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6589
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8050
National Ranking
2880

Overview

Peter M. Brown is affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science, with contributions across several related subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

Brown's recent publications address a range of topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, advanced ceramic materials synthesis, and thermal properties of materials. Key publication venues where Brown has contributed include Ecological Applications, Tree Physiology, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, International Journal of Wildland Fire, and Tree-Ring Research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brown include:

  • Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests (2021, Ecological Applications)
  • Bimodal cambial activity and false-ring formation in conifers under a monsoon climate (2021, Tree Physiology)
  • Thermal properties and performance of carbon fiber-based ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites (C f -UHTCMCs) (2020, Journal of the American Ceramic Society)
  • An analysis of fatalities from forest fires in China, 1951-2018 (2022, International Journal of Wildland Fire)
  • Fire History Across Forest Types in the Southern Beartooth Mountains, Wyoming (2020, Tree-Ring Research)

Frequent co-authors with whom Brown has collaborated include:

  • Jens T. Stevens
  • R. Keala Hagmann
  • Paul F. Hessburg
  • Susan J. Prichard
  • Nicholas A. Povak

Their main fields of study demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach, addressing complex environmental processes and interactions. The subfields of global and planetary change and atmospheric science feature prominently alongside ecological and conservation-oriented studies.

Brown has engaged extensively with topics related to fire's impact on ecosystems, underpinning much of their recent scholarly output. Their work also spans studies on vegetation dynamics, wildlife management, and the physiological responses of trees to climate variations through tree-ring analysis. Additionally, Brown's research extends to materials science, investigating thermal properties and advanced ceramic composites.

Best Publications

  • Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States

    William H. Romme;Craig D. Allen;John D. Bailey;William L. Baker

  • CLIMATE AND DISTURBANCE FORCING OF EPISODIC TREE RECRUITMENT IN A SOUTHWESTERN PONDEROSA PINE LANDSCAPE

    Peter M. Brown;Rosalind Wu

  • Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America.

    Thomas Kitzberger;Peter M. Brown;Emily K. Heyerdahl;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Long-term, landscape patterns of past fire events in a montane ponderosa pine forest of central Colorado

    Peter M. Brown;Merrill R. Kaufmann;Wayne D. Shepperd

  • Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests.

    R. K. Hagmann;P. F. Hessburg;P. F. Hessburg;S. J. Prichard;N. A. Povak

  • The role of climate in a pine forest regeneration pulse in the southwestern United States

    Melissa Savage;Peter M. Brown;Johannes Feddema

  • Multi‐scale controls of historical forest‐fire regimes: new insights from fire‐scar networks

    Donald A Falk;Emily K Heyerdahl;Peter M Brown;Calvin Farris

  • Tamm Review: Management of mixed-severity fire regime forests in Oregon, Washington, and Northern California

    Paul F. Hessburg;Thomas A. Spies;David A. Perry;Carl N. Skinner

  • A cross-dated fire history from coast redwood near Redwood National Park, California

    Peter M. Brown;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Climate change impacts on fire regimes and key ecosystem services in Rocky Mountain forests

    Monique E. Rocca;Peter M. Brown;Lee H. MacDonald;Christian M. Carrico

  • Heterogeneity in ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forests: age and size structure in unlogged and logged landscapes of central Colorado

    Merrill R Kaufmann;Claudia M Regan;Peter M Brown

  • Fire history in interior ponderosa pine communities of the Black Hills, South Dakota, USA

    Peter M. Brown;Carolyn Hull Sieg

  • CLIMATE EFFECTS ON FIRE REGIMES AND TREE RECRUITMENT IN BLACK HILLS PONDEROSA PINE FORESTS

    Peter M. Brown

  • Historical variability in fire at the ponderosa pine - Northern Great Plains prairie ecotone, southeastern Black Hills, South Dakota

    Peter M. Brown;Carolyn Hull Sieg

  • Drought frequency in central California since 101 B.C. recorded in giant sequoia tree rings

    Malcolm K Hughes;Peter M Brown

  • Fire history along environmental gradients in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico: influences of local patterns and regional processes.

    Peter M. Brown;Margot W. Kaye;Laurie S. Huckaby;Christopher H. Baisan

  • Fire and forest history at Mount Rushmore.

    Peter M. Brown;Cody L. Wienk;Amy J. Symstad

  • Multi-Millennial Fire History of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Christopher H. Baisan;Anthony C. Caprio;Peter M. Brown

  • Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: Response to Williams and Baker

    Peter Z. Fulé;Thomas W. Swetnam;Peter M. Brown;Donald A. Falk

  • Was Aldo Leopold Right about the Kaibab Deer Herd

    Dan Binkley;Margaret M. Moore;William H. Romme;Peter M. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. Swetnam
Thomas W. Swetnam University of Arizona
Donald A. Falk
Donald A. Falk University of Arizona
Peter Z. Fulé
Peter Z. Fulé Northern Arizona University
Michael Battaglia
Michael Battaglia Agriculture and Food
William H. Romme
William H. Romme Colorado State University
Alan H. Taylor
Alan H. Taylor Pennsylvania State University
Scott L. Stephens
Scott L. Stephens University of California, Berkeley
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer
Brandon T. Bestelmeyer Agricultural Research Service
Malcolm K. Hughes
Malcolm K. Hughes University of Arizona
Neil Pederson
Neil Pederson Harvard University

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