email: jkeeley@ucla.edu
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research interests: Ecology of fire-prone ecosystems and alien plants that invade these systems.
Research Interests
My research focuses on the ecological impacts and history of wildfires in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. In particular I am currently focusing most of my efforts at how fire regime shifts affect invasion of natural ecosystems by non-native plants. Other research concerns seed germination biology in fire prone ecosystems, vernal pools and the ecological role of photosynthetic pathways in CAM and C4 plants.
Selected Publications
Keeley, J.E. and T.W. McGinnis. 2007. Impact of prescribed fire and other factors on cheatgrass persistence in a Sierra Nevada ponderosa pine forest International Journal of Wildland Fire 96-106 .
Keeley, J.E.. 2006. Fire management impacts on invasive plant species in the western United States Conservation Biology 375-384 .
Keeley, J.E., C.J. Fotheringham, and M. Baer-Keeley. 2006. Demographic patterns of postfire regeneration in mediterranean-climate shrublands of California Ecological Monographs 235-255 .
Keeley, J.E.. 2005. Fire history of the San Francisco East Bay region and implications for landscape patterns International Journal of Wildland Fire 285-296 .
Keeley, J.E., M. Baer-Keeley, and C.J. Fotheringham. 2005. Alien plant dynamics following fire in mediterranean-climate California shrublands Ecological Applications 2109-2125 .
Keeley, J.E. and P.H. Rundel. 2005. Fire and the Miocene expansion of C4 grasslands Ecology Letters 683-690 .
Keeley, J.E. and C.J. Fotheringham. 2001. The historical role of fire in California shrublands Conservation Biology 1536-1548 .
Keeley J.E.. 2000. Chaparral, in North American Terrestrial Vegetation. 2nd Edition Cambridge University Press, N.Y 203-253 .
. 2000. 2nd Interface Between Ecology and Land Development in california U.S. Geological Survey, Open-File Report 00-62 299 .
Keeley, J.E. and N.L. Stephenson. 2000. Restoring natural fire regimes in the sierra Nevada in an era of global change,in Wilderness Science in a Time of Change Conference. RMSRS-P-15 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Moutain Research Station 5: 255-265 .