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•Hayes K, Hoffman C, Linn R, Ziegler J, Buma B. 2024. Fuel constraints, not fire weather conditions, limit fire behavior in reburned boreal forests. Agricultural and Forest Metrology. In press.
•Buma B. 2024. Including non-growing season emissions of N2O in US maize could raise net CO2e emissions 31% annually. Agricultural and Environmental Letters. In press.
•Pawlik, Ł., Gałązka, A., Gruba, P., Marzec-Grządziel, A., Szopa, K., Kupka, D., Buma, B. and Šamonil, P., 2024. High-resolution soil sampling reveals the pattern of biological weathering and soil formation under trees. Science of The Total Environment, p.173725.
•Carter, T*, Buma B. 2024. Understory Plant Biodiversity is Inversely Related to Carbon Storage in a Carbon Dense Ecosystem. Ecology and Evolution. In press.
•Gough CM, Buma B, Jentsch A, Mathes KC, Fahey RT. 2024. Disturbance theory for ecosystem ecologists: A primer. Ecology and Evolution. In press.
•Carter T*, Buma B. 2024. The Distribution of Tree Biomass Carbon within the Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest, a Disproportionally Carbon Dense Forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. In press. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2024-0015
•Buma, B., Gordon, D.R., Kleisner, K.M. et al. 2024. Expert review of the science underlying nature-based climate solutions. Nature Climate Change (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-01960-0
•Pawlik, Ł†., Gruba, P., Gałązka, A., Marzec-Grządziel, A., Kupka, D., Szopa, K., Buma, B. and Šamonil, P., 2023. Weathering and soil production under trees growing on sandstones–The role of tree roots in soil formation. Science of The Total Environment, 902, p.166002.
•Vorster, AG, Stevens-Rimann C, Young N, Woodward B, Choi C, Chambers ME, Cheng AS, Caggiano M, Schultz C, Thompson M, Greiner M, Aplet G, Addington RN, Battaglia MA, Bowker D, Bucholz E, Buma B, et al. 2023. Metrics and considerations for evaluating how forest treatments alter wildfire behavior and effects. Journal of Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvad036
•Weiss SA, Marshall AM, Hayes KR, Nicolsky DJ, Buma B, Lucash MS. 2023. Future transitions from a conifer to a deciduous dominated landscape are accelerated by greater wildfire activity and climate change in interior Alaska. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01733-8
•Buma B. 2022. Alternate growth forms can protect climate-threatened trees from freezing stressors. Forest Science. 68(5-6): 435-439.
•Booth, A.M., Buma, B. and Nagorski, S., 2022. Effects of landslides on terrestrial carbon stocks with a coupled geomorphic‐biologic model: Southeast Alaska, United States. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, p.e2022JG007297.
•Davis, KT, Robles MD, Kemp KB, Higuera PE, Chapman T, Metlen KL, Peeler JL, Rodman KC, Woolley T, Addington RN, Buma B, et al. 2023. Reduced fire severity offers near term buffer to climate driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States. PNAS. 120: e2209120120
•Pawlik L†, Buma B, Wistuba M, Malik I, Slezak A. 2023. Trees as bioindicators of hillslope degradation by debris flows and dangerous rockfalls along the Lefthand Canyon, Colorado Front Range. Land Degradation and Development. 34 (6), 1869-1884
•LaRue EA*, Fahey RT, Alvershere BC, Atkins JW, Bhatt P, Buma B, Chen A, Cousins S, Elliot JM, Elmore EJ, Hakkenberg CR, Hardiman BS, Johnson JS, Kashian DM, Koirala A, Papes M, St. Hilaire JB, Susasinghe T, Zambrano J, Zhai L, Fei S. A theoretical framework for the ecological role of structural diversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 21(1): 4-13
•Shuman JK, Balch JK, Barnes RT, Higuera PE, Roos CI, Schwilk DW, Stavros N, Banjeree T, Bela MM, Bendix J, Bertolino S, Bililgn S, Bladon KD, Brando P, Breidenthal RE, Buma B, & 72 more. Reimagine fire science for the Anthropocene. PNAS Nexus. 1(3): pgac115 https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac115
•Buma B, Morello F, KR Soto, AC Serrano Fillol. 2022. The southernmost end point of pre-industrial human expansion found on Isla Hornos (Isla Lököshpi), Chile. Antiquity.
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•Hayes K*, Carter T*, Cook P, Twaddell E*, Buma B. Supporting Graduate Field Leadership through Community-Sourced Advice, Action, and Policy. Ecosphere. In press.
•Carter T*, Hayes K*, Buma B. Putting More Fuel on the Fire… Or Maybe Not? A Synthesis of Spruce Beetle and Fire Interactions in North American Subalpine Forests. Landscape Ecology. In press.
•Buma B, Hayes K, Weiss S, Lucash M. Short interval fires increasing in the boreal forest as fire self-regulation decays, especially in drier coniferous forest landscapes. Scientific Reports.12:4901
•Aguirre F, Squeo AF, Lopez D, Crego R, Buma B, Casassa G, Rozzi R. 2022. Gradientes climáticos y su influyente rol sobre los ecosistemas terrestres de la Reserva de Biósfera Cabo de Hornos, Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia. In press.
•Mitchell JC, Kashian DM, Chen X, Cousins S, Flaspohler D, Gruner DG, Johnson KS, Surasinghe T, Zambrano J, Buma B. Forest ecosystem properties emerge from interactions of structure and disturbance. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. 21(1): 14-23.
•Vascik B., Booth AM, Buma B, Berti M. 2021. Amount and Fate of Carbon Mobilized by Landsliding in SE Alaska. AGU Biogeosciences. 126(11): e2021JG006321.
•Buma B. Disturbance ecology and the problem of n = 1. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(12): 2276-2286.
•Bisbing S, Buma B, VanderNaald B, Bisbing AL. Single-tree salvage logging as a response to Alaska yellow-cedar climate-induced mortality maintains ecological integrity with limited economic returns. Forest Ecology and Management. 503(1): 119815.
•Bidlack AL, Bisbing S, Buma B, Diefenderfer H, Fellman J, Floyd W, Giesbrecht I, Lally A, Lertzman K, Perakis S, Butman D, D’Amore D, Fleming S, Hood E, Hunt B, Kiffney P, McNicol G, Menounos B, Tank S. Climate-Mediated Changes to Linked Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystems across the Northeast Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest Margin. BioScience. 71(6): 581-595.
•Bisbing S, Urza AK, Buma B, Cooper DJ, Matocq M, Angert AL. Can long-lived species keep pace with climate change? Evidence of local persistence potential in a widespread conifer. Diversity and Distributions. 27 (2), 296-312.
•Leverkus AB, Buma B, Wagenbrenner J, Burton P, Lingua E, Marzano R, Thorn S. 2021. Tamm review: Does salvage logging mitigate subsequent forest disturbances? Forest Ecology and Management. 481: 118721
•Hayes K*, Buma B. 2021, Effects of short-interval disturbances continue to accumulate, overwhelming variability in local resilience. Ecosphere. 12 (3), e03379
•Buma B, Pawlik L†. 2021. Post-landslide soil and vegetation recovery in a dry, montane system is slow and patchy. Ecosphere. 12(1): e03346.
•Buma B, Holz A, Diaz I, Rozzi R. 2021. The world’s southernmost tree and the climate and windscapes of the worlds southernmost forests. Ecography. 43:1-11.
•Pawlik L†, Buma B, Samonil P, Kvacek J, Galazka A, Malik I, Kohout P. 2020. Impact of trees and forests on the Devonian landscape and weathering processes with implications to the global Earth's system properties - A critical review. Earth-Science Reviews. e103200.
•Rozzi R, Cregro RD, Contador T, Shuttler E, Rosenfeld S, Mackenzie R, Barroso O, Silva-Rodriguez EA, Alvarez-Bustos X, Silva A, Ramirez I, Mella J, Horreros J, Rendoll-Carcamo J, Marambio J, Ojeda J, Mendez F, Moses KP, Kennedy J, Russell S, Goffinet B, Sancho LG, Berchez F, Buma B, Aguirre F, Sanchez-Jardon L, Barros E, Vasquez RA, Arroyo MTK, Poulin E, Squeo F, Armesto JJ, Mansilla A, Masarado F. 2020. Un centinela para el monitoreo del cambio climático y su impacto sobre la biodiversidad en la cumbre austral de América: la nueva red de estudios a largo Plazo Cabo de Hornos. Anales de la Instituto de Patagonia. 48(3): 45-81. (email for copy)
•Buma B, Schultz C. 2020. Disturbances as Opportunities: Can we learn from disturbance-response parallels in social and ecological systems to better adapt to climate change? Journal of Applied Ecology 57(6): 1113-1123
•Booth A, Sifford C, Siebert C, Buma B. 2020. Coarse wood inhibits debris flow runout in forested southeast Alaska. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. DOI: 10.1002/esp.4830
•Buma B, Weiss S, Hayes K*, Lucash M. 2020. Wildland fire reburning trends across the US West suggest only short-term negative feedbacks and differing climatic effects. Environmental Research Letters 15(3): 03426
•Kulakowski D, Buma B, Guz J, Hayes K*. 2019. The ecology of forest disturbances. Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.11878-0
•Wiles G, Charlton J, Wilson R, D’Arrigo R, Buma B, Krapek J*, Gaglioti B, Wiesenberg N, Oelkers R. Yellow-cedar blue intensity tree ring chronologies as records of climate and forest-climate response, Juneau, Alaska, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 49: 1483-1492.
•Buma B, Bisbing S, Wiles G, Bidlack A. 2019. 100 yr of primary succession highlights stochasticity and competition driving community establishment and stability. Ecology 100(12): e02885
•McWethy DB, Schoennagel T, Higuera PE, Krawchuk M, Harvey BJ, Metcalf EC, Schultz C, Miller C, Metcalf AL, Buma B, Virapongse A, Kulig JC, Stedman RC, Ratajczak Z, Nelson CR, Kolden C. 2019. Rethinking resilience to wildfire. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0353-8.
•Bisbing S, Buma B, Oakes L, Krapek J*, Bidlack A. 2019. From canopy to seed: Loss of snow drives directional changes in forest composition. Ecology and Evolution. 9(14): 8157-8174.
•Buma B, Battelori E, Bisbing S, Holz A, Hennon PE, Mortiz M, Saunders SE, Creutzburg MK, DellaSala DA, Gregovich D, Krapek J*, Zaret K, Bidlack A. 2019. Emerging freeze and fire disturbance dynamics in temperate rainforests. Austral Ecology 44(5): 812-826.
•Johnson A*, Kruger L, Noel J, Gregovich D, Buma B. Impacts of submerging and emerging shorelines on various biota and indigenous Alaskan harvesting patterns. Journal of Coastal Research. 35(4): 765-775
•Buma B, Thompson T. 2019. Long-term exposure to more frequent disturbances increases baseline carbon in some ecosystems: Mapping and quantifying the disturbance frequency-ecosystem C relationship. PLOS One 14(2):e0212526
•Higuera P, Metcalf A, Miller C, Buma B, McWethy D, Metcalf E, Ratajczak Z, Nelson C, Chaffin B, Stedman R, McCaffrey S, Schoennagel T, Harvey B, 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.
•Buma B, Harvey B, Gavin D, Kelly R, Loboda T, McNeil B, Marlon J, Meddens AJH, Morris JL, Raffa K, Shuman B, Smithwick E, McLauchlan K. The value of linking short and long-term perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience. Landscape Ecology 34(1): 17-33
•McNicol G**, Bulmer C, D'Amore DV, Sanborn P, Saunders S, Giesbrecht I, Gonzalez-Arriola S, Bidlack AL, Butman D, Buma B. Large, climate-sensitive soil carbon stocks mapped with pedology-informed machine learning in the North Pacific coastal temperate rainforest. Environmental Research Letters 14: 014004
•Sommerfeld A, Senf C, Buma B, D’Amato AW, Despres T, Diaz-Hormazabal, Fraver S, Frelich LE, Gutierrez AG, Hart SJ, Harvey BJ, He HS, Hlasny T, Holz A, Kitzberger T, Kulakowski D, Lindenmeyer D, Mori AS, Muller J, Paritsis J, Perry GLW, Stephens S, Svoboda M, Tuner MG, Veblen TT, Seidl R. Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome. Nature Communications. 9, 4355.
•Buma B. 2018. Transitional climate mortality: Slower warming may result in increased climate-induced mortality in some systems. Ecosphere. 9(3): e02170.
•Krapek J*, Buma B. 2018. Persistence following punctuated range extension: limited dispersal of migrating tree despite habitat ahead of its range. Journal of Ecology. 106: 911-924.
•Buma B, Costanza JK, Riitters K. 2017. Determining the size of a complete disturbance landscape: Multi-scale, continental analysis of forest change. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189: 642. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-017-6364-x
•Krapek J*, Hennon PE, D’Amore DV, Buma B. 2017. Despite available habitat, migration of climate-threatened tree appears punctuated with past pulse tied to Little Ice Age climate period. Diversity and Distributions. 23(12): 1381-1392.
•Gill N, Kulakowski D, Sangermano F, Buma B. 2017. Populus tremuloides seedling establishment: An underexplored vector for forest type conversion after multiple disturbances. Forest Ecology and Management. 404: 156-164.
•Riitters K, Costanza JK, Buma B. 2017. Scaling domains of tree cover disturbance patterns in North America, 2000 – 2012. Ecological Indicators. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.05.022
•Buma B, Livneh B. 2017. Key landscape and biotic indicators of watersheds sensitivity to forest disturbance. Environmental Research Letters. 12:074028
•Buma B, Bisbing S, Krapek K, Wright G. 2017. A foundation of ecology re-discovered: 100 years of succession on the William S Cooper permanent plots shows importance of contingency in community development. Ecology. 98(6): 1513-1523.
•Buma B, Hennon PE, Harrington CA, Popkin JR, Krapek J*, Lamb M, Oakes LE, Saunders SC, Zeglen S. 2017. Emerging broad-scale mortality driven by climate warming and loss of snowpack. Global Change Biology. In press.
•Fellman JB, Buma B, Hood E, Edwards RT, D'Amore DV. 2017. Linking LiDAR with streamwater biogeochemistry in coastal temperate rainforest watersheds. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. In press.
•Bidlack A, Bisbing S, Buma B, D’Amore DV, Hennon P, Huette T, Krapek J*, Mulvey R, Oakes LE. Alternative interpretation and scale-based context for No evidence of recent (1995-2013) decrease in yellow-cedar in Alaska (Barrett and Pattison 2017). Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
•Buma B, Krapek J*, Edwards RT. 2016. Watershed-scale forest biomass distribution in a perhumid temperate rainforest as driven by topographic, soil, and disturbance variables. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 46(6): 844-854.
•Mayer AL, Buma B, Davis A, Gagne SA, Loudermilk EL, Scheller R, Schmiegelow F, Wiersma Y, Franklin J. 2016. How landscape ecology informs global change science and policy. BioScience 66(6): 458-469
•Kranabetter JM, McLauchlan KK, Enders SK, Fraterrigo JM, Higuera PE, Morris JL, Rastetter EB, Buma B, Gavin DG, Gerhart LM, Gillson L, Hietz P, Mack MC, McNeil B, Perakis S. 2015. A framework to assess biogeochemical response to ecosystem disturbance using nutrient partitioning ratios. Ecosystems 19: 387-395. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-015-9934-1
•Krapek J*, Buma B. 2015. Yellow-cedar: climate change and natural history at odds. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment. 13(5)
•Buma B, Livneh B. 2015. Potential effects of forest disturbances and management on water resources in a warmer climate. Forest Science. 61: 895-903.
•Buma B, Barrett T. 2015. Signs of disturbance disequilibrium and directional change in the world’s largest temperate rainforest. Global Change Biology. 21: 3445-3454.
•Buma B. 2015. Field Methods in Forest Ecology: University of Alaska Southeast Field lab manual. 73 pages.
•Buma, B. 2015. Disturbance interactions: Characterization, prediction, and the potential for cascading effects. Ecosphere. 6(4):70.
•Livneh B., J.S. Deems, B. Buma, J.J. Barsugli, D. Schneider, N.P. Molotch, K. Wolter, and C.A. Wessman, 2015. Catchment response to bark beetle outbreak in the upper Colorado River basin. Journal of Hydrology. 523: 196-210.
•Buma B, Johnson AC*. 2015. Disturbance interactions mediated by topography: Wind exposure, landslide susceptibility, and yellow cedar decline in southeast Alaskan temperate rainforests. Geomorphology. 228: 504-511.
•Buma B, Poore B, Wessman CA. 2014. Interacting disturbances and their effect on carbon, charcoal, and further implications for carbon sequestration in forests. Ecosystems. 17(6): 947-959
•Buma B, Hennon PE, Bidlack AL, Baichtal JF, Ager TA, Streveler G. 2014. Correspondence regarding “The problem of conifer species migration lag in the Pacific Northwest region since the last glaciation” by Elias, S.A., 2013, Quaternary Science Reviews 77, 53-69. Quaternary Science Reviews. 77, 53-69.
•McLauchlan, K.K., P.E. Higuera, D.G. Gavin, S.S. Perakis, M.M. Mack, H. Alexander, J. Battles, F. Biondi, B. Buma, D. Colombaroli, S.K. Enders, D.R. Engstrom, F.S. Hu, J. Marlon, J. Marshall, M. McGlone, J. Morris, L. Nave, B.N. Shuman, E.A.H. Smithwick, D. Urrego, D. Wardle, C. Williams, and J.J. Williams. 2014. Reconstructing disturbances and their biogeochemical consequences over multiple timescales. BioScience. 64(2): 105-116.
•Buma B. 2014. Nutrient responses to ecosystem disturbances from annual to multi-millennial timescales. New Phytologist. 1: 13-15.
•Buma B, Brown C, Donato D, Fontaine J, Johnstone J. 2013. The impacts of changing disturbance regimes on serotinous plant populations and communities. BioScience 63(11): 866-876.
•Buma B, Wessman CA. 2013. Forest resilience, climate change, and opportunities for adaptation: A specific case of a general problem. Forest Ecology and Management. 306: 216-225.
•Buma B, Pugh ET, Wessman CA. 2013. Effect of a major insect outbreak on phenological and LAI trends in southern Rocky Mountain forests. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 34(20): 7249-7274.
•Buma B. 2013. Don’t give up just yet: Maintaining species, services, and systems in a changing world. Invited commentary on: Sandler R. Climate Change and Ecosystem Management. Ethics, Policy, and Environment. 16(1): 1-4.
•Buma B, Wessman CA. 2013. Management, science, and disturbances as opportunities for adaptive transformation of forests. The International Journal of Climate Change.
•Buma B, Wessman CA. 2012. Differential species responses to compounded perturbations and implications for landscape heterogeneity and resilience. Forest Ecology and Management, 266:25-33.
•Buma B. 2012. Evaluating the utility and seasonality of NDVI values for assessing post-disturbance recovery in a subalpine forest. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 184(6):3849-3860.
•Buma B, Wessman CA. 2011. Disturbance interactions can impact resilience mechanisms of forests. Ecosphere. 2(5):art64.
•Hermanson R, Nufio C, Schmidt B, Buma B. 2010. Principles of Ecology laboratory manual. University of Colorado, Fountainhead Press, Texas, USA.