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Thomas W. Swetnam publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas W. Swetnam sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 184 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Thomas W. Swetnam D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas W. Swetnam sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2001 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climate variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128–3147.

Overview

Thomas W. Swetnam is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The scientist's research focuses on topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, tree-ring climate responses, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, landslides and related hazards, as well as archaeology and natural history.

Recent publications by Thomas W. Swetnam include:

  • Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Native American fire management at an ancient wildland-urban interface in the Southwest United States, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The North American tree-ring fire-scar network, 2022, Ecosphere
  • Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE, 2022, Science Advances
  • Fire Suppression Impacts on Fuels and Fire Intensity in the Western U.S.: Insights from Archaeological Luminescence Dating in Northern New Mexico, 2020, Fire

Frequent co-authors of Thomas W. Swetnam are:

  • Christopher H. Guiterman
  • Donald A. Falk
  • Christopher I. Roos
  • Ellis Q. Margolis
  • Christopher H. Baisan

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ecological Applications
  • Ecosphere
  • Science Advances
  • Fire

Awards received by Thomas W. Swetnam include recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014 and the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2001, which cited research on mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climate variability in the American Southwest.

Best Publications

  • Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity

    Anthony Leroy Westerling;Anthony Leroy Westerling;Hugo G. Hidalgo;Daniel R. Cayan;Daniel R. Cayan;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Fire in the Earth System

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

  • Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Alison K. Macalady;Daniel Griffin

  • APPLIED HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: USING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Craig D. Allen;Julio L. Betancourt

  • The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth

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

  • ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF SOUTHWESTERN PONDEROSA PINE ECOSYSTEMS: A BROAD PERSPECTIVE

    Craig D. Allen;Melissa Savage;Donald A. Falk;Kieran F. Suckling

  • Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Julio L. Betancourt

  • Fire history and climate change in giant sequoia groves.

    Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Dendroecology: A Tool for Evaluating Variations in Past and Present Forest Environments

    H.C. Fritts;T.W. Swetnam

  • Historical Fire Regime Patterns in the Southwestern United States Since AD 1700

    Thomas W Swetnam;Christopher H Baisan

  • Fire history on a desert mountain range: Rincon Mountain Wilderness, Arizona, U.S.A.

    Christopher H. Baisan;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

    A. Park Williams;Craig D. Allen;Constance I. Millar;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Mapping Fire Regimes Across Time and Space: Understanding Coarse and Fine-scale Fire Patterns

    Penelope Morgan;Colin C. Hardy;Thomas W. Swetnam;Matthew G. Rollins

  • Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates

    S. L. Stephens;James K. Agee;P. Z. Fulé;M. P. North

  • Using Dendrochronology To Measure Radial Growth of Defoliated Trees

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Marna Ares Thompson;Elaine Kennedy Sutherland

  • 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

  • Multicentury, regional-scale patterns of western spruce budworm outbreaks.

    Thomas W. Swetnam;Ann M. Lynch

  • Century-scale climate forcing of fire regimes in the American Southwest

    Henri D. Grissino Mayer;Thomas W. Swetnam

  • Early 19th‐Century Fire Decline Following Sheep Pasturing in a Navajo Ponderosa Pine Forest

    Mellissa Savage;Thomas W. Swetnam

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald A. Falk
Donald A. Falk University of Arizona
Craig D. Allen
Craig D. Allen University of New Mexico
Peter Brown
Peter Brown University of Oxford
Julio L. Betancourt
Julio L. Betancourt United States Geological Survey
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Peter Z. Fulé
Peter Z. Fulé Northern Arizona University
William H. Romme
William H. Romme Colorado State University
Connie A. Woodhouse
Connie A. Woodhouse University of Arizona
Peter M. Brown
Peter M. Brown Colorado State University
Jon E. Keeley
Jon E. Keeley United States Geological Survey

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