Carl N. Skinner

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Carl N. Skinner is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl N. Skinner has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 40 papers in Ecology and 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Carl N. Skinner's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (68 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (36 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers). Carl N. Skinner is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (68 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (36 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers). Carl N. Skinner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Switzerland. Carl N. Skinner's co-authors include James K. Agee, Alan H. Taylor, Scott L. Stephens, Eric E. Knapp, C. Phillip Weatherspoon, Becky L. Estes, Eric E. Knapp, Jay Miller, Valérie Trouet and Cathy Whitlock and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Carl N. Skinner

69 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Basic principles of forest fuel reduction treatments

2005 1.1k citations Carl N. Skinner et al. Forest Ecology and Management profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carl N. Skinner United States	38	6.1k	3.5k	2.5k	1.1k	878	71	6.5k
Brandon M. Collins United States	49	6.3k 1.0×	3.7k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	981 0.9×	468 0.5×	130	6.8k
Penelope Morgan United States	44	7.7k 1.3×	4.6k 1.3×	2.9k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	966 1.1×	112	8.9k
Malcolm P. North United States	55	6.9k 1.1×	3.9k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	688 0.6×	819 0.9×	171	8.5k
Tania Schoennagel United States	23	4.5k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	727 0.6×	651 0.7×	36	5.0k
Marc‐André Parisien Canada	46	6.3k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.3×	114	7.0k
Zachary A. Holden United States	32	5.3k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	860 0.8×	1.3k 1.4×	71	6.5k
W. Wallace Covington United States	48	6.5k 1.1×	3.9k 1.1×	4.5k 1.8×	628 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	128	7.9k
J. Morgan Varner United States	37	4.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	317 0.3×	417 0.5×	132	4.6k
James A. Lutz United States	43	4.6k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	609 0.5×	928 1.1×	146	6.1k
Jan W. van Wagtendonk United States	29	3.3k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	665 0.6×	298 0.3×	66	3.8k

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Stephens, Scott L., Zachary L. Steel, Brandon M. Collins, et al.. (2023). Climate and fire impacts on tree recruitment in mixed conifer forests in northwestern Mexico and California. Ecological Applications. 33(4). e2844–e2844. 4 indexed citations

Skinner, Carl N., et al.. (2021). Changes in fire behavior caused by fire exclusion and fuel build-up vary with topography in California montane forests, USA. Journal of Environmental Management. 304. 114255–114255. 14 indexed citations

Fulé, Peter Z., Peter M. Brown, Julián Cerano‐Paredes, et al.. (2017). Climate drives fire synchrony but local factors control fire regime change in northern Mexico. Ecosphere. 8(3). 33 indexed citations

Taylor, Alan H., Valérie Trouet, Carl N. Skinner, & Scott L. Stephens. (2016). Socioecological transitions trigger fire regime shifts and modulate fire–climate interactions in the Sierra Nevada, USA, 1600–2015 CE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(48). 13684–13689. 169 indexed citations

Long, Jonathan W., et al.. (2015). Restoring California black oak to support tribal values and wildlife. 251. 113–122. 3 indexed citations

Miller, Jay, Carl N. Skinner, Hugh D. Safford, Eric E. Knapp, & Cristina M. Ramírez. (2011). Trends and causes of severity, size, and number of fires in northwestern California, USA. Ecological Applications. 22(1). 184–203. 185 indexed citations

Miesel, Jessica, Ralph E. J. Boerner, & Carl N. Skinner. (2011). Soil nitrogen mineralization and enzymatic activities in fire and fire surrogate treatments in California. Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 91(6). 935–946. 16 indexed citations

Perry, David A., Paul F. Hessburg, Carl N. Skinner, et al.. (2011). The ecology of mixed severity fire regimes in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. Forest Ecology and Management. 262(5). 703–717. 247 indexed citations

Powers, Robert F., et al.. (2010). To Manage or Not to Manage: The Role of Silviculture in Sequestering Carbon in the Specter of Climate Change. 61. 95–110. 13 indexed citations

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Trouet, Valérie, Alan H. Taylor, Eugene R. Wahl, Carl N. Skinner, & Scott L. Stephens. (2010). Fire‐climate interactions in the American West since 1400 CE. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(4). 88 indexed citations

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Skinner, Carl N., et al.. (2009). Human and Climatic Influences on Fire Occurrence in California’s North Coast Range, USA. Fire Ecology. 5(3). 76–99. 23 indexed citations

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Skinner, Carl N., et al.. (2009). Effects of Creating Two Forest Structures and Using Prescribed Fire on Coarse Woody Debris in Northeastern California, USA. Fire Ecology. 5(2). 1–13. 12 indexed citations

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Miller, Jay, et al.. (2009). Calibration and validation of the relative differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (RdNBR) to three measures of fire severity in the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains, California, USA. Remote Sensing of Environment. 113(3). 645–656. 388 indexed citations

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Taylor, Alan H., Carl N. Skinner, & Becky L. Estes. (2009). A comparison of fire severity patterns in the late 19th and early 21st century in a mixed conifer forest landscape in the southern Cascades. Insecta mundi. 3 indexed citations

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Schmidt, D. A., Alan H. Taylor, & Carl N. Skinner. (2008). The influence of fuels treatment and landscape arrangement on simulated fire behavior, Southern Cascade range, California. Forest Ecology and Management. 255(8-9). 3170–3184. 142 indexed citations

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Skinner, Carl N.. (2003). A tree-ring based fire history of riparian reserves in the Klamath Mountains.. 116–119. 16 indexed citations

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Skinner, Carl N. & Antony G. Brown. (1999). Mid‐Holocene vegetation diversity in eastern Cumbria. Journal of Biogeography. 26(1). 45–54. 12 indexed citations

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Weatherspoon, C. Phillip & Carl N. Skinner. (1996). Landscape-level strategies for forest fuel management.. 2. 1471–1492. 50 indexed citations

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Weatherspoon, C. Phillip & Carl N. Skinner. (1995). An Assessment of Factors Associated with Damage to Tree Crowns from the 1987 Wildfires in Northern California. Forest Science. 41(3). 430–451. 123 indexed citations

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Laudenslayer, William F. & Carl N. Skinner. (1995). PAST CLIMATES, FORESTS, AND DISTURBANCES OF THE SIERRA NEVADA, CALIFORNIA: UNDERSTANDING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE. 31. 19–26. 2 indexed citations

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