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Overview

James A. Lutz is affiliated with Utah State University in the United States. The scientist's research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their body of work encompasses a wide range of topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

James A. Lutz has published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Ecological Processes
  • Nature Communications
  • Ecosphere
  • Fire Ecology

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network," 2020, Biological Conservation
  • "Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Previous wildfires and management treatments moderate subsequent fire severity," 2021, Forest Ecology and Management

Among the frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Gregory S. Gilbert
  • Andrew J. Larson
  • Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
  • Jonathan A. Myers
  • María Uriarte

Best Publications

  • CTFS-ForestGEO: A worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

    Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Stuart J. Davies;Stuart J. Davies;Amy C. Bennett;Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre

  • Global importance of large‐diameter trees

    James A. Lutz;Tucker J. Furniss;Daniel J. Johnson;Stuart J. Davies

  • Restoring forest resilience: From reference spatial patterns to silvicultural prescriptions and monitoring

    Derek J. Churchill;Andrew J. Larson;Matthew C. Dahlgreen;Jerry F. Franklin

  • Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA

    Jeremy S. Littell;Elaine E. Oneil;Donald McKenzie;Jeffrey A. Hicke

  • Scale-dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests

    Ryan A. Chisholm;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Kassim Abdul Rahman;Daniel P. Bebber

  • Climatic water deficit, tree species ranges, and climate change in Yosemite National Park

    James A. Lutz;Jan W. van Wagtendonk;Jerry F. Franklin

  • Lower forest density enhances snow retention in regions with warmer winters: A global framework developed from plot-scale observations and modeling

    Jessica D. Lundquist;Susan E. Dickerson-Lange;James A. Lutz;Nicoleta C. Cristea

  • Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale.

    Joseph A. LaManna;Scott A. Mangan;Alfonso Alonso;Norman A. Bourg;Norman A. Bourg

  • Ecological importance of large-diameter trees in a temperate mixed-conifer forest.

    James A. Lutz;Andrew J. Larson;Mark E. Swanson;James A. Freund

  • TREE MORTALITY DURING EARLY FOREST DEVELOPMENT: A LONG-TERM STUDY OF RATES, CAUSES, AND CONSEQUENCES

    James A. Lutz;Charles B. Halpern

  • The Science of Firescapes: Achieving Fire-Resilient Communities.

    Alistair M. S. Smith;Crystal A. Kolden;Travis B. Paveglio;Mark A. Cochrane

  • ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

    Stuart J. Davies;Iveren Abiem;Kamariah Abu Salim;Salomón Aguilar

  • Comparisons between field- and LiDAR-based measures of stand structural complexity

    Van R. KaneV.R. Kane;Van R. KaneV.R. Kane;Robert J. McGaugheyR.J. McGaughey;Robert J. McGaugheyR.J. McGaughey;Jonathan D. BakkerJ.D. Bakker;Jonathan D. BakkerJ.D. Bakker;Rolf F. GersondeR.F. Gersonde;Rolf F. GersondeR.F. Gersonde

  • Mapped versus actual burned area within wildfire perimeters: Characterizing the unburned

    Crystal A. Kolden;James A. Lutz;Carl H. Key;Jonathan T. Kane

  • Fire Refugia: What Are They, and Why Do They Matter for Global Change?

    Arjan J H Meddens;Crystal A Kolden;James A Lutz;Alistair M S Smith

  • Water balance and topography predict fire and forest structure patterns

    Van R. Kane;James A. Lutz;C. Alina Cansler;Nicholas A. Povak

  • Mixed severity fire effects within the Rim fire: Relative importance of local climate, fire weather, topography, and forest structure

    Van R. Kane;C. Alina Cansler;Nicholas A. Povak;Jonathan T. Kane

  • The importance of large-diameter trees to forest structural heterogeneity.

    James A. Lutz;Andrew J. Larson;James A. Freund;Mark E. Swanson

  • Local spatial structure of forest biomass and its consequences for remote sensing of carbon stocks

    M. Réjou-Méchain;Helene C. Muller-Landau;Matteo Detto;S. C. Thomas

  • Canopy closure exerts weak controls on understory dynamics: a 30-year study of overstory–understory interactions

    Charles B. Halpern;James A. Lutz

  • Landscape-scale effects of fire severity on mixed-conifer and red fir forest structure in Yosemite National Park

    Van R. Kane;James A. Lutz;Susan L. Roberts;Douglas F. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. Larson
Andrew J. Larson University of Montana
Jerry F. Franklin
Jerry F. Franklin University of Washington
David Kenfack
David Kenfack Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Stuart J. Davies
Stuart J. Davies Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Crystal A. Kolden
Crystal A. Kolden University of California, Merced
Stephen P. Hubbell
Stephen P. Hubbell University of California, Los Angeles
Sean M. McMahon
Sean M. McMahon Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira
Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Fangliang He
Fangliang He University of Alberta
Jonathan Myers
Jonathan Myers VA Palo Alto Health Care System

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