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Research Publications

C. Trauernicht, A.G. Frazier, J. Dendy, I. Bubb, C. Camacho-Fejeran, J.B. Friday, R.King, J. Manglona, F.Ruegorong, A. Singeo, C.P. Giardina, S. Cordell. 2023.  How people, rainfall, and vegetation shape tropical island fire regimes across Micronesia.  Journal of Biogeography.

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C. Trauernicht. 2023. People, not goats, played “a central role” in the Maui Fires. Science, eletter

https://www.science.org/do/10.1126/2f971595-b624-4487-93da-24d8b8d581d6/full/

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Ticktin, T., Mandle, L., Hastings, Z., Hoppe, T., 2023. Reducing seed predation by introduced rodents helps, but is insufficient, to prevent long-term decline of common forest trees.Biological Conservation 278:1098474

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Zhu, T.R., Litton, C.M., Giardina, C.P., ., 2021. Moisture availability and ecological restoration limit fine fuels and modelled wildfire intensity following non‐native ungulate removal in Hawaii. J. Appl. Ecology 58:.2207-2219.

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Bremer, L.L., Nathan, N., Pascua, P.A., Krueger, N., Jokiel, J., Barton, J. and Daily, G.C., 2021. Maintaining the Many Societal Benefits of Rangelands: The Case of Hawai ‘i.  Land 10:764.

 

Selmants, P.C., Sleeter, B.M., Liu, J., Wilson, T.S., ., Frazier, A.G. and Asner, G.P., 2021. Ecosystem carbon balance in the Hawaiian Islands under different scenarios of future climate and land use change. Environmental Research Letters 16:104020.

 

Melone, A., Bremer, L.L., Crow, S.E., Hastings, Z., Winter, K.B., Ticktin, T., Rii, Y.M., Wong, M., Kukea-Shultz, K., Watson, S.J. and 2021. Assessing Baseline Carbon Stocks for Forest Transitions: A Case Study of Agroforestry Restoration from Hawaiʻi. , (3), p.189.

 

Nugent, A.D., Longman, R., , C., Lucas, M., Diaz, H.F. and Giambelluca, T.W., 2020. Fire and Rain: The Legacy of Hurricane Lane in Hawai ‘i. .

 

Lucas, M.P., , C., Frazier, A.G. and Miura, T., 2020. Long-Term, Gridded Standardized Precipitation Index for Hawai’i. , (4), p.109.

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Trauernicht, C. 2019. Vegetation-Rainfall interactions reveal how climate variability and climate change alter spatial patterns of wildland fire probability on Big Island, Hawaii. Science of the Total Environment 650:459-469

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Trauernicht, C, T. Ticktin, H. Fraiola, Z. Hastings, A. Tsuneyoshi. 2018.  Active restoration enhances the recovery of a Hawaiian mesic forest after fire. Forest Ecology and Management 411:1-11

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Bremer, L, L. Mandle, C. Trauernicht, K. Burnett, P. Pascua, H.L. McMillen, N. Kurashima, C.A. Wada, S. Quazi, T. Giambelluca, T. Ticktin. 2018.  Bringing multiple values to the table: assessing future land-use and climate change in North Kona, Hawaiʻi. Ecology and Society 23

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Gollin, L.X., and . 2018. The critical role of firefighters’ place-based environmental knowledge in responding to novel fire regimes in Hawaii. C. Fowler, j. Welch, and A. Sullivan, editors. Fire Otherwise: Ethnobiology of Burning for a Changing World.University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

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Wada C., L. Bremer, K. Burnett, , T. Giambelluca, L.Mandle, E.Parsons, C. Weil, T. Ticktin.2017. Prioritizing management investments at Pu‘u Wa‘awa‘a, Hawaii using spatial changes in water yield and landscape flammability under forest restoration and climate change. Pacific Science 71:401-424

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Mora, C., B. Dousset, I.R. Caldwell, F.E. Powell, R.C. Geronimo, Coral R. Bielecki, C.W. Counsell, B.S. Dietrich, E.T. Johnston, L.V. Louis, M.P. Lucas, M.M. McKenzie, A.G. Shea, H.Tseng, T.W. Giambelluca, L.R. Leon, E.Hawkins, 2017. Global risk of deadly heat. Nature Climate Change 7:501-506

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Hawbaker, T., , S. Howard, C. M. Litton, C.P. Giardina, J. Jacobi, L. Fortini, F. Hughes, P. Selmants, Z. Zhu.2017. Wildland fires and greenhouse emissions for Hawaii. P. Selmants et al. Baseline and projected future carbon storage and greenhouse gas fluxes in ecosystems of Hawaii. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1834

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Trauernicht, C., B.P. Murphy, L.D. Prior, M.J. Lawes, D.M.J.S. Bowman. 2016.  Human imposed, fine-grained patch burning explains the population stability of a fire-sensitive conifer in a frequently burnt northern Australian savanna.  Ecosystems 19:896-909    

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Trauernicht, C., E. Pickett, C.P. Giardina, C.M. Litton, S. Cordell, A. Beavers. 2015. The contemporary scale and context of wildfire in Hawaii. Pacific Science 69:427-444

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Friday, J.B., S. Cordell, C.P. Giardina, F. Inmahn-Narahari, N. Koch, J.K. Leary, C.M. Litton, .2015. Future directions for forest restoration in Hawaii. New Forests 46:733-746

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Trauernicht, C., B.W. Brook, B.P. Murphy, G.J. Williamson, D.J.M.S. Bowman. 2015. Local and global pyrogeographic evidence that indigenous fire management creates pyrodiversity. Ecology and Evolution 5: 1908–1918

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Trauernicht, C., B. P. Murphy, N. Tangalin, D.M.J.S. Bowman.  2013.  Cultural legacies, fire ecology, and environmental change in the Stone Country of Arnhem Land and Kakadu National Park. Ecology and Evolution 3:286-297

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Radford, I., A.N. Andersen, G. Graham, C. Trauernicht. 2013.  The fire refuge value of patches of a fire-sensitive tree in fire-prone savannas: Calltiris intratropica in Northern Australia.  Biotropica 45:594-601

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Trauernicht, C., B.P. Murphy, T.E. Portner, D.M.J.S. Bowman. 2012. Tree cover–fire interactions promote the persistence of a fire-sensitive conifer in a highly flammable savanna. Journal of Ecology 100:958-968

            **Featured as a Research Highlight in Nature, April 2012

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Trauernicht, C., T. Ticktin, and G. Lopez Herrera. 2006. Cultivation of nontimber forest products alters understory light availability in a humid tropical forest in Mexico.  Biotropica 38:428-436

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Trauernicht, C. and T. Ticktin. 2005. The effects of nontimber forest product cultivation on the plant community structure and composition of a humid tropical forest in southern Mexico. For. Ecol. Mgmt. 219:269-278

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