A relatively small number of rapidly spreading wildfire events burn disproportionately large areas. But beyond area burned, do fast fires produce distinct postfire ecological outcomes? Here, we measur...

BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

The Earth Systems Ecology Lab ( www.hurteaulab.org ) at the University of New Mexico is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with a strong background in ecosystem modeling or spatial data analysis to....

Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is a uniquely-tall and long-lived tree species that occupies a narrow fog-belt along the Pacific coast of North America. Despite its ecological and conservation...

***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…

Years of inaction by the US Forest Service station near Fresno put one of the agency’s last stands of old growth forests in California on the brink of

Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...

Abstract. Climate adaptation requires actionable scientific information about potential climate impacts. Spatial climate analogs answer the question, ‘wher

Extreme fire spread events rapidly burn large areas and are predicted to increase under a warmer and drier climate. Using satellite data, we analyzed the daily progression of over 600 wildfires in th...

In recent decades, bark beetle outbreaks have caused mass tree mortality in western US forests, which has led to altered wildfire characteristics, hyd…

Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...

Background Enactment of the Clean Air Act (CAA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), three of the primary federal environmental laws, all coincided with the hei...

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Changing climate and its interaction with disturbances is reshaping forests of the western United States and southwestern forests are experiencing the…

Pausing the beneficial burns to keep crews available for wildfires merely delays and exacerbates fire risk to communities, critics say.

Fast-growing fires were responsible for nearly 90% of fire-related damages despite being relatively rare in the United States between 2001-2020, according to a new study led by the University of Color...

Managing fire ignitions for resource benefit decreases fuel loads and reduces the risk of high-severity fire in fire-suppressed dry conifer forests. H…

Abstract. Declines in bumble bee species range and abundances are documented across multiple continents and have prompted the need for research to aid spec

Fire suppression removes less-extreme wildfires, concentrating fires under extreme conditions. The authors use model simulations to show how this “suppression bias” intensifies fire behavior and effec...

The Postdoctoral Researcher will work on a Joint Fire Science Program-funded project to develop geospatial products to quantify forest structure and fuel conditions in the upper Rio Grande watershed i...