Assistant Researcher (Vegetation Ecologist)
Institute for Computational Earth Systems Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, Ca. 93106
And
Researcher
Departments of Biology and Environmental Studies
Southern Oregon University
Ashland, OR. 97520
Home address:
670 Morton St.
Ashland, OR. 97520
541 552-9624
Research interests I am especially interested in the formation of vegetation patterns, both the underlying causes of patterns and the characteristics of the patterns themselves. My interests encompass structural and floristic patterns at local to biogeographic scales. I have primarily studied fire as a cause of vegetation patterns, but also have studied desert wetlands, which are strongly structured by hydrology and soil chemistry. I am also interested in species diversity and rarity. The question of how to manage for diversity and rare species that may depend on fire or other natural disturbances is one I have enjoyed wrestling with.
Education
Ph.D. Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara. 1995.
M.A. Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara. 1984.
B. A. Department of Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara. 1982.
Odion,
Dennis C. and Chad Hanson. 2008. Fire severity in the Sierra Nevada revisited:
conclusions robust to further analysis.
Ecosystems, in
press. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-007-9113-0.
Odion, Dennis C. and Daniel A. Sarr. 2007. Managing disturbance regimes to
maintain biodiversity in forested ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management 246:
57-65. pdf.
Tyler, Claudia.M., Dennis
C. Odion, and Ragan M. Callaway.
2007. Dynamics of woody species
in the California grassland. Chapter 10, in Stromberg, M., Corbin, J. and
D’Antonio, C., editors. Ecology and Management of California grasslands. University of California Press, Berkeley,
CA, pp 169-179. pdf.
Odion,
Dennis C. and Chad T. Hanson. 2006. Fire severity in the conifer forests in the
Sierra Nevada, California. Ecosystems 9: 1177-1189.
Moritz, Max A. and Dennis
C. Odion. 2005. Examining the strength
and possible causes of the relationship between fire history and Sudden Oak
Death. Oecologia 144:106-114. pdf.
Moritz, Max A. and Dennis
C. Odion. 2004. Prescribed fire and natural disturbance. Science 306:
1680. pdf.
Odion,
Dennis C., James R. Strittholt, Hong Jiang, Evan J. Frost, Dominick A. DellaSala,
and Max A. Moritz. 2004. Patterns of
Fire Severity and Forest Conditions In the Western Klamath Mountains,
California. Conservation Biology
18: 927-936.
Odion,
Dennis C. and Claudia M. Tyler.
2002. Are long fire-free periods
needed to maintain the rare, fire recruiting shrub Arctostaphylos morroensis (Ericaceae)?
Conservation Ecology 6: 4. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss2/art4/print.pdf.
Odion,
Dennis C. and Evan J. Frost 2002.
Protecting Objects of Scientific Interest in the Cascade-Siskiyou National
Monument: Status, Threats and Management Recommendations. World Wildlife Fund,
Klamath-Siskiyou Regional Program, Ashland, OR. http://www.nccsp.org/files/CSNM%20Objects%20of%20Scientific%20Interest.pdf.
Odion, Dennis C., Frank W. Davis. 2000. Fire, soil heating, and the formation of vegetation patterns in chamise chaparral. Ecological Monographs 70: 149-169. pdf.