Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

Leda N Kobziar Associate Professor; Director, MNR Program

Positions

Director, Master of Natural Resources , College of Natural Resources 2017 -
Associate Professor, Natural Resources and Society , College of Natural Resources 2021 -

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- How Nostalgia Drives and Derails Living with Wildland Fire in the American West. Fire-Switzerland. 5. 2022
- Wildland fire smoke alters the composition, diversity, and potential atmospheric function of microbial life in the aerobiome. ISME Communications. 2. 2022
- Adapting Western North American Forests to Climate Change and Wildfires: Ten Common Questions. Ecological Applications. 2021
- Climate Change and Infections on the Move in North America. Infection and Drug Resistance. 14:5711-5723. 2021
- Pyrosilviculture Needed for Landscape Resilience of Dry Western United States Forests. Journal of Forestry. 119:520-544. 2021
- Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions. Ecological Applications. 2021
- Wildfire Smoke, A Potential Infectious Agent. Science (New York, N.Y). 370:1408-1410. 2020
- Wildland Fire as an Atmospheric Source of Viable Microbial Aerosols and Biological Ice Nucleating Particles. The ISME (International Society for Microbial Ecology) Journal. 15:461-472. 2020
- Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda. Fire Ecology. 16. 2020
- Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers. Journal of Ecology. 2020
- Long-Duration Soil Heating Resulting from Forest Floor Duff Smoldering in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems. Forest Science. 66:291-303. 2020
- The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for Empirical Modeling of Individual Tree Mortality After Fire. Scientific Data. 7:194. 2020
- Is fire "for the birds"? How two rare species influence fire management across the U.S. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2019
- Accessing the Life in Smoke: A New Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to Sample Wildland Fire Bioaerosol Emissions and Their Environment. Fire. 2:56. 2019
- Drivers of plant functional group richness and beta diversity in fire-dependent pine savannas. Diversity and Distributions. 25:1024-1044. 2019
- The myth of the biological threshold: A review of biological responses to soil heating associated with wildland fire. Forest Ecology and Management. 432:1022-1029. 2019
- Pyroaerobiology: the aerosolization and transport of viable microbial life by wildland fire. Ecosphere. 9:e02507. 2018
- A critique of the historical-fire-regime concept in conservation. Conservation Biology. 31:976-985. 2017
- Effects of Fire Frequency and Soil Temperature on Soil CO2 Efflux Rates in Old-Field Pine-Grassland Forests. Forests. 8.0. 2017
- The Use of a "Ringer" in Natural History Identification Tests. American Biology Teacher. 79:64-66. 2017
- Practitioner Perceptions of Wildland Fire Management across South Europe and Latin America. Forests. 7. 2016
- Can butterflies evade fire? Pupa location and heat tolerance in fire prone habitats of Florida. PLOS One. 10. 2015
- Perspectives on trends, effectiveness, and challenges to prescribed burning in the Southern US. Forests. 6:561-580. 2015
- Hydrology and fire regulate edge influence on microclimate in wetland forest patches. Freshwater Science. 34:1383-1393. 2015
- The effect of mastication on surface fire behaviour, fuels consumption, and tree mortality in pine flatwoods of Florida, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 24:573-579. 2015
- Evidence of biogeomorphic patterning in a low-relief karst landscape. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 39:2027-2037. 2014
- Immediate and short-term response of understory fuels following mechanical mastication in a pine flatwoods site of Florida, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 313:340-354. 2014
- Extreme temperature days and potential impacts in Southern Europe. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 2:3863-3886. 2014
- Impacts of fire on microbial carbon cycling in subtropical wetlands. Fire Ecology. 9:21-37. 2013
- Fire and water: new perspectives on fire's role in shaping wetland ecosystems. Fire Ecology. 9:1-5. 2013
- Smoldering combustion and ground fires: ecological effects and multi-scale significance. Fire Ecology. 9:124-132. 2013
- Effects of fuel load and moisture content on fire behaviour and heating in masticated litter-dominated fuels. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 22:440-445. 2012
- Fire Reinforces Structure of Pondcypress (Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium) Domes in a Wetland Landscape. Wetlands. 32:439-448. 2012
- Modeling relationships among 217 fires using remote sensing of burn severity in southern pine forests. Remote Sensing. 3:2005-2028. 2011
- Problems and needs for restorationists of longleaf pine. Natural Areas Journal. 31:294-299. 2011
- Fire ignition patterns affect production of charcoal in southern forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 20:474-477. 2011
- Comparison of Burn Severities of Consecutive Large-Scale Fires in Florida Sand Pine Scrub Using Satellite Imagery Analysis. Fire Ecology. 7:99-113. 2011
- Tracking postfire successional trajectories in a plant community adapted to high-severity fire. Ecological Applications. 21:61-74. 2011
- The Historical Dendroarchaeology Of The Ximenez-Fatio House, St. Augustine, Florida, USA. Journal of Tree-Ring Research. 66:61-73. 2010
- The efficacy of fire and fuels reduction treatments in a Sierra Nevada pine plantation. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 18:791-801. 2009
- Challenges to Educating the Next Generation of Wildland Fire Professionals in the United States. Journal of Forestry. 107:339-345. 2009
- The role of environmental factors and tree injuries in soil carbon respiration response to fire and fuels treatments in pine plantations. Biogeochemistry. 84:191-206. 2007
- Tree Mortality Patterns Following Prescribed Fires in a Mixed Conifer Forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 36:3222-3238. 2006
- The effects of fuels treatments on soil carbon respiration in a Sierra Nevada pine plantation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 114:161-178. 2006
- Wildfire Burn Patterns and Riparian Vegetation Response Along Two Northern Sierra Nevada Streams. Forest Ecology and Management. 222:254-265. 2006
chapter
- Pioneering, progressive, and persistent: Florida's fire management is fire use. Fire science: from chemistry to landscape management. Ed. Fernandes, Paulo. Switzerland: Springer. 2021
conference paper
- Mechanical mastication as a fuels treatment in southeastern forests. Proceedings of the 18th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference. 198-204. 2015
- An analysis of burn severity mapping method for use in sand pine scrub. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference Proceedings. 2010
- Unmanned aircraft systems for wildland fire monitoring and research. Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference Proceedings. 2010
review
- Fire on Earth: An Introduction. 88-91. 2014

Research

principal investigator on

Collaborative Research: Biomass burning smoke as a driver of multi-scale microbial teleconnections awarded by NSF Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) 2021 - 2024
Stories of Fire: Integrative Informal STEM Learning through Participatory Narratives awarded by NSF Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL) 2020 - 2022
The consequences of soil heating for prescribed fire use and fire restoration in the South awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2015 - 2018
Southern Fire Exchange Knowledge Exchange Consortium awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2015
The effects of soil heating on tree mortality, seed banks, and soil carbon respiration awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2015
Food, Fuel, and Fire: Effects of Fuel Treatments on Wildlife Habitat Quality in Longleaf Pine awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2014
Southern Fire Exchange Knowledge Exchange Consortium awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2013
Delayed mortality and fire-climate interactions in cypress swamps, Big Cypress National Preserve awarded by USDI National Park Service 2012
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Cavity Tree Monitoring: Immediate and Delayed Mortality Due to Fire awarded by USDI National Park Service 2011
The Influence of Prescribed Fire and Understory Fuels Mastication on Soil Carbon Respiration Rates awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2011
The Southern Fire Exchange: Putting Fire Science on the Ground awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2011
Will climate change alter wildfire behavior and effects in seasonally dry wetlands? awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2011
Characterization of Masticated Fuelbeds and Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in Southeastern Us Pine Ecosystems awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2010
Fuel Buffers in the Wildland Urban Interace: Impacts on Invasive Species awarded by USDA Forest Service 2009
Monitoring Masticated Fuelbeds and Fuel Treatment Effectiveness on the Osceola Forest awarded by USDA Forest Service 2009
Calibration of the Fine Fuel Moisture Meter for US Vegetation awarded by Wiltronics Inc. 2008
Dendrochronology in the Southeastern US for Validation of Historical Structures applications awarded by Ximenez-Fatio Museum 2008
Assessing Fuels Treatments in Florida's Wildland Urban Interface awarded by SNRE 2007
Developing a Web-based MS Program in Ecological Restoration awarded by United States Department of Agriculture 2007
Fire in the Juniper Prairie Wilderness: Is it a Viable Tool for Ecosystem Management? awarded by University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agriculture 2006

co-principal investigator on

Putting Fire Science on the Ground awarded by Joint Fire Science Program 2009
National Needs Fellowship for Graduate Research in Adaptive Management awarded by United States Department of Agriculture 2008

investigator on

Pyroaeromycoses: fundamental discovery and modeling in an unexplored phenomenon awarded by W.M. Keck Foundation 2021 - 2024

Background

education and training

Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley , Dissertation: The effects of fire and fuels reduction treatments on fire hazard and soil carbon respiration in a Sierra Nevada pine plantation 2006
M.S. in Forest Science, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley , Thesis: Using a plot-transect method to determine fire history for Boulder, Colorado ponderosa pine forests 2000
B.A., Evergreen State College 1996
B.S., Evergreen State College 1996

awards and honors

Woman of the Year, conferred by Athena, 2021
Erasmus Mundus International Forestry Scholar's Fellowship, conferred by University of Finland, 2013
Outstanding Faculty Member, conferred by University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, 2012
Open Access Publishing Award, conferred by University of Florida, 2012
Supervising Outstanding Dissertation Award, conferred by University of Florida, 2012

Contact

full name

Leda N Kobziar