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Higuera, Philip E Person

Former Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences faculty

Publications

selected publications

• academic article

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers.  Journal of Ecology.  2020
  • Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: the role of local water balance.  Ecography.  42:1-11. 2019
  • Climate will increasingly determine post-fire tree regeneration success in low-elevation forests, Northern Rockies, USA.  Ecosphere.  10:e02568. 2019
  • Consequences of climatic thresholds for projecting fire activity and ecological change.  Global Ecology and Biogeography.  28:521-532. 2019
  • Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change.  Ecology Letters.  21:243-252. 2018
  • Fire-regime variability impacts forest carbon dynamics for centuries to millennia.  Biogeosciences.  14.0:3873.0-3882.0. 2017
  • A Framework to Assess Biogeochemical Response to Ecosystem Disturbance Using Nutrient Partitioning Ratios.  Ecosystems.  19:387-395. 2016
  • Fire legacies impact conifer regeneration across environmental gradients in the US northern Rockies.  Landscape Ecology.  31:619-636. 2016
  • The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities.  BioScience.  66:130-146. 2016
  • Replacing time with space: using laboratory fires to explore the effects of repeated burning on black carbon degradation.  International Journal of Wildland Fire.  25:242-248. 2016
  • Wildfires and geochemical change in a subalpine forest over the past six millennia.  Environmental Research Letters.  11. 2016
  • Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and responses to climate change.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.  13:369-377. 2015
  • Spatiotemporal patterns of tundra fires: late-Quaternary charcoal records from Alaska.  Biogeosciences.  12:4017-4027. 2015
  • The Changing Strength and Nature of Fire-Climate Relationships in the Northern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A., 1902-2008.  PLOS One.  10. 2015
  • Indicators of climate change in Idaho: An assessment framework for coupling biophysical change and social perception.  Weather Climate and Society.  2015
  • Sensitivity and complacency of sedimentary biogeochemical records to climate-mediated forest disturbances.  Earth-Science Reviews.  148:121-133. 2015
  • Fire-regime complacency and sensitivity to centennial-through millennial-scale climate change in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, Colorado, USA.  Journal of Ecology.  102:1429-1441. 2014
  • Biogeochemical impacts of wildfires over four millennia in a Rocky Mountain subalpine watershed.  New Phytologist.  203:900-912. 2014
  • Reconstructing Disturbances and Their Biogeochemical Consequences over Multiple Timescales.  BioScience.  64:105-116. 2014
  • Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past 10,000 years.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  110:13055-13060. 2013
  • Fuel moisture influences on fire-altered carbon in masticated fuels: An experimental study.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.  118:30-40. 2013
  • Climatic and land cover influences on the spatiotemporal dynamics of Holocene boreal fire regimes.  Ecology.  94:389-402. 2013
  • The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for surface properties and radiative forcing.  Environmental Research Letters.  7. 2012
  • Variability of Tundra Fire Regimes in Arctic Alaska: Millennial-scale Patterns and Ecological Implications.  Ecological Applications.  21:3211-3226. 2011
  • Linking tree-ring and sediment-charcoal records to reconstruct fire occurrence and area burned in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, USA.  Holocene.  21:327-341. 2011
  • A signal-to-noise index to quantify the potential for peak detection in sediment-charcoal records.  Quaternary Research.  75:11-17. 2011
  • Peak detection in sediment-charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations.  International Journal of Wildland Fire.  19:996-1014. 2010
  • Tundra burning in Alaska: Linkages to climatic change and sea ice retreat.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences.  115. 2010
  • Comparing fire-history interpretations based on area, number and estimated volume of macroscopic charcoal in lake sediments.  Quaternary Research.  72:462-468. 2009
  • Linking sediment-charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of fire-regime change in boreal forests.  Ecology.  90:1788-1801. 2009
  • Frequent Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleorecords for Arctic Environmental Change.  PLOS One.  3. 2008
  • Millennial-scale changes in local vegetation and fire regimes on Mount Constitution, Orcas Island, Washington, USA, using small hollow sediments.  Canadian Journal of Forest Research.  38:539-552. 2008
  • Quantifying the source area of macroscopic charcoal with a particle dispersal model.  Quaternary Research.  67:304-310. 2007
  • Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model.  Quaternary Science Reviews.  26:1790-1809. 2007
  • Reconstructing fire regimes with charcoal from small-hollow sediments: a calibration with tree-ring records of fire.  Holocene.  15:238-251. 2005
  • Climatic thresholds shape northern high-latitude fire regimes and imply vulnerability to future climate change.  Ecography.  40.0:606.0-617.0.

• dataset

  • Code for Fig. 3, 4, and 5 in Morris et al. (2015) "Sensitivity and complacency of sedimentary biogeochemical records..."

Research

principal investigator on

• Collaborative Research: Integrating paleoecological analysis and ecological modeling to elucidate the responses of tundra fire regimes to climate change  awarded by NSF Section for Arctic Sciences (ARC) 2010 - 2014
• Disturbance Regimes in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests: Multidecadal- to Millennial-scale Patterns, Causes, and Consequences  awarded by National Institute for Food and Agriculture 2010 - 2013

Teaching

is major professor for

• Biogeochemical Impacts of Fire Over Four Millennia in a Rocky Mountain Subalpine Watershed  Thesis
• Wildfire and Climate Change in Mixed-Conifer Ecosystems of the Northern Rockies: Implications for Forest Recovery and Management  Thesis