Publications
( Jan 2025 ) A review of UAS-based estimation of forest traits and characteristics in landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology ,40 (2) 10.1007/s10980-024-01991-0
( Jan 2025 ) Governance of Indigenous data in open earth systems science.. Nature Communications ,16 (1) 10.1038/s41467-024-53480-2
( Oct 2024 ) The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020). Science ,386 (6720) ,425-431. 10.1126/science.adk5737
( Sep 2024 ) Extreme fire seasons are looming - science can help us adapt.. Nature ,634 (8036) ,1041-1044. 10.1038/d41586-024-03433-y
( Aug 2024 ) Rare and highly destructive wildfires drive human migration in the U.S.. Nature Communications ,15 (1) 10.1038/s41467-024-50630-4
( Jun 2024 ) Fostering the Development of Earth Data Science Skills in a Diverse Community of Online Learners: A Case Study of the Earth Data Science Corps. Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education ,1-22. 10.1080/26939169.2024.2362886
( Apr 2024 ) Mapping Quaking Aspen Using Seasonal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Composite Imagery across the Southern Rockies, USA. Remote Sensing ,16 (9) ,1619-1619. 10.3390/rs16091619
( Jan 2024 ) Legacies of multiple disturbances on fruit and seed patterns in Amazonia: Implications for forest functional traits. Ecosphere ,15 (2) 10.1002/ecs2.4780
( Dec 2023 ) Fire refugia are robust across Western US forested ecoregions, 1986-2021. Environmental Research Letters ,19 (1) 10.1088/1748-9326/ad11bf
( Sep 2023 ) Environmental Resilience Technology: Sustainable Solutions Using Value-Added Analytics in a Changing World. Applied Sciences ,13 (19) 10.3390/app131911034
( Jun 2023 ) Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data. 10.31219/osf.io/kehqz
( Apr 2023 ) Downslope Wind-Driven Fires in the Western United States. Earth's Future ,11 (5) 10.1029/2022EF003471
( Mar 2023 ) Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires. ,2 (3) 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad005
( Feb 2023 ) All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020. Scientific Data ,10 (1) 10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0
( Dec 2022 ) Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seedbank survivorship drive ecosystem transformation in a semiarid shrubland. Ecology 10.1002/ecy.3968
( Aug 2022 ) Recent droughts in the United States are among the fastest-developing of the last seven decades. Weather and Climate Extremes ,37 10.1016/j.wace.2022.100491
( Aug 2022 ) Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene. ,1 (3) 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac115
( Jul 2022 ) Democratizing macroecology: Integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere ,13 (8) 10.1002/ecs2.4206
( Jul 2022 ) Modern Pyromes: Biogeographical Patterns of Fire Characteristics across the Contiguous United States. Fire ,5 (4) 10.3390/fire5040095
( Jul 2022 ) Country-level fire perimeter datasets (2001-2021). Scientific Data ,9 (1) 10.1038/s41597-022-01572-3
( May 2022 ) Weather Research and Forecasting-Fire Simulated Burned Area and Propagation Direction Sensitivity to Initiation Point Location and Time. Fire ,5 (3) 10.3390/fire5030058
( Mar 2022 ) U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s. Science Advances ,8 (11) 10.1126/sciadv.abc0020
( Mar 2022 ) Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest-Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters ,49 (5) 10.1029/2021GL097131
( Mar 2022 ) Fires that matter: Reconceptualizing fire risk to include interactions between humans and the natural environment. Environmental Research Letters 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5c0c
( Feb 2022 ) A Computationally Efficient Method for Updating Fuel Inputs for Wildfire Behavior Models Using Sentinel Imagery and Random Forest Classification. Remote Sensing ,14 (6) 10.3390/rs14061447
( Feb 2022 ) Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire. Nature ,602 (7897) ,442-448. 10.1038/s41586-021-04325-1
( Feb 2022 ) The night brakes on fires are failing. Nature 10.1038/d41586-022-00352-8
( Nov 2021 ) Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere ,12 (12) 10.1002/ecs2.3833
( Nov 2021 ) The human-grass-fire cycle: how people and invasives co-occur to drive fire regimes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10.1002/fee.2432
( Oct 2021 ) Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semi‐arid shrubland. Global Change Biology 10.1111/gcb.15921
( Sep 2021 ) Cover-based allometric estimate of aboveground biomass of a non-native, invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum L.) in the Great Basin, USA. Journal of Arid Environments ,193 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2021.104582
( Jul 2021 ) Fusion neural networks for plant classification: learning to combine RGB, hyperspectral, and lidar data. PeerJ ,9 10.7717/peerj.11790
( Jun 2021 ) Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States. Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management 10.1029/2020ef001795
( Dec 2020 ) Fire threatens the diversity and structure of tropical gallery forests. Ecosphere ,12 (1) 10.1002/ecs2.3347
( Oct 2020 ) FIRED (Fire Events Delineation): An Open, Flexible Algorithm and Database of US Fire Events Derived from the MODIS Burned Area Product (2001-2019). Remote Sensing ,12 (21) 10.3390/rs12213498
( Oct 2020 ) A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage. Journal of Applied Ecology ,58 (2) ,327-337. 10.1111/1365-2664.13770
( Sep 2020 ) In the Line of Fire: Consequences of Human-Ignited Wildfires to Homes in the U.S. (1992–2015). Fire ,3 (3) ,50-50. 10.3390/fire3030050
( Jul 2020 ) Effects of Fire Frequency on Seed Sources and Regeneration in Southeastern Amazonia. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change ,3 10.3389/ffgc.2020.00082
( Jun 2020 ) Higher fire frequency impaired woody species regeneration in a south-eastern Amazonian forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology ,36 (4) ,190-198. 10.1017/S0266467420000176
( Jun 2020 ) y Social-Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems. Earths Future|0401 Atmospheric Sciences, 0406 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience, 0502 Environmental Science and Management ,8 (7) 10.1029/2019EF001319
( Jun 2020 ) Understanding and managing connected extreme events. Nature Climate Change ,10 (7) ,611-621. 10.1038/s41558-020-0790-4
( Jun 2020 ) Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers. Journal of Ecology ,108 (5) ,2047-2069. 10.1111/1365-2745.13403
( May 2020 ) Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States. Science Advances ,6 (23) 10.1126/sciadv.aba2937
( Apr 2020 ) Integrating National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Airborne Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data for Optimal Tree Species Classification. Remote Sensing ,12 (9) 10.3390/rs12091414
( Feb 2020 ) Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society. Environmental Research Letters ,15 (3) 10.1088/1748-9326/ab6d3a
( Feb 2020 ) All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2014. Scientific Data ,7 (1) 10.1038/s41597-020-0403-0
( Jan 2020 ) NEON is seeding the next revolution in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ,18 (1) ,3-3. 10.1002/fee.2152
( Jan 2020 ) Anthropogenic and lightning-started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the USA. Global Ecology and Biogeography ,29 (4) ,668-681. 10.1111/geb.13058
( Nov 2019 ) Comparison Between 1-D and 3-D Geoelectric Field Methods to Calculate Geomagnetically Induced Currents: A Case Study. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY ,34 (6) 10.1109/TPWRD.2019.2905532
( Nov 2019 ) Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,116 (47) 10.1073/pnas.1908253116
( Aug 2019 ) Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2 and H2O fluxes. Global Change Biology ,25 (9) ,2855-2868. 10.1111/gcb.14659
( Aug 2019 ) Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ,29 (6) 10.1002/eap.1898
( Jul 2019 ) Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California. EARTHS FUTURE ,7 (8) 10.1029/2019EF001210
( Dec 2018 ) Repeated fires reduce plant diversity in low elevation Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems 1984-2014. ,10 (2) 10.1002/ecs2.2591
( Dec 2018 ) Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis. ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES, VOL 47 ,47 10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010235
( Dec 2018 ) A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on U.S. Great Basin carbon storage. 10.1002/ece3.3414
( Dec 2018 ) Detection rates and biases of fire observations from MODIS and agency reports in the conterminous United States. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT ,220 10.1016/j.rse.2018.10.028
( Aug 2018 ) Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science. Fire ,1 (2) 10.3390/fire1020030
( Jul 2018 ) Impacts of fire on sources of soil CO2 efflux in a dry Amazon rain forest. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,24 (8) 10.1111/gcb.14305
( May 2018 ) Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS ,20 (6) 10.1007/s10530-017-1641-8
( Dec 2017 ) Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima. ,384115 10.1101/384115
( Dec 2017 ) Human-Related Ignitions Increase the Number of Large Wildfires across U.S. Ecoregions. ,1 (1) 10.3390/fire1010004
( Dec 2017 ) Switching on the Big Burn of 2017. ,1 (1) 10.3390/fire1010017
( Dec 2017 ) Human-related ignitions concurrent with high winds promote large wildfires across the USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire ,27 (6) ,377-386. 10.1071/WF17149
( May 2017 ) Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,114 (18) 10.1073/pnas.1617464114
( Mar 2017 ) Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,114 (11) 10.1073/pnas.1617394114
( Mar 2017 ) Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD. CARBON BALANCE AND MANAGEMENT ,12 10.1186/s13021-017-0074-0
( Dec 2016 ) The impacts of recurrent fires on diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a south-eastern Amazon forest. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY ,33 10.1017/S0266467416000559
( Nov 2016 ) Quantifying the human influence on fire ignition across the western USA. ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS ,26 (8) 10.1002/eap.1395
( Oct 2016 ) Survey of hepatitis B knowledge and stigma among chronically infected patients and uninfected persons in Beijing, China. LIVER INTERNATIONAL ,36 (11) 10.1111/liv.13168
( Jun 2016 ) Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997-2010). PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ,371 (1696) 10.1098/rstb.2015.0177
( Mar 2016 ) Controls on interannual variability in lightning-caused fire activity in the western US. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS ,11 (4) 10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/045005
( Aug 2015 ) The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment. BIOSCIENCE ,65 (9) 10.1093/biosci/biv106
( Jun 2015 ) Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon. OECOLOGIA ,178 (3) 10.1007/s00442-015-3259-9
( Dec 2014 ) The role of leaf traits in determining litter flammability of south-eastern Amazon tree species. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE ,24 (8) 10.1071/WF14182
( Jul 2014 ) Using large public datasets in the undergraduate ecology classroom. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ,12 (6) 10.1890/1540-9295-12.6.362
( Apr 2014 ) Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ,111 (17) 10.1073/pnas.1305499111
( Mar 2014 ) Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY ,41 (4) 10.1111/jbi.12285
( Feb 2014 ) ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE Drought and fire change sink to source. NATURE ,506 (7486) 10.1038/506041a
( Dec 2013 ) Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil). PLANT ECOLOGY & DIVERSITY ,7 10.1080/17550874.2013.798368
( Jun 2013 ) Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ,368 (1619) 10.1098/rstb.2012.0427
( Jun 2013 ) Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ,368 (1619) 10.1098/rstb.2012.0157
( Apr 2013 ) Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon. OECOLOGIA ,172 (1) 10.1007/s00442-012-2482-x
( Dec 2012 ) Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009). GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,19 (1) 10.1111/gcb.12046
( Mar 2012 ) The Amazon basin in transition (vol 481, pg 321, 2012). NATURE ,483 (7388) 10.1038/nature10943
( Jan 2012 ) Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,18 (2) 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02533.x
( Jan 2012 ) The Amazon basin in transition. NATURE ,481 (7381) 10.1038/nature10717
( Nov 2011 ) The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY ,38 (12) 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02595.x
( Dec 2010 ) Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon. FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT ,261 (1) 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.09.029
( Dec 2010 ) Comment on "The Incidence of Fire in Amazonian Forests with Implications for REDD". SCIENCE ,330 (6011) 10.1126/science.1194032
( Oct 2009 ) Effects of experimental fires on litter decomposition in a seasonally dry Amazonian forest. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY ,25 10.1017/S0266467409990150
( Apr 2009 ) Fire in the Earth System. SCIENCE ,324 (5926) 10.1126/science.1163886
( Sep 2008 ) Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY ,14 (10) 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01655.x
( Dec 2006 ) Assessing extinction risk in the absence of species-level data: quantitative criteria for terrestrial ecosystems. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION ,16 (1) 10.1007/s10531-006-9102-1