Education

M.S., 2017 - Systems Ecology - University of Montana, Missoula MT
Thesis: Across an ecophysiological divide: Growth and water use efficiency of northern Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine

B.A., 2015 - Environmental Studies - University of California, Santa Cruz
Thesis: Water relations and photosynthesis for Artemesia tridentata across a Great Basin-Sierra Nevada elevation gradient in the historic drought year of 2014

Publications

Reed, C. C., & Hood, S. M. (2023). Nonstructural carbohydrates explain post-fire tree mortality and recovery patterns. Tree Physiology. Accepted.

Reed, C. C., Hood, S. M., Cluck, D. R., & Smith, S. L. (2023). Fuels change quickly after California drought and bark beetle outbreaks with implications for potential fire behavior and emissions. Fire Ecology, 19(1), 16.

Keen, R. M., Voelker, S. L., Wang, S. Y., Bentz, B. J., Gouldon, M., Dangerfield, C. R., Reed, C. C., Hood, S. M., Csank, A. Z., Dawson, T. E., Merschel, A. G., Still, C. J. (2021). Changes in tree drought sensitivity provided early warning signals to the California drought and forest mortality event. Global Change Biology, 28(3), 1119-1132.

Reed, C. C., & Hood, S. M. (2020). Few generalizable patterns of tree-level mortality during extreme drought and concurrent bark beetle outbreaks. Science of the Total Environment, 750, 141306.

Hood, S. M., Reed, C. C., & Kane, J. M. (2020). Axial resin duct quantification in tree rings: A functional defense trait. MethodsX, 7, 101035.

Reed, C. C., Ballantyne, A. P., Cooper, L. A., & Sala, A. (2018). Limited evidence for CO2‐related growth enhancement in northern Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine populations across climate gradients. Global Change Biology, 24(9), 3922-3937.

Cooper, L. A., Reed, C. C., & Ballantyne, A. P. (2018). Mountain pine beetle attack faster growing lodgepole pine at low elevations in western Montana, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 427, 200-207.

Reed, C. C., & Loik, M. E. (2016). Water relations and photosynthesis along an elevation gradient for Artemisia tridentata during an historic drought. Oecologia, 181(1), 65-76.