Publications

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2023 and in press

Buonanduci, M,S., Donato, D.C., Halofsky, J.S., Kennedy, M.C., Harvey, B.J., 2023. Consistent spatial scaling of high-severity wildfire can inform expected future patterns of burn severity. Ecology Letters. (pdf)

Morris, J.E., Buonanduci, M.S., Agne, M.C., Battaglia, M.A., Donato, D.C., Harvey, B.J., 2023. Fuel profiles and biomass carbon following bark beetle outbreaks: Insights for disturbance interactions from a historical silvicultural experiment. Ecosystems. (pdf)

Saberi, S.J. and Harvey, B.J., 2023. What is the color when black is burned? Quantifying forest (re)burn severity in short-interval fires using field and satellite indices. Fire Ecology 9(24). (pdf)

Davis, K.T., +59 other authors including Harvey, B.J., 2023. Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120(11): e2208120120. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Buonanduci, M.S, Turner, M.G., 2023. Spatial interactions among short-interval fires reshape forest landscapes. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32: 586-602. (pdf) (data available at GitHub | Zenodo).

Buonanduci, M.S., Morris, J.E., Agne, M.C., Battaglia, M.A., Harvey, B.J., 2023. Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity shapes compensatory responses of a subalpine forest to severe bark beetle outbreak. Landscape Ecology 38: 253-270. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Hart, S.J., Tobin, P.C., Veblen, T.T., Donato, D.C., Buonanduci, M.S., Pane, A.M., Stanke, H.D., Rodman, K.C. in press. Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Miller, C.W., Harvey, B.J., Kane, V., Moskal, L.M., Alvarado, E.C., 2023. Different approaches make comparing studies of burn severity challenging: A review of methods used to link remotely sensed data with the Composite Burn Index. International Journal of Wildland Fire doi:10.1071/WF2205. (pdf)

Laughlin, M.M., Bakker, J.D., Churchill, D.J., Gregory M.J., DeMeo, T.E., Harvey, B.J., 2023 Trends in forest structure restoration need over three decades with increasing wildfire activity. Forest Ecology and Management 527: 120607. (pdf)

2022

Howe, A.A., Parks, S.A., Harvey B.J., Saberi. S.J., Lutz. J.A., Yocum, L.L., 2022. Comparing Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for burn severity mapping in western North America. Remote Sensing 14, 5249. (pdf)

Rodman, K., +21 other authors including Morris J.E., Harvey, B.J., 2022. Rocky Mountain forests are poised to recover following bark beetle outbreaks, but with altered composition. Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13999. (pdf)

Agne, M.C., Fontaine, J.B., Enright N.J., Harvey, B.J., 2022. Short-interval fires and post-fire climate conditions erode serotinous forest resilience. Fire Ecology 18(22). (pdf)

Shuman J.K., +86 other authors including Harvey, B.J., 2022. Reimagine Fire Science for the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences – Nexus 1(3): pgac115. (pdf)

Agne, M.C., Fontaine, J.B., Enright, N.J., Bisbing, S.M., Harvey, B.J. 2022. Demographic processes underpinning post‑fire resilience in California closed‑cone pine forests: the importance of fire interval, stand structure, and climate. Plant Ecology 223: 751-767.(pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Enright N.J. 2022. Climate change and altered fire regimes: Impacts on plant populations, species, and ecosystems in both hemispheres. Plant Ecology 223: 699-709. (pdf)

Reilly, M.J., Zuspan, A., Halofsky, J.S., Raymond, C.L., McEvoy, A., Dye, A.W., Donato, D.C., Kim, J.B., Potter, B.E., Walker, N., Davis, R., Dunn, C.J., Bell, D.M., Gregory, M.J., Johnston, J.D., Harvey, B.J., Halofsky, J.E., Kerns, B.K. 2022 (in press). Cascadia Burning: The historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Ecosphere 13(6): e4070. (pdf)

Saberi, S.J., Agne, M.C., Harvey, B.J. 2022. Do You CBI What I See? The relationship between the Composite Burn Index and quantitative field measures of burn severity varies across gradients of forest structure. International Journal of Wildland Fire 31(2): 112-123. (pdf) (data available at GitHub | Zenodo)

Muthukrishnan, R., Hayes, K., Bartowitz, K., Cattau, M.E., Harvey, B.J., Lin, Y., Lunch, C. in press. Harnessing NEON to evaluate ecological tipping points: opportunities, challenges, and approaches. Ecosphere 13(3): e03989. (pdf)

Morris, J.E., Buonanduci, M.S., Agne, M.C., Battaglia, M.A., Harvey, B.J. 2022. Does the legacy of historical thinning treatments foster resilience to bark beetle outbreaks in subalpine forests? Ecological Applications 32(1): e02474. (pdf) (data available at GitHub | Zenodo)

2021

Nagy, R.C., +99 other authors including Harvey, B.J. 2021. Harnessing the NEON Data Revolution to Advance Open Environmental Science with a Diverse and Data-Capable Community. Ecosphere 12(12): e03833. (pdf)

Abatzoglou, J.T., Battisti, D.S., Williams, A.P., Hansen, W.D., Harvey, B.J., Kolden, C.A. 2021. Continued increases in western US forest fire despite growing fuel constraints. Nature Communications Earth & Environment 2(1): 1-8. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Hart, S.J., Cansler, C.A. 2021. Disturbance regime concept. In: Francis, R.A., Millington, J.D.A., Perry, G.L.W., Minor, E.S., (editors). Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology. Routledge Publishing, New York, NY: 159-174. (pdf)

Hood, S.M., Harvey, B.J., Fornwalt, P.J., Naficy, C.E., Hansen, W.D., Davis, K.T., Battaglia, M.A., Stevens-Rumann, C., Saab, V. 2021. Fire Ecology of Rocky Mountain Forests. In: Greenberg, K., Collins, B., (editors). Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems. (pdf)

Andrus, R.A., Chai, R., Harvey, B.J., Rodman, K., Veblen, T.T., 2021. Increasing rates of subalpine tree mortality linked to warmer and drier summers. Journal of Ecology. 109(5): 2203-2218. (pdf)

Rodman, K. Andrus, R.A., Butkiewicz, Chapman, T., Gill, N., Harvey B.J., Kulakowski, D., Tutland, N, Veblen, T.T., Hart, S.J. 2021. Effects of bark beetle outbreaks on forest landscape pattern in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. Remote Sensing 13: 1089. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Andrus, R.A., Battaglia, M.A., Negrón, J.F., Orrego, A., Veblen, T.T., 2021. Droughty times in mesic places: Factors associated with forest mortality vary by scale in a temperate subalpine region. Ecosphere 12(1): e03318. (selected by the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station for the 2021 Director’s Choice Award). (pdf)

2020

Cansler, C.A., +74 other authors including Harvey, B.J., 2020. The Fire and Tree Mortality Database (FTM): a database for empirical modeling of tree mortality after fire. Scientific Data. 7, 194. (pdf)

Buonanduci, M.S., Morris, J.E., Agne, M.C., Harvey, B.J., 2020. Neighborhood context mediates probability of host tree mortality in a severe bark beetle outbreak. Ecosphere 11(8): e03236. (pdf)

McLauchlan, K., +43 other authors including Harvey, B.J., 2020. Fire as a fundamental ecological process: research advances and frontiers. Journal of Ecology 108: 2047-2069. (pdf)

Coop, J.D., +22 other authors including Harvey, B.J., 2020. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes. BioScience 70(8): 659-673. (pdf)

Andrus, R.A., Harvey, B.J., Hoffman, A., Veblen, T.T. 2020. Reproductive maturity and cone abundance varies with tree size and stand basal area for two widely distributed conifers. Ecosphere 11(5): e03092. (pdf)

Halofsky, J.E., Peterson, D.L., Harvey, B.J., 2020. Changing wildfire, changing forests: The effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest. Fire Ecology 16(4). (pdf)

2019

McWethy, D., Schoennagel, T., Higuera, P., Krawchuck, M., Harvey B.J., Metcalf, L., Schultz, C., Metcalf, A., Buma, B., Ratajczak, Z. 2019. Rethinking resilience to wildfire. Nature Sustainability 2: 797-804. (pdf)

Turner, M.G., Braziunas, K.H., Hansen, W.D., Harvey B.J. 2019. Short-interval severe fire erodes the resilience of subalpine lodgepole pine forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(23): 11319-11328. (pdf)

Chai, R. Andrus, R.A., Harvey, B.J., Rodman, K., Veblen, T.T. 2019. Stand dynamics and topographic setting influence changes in live tree biomass over a 34-year permanent plot record in subalpine forest in the Colorado Front Range. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 49(10): 1256-1264. (pdf)

Higuera, P., Metcalf, A., Miller, C., Buma, B., McWethy, D., Metcalf, E., Ratajczak, Z., Nelson, C., Chaffin, B., Stedman, R., McCafrey, S., Schoennagel, T., Harvey, B.J., Hood, S., Schultz, C., Black, A., Campbell, D., Haggerty, J., Keane, R., Krawchuk, M., Kulig, J., Rafferty, R., Virapongse, A. 2019. Integrating subjective and objective dimensions of resilience in fire-prone landscapes. BioScience 69(5): 379-388. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Andrus, R.A., Anderson, S.A., 2019. Incorporating biophysical gradients and uncertainty into burn severity maps in a temperate fire-prone forested region. Ecosphere 10(2): e02600. (pdf)

Buma, B., Harvey, B.J., Gavin, D., Kelly, R., Laboda, T., McNeil, B., Marlon, J., Meddens, A., Morris, J., Raffa, K., Shuman, B., Smithwick, E., McLauchlan, K. 2019. The value of linking paleoecological and neoecological perspectives to understand spatially explicit ecosystem resilience. Landscape Ecology 34(1): 17-33. (pdf)

2018

Sommerfeld, A., Senf, C., Buma, B., D’Amato, A.W., Despres, T., Diaz-Hormazabal, I., Fraver, S., Frelich, L.E., Gutierrez, A.G., Hart, S.J., Harvey, B.J., He, H.S., Hlasny, T., Holz, A., Kitzberger, T., Kulakowski, D., Lindenmayer, D., Mori, A., Muller, J., Paritsis, J., Perry, G.L.W., Stephens, S., Svoboda, M., Turner, M.G., Veblen, T.T., Seidl, R. 2018. Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome. Nature Communications 9: 4355. (pdf)

Andrus, R.A., Harvey, B.J., Chai, R., Veblen, T.T. 2018. Different vital rates of Engelmann spruce and subalpine fir explain discordance in understory and overstory dominance. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 48(12):1554-1562. (pdf)

Halofsky, J.S., Donato, D.C., Franklin, J.F., Halofsky, J.E., Peterson, D.L., Harvey, B.J. 2018. The nature of the beast: Examining climate adaptation options in forests with stand-replacing fire regimes. Ecosphere 9(3): e02140. (pdf)

Andrus, R.A., Harvey, B.J., Rodman, K., Hart, S.J., Veblen, T.T. 2018. Moisture availability limits subalpine tree establishment. Ecology 99(3): 567-575. (pdf)

2017

Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Kemp, K.B., Higuera, P.E., Harvey, B.J., Rother, M.T., Donato, D.C., Morgan, P, Veblen T.T. 2017. Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change. Ecology Letters 21(2): 243-252. (pdf)

Schoennagel, T, Balch, J.K., Brenkert-Smith, H., Dennison, P.E., Harvey, B.J., Krawchuck, M.A., Miekiewicz, N., Morgan, P., Moritz. M.A., Rasker, R., Turner, M.G., Whitlock, C.L. 2017. Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(8): 4582-4590. (pdf)

Rose, K.C., Graves, R.A., Hansen, W.D., Harvey, B.J., Qiu, J., Wood, S., Ziter, C., Turner, M.G. 2017. Historical foundations and future directions in macrosystems ecology. Ecology Letters 20(2): 147-157. (pdf)

Turner, M.G., Donato, D.C., Hansen, W.D., Harvey, B.J., Romme, W.H., Westerling, A.L. 2017. Climate change and novel disturbance regimes in national park landscapes. In: Beissinger, S.R., Ackerly, D.D., Doremus, H., Machlis, G., (editors). Science, Conservation, and National Parks. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL: 77-101. (book chapter)

2016

Harvey, B.J. 2016. Human-caused climate change is now a key driver of forest fire activity in the western United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(42): 11649-11650. (invited commentary) (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Donato, D.C., Turner, M.G. 2016. Drivers and trends in landscape patterns of stand-replacing fire in forests of the US Northern Rocky Mountains (1984-2010). Landscape Ecology 31: 2367-2383. (pdf)

Johnstone, J.F., Turner, M.G., Allen, C.D., Franklin, J.F., Frelich, L.E., Harvey, B.J., Higuera, P.E., Mack., M.C., Meentemeyer, R., Metz, M.R., Perry, G.L., Schoenneagel, T. 2016. Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14(7): 369-378. (pdf)

Donato, D.C., Harvey, B.J., and Turner, M.G. 2016. Regeneration of lower-montane forests a quarter-century after the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: a fire-catalyzed shift in lower treelines? Ecosphere 7(8):e01410. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Donato, D.C., Turner. M.G. 2016. Burn me twice, shame on who? Interactions between successive forest fires across a temperate mountain region. Ecology 97(9): 2272-2282. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Donato, D.C., Turner, M.G. 2016. High and dry: Postfire drought and large stand-replacing burn patches reduce postfire tree regeneration in subalpine forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 655-669. (pdf)

Andrus, R.A., Veblen, T.T., Harvey, B.J., Hart. S.J. 2016. Fire severity unaffected by spruce beetle outbreak in spruce-fir forests of southwestern Colorado. Ecological Applications 26(3): 700-711. (pdf)

2014

Harvey, B.J., Donato, D.C., Turner, M.G. 2014. Recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks, wildfire severity, and postfire tree regeneration in the US Northern Rockies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111(42): 15120-15125. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Donato, D.C., Romme, W.H., Turner, M.G. 2014. Fire severity and tree regeneration following bark beetle outbreaks: the role of outbreak stage and burning conditions. Ecological Applications 24(7): 1608-1625. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Forrestel, A.B., Holzman, B.A. 2014. Forest resilience following severe wildfire in a semi-urban National Park. Fremontia 42(3): 14-18. (pdf)

Harvey, B.J., Holzman, B.A. 2014. Divergent successional pathways of stand development following fire in a California closed-cone pine forest. Journal of Vegetation Science 25(1): 88-99. (pdf)

2013

Harvey, B.J., Donato, D.C., Romme, W.H., Turner, M.G. 2013. Influence of recent bark beetle outbreak on fire severity and post-fire tree regeneration in montane Douglas-fir forests. Ecology 94(11): 2475-2486. (pdf)

Donato, D.C., Simard, M., Romme, W.H., Harvey, B.J., Turner, M.G. 2013. Evaluating post-outbreak management effects on future fuel profiles and stand structure in bark beetle-impacted forests of Greater Yellowstone. Forest Ecology and Management 303: 160-174. (pdf)

Donato, D.C., Harvey, B.J., Romme, W.H., Simard, M., Turner, M.G. 2013. Bark beetle effects on fuel profiles across a range of stand structures in Douglas-fir forests of Greater Yellowstone, USA. Ecological Applications 23(1): 3-20. (pdf)

2011

Harvey, B.J., Holzman, B.A, Davis, J.D. 2011. Spatial variability in stand structure and density-dependent mortality in newly established post-fire stands of a California closed-cone pine forest. Forest Ecology and Management 262(11): 2042-2051. (pdf)

Research briefs or technical reports:

Harvey, B.J., Agne, M.C. 2021. Bishop pine forest health: Science synthesis to inform management and conservation. Final report and white paper prepared for the Golden Gate Parks Conservancy. (pdf)

Schoennagel, T. Morgan, P., Balch, J.K., Dennison, P.E., Harvey, B.J., Hutto, R.L., Krawchuk, M.A., Mortiz, M.A., Rasker, R., Whitlock, C.L. 2016. Insights from wildfire science: A resource for policy discussions. White paper, Headwaters Economics (link). (pdf)