List of works - Jennifer K. Balch

A Computationally Efficient Method for Updating Fuel Inputs for Wildfire Behavior Models Using Sentinel Imagery and Random Forest Classification

scientific article published in 2022

A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage

article by R. Chelsea Nagy et al published 12 October 2020 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

scientific article

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2014

scientific article published on 21 February 2020

Assessing extinction risk in the absence of species-level data: quantitative criteria for terrestrial ecosystems

Atmospheric science: drought and fire change sink to source

scientific article

Best Practices for Virtual Participation in Meetings: Experiences from Synthesis Centers

article

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Comment on "The incidence of fire in Amazonian forests with implications for REDD".

scientific article

Controls on interannual variability in lightning-caused fire activity in the western US

Cover-based allometric estimate of aboveground biomass of a non-native, invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum L.) in the Great Basin, USA

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Cyberinfrastructure deployments on public research clouds enable accessible Environmental Data Science education

scientific article published on 10 September 2023

Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis

scientific article

Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon

scientific article published on 14 February 2015

Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil)

article

Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests

scientific article

Erratum: Corrigendum: The Amazon basin in transition

scientific article published in Nature

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

scientific article

Fire in the Earth system

scientific article

Fire threatens the diversity and structure of tropical gallery forests

scientific article

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

Fusion neural networks for plant classification: learning to combine RGB, hyperspectral, and lidar data

scientific article published on 29 July 2021

Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997-2010)

scientific article

Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

scientific article

Impacts of fire on sources of soil CO efflux in a dry Amazon rain forest

scholarly article by Daniel B Metcalfe et al published August 2018 in Global Change Biology

Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon

scientific article

Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semiarid shrubland

scientific article published on 08 October 2021

Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009).

scientific article

Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions ⬇️

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Leafcutter Ant Nests Inhibit Low-Intensity Fire Spread in the Understory of Transitional Forests at the Amazon's Forest-Savanna Boundary

scientific article published in 2012

Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

scientific article

Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2 and H2 O fluxes

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes

article

Quantifying the human influence on fire ignition across the western USA.

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest‐Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States

scientific article published on 01 March 2022

Recent droughts in the United States are among the fastest-developing of the last seven decades

scientific article published in 2022

Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2022

Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD.

scientific article published on 9 March 2017

Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon

article

Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima

scientific article published on 20 June 2019

Switching on the Big Burn of 2017

Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses. ⬇️

scientific article

The Amazon basin in transition

scientific article

The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment

The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)

Scholarly article, 2024

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

The impacts of recurrent fires on diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a south-eastern Amazon forest

article by Rafael B. de Andrade et al published 20 December 2016 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

The role of leaf traits in determining litter flammability of south-eastern Amazon tree species

article

Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s

scientific article published on 16 March 2022

Understanding and managing connected extreme events

Understanding and predicting extreme wildfires in the contiguous United States

scholarly article published 3 August 2018

Using large public datasets in the undergraduate ecology classroom

scientific article published in 2014

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire

scientific article published on 16 February 2022

List of works by Jennifer K. Balch

A Computationally Efficient Method for Updating Fuel Inputs for Wildfire Behavior Models Using Sentinel Imagery and Random Forest Classification

A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage

Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2014

Assessing extinction risk in the absence of species-level data: quantitative criteria for terrestrial ecosystems

Atmospheric science: drought and fire change sink to source

Best Practices for Virtual Participation in Meetings: Experiences from Synthesis Centers

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions

Comment on "The incidence of fire in Amazonian forests with implications for REDD".

Controls on interannual variability in lightning-caused fire activity in the western US

Cover-based allometric estimate of aboveground biomass of a non-native, invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum L.) in the Great Basin, USA

Cyberinfrastructure deployments on public research clouds enable accessible Environmental Data Science education

Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis

Early recruitment responses to interactions between frequent fires, nutrients, and herbivory in the southern Amazon

Ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling in intact and annually burnt forest at the dry southern limit of the Amazon rainforest (Mato Grosso, Brazil)

Effects of high-frequency understorey fires on woody plant regeneration in southeastern Amazonian forests

Erratum: Corrigendum: The Amazon basin in transition

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

Fire in the Earth system

Fire threatens the diversity and structure of tropical gallery forests

Fire-induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

Fusion neural networks for plant classification: learning to combine RGB, hyperspectral, and lidar data

Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997-2010)

Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

Impacts of fire on sources of soil CO efflux in a dry Amazon rain forest

Interactions between repeated fire, nutrients, and insect herbivores affect the recovery of diversity in the southern Amazon

Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semiarid shrubland

Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980-2009).

Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions ⬇️

Leafcutter Ant Nests Inhibit Low-Intensity Fire Spread in the Understory of Transitional Forests at the Amazon's Forest-Savanna Boundary

Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

Prolonged tropical forest degradation due to compounding disturbances: Implications for CO2 and H2 O fluxes

Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes

Quantifying the human influence on fire ignition across the western USA.

Rapid Growth of Large Forest Fires Drives the Exponential Response of Annual Forest‐Fire Area to Aridity in the Western United States

Recent droughts in the United States are among the fastest-developing of the last seven decades

Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

Reimagine fire science for the anthropocene

Scenarios in tropical forest degradation: carbon stock trajectories for REDD.

Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon

Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima

Switching on the Big Burn of 2017

Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses. ⬇️

The Amazon basin in transition

The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment

The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020)

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

The impacts of recurrent fires on diversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a south-eastern Amazon forest

The role of leaf traits in determining litter flammability of south-eastern Amazon tree species

Two centuries of settlement and urban development in the United States

U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s

Understanding and managing connected extreme events

Understanding and predicting extreme wildfires in the contiguous United States

Using large public datasets in the undergraduate ecology classroom

Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire