SOUTHWEST RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Sharing the latest wildfire research relevant to the Southwest.

WINTER 2024/2025 EDITION

Covering publications produced between November 2024 and February 2025.

NOTE TO READERS:

Articles are categorized by topic to make them easier to browse quickly; however some articles cover multiple topics. Open access articles are tagged; if you do not have access to a journal subscription service, you can always contact the authors for a copy of the publication.

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Contact: Molly McCormick, SWFSC Program Manager at molly.mccormick@nau.edu

Adaptive Management

Changing climate and disturbance effects on southwestern US forests. Hurteau, MD; Baker, R; (...); Marsh, C. Jan 2025 | FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Climate Change & Carbon

Carbon sequestration through sustainable land management practices in arid and semiarid regions: Insights from New Mexico. Ghimire, R; Aryal, DR; (...); Prihodko, L. Dec 2024 | AGROSYSTEMS GEOSCIENCES & ENVIRONMENT

Natural resource management confronts the growing scale and severity of ecosystem responses to drought and wildfire. Munson, SM; Vaughn, AL; (...); Duniway, MC. Nov 2024 | ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Fire Behavior

No articles on this topic for this period.

Fire Ecology

Trees have similar growth responses to first-entry fires and reburns following long-term fire exclusion. Willson, KG; Margolis, EQ; Hurteau, MD. Nov 2024 | FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fire Models & Tools

Advanced deep learning approaches for forecasting high-resolution fire weather index (FWI) over CONUS: Integration of GNN-LSTM, GNN-TCNN, and GNN-DeepAR. Shahriar, SA; Choi, Y and Islam, R. Feb 2025 | REMOTE SENSING - Open access

Predicting cloud-to-ground lightning in the western United States from the large-scale environment using explainable neural networks. Kalashnikov, DA; Davenport, FV; (...); Singh, D. Nov 2024 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES - Open access

Fire Regimes & Fire History

No articles on this topic for this period.

Fuels Reduction & Restoration

No articles on this topic for this period.

GIS & Remote Sensing

No articles on this topic for this period.

Human Dimensions of Fire

Guided transformations for communities facing social and ecological change. Morgan, M; Webster, AJ; (...); Stone, MB. Nov 2024 | ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY - Open access

Identifying optimal locations for biochar production facilities to reduce wildfire risk and bolster rural economies: A New Mexico case study. Adhikari, RK; Falkowski, TB and Sloan, JL. Dec 2024 | FOREST POLICY AND ECONOMICS

Understanding rural adaptation to smoke from wildfires and forest management: Insights for aligning approaches with community contexts. Edgeley, CM and Burnett, JT. Jan 2025 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE - Open access

Indigenous & Cultural Fire

No articles on this topic for this period.

Invasive Species

No articles on this topic for this period.

Prescribed Fire & Managed Fire

No articles on this topic for this period.

Post-Fire

Coupling between evapotranspiration, water use efficiency, and evaporative stress index strengthens after wildfires in New Mexico, USA. Joshi, RC; Jensen, A; (...); Fisher, JB. Dec 2024 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION - Open access

Empirical models for postfire debris-flow volume in the Southwest United States. Gorr, A; Mcguire, L and Youberg, A. Nov 2024 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE

Insights into temporal changes in debris flow susceptibility following fire in the Southwest USA from monitoring and repeat estimates of soil hydraulic and physical properties. Martinez, JR; Mcguire, LA and Youberg, AM. Feb 2025 | EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Post-wildfire sediment source and transport modeling, empirical observations, and applied mitigation: An Arizona, USA, case study. Schenk, ER; Wood, A; (...); Loverich, J. Feb 2025 | NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES - Open access

Safety, Health, & Well-being

Smoke & Air Quality

Maximum ozone concentrations in the southwestern US and Texas: implications of the growing predominance of the background contribution. Parrish, DD; Faloona, IC and Derwent, RG. Jan 2025 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS - Open access

Vegetation Change, Regeneration & Recovery

A field mesocosm method for manipulation of soil mesofauna communities and repeated measurement of their ecological functions over months to years. Gibson, KS; Johnson, NC; (...); Antoninka, AJ. Feb 2025 | PEDOBIOLOGIA

Coupling between evapotranspiration, water use efficiency, and evaporative stress index strengthens after wildfires in New Mexico, USA. Joshi, RC; Jensen, A; (...); Fisher, JB. Dec 2024 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATION AND GEOINFORMATION - Open access

Indicators of ecological resilience and invasion resistance - accounting for precipitation seasonality and climate change in southwestern US drylands. Chambers, JC; Brown, JL; (...); Thacker, V. Nov 2024 | ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS - Open access

Integrating habitat suitability, disturbance, and biotic interactions into the ecological restoration of the saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) in drylands of the southwest of the United States and northern Mexico.

de Albuquerque, FS; Rowe, H; (...); Benayas, JMR. Dec 2024 | RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Most pinyon-juniper woodland species distributions are projected to shrink rather than shift under climate change. Noel, A; Schlaepfer, DR; (...); Bradford, JB. Jan 2025 | RANGELAND ECOLOGY & MANAGEMENT - Open access

Multi-decadal aspen dynamics show recruitment bottleneck across complex mountain community. Stoddard, MT; Rodman, KC; (...); Moore, MM. Nov 2024 | FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT - Open access

Restoration treatments enhance tree growth and alter climatic constraints during extreme drought. Rodman, KC; Bradford, JB; (...); Waltz, AEM. Jan 2025 | ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS - Open access

Watershed & Hydrology

Legacies of a large flood and biological control on riparian vegetation successional trajectories along a dryland braided river. González-Sargas, E; Lee, SR; (...); Shafroth, PB. Feb 2025 | RIVER RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS

Wildlife

Multiscale habitat selection of an imperiled subspecies of Least Chipmunk (Neotamias minimus): When a generalist is really a specialist. Mckibben, FE and Frey, JK. Dec 2024 | JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY - Open access

High-severity wildfires Alter Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) foraging assemblage structure in montane coniferous forests and grasslands in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA. Knudsen, J; Parmenter, R; (...); Verble, R. Dec 2024 | CONSERVATION - Open access

Impact of forest management on the communication distance of an endangered tree squirrel. Brzozowski, R; Mahoney, SM; (...); Pasch, B. Nov 2024 | JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT - Open access

Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

No articles on this topic for this period.

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