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Current:

 

Turner, M.G., E.A.H. Smithwick, D.B. Tinker, and W.H. Romme. 2009. Variation in foliar nitrogen and aboveground net primary production in young postfire lodgepole pine. Accepted in Canadian Journal of Forest Research 2-26-09. (Refereed)

Romme, W.H., D.B. Tinker, G.K. Stakes, and M.G. Turner. 2008. Does inorganic nitrogen limit plant growth 3-5 years after fire in a Wyoming lodgepole pine forest? Forest Ecology and Management. Available online – In press.

Metzger, K.L., E.A.H. Smithwick, D.B. Tinker, W.H. Romme, T.C. Balser and M.G. Turner. 2008. Influence of coarse wood and pine saplings on nitrogen mineralization and microbial communities in young post-fire Pinus contorta.  Forest Ecology and Management 256: 59-67.

Smithwick, E.A.H., M.G. Ryan, D.M. Kashian, W.H. Romme, D.B. Tinker, and M.G. Turner. 2008. Modeling the effects of fire and climate change on carbon and nitrogen storage in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stands. Global Change Biology 14: 1-14.

Turner, M. G., E. A. H. Smithwick, K. L. Metzger, D. B. Tinker and W. H. Romme.  2007. Inorganic nitrogen availability following severe stand replacing fire in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:4782-4789.

Turner, M. G., D. M. Turner, W. H. Romme and D. B. Tinker.  2007. Cone production in young post-fire Pinus contorta stands in Greater Yellowstone (USA).  Forest Ecology and Management  242:119-206.

Kashian, D.M., W.H. Romme, D.B. Tinker, M.G. Turner, and M.G. Ryan. 2006. Carbon storage on landscapes with stand-replacing fires. Bioscience. 50(7): 598-606.

Kashian, D.M., D.B. Tinker, F.L.Scarpace, and M.G. Turner. 2004. Mapping the spatial heterogeneity of lodgepole pine sapling densities in Yellowstone National Park following the 1988 fires. Can. J. For. Res. 34: 2263-2276.

Turner, M.G., D.B. Tinker, W.H. Romme, D.M. Kashian, and C.M. Litton. 2004. Landscape patterns of sapling density, leaf area, and aboveground primary production in postfire lodgepole pine forests, Yellowstone National Park. Ecosystems 7: 751-775.

Tinker, D.B. and D.H. Knight. 2004. Coarse woody debris: an important legacy of forests in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. In: After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park. Linda Wallace, Ed. Yale University Press.

Romme, W. H., M. G. Turner, D.B. Tinker, and D. H. Knight. 2004. Emulating natural forest disturbances in the wildland-urban interface of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Invited chapter in: Perera, A.H., L.J. Buse, and M.G. Weber, eds. Emulating Natural Forest Landscape Disturbances: Concepts and Applications. Columbia University Press, New York, NY. 

Turner, M.G., W.H. Romme, and D.B. Tinker. 2003. Surprises and Lessons from the 1988 Yellowstone Fires. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(7): 351-358.

Tinker, D.B., W.H. Romme, and D.G. Despain. 2003. Historic range of variability in landscape structure in subalpine forests of the Greater Yellowstone Area. Landscape Ecology 18: 427-439.

Litton, C.M., M.G. Ryan, D.B. Tinker and D.H. Knight. 2003. Below- and aboveground biomass in young post-fire lodgepole pine forests of contrasting tree density. Can. J. For. Res. 33: 351-363.

Tinker, D.B. and D.H. Knight. 2001. Temporal and spatial dynamics of coarse woody debris in harvested and unharvested lodgepole pine forests. Ecological Modelling 141: 125-149.

Tinker, D.B. and D.H. Knight. 2000. Coarse Woody Debris Following Fire and Logging in Wyoming Lodgepole Pine Forests.  Ecosystems 3: 472-483.

 

In Review:

 

Bockino, N.K, & Tinker, D.B. In Review. Interactions of white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola) and mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) in whitebark pine ecosystems (Pinus albicaulis) in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Can. J. For. Res.

Schoessow, B.R. & D.B. Tinker.  In Review.  Factors related to Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) persistence and abundance in burned forests in Yellowstone National Park, U.S.A.  Biological Invasions.