Below is a selection of the most notable and current publications by Safford Lab staff. For a complete list of publications by each member, please see their individual CVs on the People page.
2024
Williams J.N.; Quinn-Davidson L.; Safford H.D.; Grupenhoff A.; Middleton B.R.; Restaino J.; Smith E.; Adlam C.; Rivera-Huerta H. (2024) Overcoming obstacles to prescribed fire in the North American Mediterranean climate zone. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2687
Harrison S.; Franklin J.; Hernandez R.R.; Ikegami M.; Safford H.D.; Thorne J.H. (2024) Climate change and California’s terrestrial biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2310074121
Kobziar L.N.; Hiers J.K.; Belcher C.M.; Bond W.J.; Enquist C.A.; Loudermilk E.L.; Miesel J.R.; O’Brien J.J.; Pausas J.G.; Hood S.; Keane R.; Morgan P.; Pingree M.R.A.; Riley K.; Safford H.; Seijo F.; Varner J.M.; Wall T.; Watts A.C. (2024) Principles of fire ecology. Fire Ecology https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00272-0
Dobrowski S.Z.; Aghai M.M.; Chichilnisky du Lac A.; Downer R.; Fargione J.; Haase D.L.; Hoecker T.; Kildisheva O.A.; Murdoch A.; Newman S.; North M.; Saksa P.; Sjoholm M.; Baribault T.; Buonanduci M.S.; Chambers M.E.; Gonzales-Kramer L.; Harvey B.J.; Hurteau M.D.; Loevner J.; Safford H.D.; Sloan J. (2024) ‘Mind the Gap’—reforestation needs vs. reforestation capacity in the western United States. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1402124
Maezumi S.Y.; Fletcher M.-S.; Safford H.; Roberts P. (2024) Fighting with fire: Historical ecology and community-based approaches to fire management, stewardship, and ecosystem resilience. One Earth https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.05.016
2023
Davis K.T.; Robles M.D.; Kemp K.B.; Higuera P.E.; Chapman T.; Metlen K.L.; Peeler J.L.; Rodman K.C.; Woolley T.; Addington R.N.; Buma B.J.; Cansler C.A.; Case M.J.; Collins B.M.; Coop J.D.; Dobrowski S.Z.; Gill N.S.; Haffey C.; Harris L.B.; Harvey B.J.; Haugo R.D.; Hurteau M.D.; Kulakowski D.; Littlefield C.E.; McCauley L.A.; Povak N.; Shive K.L.; Smith E.; Stevens J.T.; Stevens-Rumann C.S.; Taylor A.H.; Tepley A.J.; Young D.J.N.; Andrus R.A.; Battaglia M.A.; Berkey J.K.; Busby S.U.; Carlson A.R.; Chambers M.E.; Dodson E.K.; Donato D.C.; Downing W.M.; Fornwalt P.J.; Halofsky J.S.; Hoffman A.; Holz A.; Iniguez J.M.; Krawchuk M.A.; Kreider M.R.; Larson A.J.; Meigs G.W.; Roccaforte J.P.; Rother M.T.; Safford H.; Schaedel M.; Sibold J.S.; Singleton M.P.; Turner M.G.; Urza A.K.; Clark-Wolf K.D.; Yocom L.; Fontaine J.B.; Campbell J.L. (2023) Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208120120
Williams J.N.; Safford H.D.; Enstice N.; Steel Z.L.; Paulson A.K. (2023) High-severity burned area and proportion exceed historic conditions in Sierra Nevada, California, and adjacent ranges. Ecosphere https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4397
MacDonald G.; Wall T.; Enquist C.A.F.; LeRoy S.R.; Bradford J.B.; Breshears D.D.; Brown T.; Cayan D.; Dong C.; Falk D.A.; Fleishman E.; Gershunov A.; Hunter M.; Loehman R.A.; van Mantgem P.J.; Middleton B.R.; Safford H.D.; Schwartz M.W.; Trouet V. (2023) Drivers of California's changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis. International Journal of Wildland Fire https://doi.org/10.1071/WF22155
2022
Safford H.D.; Paulson A.K.; Steel Z.L.; Young D.J.N.; Wayman R.B. (2022) The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?. Global Ecology and Biogeography https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13498
Guiterman C.H.; Gregg R.M.; Marshall L.A.E.; Beckmann J.J.; van Mantgem P.J.; Falk D.A.; Keeley J.E.; Caprio A.C.; Coop J.D.; Fornwalt P.J.; Haffey C.; Hagmann R.K.; Jackson S.T.; Lynch A.M.; Margolis E.Q.; Marks C.; Meyer M.D.; Safford H.; Syphard A.D.; Taylor A.; Wilcox C.; Carril D.; Enquist C.A.F.; Huffman D.; Iniguez J.; Molinari N.A.; Restaino C.; Stevens J.T. (2022) Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses. Fire Ecology https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-022-00131-w
Steel Z.L.; Fogg A.M.; Burnett R.; Roberts L.J.; Safford H.D. (2022) When bigger isn’t better—Implications of large high-severity wildfire patches for avian diversity and community composition. Diversity and Distributions https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13281
2021
Hagmann R.K.; Hessburg P.F.; Prichard S.J.; Povak N.A.; Brown P.M.; Fulé P.Z.; Keane R.E.; Knapp E.E.; Lydersen J.M.; Metlen K.L.; Reilly M.J.; Sánchez Meador A.J.; Stephens S.L.; Stevens J.T.; Taylor A.H.; Yocom L.L.; Battaglia M.A.; Churchill D.J.; Daniels L.D.; Falk D.A.; Henson P.; Johnston J.D.; Krawchuk M.A.; Levine C.R.; Meigs G.W.; Merschel A.G.; North M.P.; Safford H.D.; Swetnam T.W.; Waltz A.E.M. (2021) Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2431
Prichard S.J.; Hessburg P.F.; Hagmann R.K.; Povak N.A.; Dobrowski S.Z.; Hurteau M.D.; Kane V.R.; Keane R.E.; Kobziar L.N.; Kolden C.A.; North M.; Parks S.A.; Safford H.D.; Stevens J.T.; Yocom L.L.; Churchill D.J.; Gray R.W.; Huffman D.W.; Lake F.K.; Khatri-Chhetri P. (2021) Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2433
Stewart J.A.E.; van Mantgem P.J.; Young D.J.N.; Shive K.L.; Preisler H.K.; Das A.J.; Stephenson N.L.; Keeley J.E.; Safford H.D.; Wright M.C.; Welch K.R.; Thorne J.H. (2021) Effects of postfire climate and seed availability on postfire conifer regeneration. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2280
Wayman R.B.; Safford H.D. (2021) Recent bark beetle outbreaks influence wildfire severity in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Ecological Applications https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2287
Brodie E.G.; Miller J.E.D.; Safford H.D. (2021) Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3514