Brandon Collins
Brandon Collins is a Research Scientist with both the US Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, and the Center for Fire Research and Outreach. His research interests involve characterizing effects of fire and fuels treatments on forests.Much of Brandon’s research is intended to be applied to inform forest management aimed at improving resiliency and incorporating more natural fire-vegetation dynamics across landscapes. His active research areas include:
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A list of publications by Brandon Collins during his time at the Center* can be found below:
Title | Author | Journal | Year |
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Forest fuel treatment detection using multi-temporal airborne lidar data and high resolution aerial imagery: A case study in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California | Su, Y., Q. Guo, B. M. Collins, D. L. Fry, T. Hu, and M. Kelly | International Journal of Remote Sensing | in press |
Post-fire vegetation and fuel development influences fire severity patterns in reburns | Coppoletta, M., K. E. Merriam, and B. M. Collins | Ecological Applications | 2016 |
A vegetation mapping strategy for conifer forests by combining airborne lidar data and aerial imagery | Su, Y., Q. Guo, D. L. Fry, B. M Collins, M. Kelly, J. P. Flanagan, and J. J. Battles | Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing | 2016 |
Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California | Hessburg, P. F., T. A. Spies, D. A. Perry, C. N. Skinner, A. H. Taylor, P. M. Brown, S. L. Stephens, A. J. Larson, D. J. Churchill, N. A. Povak, P. H. Singleton, B. McComb, W. J. Zielinski, B. M. Collins, R. B. Salter, J. J. Keane, J. F. Franklin, and G. Riegel | Forest Ecology and Management | 2016 |
Incorporating resource protection constraints in an analysis of landscape fuel treatment effectiveness in the northern Sierra Nevada | Dow, C.B., B. M. Collins, and S. L. Stephens | Environmental Management | 2016 |
Management impacts on carbon dynamics in a Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest | Dore, S., D. L. Fry, B. M. Collins, R. Vargas, R. A. York, and S. L. Stephens | PLoS One | 2016 |
Differences in land ownership, fire management objectives, and source data matter: a reply to Hanson and Odion (2014) | Safford, H. D., J. D. Miller, and B. M. Collins. | International Journal of Wildland Fire | 2015 |
Aboveground live carbon stock changes of California wildland ecosystems, 2001-2010 | Gonzalez, P., J. J. Battles, B. M. Collins, T. Robards, and D. S. Saah | Forest Ecology and Management | 2015 |
Relating fuel loads to overstorey structure and composition in a fire-excluded Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forest | Lydersen, J. M., B. M. Collins, E. E. Knapp, G. B. Roller, and S. L. Stephens | International Journal of Wildland Fire | 2015 |
Historical and current landscape-scale ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forest structure in the Southern Sierra Nevada | Stephens, S. L., J. M. Lydersen, B. M. Collins, D. L. Fry, and M. D. Meyer | Ecosphere | 2015 |
Large wildfires in forests: what can be done? | Stephens, S. L., M. P. North, and B. M. Collins | American Institute of Biological Sciences, Action Bioscience | 2015 |
Novel characterization of landscape-level variability in historical vegetation structure | Collins, B. M., J. M. Lydersen, R. G. Everett, D. L. Fry, and S. L. Stephens | Ecological Applications | 2015 |
Evaluating short- and long-term impacts of fuels treatments and simulated wildfire on an old-forest species | Tempel, D. J., R. J. Gutierrez, J. J. Battles, D. L. Fry, Y. Su, Q. Guo, M. J. Reetz, S. A. Whitmore, G. M. Jones, B. M. Collins, S. L. Stephens, M. Kelly, W. J. Berigan, and M. Z. Peery | Ecosphere | 2015 |
Reform forest management to work with fire | North, M. P., S. L. Stephens, B. M. Collins, J. K. Agee, G. Aplet, J. F. Franklin, and P. Z. Fule | Science | 2015 |
Constraints on mechanized treatment significantly limit mechanical fuels reduction extent in the Sierra Nevada | North, M., A. Brough, J. W. Long, B. M. Collins, P. Bowden, D. A. Yasuda, J. D. Miller, and N. G. Sugihara | Journal of Forestry | 2015 |
Fire weather and large fire potential in the northern Sierra Nevada | Collins, B. M. | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 2014 |
Contrasting spatial patterns in active-fire and fire-suppressed Mediterranean climate old-growth mixed conifer forests | Fry, D. L., S. L. Stephens, B. M. Collins, M. P. North, E. Franco-Vizcaíno, and S. J. Gill. | PLoS One | 2014 |
Chapter 30: Montane forests | North, M., B. M. Collins, and H. D. Safford | Ecosystems of California (in press), H. Mooney and E. Zavaleta, editors | 2014 |
Chapter 4.1: Fire and fuels in J. Long, C. Skinner, and L. Quinn-Davidson, editors. | Collins, B. M., and C. Skinner. | Science synthesis to promote resilience of social-ecological systems in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station | 2014 |
Using field data to assess model predictions of surface and ground fuel consumption by wildfire in coniferous forests of California | Lydersen, J. M., B. M. Collins, C. Ewell, A. L. Reiner, J. A.Fites, C. B. Dow, P. Gonzalez, D. S. Saah, and J. J. Battles | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences | 2014 |
Severity of an uncharacteristically large wildfire, the Rim Fire, in forests with relatively restored frequent fire regimes | Lydersen, J. M., M. P. North, and B. M. Collins. | Forest Ecology and Management | 2014 |
Quantifying ladder fuels: a new approach using LiDAR | Kramer, H. A., B. M. Collins, S. L. Stephens, and M. Kelly | Forests | 2014 |
California spotted owl, songbird, and small mammal responses to landscape-scale fuel treatments | Stephens, S. L., S. W. Bigelow, R. D. Burnett, B. M. Collins, C. V. Gallagher, J. Keane, D. A. Kelt, M. P. North, L. J. Roberts, P. A. Stine, and D. H. Van Vuren | Bioscience | 2014 |
Beyond reducing fire hazard: fuel treatment impacts on overstory tree survival | Collins, B. M., A. J. Das, J. J. Battles, D. L. Fry, K. D. Krasnow, and S. L. Stephens | Ecological Applications | 2014 |
* Sep 16, 2013 – present