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Earth Science

D-Index
56
Citations
12047
World Ranking
2406
National Ranking
1011

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Best Publications

  • Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0-180°W)

    D. S. Kaufman;T.A. Ager;N.J. Anderson;P.M. Anderson

  • Recent Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling

    Darrell S. Kaufman;David P. Schneider;Nicholas P. McKay;Caspar M. Ammann

  • Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska

    Philip E. Higuera;Linda B. Brubaker;Patricia M. Anderson;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

    Jennifer R. Marlon;Patrick J. Bartlein;M. K. Walsh;Sandy P. Harrison

  • Recent burning of boreal forests exceeds fire regime limits of the past 10,000 years

    Ryan Kelly;Melissa L. Chipman;Philip E. Higuera;Ivanka Stefanova

  • Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography

    Daniel G. Gavin;Matthew C. Fitzpatrick;Paul F. Gugger;Katy D. Heath

  • Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic.

    Feng Sheng Hu;Darrell Kaufman;Sumiko Yoneji;David Nelson

  • Weak climatic control of stand-scale fire history during the late holocene.

    Daniel G. Gavin;Feng Sheng Hu;Kenneth Lertzman;Peter Corbett

  • Size parameters, size-class distribution and area-number relationship of microscopic charcoal: relevance for fire reconstruction

    Willy Tinner;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • Frequent Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleorecords for Arctic Environmental Change

    Philip E. Higuera;Linda B. Brubaker;Patricia M. Anderson;Thomas A. Brown

  • Climatic thresholds shape northern high‐latitude fire regimes and imply vulnerability to future climate change

    Adam M. Young;Philip E. Higuera;Paul A. Duffy;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Tundra burning in Alaska: Linkages to climatic change and sea ice retreat

    Feng Sheng Hu;Philip E. Higuera;Philip E. Higuera;John E. Walsh;John E. Walsh;William L. Chapman

  • A signal-to-noise index to quantify the potential for peak detection in sediment–charcoal records

    Ryan F. Kelly;Philip E. Higuera;Carolyn M. Barrett;Feng Sheng Hu

  • Arctic tundra fires: natural variability and responses to climate change

    Feng Sheng Hu;Philip E Higuera;Paul Duffy;Melissa L Chipman

  • Forest fire and climate change in western North America: insights from sediment charcoal records

    Daniel G. Gavin;Douglas J. Hallett;Feng Sheng Hu;Kenneth P. Lertzman

  • Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) – A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence

    Darrell S. Kaufman;Yarrow L. Axford;Andrew C.G. Henderson;Nicholas P. McKay

  • Pollen‐based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6000 and 0 14C yr bp†

    M.E. Edwards;P.M. Anderson;L.B. Brubaker;T.A. Ager

  • Abrupt changes in North American climate during early Holocene times

    F. S. Hu;D. Slawinski;H. E. Wright;E. Ito

  • Climatic and landscape controls of the boreal forest fire regime: Holocene records from Alaska

    Jason A. Lynch;Jeremy L. Hollis;Feng Sheng Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Gifford H. Miller
Gifford H. Miller University of Colorado Boulder
John W. King
John W. King University of Rhode Island
Konrad A Hughen
Konrad A Hughen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jonathan T. Overpeck
Jonathan T. Overpeck University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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