration and provision of endangered species habitat in a fire-maintained forest
Van R. Kane, James A. Lutz, C. Alina Cansler, Nicholas A. Povak, Derek J. Churchill, Douglas F. Smith, Jonathan T. Kane, Malcolm P. North. 2015. Water balance and topography predict fire and forest structure patterns
Morgan L. Wiechmann, Matthew D. Hurteau, Malcolm P. North, George W. Koch, Lucie Jerabkova. 2015. The carbon balance of reducing wildfire risk and restoring process: an analysis of 10-year post-treatment carbon dynamics in a mixed-conifer forest
Malcolm P. North, April Brough, Jonathan W. Long, Brandon M. Collins, Phil Bowden, Don Yasuda, Jay Miller, Neil Suighara. 2015. Constraints on mechanized treatment significantly limit mechanical fuels reduction extent in the Sierra Nevada
Scott L. Stephens, Seth W. Bigelow, Ryan D. Burnett, Brandon M. Collins, Lief V. Gallagher, John J. Keane, Douglas A. Kelt, Malcolm P. North, Lance J. Roberts, Peter Stine, Dirk H. Van Vuren. 2014. California spotted owl, songbird, and small mammal responses to landscape fuel treatments
Malcolm P. North. 2014. Forest ecology
Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Malcolm P. North, Lenya Quinn-Davidson. 2014. Research gaps: adaptive management to cross-cutting issues
Jonathan W. Long, Carl Skinner, Malcolm P. North, Carolyn T. Hunsaker, L. Quinn-Davidson. 2014. Integrative approaches: promoting socioecological resilience
Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, John J. Keane, Jonathan W. Long, Carl N. Skinner, Bill Zielinski. 2014. Synopsis of emergent approaches
Van R. Kane, Malcolm P. North, James A. Lutz, Derek J. Churchill, Susan L. Roberts, Douglas F. Smith, Robert McGaughey, Jonathan T. Kane, Matthew L. Brooks. 2014. Assessing fire effects on forest spatial structure using a fusion of Landsat and airborne LiDAR data in Yosemite National Park
Seth W. Bigelow, Michael J. Papaik, Caroline Caum, Malcolm P. North. 2014. Faster growth in warmer winters for large trees in a Mediterranean-climate ecosystem
Thomas Rambo, Timothy Schowalter, Malcolm P. North. 2014. Canopy arthropod responses to thinning and burning treatments in old-growth mixed-conifer forest in the Sierra Nevada, California
Matthew D. Hurteau, Timothy A. Robards, Donald Stevens, David Saah, Malcolm P. North, George W. Koch. 2014. Modeling climate and fuel reduction impacts on mixed-conifer forest carbon stocks in the Sierra Nevada, California
Esther M. Cole, Malcolm P. North. 2014. Environmental influences on amphibian assemblages across subalpine wet meadows in the Klamath Mountains, California.
J. Mason Earles, Malcolm P. North, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2014. Wildfire and drought dynamics destabilize carbon stores of fire-suppressed forests
Danny L. Fry, Scott L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, Malcolm P. North, Ernesto Franco-Vizcaino, Samantha J. Gill. 2014. Contrasting spatial patterns in active-fire and fire-suppressed Mediterranean climate old-growth mixed conifer forests
Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins. 2014. Severity of an uncharacteristically large wildfire, the Rim Fire, in forests with relatively restored frequent fire regimes
Eric E. Knapp, Carl N. Skinner, Malcolm P. North, Becky Estes. 2013. Long-term overstory and understory change following logging and fire exclusion in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
Matthew D. Hurteau, Bruce A. Hungate, George W. Koch, Malcolm P. North, Gordon R Smith. 2013. Aligning ecology and markets in the forest carbon cycle
Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North, Eric E. Knapp, Brandon M. Collins. 2013. Quantifying spatial patterns of tree groups and gaps in mixed-conifer forests: reference conditions and long-term changes following fire suppression and logging
Rakesh Minocha, Swathi A. Turlapati, Stephanie Long, Malcolm P. North. 2013. Fuel treatment effects on soil chemistry and foliar physiology of three coniferous species at the Teakettle Experimental Forest, California, USA
Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L Stephens. 2012. Using fire to increase the scale, benefits and future maintenance of fuels treatments
Jamie Lydersen, Malcolm P. North. 2012. Topographic variation in structure of mixed-conifer forests under an active-fire regime
Malcolm P. North, R.M. Boynton, Peter Stine, K.F. Shipley, E.C. Underwood, N.E. Roth, J.H. Viers, J.F. Quinn. 2012. Chapter 10: Geographic information system landscape analysis using GTR 220 concepts
Malcolm P. North, R. Rojas. 2012. Chapter 11: Dinkey north and south project
Eric E. Knapp, Malcolm P. North, M. Benech, Becky Estes. 2012. Chapter 12: The variable-density thinning study at Stanislaus-Tuolumne Experimental Forest
Peter Stine, Malcolm P. North. 2012. Chapter 14: Clarifying concepts
Malcolm P. North. 2012. Chapter 15: A desired future condition for Sierra Nevada Forests
D. Walsh, Malcolm P. North. 2012. Appendix: Examples of Forest Structures That May Provide Wildlife Habitat
H.D. Safford, Malcolm P. North, M.D. Meyer. 2012. Chapter 3: Climate change and the relevance of historical forest conditions
S. Roberts, Malcolm P. North. 2012. Chapter 5: California spotted owls
Patricia N. Manley, Malcolm P. North. 2012. Chapter 6: Managing forests for wildlife communities
J. Sherlock, Malcolm P. North. 2012. Chapter 9: Marking and assessing forest heterogeneity
Malcolm P. North. 2012. Managing Sierra Nevada forests
Kip Van de Water, Malcolm P. North. 2011. Stand structure, fuelloads, and fire behavior in riparian and upland forests, Sierra Nevada Mountains, USA; a comparison of current and reconstructed conditions
Malcolm P. North, Matthew D. Hurteau. 2011. High-severity wildfire effects on carbon stocks and emissions in fuels treated and untreated forest
Emma C. Underwood, Joshua H. Viers, James F. Quinn, Malcolm P. North. 2010. Using topography to meet wildlife and fuels treatment objectives in fire-suppressed landscapes
Siyan Ma, Amy Concilio, Brian Oakley, Malcolm P. North, Jiquan Chen. 2010. Spatial variability in microclimate in a mixed-conifer forest before and after thinning and burning treatments
K. Van de Water, Malcolm P. North. 2010. Fire history of coniferous riparian forests in the Sierra Nevada
M. Hurteau, Malcolm P. North. 2010. Carbon recovery rates following different wildfire risk mitigation treatments
Malcolm P. North, Peter Stine, Bill Zielinski, Kevin O’Hara, Scott Stephens. 2010. Harnessing fire for wildlife
Malcolm P. North, K.M. van de Water, S.L. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins. 2009. Climate, rain shadow, and human-use influences on fire regimes in the eastern Sierra Nevada, California, USA
C. Hanson, Malcolm P. North. 2009. Postfire survival and flushing in three Sierra Nevada conifers with high initial crown scorch
M. Hurteau, Malcolm P. North. 2009. Fuel treatment effects on tree-based forest carbon storage and emissions under modeled wildfire scenarios
Malcolm P. North, M Hurteau, J Innes. 2009. Fire suppression and fuels treatment effects on mixed-conifer carbon stocks and emissions
T. Rambo, Malcolm P. North. 2009. Canopy microclimate response to pattern and density of thinning in a Sierra Nevada forest
Soung-Ryoul Ryu, Amy Concilio, Jiquan Chen, Malcolm P. North, Siyan Ma. 2009. Prescribed burning and mechanical thinning effects on belowground conditions and soil respiration in a mixed-conifer forest, California
Matthew Hurteau, Malcolm P. North. 2009. Response of Arnica dealbata to climate change, nitrogen deposition, and fire
M. Hurteau, Malcolm P. North, T. Foines. 2009. Modeling the influence of precipitation and nitrogen deposition on forest understory fuel connectivity in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
Seth W. Bigelow, Malcolm P. North, W.R. Horwath. 2009. Resource-dependent growth models for Sierran mixed-conifer saplings
M. Concilio, J. Chen, S. Ma, Malcolm P. North. 2009. Precipitation drives interannual variation in summer soil respiration in a Mediterranean-climate, mixed-conifer forest
Malcolm P. North, Peter Stine, Kevin O'Hara, Bill Zielinski, Scott Stephens. 2009. An ecosystem management strategy for Sierran mixed-conifer forests
Matthew Hurteau, Malcolm P. North. 2008. Mixed-conifer understory response to climate change, nitrogen, and fire
Malcolm P. North, W Keeton. 2008. Emulating natural disturbance regimes: an emerging approach for sustainable forest management
A. Plamboeck, Malcolm P. North, T. Dawson. 2008. Conifer seedling survival under closed-canopy and manzanita patches in the Sierra Nevada
T. Rambo, Malcolm P. North. 2008. Spatial and temporal variability of canopy microclimate in a Sierra Nevada riparian forest
C.T. Hanson, Malcolm P. North. 2008. Postfire woodpecker foraging in salvage-logged and unlogged forests of the Sierra Nevada
P. Maloney, T. Smith, C. Jensen, J. Innes, D. Rizzo, Malcolm P. North. 2008. Initial tree mortality, and insect and pathogen response to fire and thinning restoration treatments in an old growth, mixed-conifer forest of the Sierra Nevada, California
M. Meyer, Malcolm P. North, S. Roberts. 2008. Truffle abundance in recently prescribed burned and unburned forests in Yosemite National Park: Implications for mycophagous mammals
Harold S.J. Zald, Andrew Gray, Malcolm P. North, Ruth A. Kern. 2008. Initial tree regeneration responses to fire and thinning treatments in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest, USA
Marc D. Meyer, Malcolm P. North, Andrew Gray, Harold S. J. Zald. 2007. Influence of soil thickness on stand characteristics in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
M. Hurteau, H. Zald, Malcolm P. North. 2007. Species-specific response to climate reconstruction in upper-elevation mixed-conifer forests of the western Sierra Nevada, California
Malcolm P. North. 2006. Restoring forest health: fire and thinning effects on mixed-conifer forests
Amy Concilio, Siyan Ma, Soung-Ryoul Ryu, Malcolm P. North, Jiquan Chen. 2006. Soil respiration response to experimental disturbances over 3 years
Chad T. Hanson, Malcolm P. North. 2006. Post-fire epicormic branching in Sierra Nevada Abies concolor (white fir)
Thomas F. Smith, David M. Rizzo, Malcolm P. North. 2005. Patterns of mortality in an old-growth mixed-conifer forest of the Southern Sierra Nevada, California
Siyan Ma, Jiquan Chen, John Butnor, Malcolm P. North, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Brian Oakley. 2005. Biophysical controls on soil respiration in the dominant patch types of an old-growth, mixed-conifer forest
Marc D. Meyer, Malcolm P. North, Douglas A. Kelt. 2005. Short-term effects of fire and forest thinning on truffle abundance and consumption by Neotamias speciosus in the Sierra Nevada of California
Amy Concilio, Siyan Ma, Qinglin Li, James LeMoine, Jiquan Chen, Malcolm P. North, Daryl Moorhead, Randy Jensen. 2005. Soil respiration response to prescribed burning and thinning in mixed-conifer and hardwood forests
Malcolm P. North, Jiquan Chen. 2005. Introduction to the special issue on Sierran mixed-conifer research
Marc D. Meyer, Malcolm P. North. 2005. Truffle abundance in riparian and upland mixed-conifer forest of California's southern Sierra Nevada
Marc D. Meyer, Douglas A. Kelt, Malcolm P. North. 2005. Nest trees of northern flying squirrels in the Sierra Nevada
Marc D. Meyer, Malcolm P. North, Douglas A. Kelt. 2005. Fungi in the diets of northern flying squirrels and lodgepole chipmunks in the Sierra Nevada
Antonio D. Izzo, Marc Meyer, James M. Trappe, Malcolm P. North, Thomas D. Bruns. 2005. Hypogeous ectomycorrhizal fungal species on roots and in small mammal diet in a mixed-conifer forest
Malcolm P. North, Matthew Hurteau, Robert Fiegener, Michael Barbour. 2005. Influence of fire and El Niño on tree recruitment by Sierran mixed conifer
Andrew Gray, Harold S.J. Zald, Ruth A. Kern, Malcolm P. North. 2005. Stand conditions associated with tree regeneration in sierran mixed-conifer forests.
Malcolm P. North, Brian Oakley, Rob Fiegener, Andrew Gray, Michael Barbour. 2005. Influence of light and soil moisture on Sierran mixed-conifer understory communities.
Siyan Ma, Jiquan Chen, Malcolm P. North, Heather Erickson, Mary Bresee, James Le Moine. 2004. Short-term effects of experimental burning and thinning on soil respiration in an old-growth, mixed-conifer forest
Brian Oakley, Malcolm P. North, Jerry F. Franklin, Brian P. Hedlund, James T. Staley. 2004. Diversity and distribution of Frankia strains symbiotic with Ceanothus in California
Malcolm P. North, Jiquan Chen, Brian Oakley, Bo Song, Mark Rudnicki, Andrew Gray, Jim Innes. 2004. Forest stand structure and pattern of old-growth western hemlock/Douglas-fir and mixed-conifer forests
Jiquan Chen, Bo Song, Mark Rudnicki, Melinda Moeur, Ken Bible, Malcolm P. North, Dave C. Shaw, Jerry F. Franklin, Dave M. Braun. 2003. Spatial relationship of biomass and species distribution in an old-growth Pseudotsuga Tsuga forest.
Malcolm P. North, Brian Oakley, Jiquan Chen, Heather Erickson, Andrew Gray, Antonio Izzo, Dale Johnson, Siyan Ma, Jim Marra, Marc Meyer, Kathryn L. Purcell, Tom Rambo, Dave Rizzo, Brent Roath, Tim Schowalter. 2002. Vegetation and Ecological Characteristics of Mixed-Conifer and Red Fir Forests at the Teakettle Experimental Forest
Malcolm P. North. 2002. Environmental factors associated with spotted owl reproduction
Malcolm P. North. 2002. Seasonality and abundance of truffles from oak woodlands to red fir forests
Malcolm P. North. 2002. The Teakettle experiment
Malcolm P. North, George Steger, Renee G. Denton, Gary Eberlein, Tom E. Munton, Ken Johnson. 2000. Association of weather and nest-site structure with reproductive success in California spotted owls
Betsy Lyons, Nalini M. Nadkarni, Malcolm P. North. 2000. Spatial distribution and succession of epiphytes on Tsuga heterophylla (western hemlock) in an old-growth Douglas-fir forest
Malcolm P. North, Jerry F. Franklin, Andrew B. Carey, Eric D. Forsman, Tom Hamer. 1999. Forest stand structure of the northern spotted owl's foraging habitat.
Robert Van Pelt, Malcolm P. North. 1999. Testing a ground-based canopy model using the wind river canopy crane
Malcolm P. North, Joshua Greenberg. 1998. Stand conditions associated with truffle abundance in western hemlock/Douglas-fir forests
Malcolm P. North, James Trappe, Jerry Franklin. 1997. Standing crop and animal consumption of fungal sporocarps in Pacific Northwest forests
Malcolm P. North, Joel H. Reynolds. 1996. Microhabitat analysis using radiotelemetry locations and polytomous logistic regression
Robert Van Pelt, Malcolm P. North. 1996. Analyzing canopy structure in Pacific Northwest old-growth forests with a stand-scale crown model
Malcolm P. North, Jiquan Chen, Gordon Smith, Lucy Krakowlak, Jerry Franklin. 1996. Initial response to understory plant diversity and overstory tree diameter growth to a green tree retention harvest

University of Washington, Ph.D., Forest Ecosystem Analysis, 1993
Yale University, M.F.S., Forest Ecology, 1988
Vassar College, B.A., English, 1979

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