Patricia N. Manley, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Matthew Sloggy, Patricia N. Manley, Samuel Evans. 2026. Editorial: Landscape management can promote socioecological benefits and leverage environmental markets
• Patricia N. Manley, Samuel G. Evans, Matthew Sloggy. 2026. Return on investment applications in forest management and landscape restoration: current practices and future directions
• Bryan A. Fuentes, Patricia N. Manley, Nicholas Povak. 2026. Support for forest conservation imperatives: A robust approach for multi-dimensional, spatially explicit resilience assessment
• Patricia N. Manley, Nicholas Povak, Kristen N. Wilson. 2025. TPOR: an integrated socio-ecological framework to inform management toward resilience
• Patricia N. Manley, Liraz Bistritz, Nicholas Povak, Michelle A. Day. 2025. Going slow to go fast: Landscape designs to achieve multiple benefits
• Kira Hefty, Nicholas Povak, Patricia N. Manley, Samuel W. Flake, Katherine Zeller. 2025. Spatiotemporal patterns of diversity and diversity‑stability relationships as a function of compounding disturbances and forest management
• Nicholas Povak, Patricia N. Manley, Kristen N. Wilson. 2024. Quantitative methods for integrating climate adaptation strategies into spatial decision support models
• H. Anu Kramer, Kevin G. Kelly, Sheila A. Whitmore, William J. Berigan, Dana S. Reid, Connor M. Wood, Holger Klinck, Stefan Kahl, Patricia N. Manley, Sarah Sawyer, M. Zachariah. Peery. 2024. Using bioacoustics to enhance the efficiency of spotted owl surveys and facilitate forest restoration
• Patricia N. Manley, Jonathan W. Long, Robert Scheller. 2024. Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems
• Nicholas Povak, Patricia N. Manley. 2024. Evaluating climate change impacts on ecosystem resources through the lens of climate analogs
• Gabriel Lewis, Adrian Harpold, Sebastian A. Krogh, Patrick Broxton, Patricia N. Manley. 2023. The prediction of uneven snowpack response to forest thinning informs forest restoration in the central Sierra Nevada
• Katherine Zeller, Nicholas Povak, Patricia N. Manley, Samuel W. Flake, Kira Hefty. 2023. Managing for biodiversity: The effects of climate, management and natural disturbance on wildlife species richness
• Patricia N. Manley, Nicholas Povak, Kristen N. Wilson, Mary Lou Fairweather, Vivian Griffey, Linda L. Long. 2023. Blueprint for resilience: the Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative
• Jonathan N. Pauli, Trent L. Mcdonald, Patricia N. Manley, Marie E. Martin, Matthew Delheimer, Katie Moriarty, Desiree A. Early, Keith A. Hamm. 2022. Conservation of rare and cryptic species: Challenges of uncertainty and opportunities for progress
• Keith M. Reynolds, Angela M. White, Jonathan W. Long, Eric Abelson, Charles Maxwell, Patricia N. Manley. 2022. Evaluating pathways to social and ecological landscape resilience
• Charles Maxwell, Robert M. Scheller, Jonathan W. Long, Patricia N. Manley. 2022. Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.
• Charles Maxwell, Robert M. Scheller, Jonathan W. Long, Patricia N. Manley. 2022. Frequency of disturbance mitigates high-severity fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada
• Eric Abelson, Keith M. Reynolds, Patricia N. Manley, Steven Paplanus. 2021. Strategic decision support for long-term conservation management planning
• Kathryn E. Low, Brandon M. Collins, Alexis Bernal, John E. Sanders, Dylan Pastor, Patricia N. Manley, Angela M. White, Scott L. Stephens. 2021. Longer-term impacts of fuel reduction treatments on forest structure, fuels, and drought resistance in the Lake Tahoe Basin
• Sebastian A. Krogh, Patrick D. Broxton, Patricia N. Manley, Adrian A. Harpold. 2020. Using process based snow modeling and Lidar to predict the effects of forest thinning on the northern Sierra Nevada snowpack
• Gina L. Tarbill, Angela M. White, Patricia N. Manley. 2018. The persistence of Black-backed Woodpeckers following delayed salvage logging in the Sierra Nevada
• 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
• R.J. Gutiérrez, Patricia N. Manley, Peter Stine. 2017. The California spotted owl: current state of knowledge
• Peter Stine, Patricia N. Manley. 2017. Introduction
• Christina F. Frare, Marjorie D. Matocq, Chris R. Feldman, Angela M. White, Patricia N. Manley, Kathleen D. Jermstad, Evon R. Hekkala. 2016. Landscape disturbance and sporadic hybridization complicate field identification of chipmunks
• R. Sollmann, Angela M. White, Gina L. Tarbill, Patricia N. Manley, Eric E. Knapp. 2016. Landscape heterogeneity compensates for fuel reduction treatment effects on Northern flying squirrel populations
• Angela M. White, Patricia N. Manley, Gina L. Tarbill, T. W. Richardson, R. E. Russell, H. D. Safford, S. Z. Dobrowski. 2016. Avian community responses to post-fire forest structure: implications for fire management in mixed conifer forests
• Gina L. Tarbill, Patricia N. Manley, Angela M. White. 2015. Drill, baby, drill: the influence of woodpeckers on post-fire vertebrate communities through cavity excavation
• Rahel Sollmann, Angela M. White, Beth Gardner, Patricia N. Manley. 2015. Investigating the effects of forest structure on the small mammal community in frequent-fire coniferous forests using capture-recapture models for stratified populations
• Rich L. Turner, Leif Mortenson, James J. Halperin, Patricia N. Manley. 2013. Literature cited (PSW-GTR-246)
• Leif Mortenson, James J. Halperin, Patricia N. Manley, Rich L. Turner. 2013. Proceedings of the international workshop on monitoring forest degradation in Southeast Asia
• Patricia N. Manley, Leif Mortenson, James J. Halperin, Nguyen Hanh Quyen. 2013. Options for monitoring forest degradation in Northern Viet Nam: An assessment in systems design and capacity building needs in Con Cuong District, Nghe An Province
• Rick Turner, James Halperin, Patricia N. Manley, Leif Mortenson. 2013. Forest degradation sub-national assessments: Monitoring options for Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam
• Patricia N. Manley. 2013. Summary of small group discussions: Detection of forest degradation drivers
• Patricia N. Manley. 2013. Summary of small group discussions: Monitoring objectives and thresholds
• Patricia N. Manley. 2013. Section summary: Institutional context, drivers and detectability in REDD+ implementation
• Patricia N. Manley, Leif Mortenson, James Halperin, Rick Turner. 2013. Degradation activities, drivers, and emissions: US Forest Service LEAF Country Assessments
• Angela M. White, Elise F. Zipkin, Patricia N. Manley, Matthew D. Schlesinger. 2013. Simulating avian species and foraging group responses to fuel reduction treatments in coniferous forests
• Angela M. White, Elise F. Zipkin, Patricia N. Manley, Matthew D. Schlesinger. 2013. Conservation of avian diversity in the Sierra Nevada: Moving beyond a single-species management focus
• Patricia N. Manley, Malcolm P. North. 2012. Chapter 6: Managing forests for wildlife communities
• Patricia N. Manley, Dennis D. Murphy, Seth W. Bigelow, Sudeep Chandra. 2010. Chapter 6: Ecology and Biodiversity
• Dennis D. Murphy, Patricia N. Manley. 2009. A report from Lake Tahoe: Observation from an ideal platform for adaptive management
• Patricia N. Manley, Sean A. Parks, Lori Campbell, M.D. Schlesinger. 2009. Modeling urban land development as a continuum to address fine-grained habitat heterogeneity
• M.P. Sanford, Patricia N. Manley, Dennis D. Murphy. 2009. Effects of urban development on ant communities: implications for ecosystem services and management
• Patricia N. Manley, Kristian K. McIntyre, Matthew D. Schlesinger, Lori A. Campbell, Susan Merideth, Dennis D. Murphy. 2009. Use of forest inventory and analysis grid-based animal population data to develop an index of ecological diversity
• Matthew D. Schlesinger, Patricia N. Manley, Marcel Holyoak. 2008. Distinguishing stressors acting on landbird communities in an urbanizing environment
• K. E. Heckmann, Patricia N. Manley, M.D. Schlesinger. 2008. Ecological integrity of remnant montane forests along an urban gradient in the Sierra Nevada
• Patricia N. Manley, Dennis D. Murphy, Lori Campbell, Kirsten E. Heckmann, Susan Merideth, Sean A. Parks, Monte P. Sanford, Matthew D. Schlesinger. 2006. Biotic diversity interfaces with urbanization in the Lake Tahoe basin
• David Vesely, Brenda C. McComb, Christina D. Vojta, Lowell Suring, Jurai Halaj, Richard S. Holthausen, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Patricia N. Manley. 2006. Development of protocols to inventory or monitor wildlife, fish, or rare plants
• Patricia N. Manley, B. Van Horne. 2006. The Multiple Species Inventory and Monitoring Protocol: A Population, Community, and Biodiversity Monitoring Solution for National Forest System Lands
• Patricia N. Manley, D. C. Hayes. 2006. Biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program: Past contributions and future directions
• Patricia N. Manley, Beatrice Van Horne, J.K. Roth, Bill Zielinski, Michelle McKenzie, Ted Weller, F.W. Weckerly, C. Vojta. 2006. Multiple species inventory and monitoring technical guide
• Richard Holthausen, Ray L. Czaplewski, Don DeLorenzo, Greg Hayward, Winifred B. Kessler, Patricia N. Manley, Kevin S. McKelvey, Douglas S. Powell, Leonard F. Ruggiero, Michael K. Schwartz, Bea Van Horne, Christina D. Vojta. 2005. Strategies for monitoring terrestrial animals and habitats
• Patricia N. Manley. 2004. The future of biodiversity in the Sierra Nevada through the Lake Tahoe Basin Looking Glass
• Patricia N. Manley, Bill Zielinski, Matthew D. Schlesinger, Sylvia Mori. 2004. Evaluation of a multiple-species approach to monitoring species at the ecoregional scale
• Patricia N. Manley, Bill Zielinski, C.M. Stuart, John J. Keane, A.J. Lind, C. Brown, B.L. Plymale, C.O. Napper. 2000. Monitoring ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada: the conceptual model foundation
• Patricia N. Manley, A.J. Lind. 1998. Development of an ecosystem monitoring plan for the Sierra Neveda
• Patricia N. Manley. 1993. USDA Forest Service goals and programs for monitoring neotropical migratory birds
• Randolph A. Wilson, Patricia N. Manley, Barry R. Noon. 1991. Covariance patterns among birds and vegetation in a California oak woodland

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Manley, P., K. Wilson, and N. Povak. 2020. Framework for Promoting Socio-ecological Resilience across Forested Landscapes in the Sierra Nevada, Final Report to the Tahoe Central Sierra Initiative, Sierra Nevada Conservancy, Auburn, CA.  https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/psw/partnerships/tcsi

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/products/dataandtools/tahoe-central-sierra-initiative

• Program
  

  Northern California Research Zone

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/programs/northzone
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Assessing Fire’s Impacts and Benefits from Pine Wood Restoration and Fuel Treatments

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-pine-wood-restoration
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Synthesis of Baseline Acceptance, Research Needs and Priorities Related to Wildfire

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-synthesis-acceptance-research-needs-priorities-wildfire
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Project
  

  Crosscutting Fuels and Multiple Benefits Evaluation and Validation

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/projects/fuels-benefits-evaluation-validation
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Partnership
  

  Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative (TCSI)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/partnerships/tcsi
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Fast-tracking Information to Implementation for WCS landscapes: Making climate-informed co-benefit opportunities available to managers through a new module in the open-source, web-based Planscape tool

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/projects/planscape-climate-wcs
  Station

  Pacific Southwest Research Station
• Project
  

  Data science: The Data, Modeling and Applications Support Hub (D*M*A*S*H*)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-data-science-data-modeling-and-applications-support-hub-dmash
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Other Publications

• Report
  

  Blueprint for resilience: Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/blueprint-resilience-tahoe-central-sierra-initiative
• Report
  

  Assessment of Current Landscape Conditions: Tahoe-Central Sierra Initiative

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/assessment-current-landscape-conditions-tahoe-central-sierra-initiative
• Report
  

  Lake Tahoe West Science Summary of Findings Report

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/lake-tahoe-west-science-summary-findings-report
• Report
  

  Framework for Promoting Socio-ecological Resilience across Forested Landscapes in the Sierra Nevada

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/understory/framework-promoting-socio-ecological-resilience-across-forested-landscapes-sierra

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Modeling Tools for Management

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-modeling-tools-management
• Webinars

  Science x Wildlife: Management Tools

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-wildlife-management-tools
• Webinars

  Climate Foresight: Putting Cutting-Edge Modeling of Resource Vulnerability to Future Climate in the Hands of Managers

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/products/multimedia/webinars/climate-foresight-putting-cutting-edge-modeling-resource
• Webinars

  Wildfire Crisis Strategy Planning, Project Prioritization and Monitoring

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/products/multimedia/webinars/wildfire-crisis-strategy-planning-project-prioritization-and
• Webinars

  From data to decisions: Putting Regional Resource Kit data to work using the PROMOTE and Planscape decision tools

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/psw/products/multimedia/webinars/data-decisions-putting-regional-resource-kit-data-work-using
• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Fire: Modeling Risk and Trade-offs

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-fire-modeling-risk-and-trade-offs

• University of California, Ph.D., Wildland Resource Science, 2000
• Humboldt State University, M.S., Natural Resource Management, 1988
• Humboldt State University, B.S., Wildlife Management, 1983