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Overview

Jennifer K. Balch is a researcher affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The research topics that Jennifer K. Balch has addressed cover a range of environmental and ecological issues. Notable topics include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications

Jennifer K. Balch has contributed to scientific literature with papers published in several journals. Key recent publications include:

  • "Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers," 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • "Understanding and managing connected extreme events," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "U.S. fires became larger, more frequent, and more widespread in the 2000s," 2022, Science Advances
  • "Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Warming weakens the night-time barrier to global fire," 2022, Nature

Their frequent coauthors reflect collaborative work with colleagues such as Adam L. Mahood, Megan E. Cattau, Maxwell Cook, Virginia Iglesias, and R. Chelsea Nagy.

Jennifer K. Balch's research has been disseminated through several publication venues where they have multiple contributions. These include:

  • Remote Sensing
  • Ecosphere
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature
  • Scientific Data

Best Publications

  • Fire in the Earth System

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • The Amazon basin in transition

    Eric A. Davidson;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Alessandro C. de Araújo;Paulo Artaxo;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Jennifer Balch;Paulo Artaxo;William J. Bond

  • Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

    Jennifer K. Balch;Bethany A. Bradley;John T. Abatzoglou;R. Chelsea Nagy

  • Observed Impacts of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Wildfire in California

    A. Park Williams;John T. Abatzoglou;Alexander Gershunov;Janin Guzman‐Morales

  • Abrupt increases in Amazonian tree mortality due to drought-fire interactions.

    Paulo Monteiro Brando;Paulo Monteiro Brando;Jennifer K. Balch;Daniel C. Nepstad;Douglas C. Morton

  • Introduced annual grass increases regional fire activity across the arid western USA (1980–2009)

    Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Bethany A. Bradley;Carla M. D'Antonio;José Gómez-Dans

  • Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

    Tania Schoennagel;Jennifer K. Balch;Hannah Brenkert-Smith;Philip E. Dennison

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers

    Kendra K. McLauchlan;Philip E. Higuera;Jessica Miesel;Brendan M. Rogers

  • Understanding and managing connected extreme events

    Colin Raymond;Colin Raymond;Radley M. Horton;Jakob Zscheischler;Olivia Martius

  • Fire‐induced tree mortality in a neotropical forest: the roles of bark traits, tree size, wood density and fire behavior

    Paulo M. Brando;Paulo M. Brando;Daniel C. Nepstad;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch;Benjamin Bolker

  • Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) distribution in the intermountain Western United States and its relationship to fire frequency, seasonality, and ignitions

    Bethany A. Bradley;Caroline A. Curtis;Emily J. Fusco;John T. Abatzoglou

  • Negative fire feedback in a transitional forest of southeastern Amazonia

    Jennifer K. Balch;Daniel C. Nepstad;Paulo M. Brando;Lisa M. Curran

  • Invasive grasses increase fire occurrence and frequency across US ecoregions.

    Emily J. Fusco;John T. Finn;Jennifer K. Balch;R. Chelsea Nagy

  • Testing the Amazon savannization hypothesis: fire effects on invasion of a neotropical forest by native cerrado and exotic pasture grasses.

    Divino V. Silvério;Paulo M. Brando;Paulo M. Brando;Jennifer K. Balch;Francis E. Putz

  • Droughts, Wildfires, and Forest Carbon Cycling: A Pantropical Synthesis

    Paulo M. Brando;Lucas Paolucci;Caroline C. Ummenhofer;Elsa M. Ordway;Elsa M. Ordway;Elsa M. Ordway

  • Focus on changing fire regimes: interactions with climate, ecosystems, and society

    Brendan M Rogers;Jennifer K Balch;Scott J Goetz;Caroline E R Lehmann;Caroline E R Lehmann

  • Human-Related Ignitions Increase the Number of Large Wildfires across U.S. Ecoregions

    R. Chelsea Nagy;Emily Fusco;Bethany Bradley;John T. Abatzoglou

  • Size, species, and fire behavior predict tree and liana mortality from experimental burns in the Brazilian Amazon

    Jennifer K. Balch;Daniel C. Nepstad;Lisa M. Curran;Lisa M. Curran;Paulo M. Brando

  • Anthropogenic and lightning‐started fires are becoming larger and more frequent over a longer season length in the U.S.A.

    Megan E. Cattau;Megan E. Cattau;Carol Wessman;Carol Wessman;Adam Mahood;Adam Mahood;Jennifer K. Balch;Jennifer K. Balch

  • The Susceptibility of Southeastern Amazon Forests to Fire: Insights from a Large-Scale Burn Experiment

    Jennifer K. Balch;Paulo M. Brando;Daniel C. Nepstad;Michael T. Coe

Frequent Co-Authors

Paulo M. Brando
Paulo M. Brando University of California, Irvine
Bethany A. Bradley
Bethany A. Bradley University of Massachusetts Amherst
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Daniel C. Nepstad
Daniel C. Nepstad Woods Hole Research Center
Max A. Moritz
Max A. Moritz University of California, Santa Barbara
Eric A. Davidson
Eric A. Davidson University of Maryland Center For Environmental Sciences
Meg A. Krawchuk
Meg A. Krawchuk Oregon State University
Paulo Artaxo
Paulo Artaxo Universidade de São Paulo
Ruth S. DeFries
Ruth S. DeFries Columbia University
Michael T. Coe
Michael T. Coe Woods Hole Research Center

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