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54
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3071
National Ranking
1083

Overview

Philip E. Higuera is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialized emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, atmospheric science, management, monitoring, policy, and law, as well as nature and landscape conservation.

The central themes of their work revolve around fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology research, ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and fire dynamics and safety research.

Higuera's recent publications include:

  • Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers (2020), published in Journal of Ecology
  • Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American Landscapes (2020), published in BioScience
  • Record-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States (2020), published in Global Change Biology
  • Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States (2023), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation (2024), published in Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kimberley T. Davis
  • Kyra Clark-Wolf
  • Bryan N. Shuman
  • Kendra K. McLauchlan
  • John T. Abatzoglou

The scientist often publishes in the following venues:

  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PNAS Nexus

Best Publications

  • Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

    Jill F. Johnstone;Craig D. Allen;Jerry F. Franklin;Lee E. Frelich

  • Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia

    J. R. Marlon;P. J. Bartlein;C. Carcaillet;D. G. Gavin

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change.

    Camille S. Stevens‐Rumann;Camille S. Stevens‐Rumann;Kerry B. Kemp;Philip E. Higuera;Brian J. Harvey

  • 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

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

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

  • Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes

    Jonathan D. Coop;Sean A. Parks;Camille S. Stevens-Rumann;Shelley D. Crausbay

  • 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

  • Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration.

    Kimberley T Davis;Solomon Z Dobrowski;Philip E Higuera;Zachary A Holden

  • Microclimatic buffering in forests of the future: the role of local water balance

    Kimberley T. Davis;Solomon Z. Dobrowski;Zachary A. Holden;Philip E. Higuera

  • Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model

    Philip E. Higuera;Philip E. Higuera;Matthew E. Peters;Linda B. Brubaker;Daniel G. Gavin

  • Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept~!2009-09-02~!2009-11-09~!2010-03-05~!

    Cathy Whitlock;Philip E. Higuera;David B. McWethy;Christy E. Briles

  • Peak detection in sediment–charcoal records: impacts of alternative data analysis methods on fire-history interpretations

    Philip E. Higuera;Daniel G. Gavin;Patrick J. Bartlein;Douglas J. Hallett;Douglas J. Hallett

  • Record-setting climate enabled the extraordinary 2020 fire season in the western United States.

    Philip E. Higuera;John T. Abatzoglou

  • 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

  • Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept

    Cathy Whitlock;Philip E. Higuera;David B. McWethy;Christy E. Briles

  • Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of Western North American forests

    Paul F. Hessburg;Paul F. Hessburg;Carol L. Miller;Sean A. Parks;Nicholas A. Povak

  • 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

  • Rethinking resilience to wildfire

    David B. McWethy;Tania Schoennagel;Philip E. Higuera;Meg Krawchuk

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Feng Sheng Hu
Feng Sheng Hu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Linda B. Brubaker
Linda B. Brubaker University of Washington
Daniel G. Gavin
Daniel G. Gavin University of Oregon
John T. Abatzoglou
John T. Abatzoglou University of California, Merced
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University
Bryan N. Shuman
Bryan N. Shuman University of Wyoming
Solomon Z. Dobrowski
Solomon Z. Dobrowski University of Montana
Jennifer R. Marlon
Jennifer R. Marlon Yale University
Patrick J. Bartlein
Patrick J. Bartlein University of Oregon
Thomas T. Veblen
Thomas T. Veblen University of Colorado Boulder

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