SW CASC Publications
Publications
2026
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
2025
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
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).
Das, A. J., Rosenthal, L. M., & Shive, K. L. (2025). The effectiveness of wildfire at meeting restoration goals across a fire severity gradient in the Sierra Nevada. Forest Ecology and Management, 580, 122486.
McFarland, J. R., Coop, J. D., Balik, J. A., Rodman, K. C., Parks, S. A., & Stevens‐Rumann, C. S. (2025). Extreme Fire Spread Events Burn More Severely and Homogenize Postfire Landscapes in the Southwestern United States. Global Change Biology, 31(2), e70106. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70106
Luna-Niño, R., Gershunov, A., Ralph, F. M., Weyant, A., Guirguis, K., DeFlorio, M. J., Cayan, D. R., & Williams, A. P. (2025). Heresy in ENSO Teleconnections: Atmospheric Rivers as Disruptors of Canonical Seasonal Precipitation Anomalies in the Southwestern US. Climate Dynamics, 63(2), 115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-025-07583-1
Petrie, M. D., Hubbard, R. M., Bradford, J. B., Kolb, T. E., Noel, A., Schlaepfer, D. R., Bowen, M. A., Fuller, L. R., & Moser, W. K. (2025). Management and Natural Regeneration in Multiple Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Southwestern United States. Forest Science, 71, 203–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44391-025-00013-z
Margolis, E., Wion, A., Abatzoglou, J., Daniels, L., Falk, D., Guiterman, C., Johnston, J., Kipfmueller, K., Lafon, C., Loehman, R., Lonergan, M., Naficy, C., Parisien, M., Parks, S., Portier, J., Stambaugh, M., Whitman, E., Williams, A. P., & Yocom, L. (2025). Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880). Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(1).
2024
Franklin, J., & MacDonald, G. M. (2024). Climate Change and California Sustainability—Challenges and Solutions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(32), e2405458121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2405458121