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•Creed IF, Ury EA, Anderson KJ, Bansal S, Badiou P, Dombrowik V, Duffy PB, Gauci V, Gold A, Holgerson MA, Holmatov B, Kinsman-Costello L, Lobato de Magalhaes T, Monteverde DR, Ward EJ, Zhang Z, Buma B. Climate-smart wetlands can mitigation the wetland-methane feedback loop. One Earth. In press.
•Watts JD, Ordway E, Malone SL, Zhu Q, Palmer PI, Patel-Tupper D, Ciais P, Li F, Monteverde DR, Arndt KA, Bruhwiler L, Buma B, Cadillo-Quiroz H, Euskirchen E, Hoyt AM, Holgerson M, Hugelius G, Jackson RB, Jacob D, Kuhn M, Natali SM, Peng S, Perryman CR, Poulter B, Rey-Sanchez C, Sangang LB, Schuur EAG, Varner RK, Vargas R. A global methane observation system to track climate feedbacks for verifiable climate impact. Science. 391(6792): 1324-1327
•Ury EA**, Zhang Z, Fluet-Chouinard E, Sartzetakis SS, Sun T, Buma B. 2026. Strategic restoration of global inland peatlands can maximize local and global co-benefits. Ecological Applications. In press.
•Carter T*, Hart SJ, Buma B. Ecological Regime Changes Triggered by Compound Disturbances Persist After 20 Years. 2026. Forest Ecology and Management. 612: 123734.
•Buma B, Dietzen C, Gordon DR, Maher K, Neumann RB, Planavsky NJ, Reershemius T, Suhrhoff TJ, Vicca S, Waring BG, Almaraz M, Calabrese S, Derry LA, Morgan MG, Higgins J, Houlton BZ, Kanzaki Y, Klemme A, Kukla T, Oldfield EE, Power IM, Pearce CR, Silver WL, Zhang S. 2026. Expert elicitation on agricultural enhanced weathering reveals carbon dioxide removal potential and uncertainties in loss pathways. Nature Communications Earth and Environment. 7: 376.
•Buma B, Frumhoff PC, Rogers BM, Sartzetakis S, Phillips CA, Schädel C, Treharne R, Natali SM, Alpert A, Goldberg M, Holdren JP, Canadell JG, Dooley K, Kurz WA, Nobre C, Ury E, Hamburg S. 2026. Policy solutions to better assess progress toward Paris goals given warming-induced ecosystem emissions, which shorten timelines by 2–5 years. 2026. One Earth 9, 101571
•DellaSala D., Buma B, Leverkis AB, Lindenmayer DB, Muller J, Price K, Six DL, Zylstra P, Burton PJ. 2025. Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires. PNAS. 122(47): e2510922122
•Ury EA**, Zhang Z, Buma B. 2025. Addressing methane emission feedbacks from global wetlands. Nature Sustainability. 8, 1115–1118
•Buma B, Ocko, I, Walkowiak B, Xu Y, Lackner M, Sartzetakis SS, Alpert A, Dhungel S. Considering sectoral warming and cooling emissions and their lifetimes can improve climate change mitigation policies. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. 8: 287.
•Sartzetakis SS, Sun T, Yangyang X, Ury EA, Ocko IB, Buma B. 2025. Evaluating temporal trade-offs in climate effects from carbon dioxide removal strategies across different metrics: a case study on wetland restoration. Environmental Research Letters. 20:084050.
•Carter T*, Buma B. 2025. Different topographic and climatic contexts associated with carbon hotspots in a carbon dense ecoregion. Ecosphere. 16(8): e70363
•Esquivel-Elizondo, S., Walkowiak, B., Sartzetakis, S.S. and Buma, B. 2025. Climate Impact of Direct and Indirect N2O Emissions from the Ammonia Marine Fuel Value Chain. Environmental Science & Technology 59(18), 9037-9048.
•Godziek J*, Pawlik L, Buma B. 2025. The mapping and analysis of the infrequent, large-scale blowdown event in the Colorado Front Range. Land Degradation and Development 36(10), 3604-3620
•Carter TA*, Stears AE, Forwalt PJ, Atkins DH, Dwire KA, Fleri JR, Hayes KR*, Mount HE, Twaddell EM*, Wessel SA, Buma B, Laughlin DC. 2025. Fine-root Traits Coordinate with Aboveground Strategies but are Poor Predictors of Understory Plant Species Response to Widespread Spruce Mortality. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07463-x
•Talucci, A., Loranty, M.M., Holloway, J.E., Rogers, B.M., Alexander, H.D., Baillargeon, N., Baltzer, J.L., Berner, L.T., Breen, A., Brodt, L. Buma, B., et al. 2024. Permafrost-wildfire interactions: Active layer thickness estimates for paired burned and unburned sites in northern high-latitudes. Earth System Science Data Discussions 1-36.
•Ury E., Hinckley E, Visioni D, Buma B. 2024. Managing the global wetland methane-climate feedback: A review of potential options. Global Change Biology. 30 (11), e17585
•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, ن., 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.
•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.
•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.
•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)
•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.
•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.
•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.
•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. 2015. Field Methods in Forest Ecology: University of Alaska Southeast Field lab manual. 73 pages.
•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, Wessman CA. 2013. Management, science, and disturbances as opportunities for adaptive transformation of forests. The International Journal of Climate Change.
•Hermanson R, Nufio C, Schmidt B, Buma B. 2010. Principles of Ecology laboratory manual. University of Colorado, Fountainhead Press, Texas, USA.