Publications

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In press

Tortorelli, C., Kim, J., Vaillant, N., Riley, K., Dye, A., Nietupski, TC., Vogler, KC., Lemons, R., Day, M., Krawchuk, M., Kerns, BK. Feeding the fire: annual grass invasion facilitates modeled fire spread across Inland Northwest forest-mosaic landscapes. Ecosphere

2022

¹Luedloff, E., Tortorelli, C., Luoma, D., Krawchuk, M. Getting to the Root of It: Root Colonization by Fungal Symbionts in the Invasive Grass Ventenata dubia. Ecology: e3895

¹indicates undergraduate co-author

Tortorelli, C., Kerns, B. K., Krawchuk, M. (2022) Community invasion resistance is influenced by interactions between plant traits and site productivity. Ecology: e3697

Tortorelli, C., Kerns, B. K., Krawchuk, M. (2022) The invasive annual grass Ventenata dubia is insensitive to experimental removal of above-ground resident biomass across a productivity gradient. Biological Invasions

2020

Tortorelli, C., Kerns, B. K., Krawchuk, M. (2020). Expanding the invasion footprint: Ventenata dubia and relationships to wildfire, environment, and plant communities in the Inland Northwest, USA. Applied Vegetation Science: 23.4: 562-574

Kerns, B. K., Tortorelli, C., Day, M., Nietupski, T., Barros, A. M.G., Kim, J., Krawchuk, M. (2020). Invasive grasses: A new perfect storm for forested ecosystems? Forest Ecosystems and Management, 463(1)

Downing, W. M., Krawchuk, M. A., Coop, J. D., Meigs, G. W., Haire, S. L., Walker, R. B., … & Tortorelli, C. (2020). How do plant communities differ between fire refugia and fire‐generated early‐seral vegetation? Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(1), 26-39

2017

Tortorelli, C., D. Gannon, J. Stynoski, F. Trama. (2017). Rhinella Yunga Predation. Herpetological Review.

Monitoring Reports

Tortorelli, C. and Others. 2019. Alpine vegetation and soils monitoring in Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve: 2010–2015 data report. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/ROMN/NRDS—2019/1229. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado

Tortorelli, C. and Others. 2019. Alpine vegetation and soils monitoring in Yellowstone National Park: 2011–2016 data report. Natural Resource Data Series. NPS/ROMN/NRDS—2019/1233. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado