SW CASC Publications

Cruz, C., McCovey, K., Russell, G., David‐Chavez, D., Schneider, L., & Schultz, C. (2026). Barriers to Indigenous Fire Stewardship on Karuk Lands. Ecology and Evolution, 16(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73479

Bailey, K., Hu, J., Meadow, A. M., McAfee, S. A., Gershunov, A., Enquist, C., Cayan, D., Manning, B. R. M., Fard, E., MacDonald, G., Garfin, G., Baker, M., Huntly, N., & Ambrose, R. F. (2026). Creating usable science: A Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center study. Earth Stewardship, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/eas2.70037

Ibsen, P. C., Ancona, Z. H., Pelton, E., Little, S., & Diffendorfer, J. E. (2026). Density dependence and habitat selection affect overwintering abundance of monarch butterflies at regional and site scales in California. Conservation Science and Practice, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70253

Holmquist, J. R., Brown, L. N., Fard, E., Ambrose, R. F., Hargan, K. E., Hammond, D. E., Kemnitz, N. J., Smol, J. P., Thorne, K., & MacDonald, G. M. (2026). Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Accumulation Rates for Coastal California. Scientific Data, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-06935-8

Jennings, M. K., Hennessy, S., Enquist, C. A. F., & Molinari, N. (2026). A Climate-adapted Refugia Framework for Enhancing Ecosystem Resilience: Actionable Science for Forest Management in Southern California. Conservation Science and Practice, 8(1), e70114. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70114

Mozelewski, T. G., Mengelt, C. L., Powelson, K., Athearn, N., Grasso, R., Adams, A. J., & Morelli, T. L. (2026). Integrating Refugia Modeling and Decision Science to Support Climate-adaptive Conservation in the Sierra Nevada. Conservation Science and Practice, 8(1), e70170. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70170

Guirguis, K., Hatchett, B., Clemesha, R., Aguilera, R., Gershunov, A., Campbell, I., Cayan, D., & Merrifield, M. (2025). Compound atmospheric drivers of the catastrophic 2025 Los Angeles urban firestorm. Npj Natural Hazards, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44304-025-00155-7

Williams, A. P., Juang, C. S., & Short, K. C. (2025). The Western United States MTBS-Interagency Database of Large Wildfires, 1984–2024 (WUMI2024a). Earth System Science Data, 17(12), 7359–7372. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-7359-2025

Madakumbura, G. D., Moritz, M. A., McKinnon, K. A., Williams, A. P., Rahimi, S., Bass, B., Norris, J., Fu, R., & Hall, A. (2025). Anthropogenic Warming Drives Earlier Wildfire Season Onset in California. Science Advances, 11(32), eadt2041. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt2041

Wang, B., Madakumbura, G. D., Juliano, T. W., & Williams, A. P. (2025). Simulating the Potential for Invasive Grass Expansion to Alter Wildfire Behavior in Southern California With WRF‐Fire. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130(8), e2024JG008574. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008574

Harris, M. P., Coop, J. D., Balik, J. A., McFarland, J. R., Parks, S. A., & Stevens‐Rumann, C. S. (2025). Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes. Ecological Applications, 35(5). https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70061

Ogle, K., Barber, J. J., Strange, B. M., Boone, R. D., Formanack, A. M., & Peltier, D. M. P. (2025). Identifying the Climate Conditions Associated With Extreme Growth States in Trees Across the Western United States. Global Change Biology, 31(7), e70317. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70317

Evans, M. E. K., Hu, J., & Michaletz, S. T. (2025). Scaling Plant Responses to Heat: From Molecules to the Biosphere. Science, 388(6752), 1167–1173. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adv7597

Poulsen, C. D., Clemesha, R. E. S., Howard, I. M., Gershunov, A., Dettinger, M. D., Zhang, Z., Luna-Niño, R., Stahle, D. W., & Ralph, F. M. (2025). The 1991 California ‘Miracle March’: Precipitation Myth or Miracle? Environmental Research Communications, 7(5), 051004. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/add3cc

He, Q., Williams, A. P., Johnston, M. R., Juang, C. S., & Wang, B. (2025). Influence of Time‐Averaging of Climate Data on Estimates of Atmospheric Vapor Pressure Deficit and Inferred Relationships With Wildfire Area in the Western United States. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(7).