selected publications

• journal article

  • The Properties of Individual Fire Events Are Essential for Understanding Global Fire Regimes.  Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2025
  • Indirect effects of soil amendments on plant traits and the microbiome in post-wildfire forest recovery.  Forest Ecology and Management. 2025
  • Forest restoration treatments increase native plant diversity but open the door to invasion in the Colorado Front Range.  Forest Ecology and Management. 2025
  • Non-native grass invasion drives biodiversity loss after a single fire in a semi-arid shrubland.  Biological Conservation. 2025
  • Diurnal temperature range drives understory plant community composition in micro-climatically complex temperate montane forests.  Environmental Research: Ecology. 2025
  • Surface boundary layer stability and meteorological drivers of temporal microclimate variability in a semiarid grassland.  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2025
  • Topographic Position Index Predicts Within-Field Yield Variation in a Dryland Cereal Production System.  Agronomy. 2025
  • Long-term soil nutrient and understory plant responses to post-fire rehabilitation in a lodgepole pine forest.  Forest Ecology and Management. 122359-122359. 2025
  • The fastest-growing and most destructive fires in the US (2001 to 2020).  Science. 425-431. 2024
  • Soil climate underpins year effects driving divergent outcomes in semi-arid cropland-to-grassland restoration.  Ecosphere. 2024
  • neonPlantEcology: An R package for preparing NEON plant data for use in ecological research.  Ecological Modelling. 2024
  • Drought-fuelled overnight burning propels large fires in North America..  Nature. 273-274. 2024
  • The invasive plant data landscape: a synthesis of spatial data and applications for research and management in the United States.  Landscape Ecology. 3825-3843. 2023
  • Fuel Connectivity, Burn Severity, and Seedbank Survivorship Drive Ecosystem Transformation in a Semiarid Shrubland 2023
  • Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seed bank survivorship drive ecosystem transformation in a semiarid shrubland.  Ecology. 2023
  • Shifting social-ecological fire regimes explain increasing structure loss from Western wildfires.  PNAS Nexus. 2023
  • Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data.  Peer Community Journal. 2023
  • Modern Pyromes: Biogeographical Patterns of Fire Characteristics across the Contiguous United States.  Fire. 2022
  • Country-level fire perimeter datasets (2001-2021).  Scientific Data. 2022
  • The human-grass-fire cycle: how people and invasives co-occur to drive fire regimes.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 117-126. 2022
  • Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire.  Nature. 442-+. 2022
  • Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semiarid shrubland.  Global Change Biology. 267-284. 2022
  • Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community.  Ecosphere. 2021
  • Interannual climate variability mediates changes in carbon and nitrogen pools caused by annual grass invasion in a semi-arid shrubland 2021
  • Cover-based allometric estimate of aboveground biomass of a non-native, invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum L.) in the Great Basin, USA.  Journal of Arid Environments. 2021
  • Six central questions about biological invasions to which NEON data science is poised to contribute.  Ecosphere. 2021
  • A synthesis of the effects of cheatgrass invasion on US Great Basin carbon storage.  Journal of Applied Ecology. 327-337. 2021
  • FIRED (Fire Events Delineation): An Open, Flexible Algorithm and Database of US Fire Events Derived from the MODIS Burned Area Product (2001-2019).  Remote Sensing. 2020
  • y Social-Environmental Extremes: Rethinking Extraordinary Events as Outcomes of Interacting Biophysical and Social Systems.  Earth's Future. 2020
  • Anthropogenic and lightning-started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the USA.  Global Ecology and Biogeography. 668-681. 2020
  • Spatiotemporal prediction of wildfire size extremes with Bayesian finite sample maxima.  Ecological Applications. 2019
  • Repeated fires reduce plant diversity in low-elevation Wyoming big sagebrush ecosystems (1984-2014).  Ecosphere. 2019
  • Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2946-2951. 2017