Thomas W. Swetnam

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Thomas W. Swetnam

Earth Sciences

#1482

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#2142

Historical Rank

#409

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Environmental Science

#135

World Rank

#137

Historical Rank

#17

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Thomas W. Swetnam's Degrees

Bachelors Forest Science University of Washington

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas W. Swetnam is Regents' Professor Emeritus of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona, studying disturbances of forest ecosystems across temporal and spatial scales. He served as the Director of the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research from 2000 to 2015.

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Thomas W. Swetnam's Published Works

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Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity (2006) (4728)
Fire in the Earth System (2009) (2240)
Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality (2013) (1489)
APPLIED HISTORICAL ECOLOGY: USING THE PAST TO MANAGE FOR THE FUTURE (1999) (1368)
Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest (1998) (972)
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF SOUTHWESTERN PONDEROSA PINE ECOSYSTEMS: A BROAD PERSPECTIVE (2002) (950)
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth (2011) (828)
Fire History and Climate Change in Giant Sequoia Groves (1993) (776)
Fire-Southern Oscillation Relations in the Southwestern United States (1990) (675)
Dendroecology: A Tool for Evaluating Variations in Past and Present Forest Environments (1989) (543)
Historical Fire Regime Patterns in the Southwestern United States Since AD 1700 (1996) (519)
Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States (2010) (459)
Fire history on a desert mountain range: Rincon Mountain Wilderness, Arizona, U.S.A. (1990) (415)
Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates (2013) (385)
Mapping Fire Regimes Across Time and Space: Understanding Coarse and Fine-scale Fire Patterns (2001) (363)
Multicentury, regional-scale patterns of western spruce budworm outbreaks. (1993) (360)
Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Piñon–Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States (2009) (339)
Contingent Pacific–Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America (2007) (329)
Using Dendrochronology To Measure Radial Growth of Defoliated Trees (1985) (309)
Century scale climate forcing of fire regimes in the American Southwest (2000) (308)
Early 19th‐Century Fire Decline Following Sheep Pasturing in a Navajo Ponderosa Pine Forest (1990) (272)
Dendrochronology of a fire-scarred ponderosa pine. (1984) (229)
Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Fire and Climate History in the Sierra Nevada and Southwestern United States (2003) (219)
Multi‐scale controls of historical forest‐fire regimes: new insights from fire‐scar networks (2011) (216)
Inter-hemispheric synchrony of forest fires and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (2001) (193)
Interannual to decadal drought and wildfire in the western United States (2003) (190)
CHANGES IN PANDORA MOTH OUTBREAK DYNAMICS DURING THE PAST 622 YEARS (2001) (175)
Landscape-scale controls over 20th century fire occurrence in two large Rocky Mountain (USA) wilderness areas (2002) (163)
A cross-dated fire history from coast redwood near Redwood National Park, California (1994) (136)
A Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Western Spruce Budworm History in the Southern Rocky Mountains (1989) (134)
Fire history and climatic patterns in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of the Jemez Mountains, Northern New Mexico (1996) (122)
Fire history and climate in the southwestern United States (1990) (121)
Fire severity, size, and climate associations diverge from historical precedent along an ecological gradient in the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona, USA (2014) (119)
A dendroecological assessment of whitebark pine in the Sawtooth Salmon River region, Idaho (1996) (116)
Dendroclimatology : progress and prospects (2011) (112)
Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States (2015) (111)
Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America (2017) (104)
Spatial and temporal corroboration of a fire-scar-based fire history in a frequently burned ponderosa pine forest. (2010) (103)
Ecological Foundations for Fire Management in North American Forest and Shrubland Ecosystems (2009) (96)
A stand-replacing fire history in upper montane forests of the southern Rocky Mountains (2007) (96)
Native American depopulation, reforestation, and fire regimes in the Southwest United States, 1492–1900 CE (2016) (95)
Is drought the main decline factor at the rear edge of Europe? The case of southern Iberian pine plantations (2012) (93)
A tree-ring reconstruction of western spruce budworm outbreaks in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, U.S.A. (2003) (88)
Unsupported inferences of high-severity fire in historical dry forests of the western United States: Response to Williams and Baker (2014) (88)
AN ASSESSMENT OF FIRE, CLIMATE, AND APACHE HISTORY IN THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS, NEW MEXICO (1999) (84)
Paleoclimate reconstruction along the Pole–Equator–Pole transect of the Americas (PEP 1) (2000) (84)
A tree‐ring reconstruction of past precipitation for Baja California Sur, Mexico (2001) (81)
Multi-Millennial Fire History of the Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California, USA (2009) (80)
Topography affected landscape fire history patterns in southern Arizona, USA (2008) (76)
Multiscale perspectives of fire, climate and humans in western North America and the Jemez Mountains, USA (2016) (74)
Evaluating a century of fire patterns in two Rocky Mountain wilderness areas using digital fire atlases (2001) (72)
Comparison of Two Approaches for Determining Fire Dates From Tree Scars (1982) (69)
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests (2021) (67)
Long-Term Persistence and Fire Resilience of Oak Shrubfields in Dry Conifer Forests of Northern New Mexico (2018) (66)
Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States* (2014) (65)
Tree rings, environment, and humanity: proceedings of the international conference, Tucson, Arizona, 17-21 May 1994 (1996) (58)
Historical patterns of western spruce budworm and douglas-fir tussock moth outbreaks in the northern Blue Mountains, Oregon, since a.d. 1700. Forest Service research paper (1995) (57)
Peeled Ponderosa Pine Trees: A Record of Inner Bark Utilization by Native Americans (1984) (55)
Historical Stand-Replacing Fire in Upper Montane Forests of the Madrean Sky Islands and Mogollon Plateau, Southwestern USA (2011) (53)
Restoring natural fire to the sequoia-mixed conifer forests: should intense fire play a role (1991) (53)
Average Stand Age from Forest Inventory Plots Does Not Describe Historical Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America (2016) (52)
Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes (2014) (50)
Fire Climatology in the western United States: introduction to special issue (2008) (49)
A comparison of targeted and systematic fire-scar sampling for estimating historical fire frequency in south-western ponderosa pine forests (2013) (47)
Defining Old Growth for Fire-adapted Forests of the Western United States (2007) (47)
Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon (2015) (45)
Arizona pine (Pinus arizonica) stand dynamics: local and regional factors in a fire-prone madrean gallery forest of Southeast Arizona, USA (2001) (45)
Uses and Limitations of Historical Variability Concepts in Managing Ecosystems (1999) (43)
Using Bigcone Douglas-Fir Fire Scars and Tree Rings to Reconstruct Interior Chaparral Fire History (2009) (43)
Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States (2021) (41)
BOX - JENKINS MODELS OF FOREST INTERIOR TREE -RING CHRONOLOGIES (1987) (40)
Scaling Rules and Probability Models for Surface Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine Forests (2003) (39)
Fire-Climate Interactions in the Selway- Bitterroot Wilderness Area (2000) (39)
Fire and Climate History in the Central Yenisey Region, Siberia (1996) (38)
Temporal patterns of El Nino/Southern Oscillation - wildfire teleconnections in the southwestern United States (1993) (37)
A Test of “Annual Resolution” in Stalagmites Using Tree Rings (2002) (35)
Climatic Inferences from Dendroecological Reconstructions (2011) (35)
Effects of fire severity and climate on ring-width growth of giant sequoia after burning (1995) (35)
Pinyon-juniper woodlands (1995) (35)
A comparison and integration of tree-ring and alluvial records of fire history at the Missionary Ridge Fire, Durango, Colorado, USA (2010) (34)
Human Pyrogeography: A New Synergy of Fire, Climate and People is Reshaping Ecosystems across the Globe (2011) (32)
Evaluating a century of fire patterns in two Rocky Mountain wilderness areas using digital fire atlases 1 (2001) (32)
Disturbance and productivity interactions mediate stability of forest composition and structure. (2017) (31)
Post-fire forest dynamics and climate variability affect spatial and temporal properties of spruce beetle outbreaks on a Sky Island mountain range (2015) (30)
A 1416-year reconstruction of annual, multidecadal, and centennial variability in area burned for ponderosa pine forests of the southern Colorado Plateau region, Southwest USA (2012) (30)
FIRE HISTORY OF THE GILA WILDERNESS, NEW MEXICO. (1983) (29)
Dendroecological Methods For Reconstructing High-Severity Fire In Pine-Oak Forests (2015) (27)
Interannual to Decadal Drought and Wildfire in the Western U.S. (2003) (27)
Historical fire-climate relationships of upper elevation fire regimes in the south-western United States (2013) (27)
Drought, multi-seasonal climate, and wildfire in northern New Mexico (2017) (25)
Briefing: Climate and Wildfire in Western U.S. Forests (2014) (24)
Historical fire occurrence in remote mountains of southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico (1995) (23)
Giant Sequoia Ring-Width Chronologies from the Central Sierra Nevada, California (1992) (23)
Local-scale and regional climate controls on historical fire regimes in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado (2016) (23)
Fire history and moisture influences on historical forest age structure in the sky islands of southern Arizona, USA (2016) (22)
Landscape-scale fire history studies support fire management action at Bandelier (1995) (21)
Dendrochronology of Abies Religiosa in Michoacan, Mexico (1991) (21)
A 1,373 Year Reconstruction of Annual Precipitation for the Southern Rio Grande Basin (1977) (20)
Giant Sequoia Fire History in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park (1990) (20)
Human Fire Legacies on Ecological Landscapes (2018) (20)
El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomena and forest fires in the southwestern United States (1990) (19)
EXAMINING THE RECENT CLIMATE THROUGH THE LENS OF ECOLOGY: INFERENCES FROM TEMPORAL PATTERN ANALYSIS (2005) (18)
Historical and modern disturbance regimes, stand structures, and landscape dynamics in pinyon-juniper vegetation of the Western U.S. (2008) (18)
Global warming in the Southwest: Projections, Observations and Impacts (2007) (18)
Fire History in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of the Jemez Mountains, Northern New Mexico (1995) (18)
THE WILDFIRES OF 1910 Climatology of an Extreme Early Twentieth-Century Event and Comparison with More Recent Extremes (2013) (17)
Landscape changes in the southwestern United States: Techniques, long-term datasets, and trends: Chapter 9 (1998) (16)
Fire histories from pine-dominant forest in the Madrean Archipelago (2005) (14)
Fire Suppression Impacts on Fuels and Fire Intensity in the Western U.S.: Insights from Archaeological Luminescence Dating in Northern New Mexico (2020) (14)
Effects of Fire Severity and Climate on Ring-Width Growth of Giant Sequoia After Fire (1995) (14)
Spatiotemporal variability of human–fire interactions on the Navajo Nation (2019) (14)
Fire and climate variation in western North America from fire-scar and tree-ring networks (2010) (13)
Tree Rings and Climate: Sharpening the Focus (2004) (12)
A DENDROCHRONOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF WESTERN SPRUCE BUDWORM, CHORISTONEURA OCCIDENTALIS FREEMAN, IN THE SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS (COLORADO, NEW MEXICO) (1987) (11)
Interactions of Fire Regimes and Land Use in the Central Rio Grande Valley (2017) (9)
The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network (2022) (9)
Climate and Mountain Pine Beetle-Induced Tree Mortality in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area Final Report to the USFS Research Joint Venture Agreement # RMRS-99611-RJVA January 2002 (2004) (9)
Historical and modern disturbance regimes of pinon-juniper vegetation in the Western U.S. (2007) (9)
Valleys of fire: historical fire regimes of forest-grassland ecotones across the montane landscape of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA (2021) (8)
Twentieth-Century Fire Patterns in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, Idaho/ Montana, and the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico (2000) (8)
Can a climate record be extracted from giant sequoia tree rings (1990) (8)
MULTICENTURY, REGIONAL-SCALE PATTERNS OF WESTERN SPRUCE (8)
Invited Synthesis Paper Historical and Modern Disturbance Regimes, Stand Structures, and Landscape Dynamics in Pinon-Juniper Vegetation of the Western United States (2009) (7)
Conservation and stewardship of tree-ring resources: living trees and subfossil wood. (1990) (7)
Fire History of Rhyolite Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument (2017) (7)
Modeling Interactions Among Wildland Fire, Climate and Society in the Context of Climatic Variability and Change in the US Southwest (2006) (7)
Reply to Baker and Genty’s comments on “A test of annual resolution in stalagmite using tree rings” (2003) (6)
Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Giant Sequoia Radial Growth Response to a High Severity Fire in A . D . 1297 (2000) (6)
Analysis of Growth Trends and Variation in Conifers from Arizona and New Mexico: Youthful Trees, Competition, and Densitometric Chronologies (1990) (6)
Briefing: Climate and Wildfire in Western US Forests - eScholarship (2014) (6)
Overview of fire history in the Jemez Mountains (1996) (6)
Radial Growth Losses in Douglas-Fir and White Fir Caused by Western Spruce Budworm in Northern New Mexico: 1700-1983 (1985) (5)
Widespread fire years in the US–Mexico Sky Islands are contingent on both winter and monsoon precipitation (2020) (5)
Fire and Flood in a Canyon Woodland: The Effects of Floods and Debris Flows on the Past Fire Regime of Rhyolite Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument: Final Report (1990) (5)
Climate and wildfire in western US forests (2016) (5)
Forest Pest Management State and Private Forestry Southwestern Region, Forest Service, USDA (1983) (4)
Comment on Dating Forest Disturbances (1983) (4)
Fire and Climate History in the Western Americas From Tree Rings (2002) (4)
Pinyon-juniper woodlands [chapter 6] (1995) (4)
Growth and demography of Pinaleno high elevation forests (2010) (3)
Late Holocene fire–climate relationships of the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado (2017) (3)
Fire Scar Dates from Walnut Canyon National Monument, Arizona (1990) (3)
An on-line interface for integrated modeling of wildlife, climate, and society for strategic planning for the Sky Islands (2005) (2)
Unsupported and inaccurate inferences of high severity fire in historical dry forests of the Western United States dry forests: response to Williams and Baker (2014) (2)
Fire in the west: It's no simple story (2003) (2)
Fire-Climate Linkages in the Mid-Latitude Americas (2002) (2)
Age-related climate sensitivity in Pinus Edulis at Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, USA (2018) (2)
Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon (2020) (2)
Giant Sequoia Fire History: A Feasibility Study (1988) (2)
Dendroecological Research on Mt. Graham: Development of Tree-Ring Chronologies for the Pinaleño Mountains (1992) (1)
Integrating Fire, Climate, and Societal Factors into Decision Support for Strategic Planning in Wildland Fire Management (2006) (1)
Service, Southwestern Region State and Private Forestry Forest Pest Management (1985) (1)
Fire Regimes of Montane Grasslands of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico (2011) (1)
Dynamics of Natural Variability: Ecological Complexity in a Changing World (2008) (1)
The perfect firestorm: Climate change, fuels build-up & land use among causes of rising megafire trend (2008) (1)
Synthesis, part of a Special Feature on The Conservation and Restoration of Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests of the American West Defining Old Growth for Fire-adapted Forests of the Western United States (2007) (1)
Radial Growth Assessment of Western Spruce Budworm Infested Douglas-Fir Trees on the Carson National Forest, New Mexico (1983) (1)
Correction for Guiterman et al., Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon (2016) (1)
Comparison of Two Approaches for Determining (1982) (1)
Special issue: Fire History in California (2009) (1)
Multi-Millennial Fire Histories from Sedimentary Archives: Human and Climate Impacts (2015) (1)
Tree-Ring Society (2010) (0)
Three Examples of Surface Fire Histories Along Elevational Transects (2006) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2014) (0)
WESTERN SPRUCE BUDWORM OUTBREAK HISTORY (2012) (0)
Questions for the Record for Dr (2007) (0)
reconstrUct interior chaparral fire history (2010) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2011) (0)
Southwestern US Seasonal Precipitation and Fire Occurrence from Tree Rings (2012) (0)
Modeling ecological resilience and human-environment interactions in engineered landscapes of the prehistoric American southwest (2015) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2010) (0)
Forests, Fires and People: Reconstructing Human-Natural Interactions on the Jemez Plateau, New Mexico With Tree Rings (2015) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2012) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2011) (0)
Experts discuss early start to Southwest fire season (2006) (0)
Western Spruce Budworm Outbreak History in the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico, U.S.A. (2013) (0)
Tree-Ring Sourcing of Great House Timbers and the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2015) (0)
western North America Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over Veblen (2006) (0)
Chapter 5. Borderlands fire regimes (2006) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2008) (0)
Forest response to 1,000 years of drought variability in the Southwestern United States (2011) (0)
Movin’ on Up: Insights into Habitations on the Slopes of Cañon de San Diego, New Mexico (2019) (0)
Valleys of fire: historical fire regimes of forest-grassland ecotones across the montane landscape of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA (2021) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2013) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2012) (0)
Terrestrial ecosystem response to interdecadal climate variability in the western United States [abstract] (1996) (0)
Temperature is a potent driver of regional forest drought stress, disturbance, and tree mortality (Invited) (2013) (0)
Climate change and the rising cost of living for forests in the southwestern United States and beyond (2012) (0)
A new North American fire scar network for reconstructing historical pyrogeography, 1600-1900 AD (2013) (0)
Fire and the Environment (2010) (0)
Long-Term Persistence and Fire Resilience of Oak Shrubfields in Dry Conifer Forests of Northern New Mexico (2017) (0)
Insights from Long-term, regional to Global Fire History: Progress in Using Tree Rings & Charcoal Paleofire Proxies Invited Presentation at AAAS Meeting, San Diego CA, February 18,2010 (2010) (0)
The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia (2022) (0)
Fire, Forests, Climate and People in the Jemez Mountains: A 500-Year, Landscape-Scale Perspective (2015) (0)
Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE. (2022) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2009) (0)
SYNCHRONOUS CHANGES IN FIRE HISTORY AND EL NINO IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES , AND NORTHERN PATAGONIA , ARGENTINA (1998) (0)
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research and School of Natural Resources and the Environment (2011) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2013) (0)
Impact of Spruce Budworm on Radial Growth of Trees in Northern New Mexico (1985) (0)
Tree-Ring Society (2009) (0)

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