Publications

The Institute for Wildfire Science, Adaptation and Resiliency's research team is actively engaged in sharing new knowledge with the world.

2024

Jain, P. Barber, Q. Taylor, S. Whitman, E., Castellanos Acuna, D. Boulanger, Y., Chavardès, R., Chen, J., Englefield, P., Flannigan, M., Girardin, M., Hanes, C., Little, J., Morrison, K., Skakun, R., Thompson, D., Wang, X., & Parisien, M. (2024). Canada Under Fire – Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season. Link
Little, K., Graham, L., Flannigan, M., Belcher, C., & Kettridge, N. (2024). Landscape controls on fuel moisture variability in fire-prone heathland and peatland landscapes. Link
Luo, K., Wang, X., de Jong, & M. Flannigan, M. (2024) Drought triggers and sustains overnight fires in North America. Link
Smith, M., Wilkins, K., Holdrege, M., Wilfahrt, P., Collins, S., Knapp, A., Sala, O., Dukes, J., Phillips, R., Yahdjian, L., Gherardi, L., Ohlert, T., Beier, C., Fraser, L. +155 (2024). Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Link
Wang, X., Swystun, T., McFayden, C., Erni, S., Oliver, J., Taylor, S., & Flannigan, M. (2024). Mapping the distance between fire hazard and disaster for communities in Canadian forests. Link

2023

Adams, A.*, Krygier, R., Hook, T., McNalty, C., & Harvey, J.E. (2023). Growth of tree-form willow driven by cool, wet springs and warm, dry summers in Teetł’it Zheh (Fort McPherson), Northwest Territories. Tree-Ring Research. Link
Akin-Fajiye, M., Greenall, A., & Fraser, L.H. (2023). Winners and Losers: Examining biotic interactions in forbs and grasses in response to changes in water and temperature in a semi-arid grassland. AoB Plants. Link
Donnelly, S., Akin-Fajiye, M., & Fraser, L.H. (2023). Plant provenance can modify the effect of temperature and moisture on intraspecific competition in Pseudoroegneria spicata. Ecology and Evolution. Link
Hanes, C., Wotton, M., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., Woolford, D. G., Belair, S., Martell, D., & Flannigan, M. (2023). Evaluation of new methods for drought estimation in the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. International Journal of Wildland Fire. Link
Luo, B., Huang, M., Wang, W., Niu, J., Shrestha, M., Zeng, J., Ma, L., Degen, A.A., Liao, J., Zhang, T., Bai, Y., Zhao, J., Fraser, L., & Shang, Z. (2023). Ant nests increase litter decomposition to mitigate the negative effect of warming in an alpine ecosystem. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Ecology, 290, (2023)0613. Link
Parisien, M-A., Barber, Q., Bourbonnais, M., Daniels, L., Hoffman, K., Gray, R., Jain, J., Taylor, S., Whitman, E., & Flannigan, M. (2023). Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s. Communications Earth & Environment, 4, 309 (2023). Link
Parisien, M-A., Quinn, B., Piyush, J., & Flannigan, M. (2023). Broadleaf-tree phenology and springtime wildfire occurrence in boreal Canada. Global Change Biology. Link
Sepp S-K, Vasar M, Davison J, Oja J, Anslan S, Al-Quraishy, Bahram M, Bueno Cg, Cantero JJ, Fabiano EF, Decocq G, Drenkhan R, Fraser L, Oriel RG, Hiiesalu I, Koorem K, Koljalg U, Moora M, Mucina L, Opik M, Polme S, Partel M, Phosri C, Semchenko M, Vahter T, Palacios AMV, Tedersoo L, Zobel M. (2023). Global diversity and distribution of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the soil. Frontiers in Plant Science. Link
Vasar M, Davison J, Moora M, Sepp S-K, Anslan S, Bueno CG, Oja J, Hiiesalu I, Koorem K, Öpik M, Pärtel M, Semchenko M, Vahter T, Tedersoo L, Al-Quraishy S, Bahram M, Cantero JJ, Fabiano EC, Decocq G, Drenkhan R, Fraser L, Garibay-Orijel RG, Mucina L, Põlme S, Phosri C, Doležal J, Palacios AMV, Zobel M. (2023). Metabarcoding of soil environmental DNA to estimate plant diversity globally. Frontiers in Plant Science. Link
Wang, X., Oliver, J., Swystun, T., Hanes, C., Erni, S., & Flannigan, M. (2023). Critical fire weather conditions during active fire spread days in Canada. Science of The Total Environment, 869, 15 April (2023), 161831. Link

2022

Aftergood, O., & Flannigan, M. D. (2022). Identifying and analyzing spatial and temporal patterns of lightning-ignited wildfires in Western Canada from 1981-2018. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Link
Bradley, C.A., Akin-Fajiye, M., Gardner, W.C., & Fraser, L.H. (2022). Debris barriers reduce the effects of livestock grazing along streams after timber harvest. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 81, 1-8. Link
Campos-Ruiz, R., Parisien, M-A., & Flannigan, M. D. (2022). Physicochemical characteristics controlling the flammability of live Pinus banksiana needles in central Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31, 857-870. Link
Chan, X. Y., Robinne, F. N., Parisien, M-A., Wang, X., Fleming, T., & Flannigan, M. (2022). Assessment of lake-level fluctuation as an indicator of fire activity in boreal Canada. Ecological Indicators, Volume 145, 109611. Link
Coogan, S., Aftergood, O., & Flannigan, M. (2022). Human- and lightning-caused wildland fire ignition clusters in British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31. Link
Davison J, Vasar M, Sepp S, Oja J, Al-Quraishy S, Bueno CG, Cantero JJ, Chimbioputo E, Decocq GF, Fraser L, Hiiesalu I, Hozzein WN, Koorem K, Moora M, Mucina L, Onipchenko V, Öpik M, Pärtel M, Phosri C, Vahter T, Tedersoo L, Zobel M. (2022). Global taxonomic and phylogenetic assembly of AM fungi. Mycorrhiza 32: 135-144. Link
Fischer, A., Van Hamme, J., Gardner, W., & Fraser, L.H. (2022). Impacts from topsoil stockpile height on soil geochemical properties in two mining operations in British Columbia: Implications for restoration practices. Mining, 2, 315-329. Link
Hanes, C., Wotton, M., Woolford, D.G., Martell, D.L., & Flannigan, M.D. (2022). Mapping organic layer thickness and fuel load of the boreal forest in Alberta, Canada. Geoderma. Link
Janecka, K.*, Metslaid, S., Metslaid, M., Harvey, J.E., & Wilmking, M. (2022). Short-term effects of drought and winter frost on the growth of Scots pine at coastal sand dunes around the south Baltic Sea. Forests, 13, 4777, 1-22. Link
Jones, C.*, Van Dongen, A., Harvey, J.E., & Degenhardt, D. (2022). Field sampling methods on seismic lines: A comparison between circular plots and belt transects. Restoration Ecology, e13619. Link
Margolis, E., Guiterman, C., Chavardes, R., ... Harvey, J.E., ... et al. (60 co-authors). (2022). The North American tree-ring fire-scar network. Accepted: Ecosphere. Link
Melnik, O. M., Paskaluk, S.A., Ackerman, M.Y., Melnik, K., Thompson, D.K., McAllister, S.S., & Flannigan. M.D. (2022). New in-flame flammability testing method applied to monitor seasonal changes in live fuel. Fire, 5(1), 1. Link
Maestre FT, Bagousse-Pinguet, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, David J. Eldridge, Hugo Saiz, Miguel Berdugo, Beatriz Gozalo, Victoria Ochoa, Emilio Guirado, Miguel García-Gómez, Enrique Valencia, Juan J. Gaitán, Sergio Asensio, Betty J. Mendoza, César Plaza, Paloma Díaz CV Martínez, Ana Rey, Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He, Jun-Tao Wang, Anika Lehmann, Matthias C. Rillig, Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer, Jaime Martínez Valderrama, Eduardo Moreno-Jiménez, Osvaldo Sala, Mehdi Abedi, Negar Ahmadian, Concepción L. Alados, Valeria Aramayo, Fateh Amghar, Tulio Arredondo, Rodrigo J. Ahumada, Khadijeh Bahalkeh, Farah Ben Salem, Niels Blaum, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Matthew A. Bowker, Donaldo Bran, Chongfeng Bu, Rafaella Canessa, Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy, Helena Castro, Ignacio Castro, Patricio Castro-Quezada, Roukaya Chibani, Abel A. Conceição, Courtney M. Currier, Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi, Balázs Deák, David A. Donoso, Andrew J. Dougill, Jorge Durán, Batdelger Erdenetsetseg, Carlos I. Espinosa, Alex Fajardo, Mohammad Farzam, Daniela Ferrante, Anke A.S.K. Frank, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Laureano A. Gherardi, Aaron C. Greenville, Carlos A. Guerra, Elizabeth Gusmán-Montalvan, Rosa M. Hernández-Hernández, Norbert Hölzel, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Frederic M. Hughes, Oswaldo Jadán-Maza, Florian Jeltsch, Anke Jentsch, Kudzai F. Kaseke, Melanie Köbel, Jessica E. Koopman, Cintia V. Leder, Anja Linstädter, Peter C. le Roux, Xinkai Li, Pierre Liancourt, Jushan Liu, Michelle A. Louw, Gillian Maggs-Kölling, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Oumarou Malam Issa, Antonio J. Manzaneda, Eugene Marais, Juan P. Mora, Gerardo Moreno, Seth M. Munson, Alice Nunes, Gabriel Oliva, Gastón R. Oñatibia, Guadalupe Peter, Marco O.D. Pivari, Yolanda Pueyo, R. Emiliano Quiroga, Soroor Rahmanian, Sasha C. Reed, Pedro J. Rey, Benoit Richard, Alexandra Rodríguez, Víctor Rolo, Juan G. Rubalcaba, Jan C. Ruppert, Ayman Salah, Max A. Schuchardt, Sedona Spann, Ilan Stavi, Colton R. A. Stephens, Anthony M. Swemmer, Alberto L. Teixido, Andrew D. Thomas, Heather L. Throop, Katja Tielbörger, Samantha Travers, James Val, Orsolya Valkó, Liesbeth van den Brink, Sergio Velasco Ayuso, Frederike Velbert, Wanyoike Wamiti, Deli Wang, Lixin Wang, Glenda M. Wardle, Laura Yahdjian, Eli Zaady, Yuanming Zhang, Xiaobing Zhou, Brajesh K. Singh, Nicolas Gross. (2022). Livestock grazing controls ecosystem services in global drylands. Science, 378, 915-920. Link
Ploughe, L.W., & Fraser, L. (2022). Find new roads (TM)? A systematic review on the impacts of offroad vehicle (ORV) activity on soil, vegetation, and wildlife. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Link
Sharma, A. R., Jain, P., Abatzoglou, J. T., & Flannigan, M. (2022). Persistent Positive Anomalies in Geopotential Heights Promote Wildfires in Western North America. Journal of Climate, 35(19), 2867-2884. Link
Singh, J., Kuang, Y., Ploughe, L., Coghill, M., & Fraser, L.H. (2022). Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe) creates a soil legacy effect by modulating soil elemental composition in a semi-arid grassland ecosystem. Journal of Environmental Management, 317, 115391. Link
Sommers, M.D., & Flannigan, M.D. (2022). Green islands in a sea of fire: the role of fire refugia in the forests of Alberta. Environmental Reviews. Link
Tepley, A. J., Parisien, M-A., Wang, X., Oliver, J., & Flannigan, M. D. (2022). Wildfire evacuation patterns and syndromes across Canada’s forested regions. Ecosphere. Link
Tsigaris, P., Whitehouse, S., Wood, J., & Fraser, L. (2022). Biosolids in western Canada: A case study on public perceptions and factors influencing public attitudes. Environmental Management, 69(1). Link
Van Dongen, A., Jones, C., Schoonmaker, A., Harvey, J., & Degenhardt, D. (2022). The influence of forest harvesting activities on seismic line tree and shrub regeneration in upland mixedwood boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Link
Van Dongen, A., Jones, C., Doucet, C., Floreani, T., Schoonmaker, A., Harvey, J., & Degenhardt, D. (2022). Ground Validation of Seismic Line Forest Regeneration Assessments Based on Visual Interpretation of Satellite Imagery. Forests, 13, 1022. Link
Vasar M, Davison J, Sepp S, Oja J, Al-Quraishy S, Bueno CG, Cantero JJ, Fabiano EC, Decocq G, Fraser L, Hiiesalu I, Hozzein WN, Koorem K, Moora M, Mucina L, Onipchenko V, Öpik M, Pärtel M, Phosri C, Vahter T, Tedersoo L, Zobel M. (2022). Dominance, diversity and niche breadth in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. Ecology. 103(9). Link
Vasar M, Davison J, Sepp S, Oja J, Al-Quraishy S, Bueno CG, Cantero JJ, Fabiano EC, Decocq G, Fraser L, Hiiesalu I, Hozzein WN, Koorem K, Moora M, Mucina L, Onipchenko V, Opik M, Polme S, Partel M, Phosri C, Semchenko M, Vahter T, Tedersoo L, Zobel M. (2022). Global taxonomic and phylogenetic assembly of AM fungi. Mycorrhiza 32: 135-144. Link
Wang, X., Swystun, T., & Flannigan, M.D. (2022). Future wildfire extent and frequency determined by the longest fire-conducive spell. Science of the Total Environment. Link

2021

Akin Fajiye, M., Schmidt, A., & Fraser, L. H. (2021). Soil nutrients and variation in biomass rather than native species richness influence introduced plant richness in a semi-arid grassland. Basic and Applied Ecology, 53, 62-73. Link
Antonelli PM, Coghill MG, Gardner WC, Fraser LH. (2021). Semiarid bunchgrasses accumulate molybdenum on alkaline copper mine tailings: Assessing phytostabilization in the greenhouse. SN Applied Sciences, 3(747). Link
Chavardès, R., Daniels, L., Eskelson, B., Gedalof, Z., Harvey, J.E., Marcoux, H., Amoroso, M., Greene, G., Cochrane, J., Nesbitt, J., Kubian, R., Dinh, T., Pogue, A., Brookes, W., Villemaire-Côté, O., Gray, R., & Andison, D. (2021). Regional drought synchronized historical fires in dry forests of the Montane Cordillera Ecozone, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31, 67-80. Link
Coogan, S.C. P., Daniels, L.D., Burton, P.J., Flannigan, M.D., Gauthier, S., Kafka, V., Park, J.S., & Wotton, B.M. (2021). Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Link
Davison, Moora M, Semchenko M, Adenan S, Ahmed T, Akhmetzhanova A, Alatalo J, Alquraishi S, Andriyanova E, Anslan S, Bahram M, Batbaatar A, Brown C, Bueno CG, Cahill Jr JF, Cantero JJ, Casper B, Cherosov M, Coelho A, Coghill M, Decocq G, Dudov S, Fabiano E, Fedosov V, Fraser L, Glassman S, Helm A, Henry H, Hérault B, Hiiesalu I, Hiiesalu I, Hozzein W, Kohout P, Koljalg U, Koorem K, Laanisto L, Mander Ü, Mucina L, Munyampundu J, Neuenkamp L, Niinemets Ü, Nyamukondiwa C, Oja J, Onipchenko V, Pärtel M, Phosri C, Põlme S, Püssa K, Ronk A, Saitta A, Semboli O, Sepp S, Seregin A, Soliman S, Sudheer S, Venegas C, Paz C, Vahter T, Vasar M, Veraart A, Tedersoo L, Zobel M, Öpik M. (2021). Temperature and pH define the realized niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 231(2): 763-776 Link
Ellis, T.M., Bowman, D.M., Jain, P., Flannigan, M.D., & Williamson, G.J. (2021). Global increase in wildfire risk due to climate-driven declines in fuel moisture. Global Change Biology. Link
Foster J, Gervan CA, Coghill M, Fraser LH. (2021). Are arthropod communities in grassland ecosystems affected by the abundance of an invasive plant? Oecologia, 196(1), 1-12. Link
Gagnon A, Ploughe LW, Harris M, Gardner CW, Pypker T, Fraser LH. (2021). Grassland reclamation of a copper mine tailings facility: Long term effect of biosolid application rate on plant community response. Applied Vegetation Science, 24(4). Link
Girardin, M., Guo, J.X., Metsaranta, J., Gervais, D., Campbell, E., Arsenault, A., Isaac-Renton, M., Harvey, J.E., Bhatti, J., & Hogg, E.H. (2021). A national tree-ring database for Canadian forests (CFS-TRenD): Structure and applications. Environmental Reviews, 29, 225-241. Link
Jain, P., Castellanos-Acuna, D., Coogan, S.C.P., Abatzoglou, J.T., & Flannigan, M.D. (2021). Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature. Nature Climate Change. Link
Jain, P., & Flannigan, M. (2021). The relationship between the polar jet stream and extreme wildfire events in North America: Jet stream climatology and variability. Journal of Climate, 34(14), 6247–6265. Link
Kharuk, V.I., Ponomarev, E.I., Ivanova, G.I., Dvinskaya, M.L., Coogan, S., & Flannigan, M. (2021). Wildfires in the Siberian Taiga. Ambio. Link
Keeley, J.E., Guzman-Morales, J., Gershunov, A., Syphard, A. D., Cayan, D., Pierce, D.W., Flannigan, M., & Brown, T.J. (2021). Ignitions explain more than temperature or precipitation in driving Santa Ana wind fires. Science Advances, 7(30), eabh2262. Link
Ploughe LW, Akin-Fajiye M, Gagnon A, Gardner WC, Fraser LH. (2021). Revegetation of degraded ecosystems into grasslands using biosolids as an organic amendment: A meta-analysis. Applied Vegetation Science, 24(1), e12558. Link
Robinne, F-N., Hallema, D.W., Bladon, K. D., Flannigan, M.D., Boisramé, G., Bréthaut, C.M., Gallagher, L., Doerr, S.H., Baldassarre, G.D., Hohner, A., Khan, S. J., Kinoshita, A.M., Martin, D., Mordecai, R., Nunes, J.P., Nyman, P., Santín, C., Sheridan, G., Stoof, C., Thompson, M.P., Waddington, J. M., & Wei, Y. (2021). Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply. Hydrological Processes. Link
Tymstra, C., Jain, P., & Flannigan, M. (2021). Characterization of initial fire weather conditions for large spring wildfires in Alberta, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire. Link
Villellas J, Ehrlén J, Crone E, Csergő A, Garcia M, Laine A, Roach D, Salguero-Gomez R, Wardle G, Childs D, Elderd B, Finn A, Munne-Bosch S, Bachelot B, Bódis J, Bucharova A, Caruso C, Catford J, Coghill M, Compagnoni A, Duncan R, Dwyer J, Ferguson A, Fraser L, Griffoul E, Groenteman R, Hamre LN, Helm A, Kelly R, Laanisto L, Lonati M, Munzbergova Z, Nuche P, Olsen S, Oprea A, Partel M, Petry W, Ramula S, Rasmussen P, Enri S, Roeder A, Roscher C, Schultz C, Skarpaas O, Smith A, Tack A, Töpper J, Vesk P, Vose G, Wandrag E, Wingler A, Buckley Y. (2021). Genetic differentiation can be predicted from observational data for reproductive but not vegetative traits in a widespread short-lived plant. Ecology Letters. Link
Wang, X., Swystun, T., Oliver, J., & Flannigan, M.D. (2021). One extreme fire weather event determines the extent and frequency of wildland fires. Environmental Research Letters, 16, 114031. Link

2020

Baethke KA, Ploughe LW, Gardner WC, & Fraser LH. (2020). Native seedling colonization at a restored mine is constrained by site conditions despite restoration efforts to decrease seed and microclimate limitations. Minerals, 10(4), 361. Link
Bowman, D.M.J.S., Kolden, C.A., Abatzoglou, J.T., Johnston, F.H., van der Werf, G.R., & Flannigan, M. (2020). Vegetation fires in the Anthropocene. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Link
Coogan, S., Cai, X., Jain, P., & Flannigan, M. D. (2020). Seasonality and trends in human- and lightning-caused wildfires ≥ 2 ha in Canada, 1959–2018. International Journal of Wildland Fire. Link
Foster JG, Ploughe LW, Akin-Fajiye M, Singh JP, Bottos E, Van Hamme J, & Fraser LH. (2020). Exploring trophic effects of spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe L.) on arthropod diversity using DNA metabarcoding. Food Webs, 24, e00157. Link
Hanes, C., Wotton, M., Woolford, D.G., Martell, D.L., & Flannigan, M. (2020). Preceding Fall Drought Conditions and Overwinter Precipitation Effects on Spring Wildland Fire Activity in Canada. Fire, 3, 24. Link
Harvey, J.E., Smiljanić, M., Scharnweber, T., Buras, A., Cedro, A., Cruz-García, R., Drobyshev, I., Janecka, K., Jansons, A., Kaczka, R., Klisz, M., Läänelaid, A., Matison, R., Muffler, L., Sohar, K., Spyt, B., Stolz, J., van der Maaten, E., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Vitas, A., Weigel, R., Kreyling, J., & Wilmking, M. (2020). Tree growth influenced by warming winter climate and summer moisture availability in northern temperate forests. Global Change Biology, 26, 2505-2518. Link
Jain, P., Coogan, S.C.P., Subramanian, S.G., Crowley, M., Taylor, S., & Flannigan, M.D. (2020). A review of machine learning applications in wildfire science and management. Environmental Review. Link
Jain, P., Tye, M.R., Paimazumder, D., & Flannigan, M. (2020). Downscaling fire weather extremes from historical and projected climate models. Climatic Change. Link
Janecka, K.*, Harvey, J.E., Trouillier, M., Kaczka, R.J., Metslaid, S., Metslaid, M., Buras, A., & Wilmking, M. (2020). Higher winter-spring temperature and winter-spring/summer moisture availability increase Scots pine growth on coastal dune microsites around the south Baltic Sea. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 3:Article 578912. Link
Johnston, L., Wang, X., Erni, S., Taylor, S., McFayden, C., Oliver, J., Stockdale, C., Christianson, A., Boulanger, Y., Gauthier, S., Arseneault, Wotton, M., Parisien, M-A., & Flannigan, M. (2020). Wildland fire Risk research in Canada. Environmental Reviews, 00, 1–23. Link
Klesse, S., DeRose, R.J., Shaw, J., Babst, F., Anderegg, L., Axelson, J., Black, B., Ettinger, A., Griesbauer, H., Guiterman, C.H., Harley, G., Harvey, J.E., Lo, Y.H., Lynch, A., O’Connor, C., Restaino, C., Sauchyn, D., Smith, D., Wood, L., Villanueva, J., & Evans, M.E.K. (2020). Back to the future – Continental-scale tree-ring-based projection of Douglas-fir growth. Global Change Biology, 26, 5146-5163. Link
McElhinny, M., Beckers, J.F., Hanes, C., Flannigan, M., & Jain, P. (2020). A high-resolution reanalysis of global fire weather from 1979 to 2018 – Overwintering the Drought Code. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 12, 1823–1833. Link
Ploughe LW, Carlyle CN, & Fraser LH. (2020). Priority effects: how the order of arrival of an invasive grass, Bromus tectorum, alters productivity and plant community structure when grown with native grass species. Ecology and Evolution, 10(28), 13173-13181. Link
Stotz GC, Cahill J, Bennett J, Carlyle C, Bork E, Askarizadeh D, Bartha S, Beierkuhnlein C, Brown L, Cabido M, Campetella G, Chelli S, Cohen O, Diaz S, Enrico L, Ensing D, Erdenetsetseg B, Fidelis A, Garris H, Henry H, Jentsch A, Jouri M, Koorem K, Manning P, Mitchell R, Moora M, Overbeck G, Pither J, Reinhart K, Sternberg M, Tungalag R, Undrakhbold S, van Rooyen M, Wellstein C, Zobel M, & Fraser LH. (2020). Not a melting pot: plant species aggregate in their non-native range. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(3), 482-490. Link
Wang Y, Cadotte C, Chen Y, Fraser LH, Zhang Y, Huang F, Luo S, Shi, N, Loreau M. (2019). Global evidence of positive biodiversity effects on spatial ecosystem stability in natural grasslands. Nature Communications. Link
Wang, X., Studens, K., Parisien, M-A., Taylor, S., Candau, J., Boulanger, Y., & Flannigan, M. (2020). Projected changes in fire size from daily spread potential in Canada over the 21st century. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10). Link

2019

Cai, X., Wang, X., Jain, P., & Flannigan, M.D. (2019). Evaluation of gridded precipitation data and interpolation methods for forest fire danger rating in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124, 3-17. Link
Coogan, S.C. P., Robinne, F-N., Jain, P., & Flannigan, M.D. (2019). Scientists’ warning on wildfire — a Canadian perspective. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. Link
Dawe, D., Peters, V., & Flannigan, M. (2019). Post-fire regeneration of endangered limberpine (Pinus flexilis) at the northern extent of its range. Forest Ecology and Management. Link
Erni, S., Wang, X., Taylor, S., Boulanger, Y., Swystun, T., Flannigan, M., & Parisien, M-A. (2019). Developing a two-level fire regime zonation system for Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 50, 259–273. Link
Gibson, C.M., Estop-Aragonés, C., Flannigan, M., Thompson, D.K., & Olefeldt, D. (2019). Increased deep soil respiration despite reduced overall respiration in peatland plateaus following wildfire. Environmental Research Letters, 14(12). Link
Hanes, C., Wang, X., Jain, P., Parisien, M-A., Little, J.M., & Flannigan, M.D. (2019). Fire Regime Changes in Canada over the Last Half Century. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 49, 256–269. Link
Kochtubajda, B., Stewart, R.E., Flannigan, M.D., Bonsal, B.R., Cuell, C., & Mooney, C.J. (2019). An assessment of surface and atmospheric conditions associated with the extreme 2014 wildfire season in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Atmosphere-Ocean. Link
Robinne, F-N., Bladon, K.D., Silins, U., Emelko, M.B., Flannigan, M.D., Parisien, M-A., Wang, X., Kienzle, S.W., & Dupont, D.P. (2019). A Regional-Scale Index for Assessing the Exposure of Drinking-Water Sources to Wildfires. Forests, 10(5), 384. Link
Sakellariou, S., Tampekis, S., Samara, F., Flannigan, M., Jaeger, D., Christopoulou, O., & Sfougaris, A. (2019). Determination of fire risk to assist fire management for insular areas: the case of a small Greek island. Journal of Forestry Research, 30, 589-601. Link
Stockdale, C. A., Mcloughlin, N., Flannigan, M., & Macdonald, S. E. (2019). Could restoration of a landscape to its historical vegetation condition reduce burn probability? Ecosphere, 10(2). Link
Tymstra, C., Woolford, D.G., & Flannigan, M.D. (2019). Statistical Surveillance Thresholds for Enhanced Situational Awareness of Spring Wildfire Activity in Alberta, Canada. Journal of Environmental Statistics, 9(4). Link
Wang Y, Cadotte C, Chen Y, Fraser LH, Zhang Y, Huang F, Luo S, Shi, N, Loreau M. (2019). Global evidence of positive biodiversity effects on spatial ecosystem stability in natural grasslands. Nature Communications. Link
Whitman, T., Whitman, E., Woolet, J., Flannigan, M., Thompson, D.K., & Parisien, M-A. (2019). Soil Bacterial and Fungal Response to Wildfires in the Canadian Boreal Forest Across a Burn Severity Gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 138. Link
Whitman, E., Parisien, M-A., Thompson, D., & Flannigan, M. (2019). Short-interval wildfire and drought overwhelm boreal forest resilience. Scientific Report. Link

2018

Antonelli, P. M., Fraser, L. H., Gardner, W. C., Broersma, K., & Karakatsoulis, J. (2018). Long-term carbon sequestration potential of biosolids-amended copper and molybdenum mine tailings following mine site reclamation. Ecological Engineering, 117, 38-49. Link
Arduini, C., Fraser, L., Flynn, T., Van Loon, L., & Banerjee, N. (2018). Evaluation of the use of wetlands in arsenic sequestration of mine-influenced effluent using synchrotron XRF and XANES spectroscopy. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 24(Suppl 2). Link
Barber, Q.E., Parisien, M-A., Whitman, E., Stralberg, D., Johnson, C.J., St-Laurent, M-H., DeLancey, E.R., Price, D.T., Arseneault, D., Wang, X., & Flannigan, M.D. (2018). Potential impacts of climate change on the habitat of boreal woodland caribou. Ecosphere, 9, e02472. Link
Campos-Ruiz, R., Parisien, M-A., & Flannigan, M.D. (2018). Temporal patterns of wildfire activity in areas of contrasting human influence in the Canadian boreal forest. Forests, 9, 159. Link
Garris, H., Baldwin, S., Taylor, J., Gurr, D., Denesiuk, D., Van Hamme, J., & Fraser, L. H. (2018). Short-term microbial effects of a large-scale mine-tailing storage facility collapse on the local natural environment. PLOS ONE, 13(4), e0196032. Link
Gibson, C., Chasmer, L.E., Thompson, D.K., Quinton, W., Flannigan, M.D., & Olefeldt, D. (2018). Wildfire as a major driver of recent permafrost thaw in boreal peatlands. Nature Communications, 9, 3041. Link
Harvey, J., Axelson, J., & Smith, D. (2018). Disturbance-climate relationships between wildfire and western spruce budworm in interior British Columbia. Ecosphere, 9, 1-21. Link
Henry, H. A. L., Abedi, M., Alados, C. L., Beard, K. H., Fraser, L. H., Jentsch, A., ... Yang, X. (2018). Increased soil frost versus summer drought as drivers of plant biomass responses to reduced precipitation: results from a globally-coordinated field experiment. Ecosystems, 21, 1432-1444. Link
Johnston, L., & Flannigan, M.D. (2018). Mapping Canadian wildland fire interface areas. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 27, 1-14. Link
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Robinne, F.-N., Bladon, K.D., Miller, C., Parisien, M.A., Mathieu, J., & Flannigan, M.D. (2018). A spatial evaluation of global wildfire-water risks to human and natural systems. Science of the Total Environment, 610, 1193-1206. Link
Trouillier, M., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Harvey, J., Würth, D., Schnittler, M., & Wilmking, M. (2018). Visualizing individual tree differences in tree-ring studies. Forests, 9, 1-14. Link
Whitman, E., Parisien, M-A., Thompson, D.K., & Flannigan, M.D. (2018). Topoedaphic and forest controls on post-fire vegetation assemblies are modified by fire history and burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest. Forests, 9, 151. Link
Whitman, E., Parisien, M-A., Thompson, D.K., Hall, R.J., Skakun, R.S., & Flannigan, M.D. (2018). Variability and drivers of burn severity in the northwestern Canadian boreal forest. Ecosphere, 9, e02128. Link
Wilkinson, S., Moore, P., Flannigan, M., Wotton, M., & Waddington, J. (2018). Did enhanced afforestation cause high severity peat burn in the Fort McMurray Horse River wildfire? Environmental Research Letters, 13, 014018. Link

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