selected publications
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academic article
- Death from hunger or thirst? Phloem death, rather than xylem hydraulic failure, as a driver of fire-induced conifer mortality. New Phytologist. 2022
- Short- and Long-term Effects of Fire on Stem Hydraulics in Pinus ponderosa Saplings. Plant, Cell and Environment. 44:696-705. 2021
- Drought Increases Vulnerability of Pinus ponderosa Saplings to Fire-Induced Mortality. Fire. 3:56. 2020
- Short- and Long-term Effects of Fire on Stem Hydraulics in Pinus ponderosasaplings. Plant, Cell and Environment. 2020
- Anatomical and hydraulic responses to desiccation in emergent conifer seedlings. American Journal of Botany. 2020
- Terrestrial lidar scanning reveals fine-scale linkages between microstructure and photosynthetic functioning of small-stature spruce trees at the forest-tundra ecotone. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 269:157-168. 2019
- Six co-occurring conifer species in northern Idaho exhibit a continuum of hydraulic strategies during an extreme drought year. AoB PLANTS. 11:plz056. 2019
- Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought. Plant, Cell and Environment. 41:576-588. 2018
- Characterizing Betula litwinowii Seeding Microsites at the Alpine-Treeline Ecotone, Central Greater Caucasus Mountains, Georgia. Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research. 41:112-118. 2018
- An experimental assessment of the impact of drought and fire on western larch injury, mortality and recovery. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 27:490-497. 2018
- Fire intensity impacts on post-fire temperate coniferous forest net primary productivity. Biogeosciences. 15:1173-1183. 2018
- Leaf hydraulic parameters are more plastic in species that experience a wider range of leaf water potentials. Functional Ecology. 32:894-903. 2018
- Measuring canopy loss and climatic thresholds from an extreme drought along a fivefold precipitation gradient across Texas. Global Change Biology. 23:5120-5135. 2017
- Effects of fire radiative energy density dose on Pinus contorta and Larix occidentalis seedling physiology and mortality. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 26:82-94. 2017
- Impacts of fire radiative flux on mature Pinus ponderosa growth and vulnerability to secondary mortality agents. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 26:95-106. 2017
- Canopy foliation and area as predictors of mortality risk from episodic drought for individual trees of Ashe juniper. Plant Ecology. 217:1105-1114. 2016
- Plant hydraulics as a central hub integrating plant and ecosystem function: meeting report for 'Emerging Frontiers in Plant Hydraulics' (Washington, DC, May 2015). Plant, Cell and Environment. 39:2085-2094. 2016
- A test of the hydraulic vulnerability segmentation hypothesis in angiosperm and conifer tree species. Tree Physiology. 36:983-993. 2016
- Spectral Indices Accurately Quantify Changes in Seedling Physiology Following Fire: Towards Mechanistic Assessments of Post-Fire Carbon Cycling. Remote Sensing. 8. 2016
- Towards a new paradigm in fire severity research using dose-response experiments. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25:158-166. 2016
- On research priorities to advance understanding of the safety-efficiency tradeoff in xylem: A response to Bittencourt et al.'s (2016) comment 'On xylem hydraulic efficiencies, wood space-use and the safety-efficiency tradeoff': in this issue of New Phytologist, pp. 1152-1155.. New Phytologist. 211:1156-1158. 2016
- Conversion of natural forests to managed forest plantations decreases tree resistance to prolonged droughts. Forest Ecology and Management. 355:58-71. 2015
- A comparison of hydraulic architecture in three similarly sized woody species differing in their maximum potential height. Tree Physiology. 35:723-731. 2015
- Calcium release near l-type calcium channels promotes beat-to-beat variability in ventricular myocytes from the chronic AV block dog. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 2015
- Vegetation-zonation patterns across a temperate mountain cloud forest ecotone are not explained by variation in hydraulic functioning or water relations. Tree Physiology. 2015
- Weak tradeoff between xylem safety and xylem-specific hydraulic efficiency across the world's woody plant species. New Phytologist. 209:123-136. 2015
- Role of aquaporin activity in regulating deep and shallow root hydraulic conductance during extreme drought. Trees - Structure and Function. 28:1323-1331. 2014
- Landsat-8: Science and product vision for terrestrial global change research. Remote Sensing of Environment. 145:154-172. 2014
- Preliminary Findings Exploring the Social Determinants of Black Males' Lay Health Perspectives. American Journal of Mens Health. 6:71-79. 2012
- Regional Economic Impacts of the Snake River Steelhead and Salmon Recovery. Society and Natural Resources. 24:569-583. 2011
- Age-class differences in shoot photosynthesis and water relations of Fraser fir (Abies fraseri), southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39:193-197. 2009
- Cloud immersion alters microclimate, photosynthesis and water relations in Rhododendron catawbiense and Abies fraseri seedlings in the southern Appalachian Mountains, USA. Tree Physiology. 28:385-392. 2008
- Limitations to photosynthetic carbon gain in timberline Abies lasiocarpa seedlings during prolonged drought. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 37:568-579. 2007
- Low clouds and cloud immersion enhance photosynthesis in understory species of a southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest (USA). American Journal of Botany. 93:1625-1632. 2006
- Leaf architecture and direction of incident light influence mesophyll fluorescence profiles. American Journal of Botany. 92:1425-1431. 2005
- Can superior natural amenities create high-quality employment opportunities? The case of nonconsumptive river recreation in central Idaho. Society and Natural Resources. 18:749-758. 2005
- Refugial forests of the southern Appalachians: photosynthesis and survival in current-year Abies fraseri seedlings. Tree Physiology. 25:1379-1387. 2005
- Integrated plant temperature measurement using heat-sensitive paint and colour image analysis. Functional Ecology. 18:148-153. 2004
- Abiotic factors limiting photosynthesis in Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii seedlings below and above the alpine timberline. Tree Physiology. 24:377-386. 2004
- Another perspective on altitudinal limits of alpine timberlines. Tree Physiology. 23:1101-1112. 2003
- Geostatistical ground water monitoring of a point source NO3--N plume entering a restored riparian zone. Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part A - Toxic/Hazardous Substances and Environmental Engineering. 38:719-735. 2003