List of works - Max A Moritz

A minimal model of fire-vegetation feedbacks and disturbance stochasticity generates alternative stable states in grassland–shrubland–woodland systems

article

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

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Adapting California's Ecosystems to a Changing Climate

Alternative community states maintained by fire in the Klamath Mountains, USA

scientific article published in 2010

An analysis of controls on fire activity in boreal Canada: comparing models built with different temporal resolutions

scientific article published in January 2014

Are Large, Infrequent Disturbances Qualitatively Different from Small, Frequent Disturbances?

article

Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk using a hydrodynamic vegetation model

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

Beyond a Focus on Fuel Reduction in the WUI: The Need for Regional Wildfire Mitigation to Address Multiple Risks

scientific article published in 2022

Bounded ranges of variation as a framework for future conservation and fire management

scientific article

Classification of the wildland–urban interface: A comparison of pixel- and object-based classifications using high-resolution aerial photography

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Climate change likely to reshape vegetation in North America's largest protected areas

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Climate change-induced shifts in fire for Mediterranean ecosystems

scholarly article by Enric Batllori et al published 5 June 2013 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Climate, Fuel, and Land Use Shaped the Spatial Pattern of Wildfire in California’s Sierra Nevada

scientific article

Compound fire-drought regimes promote ecosystem transitions in Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published in 2018

Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient

scientific article published on January 2011

Critical live fuel moisture in chaparral ecosystems: a threshold for fire activity and its relationship to antecedent precipitation

article by Philip E. Dennison & Max A. Moritz published 2009 in International Journal of Wildland Fire

Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems

scientific article published in 2017

Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century

Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental United States

scientific article published on 13 July 2019

Effect of Reduced Summer Cloud Shading on Evaporative Demand and Wildfire in Coastal Southern California

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

Effect of Tree-to-Shrub Type Conversion in Lower Montane Forests of the Sierra Nevada (USA) on Streamflow

scientific article

Effects of fire severity and post-fire climate on short-term vegetation recovery of mixed-conifer and red fir forests in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California

scientific article published in 2015

Erratum to “Physiological Effects of Smoke Exposure on Deciduous and Conifer Tree Species”

scholarly article published in International Journal of Forestry Research

Evaluating predictive models of critical live fuel moisture in the Santa Monica Mountains, California

article

Evaluating the Ability of FARSITE to Simulate Wildfires Influenced by Extreme, Downslope Winds in Santa Barbara, California

scientific article published in 2020

Examining historical and current mixed-severity fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America

scientific article published on 03 February 2014

Examining the strength and possible causes of the relationship between fire history and Sudden Oak Death

scientific article

Fine-grain modeling of species' response to climate change: holdouts, stepping-stones, and microrefugia

scientific article

Fire and sustainability: considerations for California’s altered future climate

scientific article published in 2007

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

scientific article

Fire in the Earth system

scientific article

Food webs for three burn severities after wildfire in the Eldorado National Forest, California

scientific article published in 2022

Forecasting Live Fuel Moisture of Adenostema fasciculatum and Its Relationship to Regional Wildfire Dynamics across Southern California Shrublands

scientific article published in 2022

Foundations of translational ecology

scientific article published in 2017

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

scientific article

Global pyrogeography: the current and future distribution of wildfire

scientific article

High and dry: high elevations disproportionately exposed to regional climate change in Mediterranean-climate landscapes

scientific article published on 30 November 2015

Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models: Effects of Human Activity and Climate Change on Fire Activity in California

scientific article

Increasing elevation of fire in the Sierra Nevada and implications for forest change

scientific article published in 2015

Influence of topography, vegetation, weather, and climate on Big-cone Douglas-Fir fire refugia and high fire-induced mortality after two large mixed-severity wildfires

scientific article published in 2022

Integration of landscape-level remote sensing and tree-level ecophysiology reveals drought refugia for a rare endemic, bigcone Douglas-fir

scientific article published in 2022

Is U.S. climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network?

scientific article published in January 2014

Land Use and Wildfire: A Review of Local Interactions and Teleconnections

scientific article published in 2015

Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires

scientific article

Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984-2011

scholarly article by Philip E. Dennison et al published 25 April 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

Learning to coexist with wildfire

scientific article

Modeling residential development in California from 2000 to 2050: Integrating wildfire risk, wildland and agricultural encroachment

article

Modelling long-term fire regimes of southern California shrublands

Physiological Effects of Smoke Exposure on Deciduous and Conifer Tree Species

article

Place and process in conservation planning for climate change: a reply to Keppel and Wardell-Johnson

scientific article published on 30 March 2015

Potential relocation of climatic environments suggests high rates of climate displacement within the North American protection network

scientific article

Predicting the effect of climate change on wildfire behavior and initial attack success

article

Prescribed fire and natural disturbance

scientific article published in December 2004

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

article

Recent California tree mortality portends future increase in drought-driven forest die-off

scientific article published in December 2020

Relationships of climate, human activity, and fire history to spatiotemporal variation in annual fire probability across California

scientific article published on 03 November 2021

Remote sensing analysis of vegetation recovery following short-interval fires in Southern California shrublands

scientific article

Research on fire and ecosystem services must incorporate climate realities

scientific article published in 2011

Rivers are social-ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management

Scale-dependent controls on the area burned in the boreal forest of Canada, 1980-2005.

scientific article published in April 2011

Setting Wildfire Evacuation Trigger Points Using Fire Spread Modeling and GIS

scholarly article by Thomas J. Cova et al published October 2005 in Transactions in GIS

Spatial Characterization of Wildfire Orientation Patterns in California

scholarly article by Ana Barros et al published 22 March 2013 in Forests

Spatial variation in extreme winds predicts large wildfire locations in chaparral ecosystems

scholarly article by Max A. Moritz et al published February 2010 in Geophysical Research Letters

Testing a basic assumption of shrubland fire management: how important is fuel age?

article by Max A. Moritz et al published March 2004 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

The Fire Information Engine

The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

The changing water cycle: The eco‐hydrologic impacts of forest density reduction in Mediterranean (seasonally dry) regions

scientific article published in 2019

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

The relative influence of climate and housing development on current and projected future fire patterns and structure loss across three California landscapes

scientific article

Understanding How Fuel Treatments Interact With Climate and Biophysical Setting to Affect Fire, Water, and Forest Health: A Process-Based Modeling Approach

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

Urban–wildland fires: how California and other regions of the US can learn from Australia

article

Wildfire Risk in the Complex Terrain of the Santa Barbara Wildland–Urban Interface during Extreme Winds

scientific article published in 2022

Wildfires ignite debate on global warming

scientific article published on 18 July 2012

Wildfires, complexity, and highly optimized tolerance

scientific article

List of works by Max A Moritz

A minimal model of fire-vegetation feedbacks and disturbance stochasticity generates alternative stable states in grassland–shrubland–woodland systems

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

Adapting California's Ecosystems to a Changing Climate

Alternative community states maintained by fire in the Klamath Mountains, USA

An analysis of controls on fire activity in boreal Canada: comparing models built with different temporal resolutions

Are Large, Infrequent Disturbances Qualitatively Different from Small, Frequent Disturbances?

Assessing climate change impacts on live fuel moisture and wildfire risk using a hydrodynamic vegetation model

Beyond a Focus on Fuel Reduction in the WUI: The Need for Regional Wildfire Mitigation to Address Multiple Risks

Bounded ranges of variation as a framework for future conservation and fire management

Classification of the wildland–urban interface: A comparison of pixel- and object-based classifications using high-resolution aerial photography

Climate change and disruptions to global fire activity

Climate change likely to reshape vegetation in North America's largest protected areas

Climate change-induced shifts in fire for Mediterranean ecosystems

Climate, Fuel, and Land Use Shaped the Spatial Pattern of Wildfire in California’s Sierra Nevada

Compound fire-drought regimes promote ecosystem transitions in Mediterranean ecosystems

Constraints on global fire activity vary across a resource gradient

Critical live fuel moisture in chaparral ecosystems: a threshold for fire activity and its relationship to antecedent precipitation

Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems

Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century

Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental United States

Effect of Reduced Summer Cloud Shading on Evaporative Demand and Wildfire in Coastal Southern California

Effect of Tree-to-Shrub Type Conversion in Lower Montane Forests of the Sierra Nevada (USA) on Streamflow

Effects of fire severity and post-fire climate on short-term vegetation recovery of mixed-conifer and red fir forests in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California

Erratum to “Physiological Effects of Smoke Exposure on Deciduous and Conifer Tree Species”

Evaluating predictive models of critical live fuel moisture in the Santa Monica Mountains, California

Evaluating the Ability of FARSITE to Simulate Wildfires Influenced by Extreme, Downslope Winds in Santa Barbara, California

Examining historical and current mixed-severity fire regimes in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America

Examining the strength and possible causes of the relationship between fire history and Sudden Oak Death

Fine-grain modeling of species' response to climate change: holdouts, stepping-stones, and microrefugia

Fire and sustainability: considerations for California’s altered future climate

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

Fire in the Earth system

Food webs for three burn severities after wildfire in the Eldorado National Forest, California

Forecasting Live Fuel Moisture of Adenostema fasciculatum and Its Relationship to Regional Wildfire Dynamics across Southern California Shrublands

Foundations of translational ecology

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

Global pyrogeography: the current and future distribution of wildfire

High and dry: high elevations disproportionately exposed to regional climate change in Mediterranean-climate landscapes

Incorporating Anthropogenic Influences into Fire Probability Models: Effects of Human Activity and Climate Change on Fire Activity in California

Increasing elevation of fire in the Sierra Nevada and implications for forest change

Influence of topography, vegetation, weather, and climate on Big-cone Douglas-Fir fire refugia and high fire-induced mortality after two large mixed-severity wildfires

Integration of landscape-level remote sensing and tree-level ecophysiology reveals drought refugia for a rare endemic, bigcone Douglas-fir

Is U.S. climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network?

Land Use and Wildfire: A Review of Local Interactions and Teleconnections

Land management practices associated with house loss in wildfires

Large wildfire trends in the western United States, 1984-2011

Learning to coexist with wildfire

Modeling residential development in California from 2000 to 2050: Integrating wildfire risk, wildland and agricultural encroachment

Modelling long-term fire regimes of southern California shrublands

Physiological Effects of Smoke Exposure on Deciduous and Conifer Tree Species

Place and process in conservation planning for climate change: a reply to Keppel and Wardell-Johnson

Potential relocation of climatic environments suggests high rates of climate displacement within the North American protection network

Predicting the effect of climate change on wildfire behavior and initial attack success

Prescribed fire and natural disturbance

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

Recent California tree mortality portends future increase in drought-driven forest die-off

Relationships of climate, human activity, and fire history to spatiotemporal variation in annual fire probability across California

Remote sensing analysis of vegetation recovery following short-interval fires in Southern California shrublands

Research on fire and ecosystem services must incorporate climate realities

Rivers are social-ecological systems: Time to integrate human dimensions into riverscape ecology and management

Scale-dependent controls on the area burned in the boreal forest of Canada, 1980-2005.

Setting Wildfire Evacuation Trigger Points Using Fire Spread Modeling and GIS

Spatial Characterization of Wildfire Orientation Patterns in California

Spatial variation in extreme winds predicts large wildfire locations in chaparral ecosystems

Testing a basic assumption of shrubland fire management: how important is fuel age?

The Fire Information Engine

The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities

The changing water cycle: The eco‐hydrologic impacts of forest density reduction in Mediterranean (seasonally dry) regions

The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

The relative influence of climate and housing development on current and projected future fire patterns and structure loss across three California landscapes

Understanding How Fuel Treatments Interact With Climate and Biophysical Setting to Affect Fire, Water, and Forest Health: A Process-Based Modeling Approach

Urban–wildland fires: how California and other regions of the US can learn from Australia

Wildfire Risk in the Complex Terrain of the Santa Barbara Wildland–Urban Interface during Extreme Winds

Wildfires ignite debate on global warming

Wildfires, complexity, and highly optimized tolerance