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10 Most Cited Papers

Dendroecology: a tool for evaluating variations in past and present forest environments. HC Fritts, TW Swetnam. 1989. Advances in Ecological Research 19, 111-188

Fire history on a desert mountain range: Rincon Mountain Wilderness, Arizona, USA. CH Baisan, TW Swetnam. 1990. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 20 (10), 1559-1569

Fire-southern oscillation relations in the southwestern United States. TW Swetnam, JL Betancourt. 1990. Science 249, 1017-1020

Fire history and climate change in giant sequoia groves. 1993. TW Swetnam
Science 262, 885-889.

Historical fire regime patterns in the southwestern United States since AD 1700. TW Swetnam, CH Baisan. 1996. Fire effects in Southwestern Forests, Proceedings of the Second La Mesa Fire Symposium. USDA Forest Service.

Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climatic variability in the American Southwest. TW Swetnam, JL Betancourt. 1998. Journal of Climate 11, 3128-3147

Applied historical ecology: using the past to manage for the future. TW Swetnam, CD Allen, JL Betancourt. 1999. Ecological Applications 9 (4), 1189-1206

Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: a broad perspective. CD Allen, M Savage, DA Falk, KF Suckling, TW Swetnam, T Schulke. 2002. Ecological Applications 12 (5), 1418-1433

Warming and earlier spring increase western US forest wildfire activity
AL Westerling, HG Hidalgo, DR Cayan, TW Swetnam. 2006. Science 313, 940-943

Fire in the Earth system. DMJS Bowman, JK Balch, P Artaxo, WJ Bond, JM Carlson, MA Cochrane, TW Swetnam. 2009. Science 324, 481-484

10 Other Selected Papers

Using dendrochronology to measure radial growth of defoliated trees. TW Swetnam, MA Thompson, and EK Sutherland. 1985. USDA Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 639.  39 pgs.

Multi-century, regional-scale patterns of western spruce budworm history. TW Swetnam, and A. M. Lynch. 1993.  Ecological Monographs 63(4):399-424.  

Tree-ring reconstructions of fire and climate history in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States.  TW Swetnam, and CH Baisan. 2003. pages 158-195, In:  T. T. Veblen, W. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T.W. Swetnam, editors. Fire and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Ecological Studies Vol. 160. Springer, New York.

Contingent Pacific-Atlantic ocean influence on multi-century wildfire synchrony over western North America. T Kitzberger, PM Brown, E K Heyerdahl, TW Swetnam, and TT Veblen. 2007. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(2):543-548.

Multi-millennia fire history of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, USA. TW Swetnam, CH Baisan, AC Caprio, PM Brown, RS Anderson, and DW Hallett. 2009. Fire Ecology 5(3):117-147.

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States. Williams, A.P. C. D. Allen, C. I. Millar, T.W. Swetnam, J. Michaelsen, C. J. Still, and S. W. Leavitt. 2010. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107(50):21289-21294.

Climatic inferences from dendroecological reconstructions. TW Swetnam, and PM Brown. 2011. Chapter 9, In: Hughes, M.K., T.W. Swetnam, and H.F. Diaz, editors,   Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects, Springer, New York.

Native American depopulation, reforestation, and fire regimes in the Southwest United States, 1492–1900 CE. MJ Liebmann, J Farella, CI Roos, A Stack, S Martini, and TW Swetnam. 2016. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1521744113

Local-scale and regional climate controls on historical fire regimes
in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
ER Bigio, TW Swetnam and CH Baisan. 2016 Forest Ecology and Management 360:311-322.

Multi-Scale Perspectives of Fire, Climate and Humans in Western North America and the Jemez Mountains, U.S.A. TW Swetnam, J Farella, CI Roos, MJ Liebmann, DA Falk and CD Allen.. 2016, in press. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 

10 Most Recent Papers

Guiterman, C.H., E.Q. Margolis, C.H. Baisan, D.A. Falk, C.D. Allen, an T.W. Swetnam. 2019. Spatiotemporal variability of human–fire interactions on the Navajo Nation. Ecosphere 10 (11), e02932.

Guiterman, C.H., C.H. Baisan, N.B. English, J. Quade, J.S. Dean, and T.W. Swetnam. 2020. Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon. American Antiquity 85 (2): 331-346.

Arizpe, A.H., D.A. Falk, C.A. Woodhouse, and T.W. Swetnam. 2021. Widespread fire years in the US–Mexico Sky Islands are contingent on both winter and monsoon precipitation. International Journal of Wildland Fire 29 (12), 1072-1087.

Roos, C.I., T.W. Swetnam, T.J. Ferguson, M.J. Liebmann, R.A. Loehman, J.R. Welch, E.Q. Margolis, C.H. Guiterman, W.C. Hockaday, M.J. Aiuvalasit, J. Battillo, J. Farella, and C.A. Kiahtipes. 2021. Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 18 (4) e2018733118.

Dewar, J.J., D.A. Falk, T.W. Swetnam, C.H. Baisan, C.D. Allen, R.R. Parmenter, E.Q. Margolis, and E.J. Taylor. 2021. Valleys of fire: historical fire regimes of forest-grassland ecotones across the montane landscape of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA. Landscape Ecology 36 (2): 331-352.

Margolis, E.Q. [and T.W. Swetnam, plus 81 other authors]. 2022. The North American fire scar network. Ecosphere 13(7):e4195.

Hagmann, R.K., P.F. Hessburg, S.J. Prichard, N.A. Povak, P.M. Brown, P.Z. Fulé, R.E. Keane, E.E. Knapp, JM Lydersen, K.L. Metlen, M.J. Reilly, A.J. Sánchez Meador, S.L. Stephens, J.T. Stevens, A.H. Taylor, L.L. Yocom, M.A. Battaglia, D.J. Churchill, L.D. Daniels, D.A. Falk, P. Henson, J.D. Johnston, M.A. Krawchuk, C.R. Levine, G.W. Meigs, A.G. Merschel, M.P. North, H.D. Safford, T.W. Swetnam, and A.E.M. Waltz. 2021. Evidence for Widespread Changes in the Structure, Composition, and Fire Regimes of Western North American Forests. Ecological Applications 31(8):e02431.

Roos, C.I., C.H Guiterman, E.Q. Margolis, T.W. Swetnam, N.C. Laluk, K.F. Thompson, C. Toya, C.A. Farris, P.Z. Fulé, J.M. Iniguez, J.M. Kaib, C.D. O’Connor, and L. Whitehair. 2022. Indigenous Fire Management and Cross-scale Fire-climate Relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE. Science Advances 8(49): eabq3221.

Bigio, E. R., T.W. Swetnam, C.H. Baisan, C.H. Guiterman, Y.K. Kisilyakhov, S.G. Andreev, E.A. Batotsyrenov, and A.A. Ayurzhanaev. 2022. The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia. Environmental Research Letters 17(5): 054043.

Roos, C.H., T.W. Swetnam, and C.H. Guiterman. 2023. Chapter 5, Indigenous Land Use and Fire Resilience of Southwest USA Ponderosa Pine Forests, pages 87-103, In: Climatic and Ecological Change in the Americas, edited by J. A. Whitaker, C.G. Armstrong, and G. Odonne. Routledge, London.