List of works - Philip E. Higuera

A Framework to Assess Biogeochemical Response to Ecosystem Disturbance Using Nutrient Partitioning Ratios

scholarly article by J. Marty Kranabetter published in November 2015

A model-based approach to wildland fire reconstruction using sediment charcoal records

Accuracy of node and bud-scar counts for aging two dominant conifers in western North America

scientific article published in 2018

Anticipating fire-mediated impacts of climate change using a demographic framework

scientific article published in 2018

Arctic and boreal paleofire records reveal drivers of fire activity and departures from Holocene variability

scientific article published on 09 May 2020

Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and responses to climate change

article

Bark beetles as agents of change in social-ecological systems

scientific article published in 2018

Biogeochemical impacts of wildfires over four millennia in a Rocky Mountain subalpine watershed

scientific article published on 6 May 2014

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

article

Centennial-scale reductions in nitrogen availability in temperate forests of the United States

scientific article

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

scholarly article

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

scientific article published in 2016

Climate, Environment, and Disturbance History Govern Resilience of Western North American Forests

scientific article

Climatic and land cover influences on the spatiotemporal dynamics of Holocene boreal fire regimes

scientific article

Climatic thresholds shape northern high-latitude fire regimes and imply vulnerability to future climate change

scholarly article by Adam M. Young et al published 1 June 2016 in Ecography

Comparing fire-history interpretations based on area, number and estimated volume of macroscopic charcoal in lake sediments

article

Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

scientific article

Fire catalyzed rapid ecological change in lowland coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest over the past 14,000 years

scientific article

Fire legacies impact conifer regeneration across environmental gradients in the U.S. northern Rockies

scientific article published in 2015

Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States

scientific article

Fire-regime complacency and sensitivity to centennial-through millennial-scale climate change in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, Colorado, USA

scholarly article by Philip E. Higuera et al published 8 August 2014 in Journal of Ecology

Fire-regime variability impacts forest carbon dynamics for centuries to millennia

scientific article published in 2017

Fire-regime variability impacts forest carbon dynamics for centuries to millennia

Fire‐regime variability and ecosystem resilience over four millennia in a Rocky Mountain subalpine watershed

scientific article published in 2023

First- and Second-Order Fire Effects

Forest succession and climate variability interacted to control fire activity over the last four centuries in an Alaskan boreal landscape

scientific article published in 2019

Frequent fires in ancient shrub tundra: implications of paleorecords for arctic environmental change

scientific article

Fuel moisture influences on fire-altered carbon in masticated fuels: An experimental study

How Climate and Vegetation Influence the fire Regime of the Alaskan Boreal Biome: The Holocene Perspective

Impacts of growing‐season climate on tree growth and post‐fire regeneration in ponderosa pine and Douglas‐fir forests

scientific article published in 2019

Indicators of Climate Change in Idaho: An Assessment Framework for Coupling Biophysical Change and Social Perceptiona

scholarly article by P. Zion Klos et al published July 2015 in Weather, Climate and Society

Integrating Subjective and Objective Dimensions of Resilience in Fire-Prone Landscapes

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Linking sediment-charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of fire-regime change in boreal forests

scientific article

Linking tree-ring and sediment-charcoal records to reconstruct fire occurrence and area burned in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, USA

article published in 2010

Managing bark beetle impacts on ecosystems and society: priority questions to motivate future research

scientific article published in 2016

Mesic mixed-conifer forests are resilient to both historical high-severity fire and contemporary reburns in the US Northern Rocky Mountains

scientific article published in 2023

Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: the role of local water balance

scientific article published in 2018

Millennial-scale changes in local vegetation and fire regimes on Mount Constitution, Orcas Island, Washington, USA, using small hollow sediments

Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept

scientific article published in 2010

Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

article

Post-Fire Carbon Dynamics in Subalpine Forests of the Rocky Mountains

scientific article

Quantifying the source area of macroscopic charcoal with a particle dispersal model

article

Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past 10,000 years

scientific article

Reconstructing Disturbances and Their Biogeochemical Consequences over Multiple Timescales

article

Reconstructing fire regimes with charcoal from small-hollow sediments: a calibration with tree-ring records of fire

Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons

article

Record-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States

scientific article published on 6 March 2023

Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA

scientific article published in 2008

Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2022

Replacing time with space: using laboratory fires to explore the effects of repeated burning on black carbon degradation

Rethinking resilience to wildfire

scientific article

Rocky Mountain subalpine forests now burning more than any time in recent millennia

scientific article

Sensitivity and complacency of sedimentary biogeochemical records to climate-mediated forest disturbances

Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires

scientific article published in 2023

Short Paper: A signal-to-noise index to quantify the potential for peak detection in sediment–charcoal records

article

Spatiotemporal patterns of tundra fires: late-Quaternary charcoal records from Alaska

scholarly article by M. L. Chipman et al published 3 July 2015 in Biogeosciences

Taking time to consider the causes and consequences of large wildfires

scientific article

The Changing Strength and Nature of Fire-Climate Relationships in the Northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008.

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

The biogeochemical consequences of late Holocene wildfires in three subalpine lakes from northern Colorado

scientific article

Tundra burning in Alaska: Linkages to climatic change and sea ice retreat

scholarly article

Use of landscape simulation modeling to quantify resilience for ecological applications

scientific article

Variability of tundra fire regimes in Arctic Alaska: millennial-scale patterns and ecological implications

article

Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska

scholarly article by Philip E. Higuera et al published May 2009 in Ecological Monographs

Vegetation response to wildfire and climate forcing in a Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine forest over the past 2500 years

article by Barrie V. Chileen et al published 10 July 2020 in The Holocene

Wildfire activity in northern Rocky Mountain subalpine forests still within millennial-scale range of variability

Wildfire impacts on forest microclimate vary with biophysical context

scientific article

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America ⬇️

scholarly article

Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Wildfires and geochemical change in a subalpine forest over the past six millennia

scholarly article by Bérangère Leys et al published 24 November 2016 in Environmental Research Letters

List of works by Philip E. Higuera

A Framework to Assess Biogeochemical Response to Ecosystem Disturbance Using Nutrient Partitioning Ratios

A model-based approach to wildland fire reconstruction using sediment charcoal records

Accuracy of node and bud-scar counts for aging two dominant conifers in western North America

Anticipating fire-mediated impacts of climate change using a demographic framework

Arctic and boreal paleofire records reveal drivers of fire activity and departures from Holocene variability

Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and responses to climate change

Bark beetles as agents of change in social-ecological systems

Biogeochemical impacts of wildfires over four millennia in a Rocky Mountain subalpine watershed

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

Centennial-scale reductions in nitrogen availability in temperate forests of the United States

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

Climate, Environment, and Disturbance History Govern Resilience of Western North American Forests

Climatic and land cover influences on the spatiotemporal dynamics of Holocene boreal fire regimes

Climatic thresholds shape northern high-latitude fire regimes and imply vulnerability to future climate change

Comparing fire-history interpretations based on area, number and estimated volume of macroscopic charcoal in lake sediments

Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

Fire catalyzed rapid ecological change in lowland coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest over the past 14,000 years

Fire legacies impact conifer regeneration across environmental gradients in the U.S. northern Rockies

Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States

Fire-regime complacency and sensitivity to centennial-through millennial-scale climate change in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, Colorado, USA

Fire-regime variability impacts forest carbon dynamics for centuries to millennia

Fire-regime variability impacts forest carbon dynamics for centuries to millennia

Fire‐regime variability and ecosystem resilience over four millennia in a Rocky Mountain subalpine watershed

First- and Second-Order Fire Effects

Forest succession and climate variability interacted to control fire activity over the last four centuries in an Alaskan boreal landscape

Frequent fires in ancient shrub tundra: implications of paleorecords for arctic environmental change

Fuel moisture influences on fire-altered carbon in masticated fuels: An experimental study

How Climate and Vegetation Influence the fire Regime of the Alaskan Boreal Biome: The Holocene Perspective

Impacts of growing‐season climate on tree growth and post‐fire regeneration in ponderosa pine and Douglas‐fir forests

Indicators of Climate Change in Idaho: An Assessment Framework for Coupling Biophysical Change and Social Perceptiona

Integrating Subjective and Objective Dimensions of Resilience in Fire-Prone Landscapes

Linking sediment-charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of fire-regime change in boreal forests

Linking tree-ring and sediment-charcoal records to reconstruct fire occurrence and area burned in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, USA

Managing bark beetle impacts on ecosystems and society: priority questions to motivate future research

Mesic mixed-conifer forests are resilient to both historical high-severity fire and contemporary reburns in the US Northern Rocky Mountains

Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: the role of local water balance

Millennial-scale changes in local vegetation and fire regimes on Mount Constitution, Orcas Island, Washington, USA, using small hollow sediments

Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept

Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

Post-Fire Carbon Dynamics in Subalpine Forests of the Rocky Mountains

Quantifying the source area of macroscopic charcoal with a particle dispersal model

Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past 10,000 years

Reconstructing Disturbances and Their Biogeochemical Consequences over Multiple Timescales

Reconstructing fire regimes with charcoal from small-hollow sediments: a calibration with tree-ring records of fire

Reconstructions of biomass burning from sediment-charcoal records to improve data–model comparisons

Record-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States

Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States

Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA

Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

Replacing time with space: using laboratory fires to explore the effects of repeated burning on black carbon degradation

Rethinking resilience to wildfire

Rocky Mountain subalpine forests now burning more than any time in recent millennia

Sensitivity and complacency of sedimentary biogeochemical records to climate-mediated forest disturbances

Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires

Short Paper: A signal-to-noise index to quantify the potential for peak detection in sediment–charcoal records

Spatiotemporal patterns of tundra fires: late-Quaternary charcoal records from Alaska

Taking time to consider the causes and consequences of large wildfires

The Changing Strength and Nature of Fire-Climate Relationships in the Northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008.

The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities

The biogeochemical consequences of late Holocene wildfires in three subalpine lakes from northern Colorado

Tundra burning in Alaska: Linkages to climatic change and sea ice retreat

Use of landscape simulation modeling to quantify resilience for ecological applications

Variability of tundra fire regimes in Arctic Alaska: millennial-scale patterns and ecological implications

Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska

Vegetation response to wildfire and climate forcing in a Rocky Mountain lodgepole pine forest over the past 2500 years

Wildfire activity in northern Rocky Mountain subalpine forests still within millennial-scale range of variability

Wildfire impacts on forest microclimate vary with biophysical context

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America ⬇️

Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes

Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration

Wildfires and geochemical change in a subalpine forest over the past six millennia