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SOUTHWEST RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

Sharing the latest wildfire research relevant to the Southwest.

SUMMER 2024 EDITION

Covering publications March 2024 to July 2024.

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

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Climate Change & Carbon

Climate change and ecosystem shifts in the southwestern United States. Harris, GM; Sesnie, SE; Stewart, DR. Nov 2023 | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS - Open Access

An even drier future for the arid lands. Allan, RP; Douville, H. Jan 2024 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- Open Access

Satellite-detected large CO2 release in southwestern North America during the 2020-2021 drought and associated wildfires. Chen, H; He, W; (...); Baker, DF. May 2024 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS- Open Access

Fire Behavior

An unexpected decline in spring atmospheric humidity in the interior southwestern United States and the implications for forest fires. Jacobson, TWP; Seager, R; (...); Liu, HB. Mar 2024 | JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Fire Ecology

Fire severity and ungulate herbivory shape forest regeneration and recruitment after a large mixed-severity wildfire. Lewis, JS; Clair, SBS; (...); Rubin, ES. Mar 2024 | FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT - Open Access

Fire Models & Tools

Estimating the influence of field inventory sampling intensity on forest landscape model performance for determining high-severity wildfire risk. Hecht, H; Krofcheck, DJ; Carril, D; Hurteau, MD. Feb 2024 | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS- Open Access

Fire Regimes & Fire History

Temporal and spatial patterns of fire regime disruption in conifer forests of western North America. Saenz-Ceja, JE; Mendoza, ME. Mar 2024 | PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY - Open Access

Fuels Reduction & Restoration

Long-term ecological responses to landscape-scale restoration in western United States dry forest. Roccaforte, JP; Huffman, JW; (...); Fulé, PZ. May 2024 | RESTORATION ECOLOGY - Open Access

Restoring frequent fire to dry conifer forests delays the decline of subalpine forests in the southwestern United States under projected climate. Remy, CC; Krofcheck, DJ; Keyser, AR; Hurteau, MD. Jun 2024 | JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY - Open Access

A database of vegetation treatments in New Mexico, USA and surrounding regions. Withnall, K; Tomczyk, N; Zebrowski, J; Dappen, P. Jul 2024 | DATA IN BRIEF - Open Access

GIS & Remote Sensing

Mapping wildfire jurisdictional complexity reveals opportunities for regional co-management. Jones, K; Vukomanovic, J; Nowell, B; Mcgovern, S. Jan 2024 | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE - HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS - Open Access

Examining the impacts of pre-fire forest conditions on burn severity using multiple remote sensing platforms. Lee, KS; van Leeuwen, WJD; (...); Falk, DA. May 2024 | REMOTE SENSING- Open Access

Human Dimensions of Fire

Exploring the identification and use of socially defined indicators to monitor local environmental change in Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. Cannon, WH; Edgeley, CM. Mar 2024 | REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

An experimental study of climate change messages: who and how many to feature? Raja, US; Carrico, AR. Apr 2024 | ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION- A JOURNAL OF NATURE AND CLIMATE - Open Access

Voluntary uptake of flood insurance in post-fire landscapes: insights from household surveys after two wildfires in northern Arizona. Edgeley, CM; Colavito, MM; Vonhedemann, N; Burnett, JT. Jun 2024 | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS - Open Access

Indigenous & Cultural Fire

Indigenous land use and fire resilience in southwest USA ponderosa pine forests. Roos, CI; Swetnam, TW; Guiterman, CH. May 2024 | CLIMATIC AND ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS- Open Access

Invasive Species

Outcomes of control and monitoring of a widespread riparian invader Tamarix: a comparison of synthesis approaches. Goetz, ARB; Gonzalez-Sargas, E; Vidal MC; Shafroth, PB; Henry, AL;  Sher, AA. 2024 | NEOBIOTA- Open Access

Prescribed Fire & Managed Fire

Tamm review: a meta-analysis of thinning, prescribed fire, and wildfire effects on subsequent wildfire severity in conifer dominated forests of the western US. Davis, KT; Peeler, J; (...); Woolley, T. Jun 2024 | FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT - Open Access

Post-Fire

Postfire futures in southwestern forests: climate and landscape influences on trajectories of recovery and conversion. Coop, JD. Jan 2023 | ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS - Open Access

Experimental warming has limited impacts on post-fire succession across a burn severity gradient. Taber, EM; Mitchell, RM. Mar 2024 | JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Triggering conditions, runout, and downstream impacts of debris flows following the 2021 Flag Fire, Arizona, USA. Gorr, AN; McGuire, LA; Beers, R; Hoch, OJ. Jul 2023 - Updated Mar 2024 | NATURAL HAZARDS

Safety, Health, & Well-being

Comparing actigraphy and diary to measure daily and average sleep in firefighters: a Bland-Altman analysis. Marmis, R; McGoldrick-Ruth, L; (...); Haynes, PL. Apr 2024 | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL SLEEP MEDICINE

Wildlife particulate exposure and risks of preterm birth and low birth weight in the southwestern United States. Jiang, P; Li, Y; (...); Wang, M. May 2024 | PUBLIC HEALTH

Smoke & Air Quality

Were wildfires responsible for the unusually high surface ozone in Colorado during 2021? Langford, AO; Senff, CJ; (...); Zucker, ML. Jun 2023. Updated Mar 2024 | JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH - ATMOSPHERES - Open Access

Evaluating Phoenix metropolitan area ozone behavior using ground-based sampling, modeling, and satellite retrievals. Miech, JA; Herckes, P; (...); Guo, YF. May 2024 | ATMOSPHERE- Open Access

California wildfire smoke contributes to a positive atmospheric temperature anomaly over the western United States. Gomez, JL; Allen, RJ; Li, KF. Jun 2024 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS- Open Access

Impact of the 2022 New Mexico, US wildfires on air quality and health. Maki, KJ; Ford, B; (…); Russell, AG. Jul 2024 | SCIENCE OF THE TOAL ENVIRONMENT - Open Access

Suppression, Operations & Management

Wildfire management strategy and its relation to operational risk. Noonan-Wright, E; Seielstad, C. May 2024 | JOURNAL OF FORESTRY - Open Access

Vegetation Change, Regeneration & Recovery

Interactions of long-term grazing and woody encroachment can shift soil biogeochemistry and microbiomes in savanna ecosystems. Mushinski, RM; Zhou, Y; (...); Boutton, TW. Jan 2024 | GEODERMA - Open Access

The interacting influence of fire and and tree characteristics on Douglas-Fir beetle host tree selection five years post-fire. Young, M; Remke, M; Korb, J. Mar 2024 | FIRE-SWITZERLAND- Open Access

Climate limits vegetation green-up more than slope, soil erodibility, and immediate precipitation following high-severity wildfire. Crockett, JL; Hurteau, MD. Apr 2024 | FIRE ECOLOGY- Open Access

Sustainability and drivers of Populus tremuloides regeneration and recruitment near the southwestern edge of its range. Crouch, CD; Wilhemli, NP; (...); Warring, KM. Apr 2024 | FORESTRY - Open Access

Abiotic factors modify ponderosa pine regeneration outcomes after high-severity fire. Wilson, KG; Hurteau, MD. May 2024 | ECOSYSTEMS

Sensitivity of root production to long-term aridity under environmental perturbations in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems. Vojdani, A; Baur, LE; Rudgers, JA; Collins, SL. May 2024 | JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of prescribed fire on Cirsium wrightii (Asteraceae) at Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA. Dunbar, AK; Beauchamp, JS; Butler, MJ; Lopez, K. May 2024 | MADRONO - Open Access

Watershed & Hydrology

Water utility engagement in wildfire mitigation in watersheds in the western U.S. Jones, KW; Padowski, J; Morgan, M; Srinivasan, J.Dec 2023 |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Characteristics of debris-flow-prone watersheds and debris-flow-triggering rainstorms following the Tadpole fire, New Mexico, USA. McGuire, LA; Rangers, FK; (...); Porter, R. Apr 2024 | NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES- Open Access

Estimating evapotranspiration using chloride mass balance in a New Mexico paired basin study 2009-2019. Lewis, AC; Cadol, D. Apr 2024 | JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCE AND PROTECTION- Open Access

How three-dimensional forest structure regulates the amount of and timing of snowmelt across a climatic gradient of snow persistence. Dwivedi, R; Biederman, JA; (...); Robles, MD. May 2024 | FRONTIERS IN WATER- Open Access

Forest treatment effects on watershed responses under warming. Cederstrom, CJ; Vivoni, ER; Mascaro, G; Svoma, B. Jun 2024 | WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH - Open Access

Wildlife

Birds of the burn: avian community and functional guild variation five years post-fire in warm-dry mixed conifer, southwest Colorado. Scott, LA; Korb, JE. Mar 2024 | FIRE-SWITZERLAND- Open Access

Flammulated owl distribution and habitat associations during the breeding season in the western United States. Miller, RA; Wallace, ZP; (...); Green, M. Apr 2024 | FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT - Open Access

Frequent burning and limited stand-replacing fire supports Mexican spotted owl pair occupancy. Jones, GM; Clement, MA; (...); Kirby, R. Apr 2024 | FIRE ECOLOGY- Open Access

A review of Coelopoetinae (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Pterolonchidae), a moth subfamily confined to western North America, with descriptions of seven new species. Kaila, L. May 2024 | ZOOTAXA- Open Access

Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

Forest fire, thinning, and flood in wildland-urban interface: UAV and lidar-based estimate of natural disaster impacts. Sankey, TT; Tango, L; Tatum, J; Sankey, JB. Feb 2024 | LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY - Open Access

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