Peer-reviewed publications
Khatri-Chhetri, P., van Wagtendonk, L., Hendryx, S. M., & Kane, V. R. (2024). Enhancing individual tree mortality mapping: The impact of models, data modalities, and classification taxonomy. Remote Sensing of Environment, 300, 113914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113914
Chamberlain, C.P., Cova, G.R., Kane, V.R., Cansler, C.A., Kane, J.T., Bartl-Geller, B.N., van Wagtendonk, L., Jeronimo, S.M.A., Stine, P., North, M.P. (2023). Sierra Nevada reference conditions: a dataset of contemporary reference sites and corresponding remote sensing-derived forest structure metrics for yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests. Data in Brief. Repository name: Forest Service Research Data Archive. doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0027
Chamberlain, C.P., Cova, G.R., Cansler, C.A., North, M.P., Meyer, M.D., Jeronimo, S.M. and Kane, V.R., 2023. Consistently heterogeneous structures observed at multiple spatial scales across fire-intact reference sites. Forest Ecology and Management, 550, p.121478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121478
Kane, V.R., Bartl-Geller, B.N., Cova, G.R., Chamberlain, C.P., van Wagtendonk, L., North, M.P. 2023. Where are the large trees? A census of Sierra Nevada large trees to determine their frequency and spatial distribution across three large landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management. Volume 546,2023,121351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121351
Miller, C., Harvey, B.J., Kane, V.R., Moskal, L.M., Alvarado. E. Accepted. Linking remotely sensed data to continuous estimates of burn severity measured with the Composite Burn Index: A systematic review of empirical approaches. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
Cova, G., Kane, V.R., Prichard, S., North, M., Cansler, C.A. 2023. The outsized role of California’s largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale, Forest Ecology and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120620
Churchill, D.J., Jeronimo, S.M., Hessburg, P.F., Cansler, C.A., Povak, N.A., Kane, V.R., Lutz, J.A. and Larson, A.J., 2022. Post-fire landscape evaluations in Eastern Washington, USA: Assessing the work of contemporary wildfires. Forest Ecology and Management, 504, p.119796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119796 Invited paper.
Cansler, C.A., Kane, V.R., Bartl-Geller, B.N., Churchill, D.J., Hessburg, P.F., Povak, N.A., Lutz, J.A., Kane, J. and Larson, A.J., 2022. Postfire treatments alter forest canopy structure up to three decades after fire. Forest Ecology and Management, 505, p.119872. (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119872 Invited paper.
Larson, A.J., 2022. Churchill, D.J., Jeronimo, S.M., Hessburg, P.F., Cansler, C.A., Povak, N.A., Kane, V.R., Lutz, J.A., 2022. Post-fire landscape evaluations in Eastern Washington, USA: Assessing the work of contemporary wildfires. Forest Ecology and Management, 504, p.119796. (19 pages) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119796 Invited paper.
Churchill, D.J., Jeronimo, S.M.A., Hessburg, P.F., Cansler, C.A., Povak, N.A., Kane, V.R., Lutz, J.A., Larson, A.J. Accepted. Post-fire landscape evaluations in Eastern Washington, USA: Assessing the Work of Contemporary Wildfires. Invited paper for special section in Forest Ecology and Management.
Cansler, C.A., Kane, V.R., Hessburg, P.F., Kane, J.T., Jeronimo, S.M.A., Lutz, J.A., Povak, N.A., Churchill, D.J., Larson, A.J., 2021. Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity. Invited paper for a special section in Forest Ecology and Management
Barber, N., Alvarado, E., Kane, V.R., Mell, W. E. Moskal, L.M. 2021. Estimating Fuel Moisture in Grasslands Using UAV-Mounted Infrared and Visible Light Sensors. Sensors, 21(19), 6350.
Larson, A.J., Jeronimo, S.M.A., Hessburg, P.F., Lutz, J.A., Povak, N.A., Cansler, C.A., Kane, V.R., Churchill, D.J. 2021. Tamm Review: Ecological principles to guide post-fire forest landscape management in the Inland Pacific and Northern Rocky Mountain Regions
Chamberlain, C.P., Kane, V.R., Case, M.J., 2021. Accelerating the development of structural complexity: lidar analysis supports restoration as a tool in coastal Pacific Northwest forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 500, 119641.
Prichard, S.J., Hessburg, P.F., Hagmann, R.K., Povak, N.A., Dobrowski, S.J., Hurteau, M.D., Kane, V.R. Keane, R.E., Kobziar, L.N., Kolden, C.A., North, M.P., Parks, S.A., Safford, H.D., Stevens, J.T., Yocom, L.L., Churchill, D.J., Gray, R.W., Huff, D.W., Lake, F.K., Khatri-Chhetri, P., 2021. Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions. Ecological Applications. 00( 00):e02433. Invited feature article
Khatri-Chhetri, P., Hendryx, S. M., Hartfield, K. A., Crimmins, M. A., van Leeuwen, W. J. D., Kane, V.R. 2021. Assessing Vegetation Response to Multi-Scalar Drought across the Mojave, Sonoran, Chihuahuan Deserts and Apache Highlands in the Southwest United States. Invited paper for a special issue of Remote Sensing 13(6), 1103.
Young, D. J., Jeronimo, S. M., Churchill, D. J., Kane, V.R. Latimer, A., 2021. The utility of climatic water balance for ecological inference depends on vegetation physiology assumptions. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30(5), 933-949.
Kramer, H.A., Jones, G. M., Kane, V.R., Bartl-Geller, B., Kane, J. T., Whitmore, S. A., Berigan, W. J., Dotters, B. P., Roberts, K. N., Sawyer, S. C., Keane, J. J., North, M. P., GutiÉrrez, R. J., and Peery, M. Z. 2021. Elevation gradients strongly mediate habitat selection patterns in a nocturnal predator. Ecosphere, 12(5), e03500
Griffey, V., Kellogg, B., Haugo, R., Kane, V.R. 2021. Ownership Patterns Drive Multi-Scale Forest Structure Patterns across a Forested Region in Southern Coastal Oregon, USA. Forests, 12(1), 47.
Furniss, T., Larson, A., Kane, V.R., Lutz, J. 2020. Wildfire and drought moderate the spatial elements of tree mortality. Ecosphere, 11(8), e03214.
Cansler, C.A., S.M. Hood, J.M. Varner, P.J. van Mantgem, M.C. Agne, R.A. Andrus, M.P. Ayres, B.D. Ayres, J.D. Bakker, M.A. Battaglia, B.J. Bentz, C.R. Breece, J.K. Brown, D.R. Cluck, T.W. Coleman, R.G. Corace, W.W. Covington, D.S. Cram, J.B. Cronan, J.E. Crouse, A.J. Das, R.S. Davis, D.M. Dickinson, S.A. Fitzgerald, P.Z. Fulé, L.M. Ganio, L.M. Grayson, C.B. Halpern, J.L. Hanula, B.J. Harvey, J.K. Hiers, D.W. Huffman, M. Keifer, T.L. Keyser, L.N., Kobziar, T.E. Kolb, C.A. Kolden, K.E. Kopper, J.R. Kreitler, J.K. Kreye, A.M. Latimer, AP. Lerch, M.J. Lombardero, V.L. McDaniel, C.W. McHugh, J.D. McMillin, J.J. Moghaddas, J.J. O’Brien, D.D.B. Perrakis, D.W. Peterson, S.J. Prichard, R.A. Progar, K.F. Raffa, E.D, Reinhardt, J.C., Restaino, J.P. Roccaforte, BM. Rogers, K.C. Ryan, HD. Safford, A.E. Santoro, T.M. Shearman, A.M. Shumate, C.H., Sieg, S.L. Smith, R.J. Smith, N.L. Stephenson, M. Steuver, J.T. Stevens, M.T. Stoddard, W.G. Thies, N.M. Vaillant, S.A. Weiss, D.J., Westlind, T.J. Woolley, M. Wright. 2020. Fire and tree mortality database (FTM). Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive.
Hudak, A.T., Fekety, P.A., Kane, V.R., Kennedy, R.E., Domke, G.M., Filippelli, S.K., Falkowski, M.J., Smith, A.M.S, Tinkham, W.T., Crookston, N.L., Corrao, M., Bright, B.C., Churchill, D.J., Kane, J.T., McGaughey, R. J., Dong, J., Gould, P. Accepted. A carbon monitoring system for mapping regional, annual aboveground biomass across the northwestern USA. Environmental Research Letters, 15(9), 095003.
Coop, J.D., Parks, S.A., Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Crausbay, S., Higuera, P., Hurteau, M.D., Tepley, A., Whitman, E., Assal, T., Collins, B., Davis, K., Dobrowski, S., Faulk, D., Fornwalt, P.J., Fule, P., Harvey, B.J., Kane, V.R., Littlefield, C., Margolis, E.Q., North, M.P., Parisien, M.A., Prichard, S., Rodman, K. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes. BioScience, 70(8), 659-673.
Povak, N.A., Churchill, D.J., Cansler, C.A., Hessburg, P., Kane, V.R., Kane, J.T., Lutz, J.A., Larson, A.J. Wildfire Severity and Post-fire Salvage Harvest Effects on Long-term Forest Regeneration. Ecosphere, 11(8), p.e03199
LeFevre, M.E., Churchill, D.J., Larson, A.J., Jeronimo, S.M.A., Bass, J., Franklin, J.F., Kane, V.R. Evaluating restoration treatment effectiveness through a comparison of residual. Forest Science 66, no. 5 (2020): 578-588.
Moran, C., Kane, V.R., Seielstad, C. 2020. Mapping forest canopy fuels of the western US with LiDAR-Landsat covariance. Remote Sensing. 12, 1000;
Kramer, R. D., Sillett, S. C., Kane, V. R., & Franklin, J. F. Disturbance and species composition drive canopy structure and distribution of large trees in Olympic rainforests, USA. Landscape Ecology, 1-19
Jeronimo, S.M.A., Lutz, J.A., Kane, V.R.,, Larson, A.J., Franklin, J.F. Accepted. Modeling tree death in a landscape context: Structural drivers of immediate and delayed fire mortality. Landscape Ecology.
Furness, T.J., Kane, V.R., Larson, A.J., Lutz, J.A. 2020. Detecting actual tree mortality with satellite-derived spectral indices and estimating landscape-level uncertainty. Remote Sensing of Environment.237:111497.
Povak, N., Kane, V.R., Collins, B., Lydersen, J., Kane, J.T. 2019. Decomposing multi-scaled drivers of severity patterns across land ownerships for an extreme wildfire event. Landscape Ecology.
Kane, V.R., Bartl-Geller B.N. , Kane, J.T., Jeronimo, S.M.A, North, M.P., Collins, B., Lydersen, J., L.M. Moskal. 2019. First-entry fires can create forest tree clump and opening patterns characteristic of historic resilient forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 454:117659.
Hessburg, P.F., Miller, C.L., Parks, S.A., Povak, N.A., Taylor, A.H., Higuera, P.E., Prichard, S.J., North, M.P., Collins, B.M., Hurteau, M.D., Larson, A.J., Allen, C.D., Stephens, S.L., Rivera-Huerta, H., Rumann, C.S., Daniels, L.D., Gedalof, Z., Gray, R.W., Kane, V.R., Churchill, D.J., Hagmann, R.K., Spies, T.A., Cansler, C.A., Belote, R.T., Veblan, T.T., Battaglia, M.A., Hoffman, C., Skinner, C.N., Safford, H.D., Salter, R.B. 2019. Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of western North American forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
Blomdahl, E.M., Thompson, C.M., Kane, J.T., Kane, V.R., Churchill, D. Moskal, L.M., Lutz, J.A. 2019. Forest structure predictive of fisher (Pekania pennant) dens exist in recently burned forest in Yosemite, California, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 444: 174-186.
Jenkins, J.M., Lesmeister, D.B., Wiens, J.D., Kane, J.T., Kane, V.R., Verschuyl, J., 2019. Three-dimensional partitioning of resources by congeneric forest predators with recent sympatry. Nature Scientific Reports. 9:6036.
Jeronimo, S.M.A., Kane, V.R., Churchil, D.J., Lutz, J.A., North, M.P., Franklin, J.F. 2109. Forest structure and pattern vary by climate and landform across active-fire landscapes in the montane Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management. 437:70-86.
Furniss Tucker J., Larson Andrew J., Kane Van R., Lutz James A. (2018) Multi-scale assessment of post-fire tree mortality models. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28, 46-61. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18031
Bell, D.M., Gregory, M.J., Kane, V.R., Kane, J., Kennedy, R.E., Roberts, H.M., Yang, Z. 2018. Multiscale divergence between Landsat- and lidar-based biomass mapping is related to regional variation in canopy cover and composition. Carbon Balance and Management.13:15
Jeronimo, S., Kane, V.R., McGaughey, R.J., Churchill, D.J., Franklin, J.F. In revision. Characteristics of lidar individual tree detection across structurally diverse forest landscapes: A framework for use in forest management. Forest Science.
Kennedy, R.E., J. Ohmann, M. Gregory, Z. Yang, D. Bell, V.R. Kane, M.J. Hughes, W. Cohen, S. Powell, N. Meeti, T. Larrue, S. Hooper, J.T. Kane, D. Miller, J. Perki, Seidl. 2018. An empirical, integrated forest carbon monitoring system. Environmental Research Letters 13: 025004.
North, M., J. Kane, V. Kane, G. Asner, V. Berigan, D. Churchill, S. Conway, R. Gutierrez, S. Jeronimo, J. Keane, A. Koltunov, T. Mark, M. Moskal, T. Munton, Z. Perry, C. Rameriz, R. Sollmann, A. White, S. Whitmore. 2017. Cover of tall trees best predicts California spotted owl habitat. Forest Ecology and Management 405:166-178.
Lydersen, Jamie M.; Collins, Brandon M.; Brooks, Matthew L.; Matchett, John R.; Shive, Kristen L.; Povak, Nicholas A.; Kane, Van R.; Smith, Douglas F. 2017. Evidence of fuels management and fire weather influencing fire severity in an extreme fire event. Ecological Applications. 27:2013-2030.
Stavros, E.N., Z. Tane, V.R. Kane, S. Veraverbeke, R.J. McGaughey, J.A. Lutz, and C. Ramirez. 2016. Unprecedented remote sensing data from before and after California King and Rim Megafires. Ecology 97(11):3244-.
Kane, V.R., C.A. Cansler, N.A. Povak, J.T. Kane, R.J. McGaughey, J.A. Lutz, D.J. Churchill, and M.P. North. 2015b. Mixed severity fire effects within the Rim fire: Relative importance of local climate, fire weather, topography, and forest structure. Forest Ecology and Management 358: 62-79.
Kane, V.R., J.A. Lutz, C.A. Cansler, N.A. Povak, D.J. Churchill, D.F. Smith, J.T. Kane, and M.P. North. 2015. Water balance and topography predict fire and forest structure patterns. Forest Ecology and Management 338: 1-13.
Kane, V.R., M.P. North, J.A. Lutz, D.J. Churchill, S.L. Roberts, D.F. Smith, R.J. McGaughey, J.T. Kane, and M.L. Brooks. 2014. Assessing fire effects on forest spatial structure using a fusion of Landsat and airborne LiDAR data in Yosemite National Park Remote Sensing of Environment 151: 89-101.
Kane, V.R., J.A. Lutz, S.L. Roberts, D.F. Smith, R.J. McGaughey, N.A. Povak, and M.L. Brooks. 2013. Landscape-scale effects of Fire Severity on Mixed-conifer and Red Fir Forest Structure in Yosemite National Park. Forest Ecology and Management 291: 442-457.
Kane, V.R., R. Gersonde, J.A. Lutz, R.J. McGaughey, J.D. Bakker, and J.F. Franklin. 2011. Patch dynamics and development of structural and spatial heterogeneity in Pacific Northwest forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41: 2276-2291.
Kane, V.R., J.D. Bakker, R.J. McGaughey, J.A. Lutz, R. Gersonde, and J.F. Franklin. 2010. Examining conifer canopy structural complexity across forest ages and elevations with LiDAR data. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 774-787.
Kane, V.R., R.J. McGaughey, J.D. Bakker, R. Gersonde, J.A. Lutz, and J.F. Franklin. 2010. Comparisons between field- and LiDAR-based measures of stand structural complexity. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 761-773.
Lutz, J.A., J.A. Freund, R.K. Hagmann, V.R. Kane, A.J. Larson, and J.F. Franklin. 2008. Mid-career graduate students in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 6(7): 394-395.
Kane, V.R., A.R. Gillespie, R.J. McGaughey, J.A. Lutz, K. Ceder, and J.F. Franklin. 2008. Interpretation and topographic compensation of conifer canopy self-shadowing. Remote Sensing of Environment 112(10): 3820-3832.
Gillespie, A.R., L. Gilson, M.A. Gillespie, and V.R. Kane. 2006. A framework for estimating unresolved spectral shade. In: J.A. Sobrino (Ed.), Second recent advances in quantitative remote sensing (pp. 385-390). Spain: Publicacions de la Universitat de Valencia.
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