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Overview

William L. Baker is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wyoming in the United States, with a focus on environmental science and related subfields. Their work primarily addresses global and planetary change, ecology, management, monitoring, policy, law, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

The main topics covered in their research include fire effects on ecosystems, rangeland and wildlife management, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, landslides and related hazards, forest management and policy, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and tree-ring climate responses.

Baker has published extensively in various scientific journals, including multiple works in the journal Fire. Other frequent venues include Biological Conservation, Global Change Biology, Landscape Ecology, and Sustainability.

Their recent papers are:

  • Have western USA fire suppression and megafire active management approaches become a contemporary Sisyphus? (2022) in Biological Conservation
  • Countering Omitted Evidence of Variable Historical Forests and Fire Regime in Western USA Dry Forests: The Low-Severity-Fire Model Rejected (2023) in Fire
  • Harnessing Natural Disturbances: A Nature-Based Solution for Restoring and Adapting Dry Forests in the Western USA to Climate Change (2023) in Fire
  • Restoration of forest resilience to fire from old trees is possible across a large Colorado dry-forest landscape by 2060, but only under the Paris 1.5℃ goal (2021) in Global Change Biology
  • Defensible-space treatment of <114,000 ha 40 m from high-risk buildings near wildland vegetation could reduce loss in WUI wildfire disasters across Colorado's 27 million ha (2022) in Landscape Ecology

Baker frequently collaborates with other researchers including Dominick A. DellaSala, Chad T. Hanson, Bryant C. Baker, Rosemary L. Sherriff, and Richard L. Hutto.

Best Publications

  • Factors Influencing Succession: Lessons from Large, Infrequent Natural Disturbances

    Monica G. Turner;William L. Baker;Christopher J. Peterson;Robert K. Peet

  • A review of models of landscape change

    William L. Baker

  • The r.le programs for multiscale analysis of landscape structure using the GRASS geographical information system

    William L. Baker;Yunming Cai

  • Contribution of Roads to Forest Fragmentation in the Rocky Mountains

    Rebecca A. Reed;Julia Johnson-Barnard;William L. Baker

  • 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

  • Managing fire-prone forests in the western United States

    Reed F. Noss;Jerry F. Franklin;William L. Baker;Tania Schoennagel

  • Uncertainty in surface-fire history: the case of ponderosa pine forests in the western United States

    William L. Baker;Donna Ehle

  • The Landscape Ecology of Large Disturbances in the Design and Management of Nature Reserves

    William L. Baker

  • Fire and Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems

    William L. Baker

  • EFFECTS OF SETTLEMENT AND FIRE SUPPRESSION ON LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE

    William L. Baker

  • Landscape ecology and nature reserve design in the boundary waters canoe area, Minnesota

    William L. Baker

  • Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes

    William L. Baker

  • Watershed analysis of forest fragmentation by clearcuts and roads in a Wyoming forest

    Daniel B. Tinker;Catherine A.C. Resor;Gary P. Beauvais;Kurt F. Kipfmueller

  • Nonequilibrium Dynamics between Catastrophic Disturbances and Old-Growth Forests in Ponderosa Pine Landscapes of the Black Hills

    Douglas J. Shinneman;William L. Baker

  • Longterm response of disturbance landscapes to human intervention and global change

    William L. Baker

  • The effects of elk on aspen in the winter range in Rocky Mountain National Park

    William L. Baker;Jennifer A. Munroe;Amy E. Hessl

  • Evaluation of resource selection methods with different definitions of availability

    Seth A. McClean;Mark A. Rumble;Rudy M. King;William L. Baker

  • Fire and restoration of piñon–juniper woodlands in the western United States: a review

    William L Baker;Douglas J Shinneman

  • Restoration of Landscape Structure Altered by Fire Suppression

    William L. Baker

  • Examining Historical and Current Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America

    Dennis C. Odion;Chad T. Hanson;André Arsenault;William L. Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas T. Veblen
Thomas T. Veblen University of Colorado Boulder
Peter J. Weisberg
Peter J. Weisberg University of Nevada Reno
Richard L. Hutto
Richard L. Hutto University of Montana
Dominik Kulakowski
Dominik Kulakowski Clark University
Dennis H. Knight
Dennis H. Knight University of Wyoming
Peter M. Brown
Peter M. Brown Colorado State University
Christopher Peterson
Christopher Peterson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael G. Ryan
Michael G. Ryan Colorado State University
Göran I. Ågren
Göran I. Ågren Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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