Matthew B. Dickinson, PhD

Ecologist

Northern Research Station

0000-0003-3635-1219

matthew.b.dickinson@usda.gov

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Alexis A. Bernal, Scott L. Stephens, Mac A. Callaham, Brandon M. Collins, Justin S. Crotteau, Matthew B. Dickinson, Donald L. Hagan, Rachelle Hedges, Sharon M. Hood, Todd Hutchinson, Melanie K. Taylor, T. Adam. Coates. 2025. The national Fire and Fire Surrogate study: Effects of fuel treatments in the Western and Eastern United States after 20 years
Stefan H. Doerr, Antonio Girona-García, Carmen Sánchez-García, David Badía-Villas, Rob Bryant, Matthew B. Dickinson, Jorge Mataix-Solera, Jessica R Miesel, Pete R. Robichaud, Cristina Santín. 2025. Soil heating during wildfires and prescribed burns: a global evaluation
Joseph D. Birch, James A. Lutz, Matthew B. Dickinson, James Franklin, Andrew J. Larson, Mark E. Swanson, Jessica R. Miesel. 2025. Small-scale fire refugia increase soil bacterial and fungal richness and increase community cohesion nine years after fire
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?
Randy Kolka, Kathleen M. Quigley, J. R. Miesel, Matthew B. Dickinson, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Christel C. Kern. 2024. Influence of barrens restoration treatments on soil carbon, nitrogen, and mercury pools and emissions
Todd Hutchinson, Bryce T. Adams, Matthew B. Dickinson, Maryjane Heckel, Alejandro A. Royo, Melissa A. Thomas‐Van Gundy. 2024. Sustaining eastern oak forests: Synergistic effects of fire and topography on vegetation and fuels
Joseph D. Birch, Alicia Reiner, Matthew B. Dickinson, Jessica R. Miesel. 2023. Prescribed fire lessens bark beetle impacts despite varied effects on fuels 13 years after mastication and fire in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest
Virginia D. Preiss, Carissa L. Wonkka, Devan A. McGranahan, Alexandra G. Lodge, Matthew B. Dickinson, Kathleen L. Kavanagh, Heath D. Starns, Douglas R. Tolleson, Morgan L. Treadwell, Dirac Twidwell, William E. Rogers. 2023. Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem
Joseph D. Birch, Matthew B. Dickinson, Alicia Reiner, Eric E. Knapp, Scott N. Dailey, Carol Ewell, James A. Lutz, Jessica R. Miesel. 2023. Heading and backing fire behaviours mediate the influence of fuels on wildfire energy
Heath D. Starns, Carissa L. Wonkka, Matthew B. Dickinson, Alexandra G. Lodge, Morgan L. Treadwell, Kathleen L. Kavanagh, Douglas R. Tolleson, Dirac Twidwell, William E. Rogers. 2022. Prosopis glandulosa persistence is facilitated by differential protection of buds during low- and high-energy fires
Mary K. Brady, Matthew B. Dickinson, Jessica R. Miesel, Carissa L. Wonkka, Kathleen L. Kavanagh, Alexandra G. Lodge, William E. Rogers, Heath D. Starns, Doug R. Tolleson, Morgan L. Treadwell, Dirac Twidwell, Erin J. Hanan. 2022. Soil Heating in Fire ( SheFire ): A model and measurement method for estimating soil heating and effects during wildland fires
Mary K. Brady, Erin J. Hanan, Matthew B. Dickinson, Jessica R. Miesel, Laura Wade, Jonathan Greenberg. 2022. How interactions between wildfire and seasonal soil moisture fluxes drive nitrogen cycling in Northern Sierra Nevada forests
Matthew B. Dickinson, Cyle E. Wold, Bret W. Butler, Robert L. Kremens, Daniel Jimenez, Paul A. Sopko, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2021. The Wildland Fire Heat Budget—Using Bi-Directional Probes to Measure Sensible Heat Flux and Energy in Surface Fires
Matthew C. Vaughan, Donald L. Hagan, William C. Bridges, Matthew B. Dickinson, T. Adam. Coates. 2021. How do fire behavior and fuel consumption vary between dormant and early growing season prescribed burns in the southern Appalachian Mountains?
Quinn A. Hiers, Morgan L. Treadwell, Matthew B. Dickinson, Kathleen L. Kavanagh, Alexandra G. Lodge, Heath D. Starns, Doug R. Tolleson, Dirac Twidwell, Carissa L. Wonkka, William E. Rogers. 2021. Grass bud responses to fire in a semiarid savanna system
Kathleen M. Quigley, Randy Kolka, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Matthew B. Dickinson, Christel C. Kern, Jessica R. Miesel. 2021. Restoring open canopy pine barrens from the ground up: Repeated burns correspond with increased soil hydraulic conductivity
Kathleen M. Quigley, Randy Kolka, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Matthew B. Dickinson, Christel C. Kern, Deahn Donner, Jessica R. Miesel. 2020. Prescribed burn frequency, vegetation cover, and management legacies influence soil fertility: Implications for restoration of imperiled pine barrens habitat
J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Morgan Varner, Bret W. Butler, Matthew B. Dickinson, James Furman, Michael R. Gallagher, David Godwin, Scott Goodrick, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew T. Hudak, Leda N. Kobziar, Rodman Linn, E. Louise Loudermilk, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Kevin Robertson, Eric M. Rowell, Nicholas Skowronski, Adam C. Watts, Kara Yedinak. 2020. Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda
Adam Kochanski, Kirk R. Baker, William E. Mell, Rodman Linn, Ronan Paugam, Yongqiang Liu, Jan Mandel, Aime Fournier, Mary Ann Jenkins, Scott Goodrick, Gary Achtemeier, Fengjun Zhao, Roger D. Ottmar, Nancy H. F. French, Narasimhan Larkin, Timothy Brown, Andrew T. Hudak, Matthew B. Dickinson, Brian Potter, Craig Clements, Shawn P. Urbanski, Susan Prichard, Adam Watts, Derek McNamara. 2019. Fire behaviour and smoke modelling: model improvement and measurement needs for next-generation smoke research and forecasting systems
Matthew B. Dickinson, Bret W. Butler, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Robert L. Kremens, Carine Klauberg. 2019. Inferring energy incident on sensors in low-intensity surface fires from remotely sensed radiation and using it to predict tree stem injury
Kathleen M. Quigley, R.E. Wildt, Brian R. R. Sturtevant, Randy Kolka, Matthew B. Dickinson, Christel C. Kern, Deahn Donner, J.R. Miesel. 2019. Fuels, vegetation, and prescribed fire dynamics influence ash production and characteristics in a diverse landscape under active pine barrens restoration
Susan Prichard, Sim Larkin, Roger D. Ottmar, Nancy H.F. French, Kirk Baker, Tim Brown, Craig Clements, Matthew B. Dickinson, Andrew T. Hudak, Adam Kochanski, Rod Linn, Yongqiang Liu, Brian Potter, William E. Mell, Danielle Tanzer, Shawn P. Urbanski, Adam Watts. 2019. The fire and smoke model evaluation experiment—a plan for integrated, large fire–atmosphere field campaigns
Joseph J. O'Brien, J. K. Hiers, J. M. Varner, C. M. Hoffman, Matthew B. Dickinson, S. T. Michaletz, E. Louise Loudermilk, Bret W. Butler. 2018. Advances in Mechanistic Approaches to Quantifying Biophysical Fire Effects
Jessica Miesel, Alicia Reiner, Carol Ewell, Bernardo Maestrini, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2018. Quantifying Changes in Total and Pyrogenic Carbon Stocks Across Fire Severity Gradients Using Active Wildfire Incidents
Alexandra Lodge, Matthew B. Dickinson, Kathleen L. Kavanagh. 2018. Xylem heating increases vulnerability to cavitation in longleaf pine
Steven J. Hromada, Christopher A.F. Howey, Matthew B. Dickinson, Roger W. Perry, Willem M. Roosenburg, C.M. Gienger. 2018. Response of reptile and amphibian communities to the reintroduction of fire in an oak/hickory forest
Andrew T. Hudak, Matthew B. Dickinson, Benjamin C. Bright, Robert L. Kremens, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Roger D. Ottmar. 2016. Measurements relating fire radiative energy density and surface fuel consumption - RxCADRE 2011 and 2012
Christopher A. F. Howey, Matthew B. Dickinson, Willem M. Roosenburg. 2016. Effects of a landscape disturbance on the habitat use and behavior of the black racer
Bill J. Mathews, Eva K. Strand, Alistair M. S. Smith, Andrew T. Hudak, Matthew B. Dickinson, Robert L. Kremens. 2016. Laboratory experiments to estimate interception of infrared radiation by tree canopies
Matthew B. Dickinson, Todd Hutchinson, Mark A. Dietenberger, Frederick Matt, Matthew Peters, Jian Yang. 2016. Litter Species Composition and Topographic Effects on Fuels and Modeled Fire Behavior in an Oak-Hickory Forest in the Eastern USA
Dan Miller, J. D. Allison, C. M. Crowe, Matthew B. Dickinson, A. Eglitis, R. W. Hofstetter, A. S. Munson, Therese M. M. Poland, L. S. Reid, B. E. Steed, J. D. Sweeney. 2016. Pine sawyers (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) attracted to a-pinene, monochamol, and ipsenol in North America
Craig B. Clements, Neil P. Lareau, Daisuke Seto, Jonathan Contezac, Braniff Davis, Casey Teske, Thomas J. Zajkowski, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Matthew B. Dickinson, Bret W. Butler, Daniel Jimenez, J. Kevin Hiers. 2016. Fire weather conditions and fire-atmosphere interactions observed during low-intensity prescribed fires - RxCADRE 2012
Thomas J. Zajkowski, Matthew B. Dickinson, J. Kevin Hiers, William Holley, Brett W. Williams, Alexander Paxton, Otto Martinez, Gregory W. Walker. 2016. Evaluation and use of remotely piloted aircraft systems for operations and research - RxCADRE 2012
Joseph J. O’Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Benjamin Hornsby, Andrew T. Hudak, Benjamin C. Bright, Matthew B. Dickinson, J. Kevin Hiers, Casey Teske, Roger D. Ottmar. 2016. High-resolution infrared thermography for capturing wildland fire behaviour - RxCADRE 2012
Roger D. Ottmar, J. Kevin Hiers, Bret W. Butler, Craig B. Clements, Matthew B. Dickinson, Andrew T. Hudak, Joseph J. O'Brien, Brian Potter, Eric M. Rowell, Tara Strand, Thomas J. Zajkowski. 2016. Measurements, datasets and preliminary results from the RxCADRE project-2008, 2011 and 2012
Matthew B. Dickinson, Andrew T. Hudak, Thomas Zajkowski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Wilfrid Schroeder, Luke Ellison, Robert L. Kremens, William Holley, Otto Martinez, Alexander Paxton, Benjamin C. Bright, Joseph J. O'Brien, Ben Hornsby, Charles Ichoku, Jason Faulring, Aaron Gerace, David L. Peterson, Joseph Mauceri. 2016. Measuring radiant emissions from entire prescribed fires with ground, airborne and satellite sensors - RxCADRE 2012
Robert L. Kremens, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2015. Estimating radiated flux density from wildland fires using the raw output of limited bandpass detectors
Jeffery B. Cannon, Joseph J. O'Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Matthew B. Dickinson, Chris J. Peterson. 2014. The influence of experimental wind disturbance on forest fuels and fire characteristics
Efthalia K. Chatziefstratiou, Gil Bohrer, Anthony Bova, Ravishankar Subramanian, Renato P.M. Frasson, Amy Scherzer, Brett J. Butler, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2013. FireStem2D — A two-dimensional heat transfer model for simulating tree stem injury in fires
Matthew B. Dickinson, D.F. Wigham. 2013. Competition among surface roots in a selectively-logged, semi-deciduous forest in southeastern Mexico - effects on seedlings of two species of contrasting shade tolerance
Wilfrid Schroeder, Evan Ellicott, Charles Ichoku, Luke Ellison, Matthew B. Dickinson, Roger D. Ottmar, Craig Clements, Dianne Hall, Vincent Ambrosia, Robert Kremens. 2013. Integrated active fire retrievals and biomass burning emissions using complementary near-coincident ground, airborne and spaceborne sensor data
Matthew B. Dickinson, E.A. Johnson, R. Artiaga. 2013. Fire spread probabilities for experimental beds composed of mixedwood boreal forest fuels
Kevin Hyde, Matthew B. Dickinson, Gil Bohrer, Dave E. Calkin, Louisa Evers, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Tessa Nicolet, Kevin C. Ryan, Christina Tague. 2013. Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: Status and needs
R.L. Kremens, Matthew B. Dickinson, A.S. Bova. 2012. Radiant flux density, energy density, and fuel consumption in mixed-oak forest surface fires
Susan L. Stout, Matthew B. Dickinson, Gregory J. Nowacki. 2012. The hot continental division: Oak forests, fire, and ecosystem management frame fuels management questions
A.S. Bova, G. Bohrer, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2011. A model of gas mixing into single-entrance tree cavities during wildland fires
Colin C. Hardy, Robert Kremens, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2010. Modern developments for ground-based monitoring of fire behavior and effects
Conghe Song, Matthew B. Dickinson, Lihong Su, Su Zhang, Daniel Yaussy. 2010. Estimating average tree crown size using spatial information from Ikonos and QuickBird images: Across-sensor and across-site comparisons
Matthew B. Dickinson, J.C. Norris, A.S. Bova, R.L. Kremens, V. Young, M.J. Lacki. 2010. Effects of wildland fire smoke on a tree-roosting bat: integrating a plume model, field measurements, and mammalian dose-response relationships
Bret W. Butler, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2010. Tree injury and mortality in fires: developing process-based models
Kathleen L. Kavanaugh, Matthew B. Dickinson, Anthony Bova. 2010. A way forward for fire-caused tree mortality prediction: Modeling a physiological consequence of fire
Kirsten Stephan, Melanie Miller, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2010. First-order fire effects on herbs and Shrubs: present knowledge and process modeling needs
Elizabeth Reinhardt, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2010. First-order fire effects models for land Management: Overview and issues
Matthew B. Dickinson, Kevin C. Ryan. 2010. Introduction: Strengthening the foundation of wildland fire Effects prediction for research and management
Robert L. Kremens, Alistair M.S. Smith, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2010. Fire metrology: Current and future directions in physics-based measurements
Michael J. Lacki, Daniel R. Cox, Luke E. Dodd, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2009. Response of northern bats (Myotis septentrionalis) to prescribed fires in eastern Kentucky forests
Dan M. Jimenez, Bret W. Butler, K. Hiers, Roger D. Ottmar, Matthew B. Dickinson, R. Kremens, Joseph J. O'Brien, Andrew T. Hudak, C. Clements. 2009. Rx-CADRE (Prescribed Fire Combustion-Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiments) collaborative research in the core fire sciences
Michael Lacki, Daniel R. Cox, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2009. Meta-analysis of summer roosting characteristics of two species of Myotis bats
Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2009. An inverse method to estimate stem surface heat flux in wildland fires
Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2009. Modeling the protection afforded by burrows, cavities, and roosts during wildland surface fires
Matthew B. Dickinson, Anthony Bova, Kathleen Kavanagh, Antoine Randolph, Lawrence Band. 2009. Surface fire effects on conifer and hardwood crowns--applications of an integral plume model
Loredana Suciu, Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson, Jim Dyer, Robert Kremens, Valerie L. Young. 2009. Airborne fire monitoring--extraction of active fire fronts from time-sequence imaging of the Arch Rock fire in southeast Ohio
Matthew B. Dickinson, Michael J. Lacki, Daniel R. Cox. 2009. Fire and the endangered Indiana bat
C. Song, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2008. Extracting forest canopy structure from spatial information of high resolution optical imagery: tree crown size versus leaf area index
Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2008. Beyond "fire temperatures": calibrating thermocouple probes and modeling their response to surface fires in hardwood fuels
Daniel Yaussy, Todd Hutchinson, Matthew B. Dickinson, Joanne Rebbeck. 2006. Fire research on the Raccoon Ecological Management Area
Joanne Rebbeck, Daniel Yaussy, Louis Iverson, Todd Hutchinson, Robert P. Long, Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2006. Use of temperature-sensitive paints as an index of heat output from fire
Robert Kremens, Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson, Jason Faulring, Shari McNamara. 2006. Estimating fire behavior from overhead imagery in eastern oak forests
Matthew B. Dickinson, Anthony Bova. 2006. Hardwood stem injury and mortality in surface fires
Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2006. Thermocouple probes in surface fires
Joshua L. Jones, Brent W. Webb, Bret W. Butler, Matthew B. Dickinson, Daniel Jimenez, James Reardon, Anthony Bova. 2006. Prediction and measurement of thermally induced cambial tissue necrosis in tree stems
Matthew B. Dickinson. 2006. Fire in eastern oak forests: delivering science to land managers
Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson, M.B. Dickinson. 2005. Linking surface-fire behavior, stem heating, and tissue necrosis
Matthew B. Dickinson, J. Jolliff, Anthony Bova. 2004. Vascular cambium necrosis in forest fires: using hyperbolic temperature regimes to estimate parameters of a tissue-reponse model
Matthew B. Dickinson, Edward A. Johnson. 2004. Temperature-dependent rate models of vascular cambium cell mortality
Richard A., Jr. Wildman, Leo J. Hickey, Matthew B. Dickinson, Robert A. Berner, Jennifer M. Robinson, Michael Dietrich, Robert H. Essenhigh, Craig B. Wildman. 2004. Burning of forest materials under late Paleozoic high atmospheric oxygen levels
Daniel Yaussy, Matthew B. Dickinson, Anthony Bova. 2004. Prescribed Surface-fire Tree Mortality in Southern Ohio: Equations Based on Thermocouple Probe Temperatures
Anthony Bova, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2003. Surface fires and stem mortality: physical connections
Matthew B. Dickinson. 2003. Stem mortality in surface fires. Part I, tissue response to elevated temperatures
Matthew B. Dickinson. 2002. Heat transfer and vascular cambium necrosis in the boles of trees during surface fires
Matthew B. Dickinson, D.F. Whigham, D.F. Whigham. 1999. Regeneration of mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) in the Yucatan
Matthew B. Dickinson, Joshua C. Dickinson, Francis E. Putz, Francis E. Putz. 1996. Natural forest management as a conservation tool in the tropics: divergent views on possibilities and alternatives

Florida State University, Phd, Tropical forest ecology, disturbance ecology, sustainable forestry, Yucatan Peninsula, 1998
Florida State University, Ms, Community ecology, aquatic plant ecology, 1991
Texas A&M University, Marine Biology, Coastal ecology, fish demography, fire ecology of salt marshes, sea turtle and marine mammal stranding, 1988

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