Melanie K. Taylor, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Denis M. Njoroge, Gbadamassi G. O. Dossa, Douglas Schaefer, Juan Zuo, Michael Ulyshen, Sebastian Seibold, Amy E. Zanne, Brad Oberle, Rhett D. Harrison, Shengjie Liu, Xiaobo Li, Tone Birkemoe, Melanie K. Taylor, Philip J. Burton, David B. Lindenmayer, Jari Kouki, Yagya Adhikari, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen. 2025. The effects of invertebrates on wood decomposition across the world
• 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
• ROBERTO CARRERA-MARTÍNEZ, Melanie K. Taylor, DANIEL JONES, SEAN D. SCHOVILLE, BRUCE A. SNYDER, Mac A. Callaham. 2025. The unseen diversity of the semi-aquatic earthworms of the genus Sparganophilus (Oligochaeta: Sparganophilidae) from the Southeastern Appalachian Piedmont
• Michael Ulyshen, Cory K. Adams, Jacqui Adams, Susan B. Adams, Mickey Bland, Don C. Bragg, Chuck Burdine, Mac A. Callaham, Richard Chaney, Gregg Chapman, Patsy Clinton, Cinnamon Dixon, Jacob Floyd, Phillip Jordan, Tara L. Keyser, Stephanie H. Laseter, Rachel Mallinger, Virginia McDaniel, Bryan Mudder, C. Dana Nelson, Katherine Odanaka, A. Christopher Oishi, Shawna L. Reid, Samm Reynolds, Kevin Robertson, Daniel Saenz, Mary Anne Sayer, Nathan Schiff, Brian Scholtens, Joel Scott, Martin Spetich, Melanie K. Taylor, John Willis, Andrew D. Young. 2024. Spatiotemporal patterns of forest pollinator diversity across the southeastern United States
• Melanie K. Taylor, Donald L. Hagan, T. Adam Coates, Julia A. DeFeo, Mac A. Callaham Jr., Helen Mohr, Thomas A. Waldrop, Nina Wurzburger. 2024. Evaluating 15 Years of Experimental Management Treatments in Southern Appalachian Forests of North Carolina
• Melanie K. Taylor, Michael Ulyshen, Scott Horn, Emilee Poole, Mac A. Callaham. 2024. Variation in the contribution of macroinvertebrates to wood decomposition as it progresses
• Sam Fox, Melanie K. Taylor, Mac A. Callaham, Ari Jumpponen. 2024. Fire-excluded and frequently burned longleaf pine forests have contrasting soil microbial communities
• Nuria Sánchez-López, Andrew T. Hudak, Luigi Boschetti, Carlos A. Silva, Kevin Robertson, E Louise Loudermilk, Benjamin C. Bright, Mac A. Callaham, Melanie K. Taylor. 2023. A spatially explicit model of tree leaf litter accumulation in fire maintained longleaf pine forests of the southeastern US
• Melanie K. Taylor, Dexter Strother, Mac A. Callaham. 2023. Fire exclusion reduces A‐horizon thickness in a long‐term prescribed fire experiment in Spodosols of northern Florida, USA
• Georg Wiehl, Christian Wirth, Michaela J. Woods, Paul-Camilo Zalamea, Amy E. Zanne, Habacuc Flores-Moreno, Jeff R. Powell, William K. Cornwell, James W. Dalling, Amy T. Austin, Aimée T. Classen, Paul Eggleton, Kei-ichi Okada, Catherine L. Parr, E. Carol Adair, Stephen Adu-Bredu, Md Azharul Alam, Carolina Alvarez-Garzón, Deborah Apgaua, Roxana Aragón, Marcelo Ardon, Stefan K. Arndt, Louise A. Ashton, Nicholas A. Barber, Jacques Beauchêne, Matty P. Berg, Jason Beringer, Matthias M. Boer, José Antonio Bonet, Katherine Bunney, Tynan J. Burkhardt, Dulcinéia Carvalho, Dennis Castillo-Figueroa, Lucas A. Cernusak, Alexander W. Cheesman, Tainá M. Cirne-Silva, Jamie R. Cleverly, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Timothy J. Curran, André M. D’Angioli, Caroline Dallstream, Nico Eisenhauer, Fidele Evouna Ondo, Alex Fajardo, Romina D. Fernandez, Astrid Ferrer, Marco A. L. Fontes, Mark L. Galatowitsch, Grizelle Gonzalez, Felix Gottschall, Peter R. Grace, Elena Granda, Hannah M. Griffiths, Mariana Guerra Lara, Motohiro Hasegawa, Mariet M. Hefting, Nina Hinko-Najera, Lindsay B. Hutley, Jennifer R. Jones, Anja Kahl, Mirko Karan, Joost A. Keuskamp, Tim Lardner, Michael Liddell, Craig Macfarlane, Cate Macinnis-Ng, Ravi F. Mariano, M. Soledad Méndez, Wayne S. Meyer, Akira S. Mori, Aloysio S. Moura, Matthew Northwood, Romà Ogaya, Rafael S. Oliveira, Alberto Orgiazzi, Juliana Pardo, Guille Peguero, Josep Penuelas, Luis I Perez, Juan M. Posada, Cecilia M. Prada, Tomáš Přívětivý, Suzanne M. Prober, Jonathan Prunier, Gabriel W. Quansah, Víctor Resco de Dios, Ronny Richter, Mark P. Robertson, Lucas F. Rocha, Megan A. Rúa, Carolina Sarmiento, Richard P. Silberstein, Mateus C. Silva, Flávia Freire Siqueira, Matthew Glenn Stillwagon, Jacqui Stol, Melanie K. Taylor, François P. Teste, David Y. P. Tng, David Tucker, Manfred Türke, Michael Ulyshen, Oscar J. Valverde-Barrantes, Eduardo van den Berg, Richard S. P. van Logtestijn, G. F. (Ciska) Veen, Jason G. Vogel, Timothy J. Wardlaw. 2022. Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates
• Dana Carpenter, Melanie K. Taylor, Mac A. Callaham, J. Kevin Hiers, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Nina Wurzburger. 2020. Benefit or Liability? The Ectomycorrhizal Association May Undermine Tree Adaptations to Fire After Long-term Fire Exclusion
• James H. Blackmon IV, Melanie K. Taylor, Roberto Carrera-Martinez, Bruce A. Snyder, Mac A. Callaham. 2019. Temperature affects hatching success of cocoons in the invasive Asian earthwork Amynthas agrestis from the southern Appalachians
• Meixiang Gao, Melanie K. Taylor, Mac A. Callaham. 2017. Trophic dynamics in a simple experimental ecosystem: Interactions among centipedes, Collembola and introduced earthworms
• Michael Ulyshen, Richard Shefferson, Scott Horn, Melanie K. Taylor, Bryana Bush, Cavell Brownie, Sebastian Seibold, Michael S. Strickland. 2017. Below- and above-ground effects of deadwood and termites in plantation forests
• David R. Coyle, Uma J. Nagendra, Melanie K. Taylor, J. Holly Campbell, Chelsea E. Cunard, Aaron H. Joslin, Abha Mundepi, Carly A. Phillips, Mac A. Callaham. 2017. Soil fauna responses to natural disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change: Current state of the science and a call to action
• Melanie K. Taylor, Richard A. Lankau, Nina Wurzburger, Franciska de Vries. 2016. Mycorrhizal associations of trees have different indirect effects on organic matter decomposition

• Project
  

  Modeling fuel loads and predicting fire behavior: Novel applications of remote sensing technology

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/remote-sensing-fuel
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Disturbance and Prescribed Fire Science Laboratory

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/centers/forestdisturbance
  Station

  Southern Research Station

• University of Georgia, Ph.D., Ecology, 2024
• University of Georgia, M.S., Ecology, 2015
• Concord University, B.S., Biology, 2012