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The publications below were posted from Pacific Southwest Research Station researchers between October 2022 and February 2023. There are many more publications produced by our scientists available through Treesearch.

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This study found that the increased use of forest treatments, such as thinning and prescribed burns, could reduce the health and economic impacts associated with large wildfires emissions. However, prescribed burns could also be associated with an increase in the frequency of low levels of emissions. Increased management is likely to yield important benefits given expected increases in wildfire activity associated with climate change. Yet, many challenges remain toward projecting the effects of alternative management regimes, especially ones that involve substantial increases in intentional burning.

Comparing smoke emissions and impacts under alternative forest management regimes. Long, Jonathan; Drury, Stacy; Evans, Samuel; Maxwell, Charles; Scheller, Robert. 2022. Ecology and Society. 27(4): 26.

A diverse assortment of publicly available aerial photos, topographic and vegetation maps, and satellite imagery were used to assess spatiotemporal land-cover change on Babeldaob Island, Republic of Palau. This effort documented the effects of major historical events on the island’s land-cover, including a considerable 12% increase in forest cover between 1947 and 2014. Given similar publicly available datasets, other small tropical countries and island states can use the approach described here to affordably generate extended land-cover histories in support of natural resource management.

Centennial-scale land-cover change on Babeldaob Island, Palau. Dendy, Julian; Collins, Paul; Mesubed, Dino; Cordell, Susan; Giardina, Christian P.; Uowolo, Amanda; Iida, Akiko. 2022. Land. 11(6): 830.

Publications by research area:

Inventory and Monitoring

Hawai'i's forest resources: Forest Inventory and Analysis, 2010–2015. Owen, Suzanne M.; Kuegler, Olaf; Lehman, Ashley D.; Hughes, R. Flint; Terzibashian, Jane; Sprecher, Irene; Thompson, Tom; Ayotte, Seth; Yatskov, Mikhail; Silva, Michelle. 2022. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-1008. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 104 p.

Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability. Zuidema, Pieter A.; Babst, Flurin; Groenendijk, Peter; Trouet, Valerie; Abiyu, Abrham; Acuña-Soto, Rodolfo; Adenesky-Filho, Eduardo; Alfaro-Sánchez, Raquel; Aragão, José Roberto Vieira; Assis-Pereira, Gabriel; Bai, Xue; Barbosa, Ana Carolina; Battipaglia, Giovanna, et al. 2022. Nature Geoscience. 15(4): 269-276.

Pests and Pathogens

Cataloging Phytophthora species of agriculture, forests, horticulture, and restoration outplantings in California, U.S.A.: A sequence-based meta-analysis. Bourret, Tyler B.; Fajardo, Sebastian N.; Frankel, Susan J.; Rizzo, David M. 2023. Plant Disease. 107(1): 67-75.

Consistency of cuticular hydrocarbon mixtures of five Reticulitermes (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae) taxa from northern California: Similarity among colonies and seasonal variation. Nelson, Lori; Hamud, Shakeeb; Baldwin, James; Lewis, Vernard; Haverty, Michael I. 2022. Journal of Economic Entomology. 95: 753.

Resource Management and Use

Appendix A: Regional summaries - Hawaii and U.S. Giardina, Christian P.; MacKenzie, Richard A.; Deenik, Jonathan L. 2020. In: Pouyat, Richard V.; Page-Dumroese, Deborah S.; Patel-Weynand, Toral; Geiser, Linda H., editors. 2020. Forest and rangeland soils of the United States under changing conditions: A comprehensive science synthesis. Springer, Cham: 252-259.

Can we use the water budget to infer upland catchment behavior? The role of data set error estimation and interbasin groundwater flow. Gordon, Beatrice L.; Crow, Wade T.; Konings, Alexandra G.; Dralle, David N.; Harpold, Adrian A. 2022. Water Resources Research. 58(9): e2021WR030966.

Economic effects of federal grazing programs. Sloggy, Matthew R.; Anderes, Stefan; Sánchez, José J. 2023. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 88(10): 1-11.

Evaluating the effects of alternative landscape management scenarios on three old-forest-associated predators over 100 years in the fire-prone forests of the Sierra Nevada, USA. Slauson, Keith; Howard, Becky; White, Angela M.; Maxwell, Charles; Holland, Timothy. 2022. Ecology and Society. 27(3): 28.

Interacting municipal-level anthropogenic and ecological disturbances drive changes in Neotropical forest carbon storage. Toro, Giselle; Otero, Maria Paula; Clerici, Nicola; Szantoi, Zoltan; González-González, Andrés; Escobedo, Francisco J. 2022. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 10: 2540.

Neotropical urban forest allergenicity and ecosystem disservices can affect vulnerable neighborhoods in Bogota, Colombia. Escobedo, Francisco; Dobbs, Cynnamon; Tovar, Yuli; Cariñanos, Paloma. 2023. Sustainable Cities and Society. 89(3): 104343.

Water, Air and Soil

Causes of missing snowmelt following drought. Lapides, Dana A.; Hahm, W. Jesse; Rempe, Daniella M.; Whiting, John; Dralle, David N. 2022. Geophysical Research Letters. 49(19): 109.

Hydrologic recovery after wildfire: A framework of approaches, metrics, criteria, trajectories, and timescales. Ebel, Brian A.; Wagenbrenner, Joseph W.; Kinoshita, Alicia M.; Bladon, Kevin D. 2022. Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics. 70(4): 388-400.

Large wood in small channels: A 20‐year study of budgets and piece mobility in two redwood streams. Lininger, K. B.; Hilton, S. 2022. Water Resources Research. 58(11): e2022WR033047.

The age of evapotranspiration: Lower‐bound constraints from distributed water fluxes across the continental United States. Hahm, W. J.; Lapides, D. A.; Rempe, D. M.; McCormick, E. L.; Dralle, D. N. 2022. Water Resources Research. 58(10): e2022WR032961.

Wildland Fire and Fuels

Comparing two methods to measure oxidative pyrolysis gases in a wind tunnel and in prescribed burns. Weise, David R.; Johnson, Timothy J.; Myers, Tanya L.; Hao, Wei Min; Baker, Stephen; Palarea-Albaladejo, Javier; Scharko, Nicole K.; Bradley, Ashley M.; Banach, Catherine A.; Tonkyn, Russell G. 2022. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 32(1): 56-77.

Influence of pyrolysis gas composition and reaction kinetics on leaf-scale fires. Rahimi Borujerdi, Peyman; Shotorban, Babak; Mahalingam, Shankar; Weise, David R. 2022. Combustion Science and Technology. 22(2): 1-24.

Mega-disturbances cause rapid decline of mature conifer forest habitat in California. Steel, Zachary L.; Jones, Gavin M.; Collins, Brandon M.; Green, Rebecca; Koltunov, Alexander; Purcell, Kathryn L.; Sawyer, Sarah C.; Slaton, Michele R.; Stephens, Scott L.; Stine, Peter; Thompson, Craig. 2022. Ecological Applications.

Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity. Cansler, C. Alina; Kane, Van R.; Hessburg, Paul F.; Kane, Jonathan T.; Jeronimo, Sean M.A.; Lutz, James A.; Povak, Nicholas A.; Churchill, Derek J.; Larson, Andrew J. 2022. Forest Ecology and Management. 504(1): 119764.

The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Holland, Timothy; Evans, Samuel; Long, Jonathan; Maxwell, Charles; Scheller, Robert; Potts, Matthew. 2022. Ecology and Society. 27(4): 43.

Wildlife and Fish

A seasonal pulse of ungulate neonates influences space use by carnivores in a multi‐predator, multi‐prey system. Ruprecht, Joel; Forrester, Tavis D.; Jackson, Nathan J.; Clark, Darren A.; Wisdom, Michael J.; Rowland, Mary M.; Smith, Joshua B.; Stewart, Kelley M.; Levi, Taal. 2022. Ecology and Evolution. 12: e9389.

Food webs for three burn severities after wildfire in the Eldorado National Forest, California. McLaughlin, John P.; Schroeder, John W.; White, Angela M.; Culhane, Kate; Mirts, Haley E.; Tarbill, Gina L.; Sire, Laura; Page, Matt; Baker, Elijah J.; Moritz, Max; Brashares, Justin; Young, Hillary S.; Sollmann, Rahel. 2022. Scientific Data. 9(1): 384.

NABat ML: Utilizing deep learning to enable crowdsourced development of automated, scalable solutions for documenting North American bat populations. Khalighifar, Ali; Gotthold, Benjamin S.; Adams, Erin; Barnett, Jenny; Beard, Laura O.; Britzke, Eric R.; Burger, Paul A.; Chase, Kimberly; Cordes, Zackary; Cryan, Paul M.; Ferrall, Emily; Fill, Christopher T.; Gibson, Scott E.; Haulton, G. Scott; Irvine, Kathryn M., et al. 2022. Journal of Applied Ecology. 59(11): 2849-2862.

Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California. White, Angela M.; Holland, Tim G.; Abelson, Eric S.; Kretchun, Alec; Maxwell, Charles J.; Scheller, Robert M. 2022. Ecology and Society: 27(2):31.

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