Katherine Nigro, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Katarina J. Warnick, Wade Tinkham, Michael A. Battaglia, Katherine Nigro, Sarah J. Hart. 2026. The influence of provenance on climate response and drought resilience of lodgepole pine in the southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.
• Katherine Nigro, Michael A. Battaglia. 2025. Long-term survival, growth, and reproduction responses of Engelmann spruce provenances to climate
• Katherine Nigro, Jessica H. Barton, Diana Macias, V. Bala Chaudhary, Ian S. Pearse, David M. Bell, Angel Chen, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Elizabeth E. Crone, David F. Greene, E. Penelope Holland, Jill F. Johnstone, Walter D. Koenig, Nicholas J. Lyon, Tom E. X. Miller, Mark Schulze, Rebecca S. Snell, Jess K. Zimmerman, Johannes M. H. Knops, Stacy McNulty, Robert R. Parmenter, Mark A. Winterstein, Roman I Zlotin, Jalene M. LaMontagne, Miranda D. Redmond. 2024. Co‐mast: Harmonized seed production data for woody plants across US long‐term research sites
• Jalene M. LaMontagne, David F. Greene, E. Penelope Holland, Jill F. Johnstone, Mark Schulze, Jess K. Zimmerman, Nicholas J. Lyon, Angel Chen, Tom E. X. Miller, Katherine Nigro, Rebecca S. Snell, Jessica H. Barton, V. Bala Chaudhary, Natalie L. Cleavitt, Elizabeth E. Crone, Walter D. Koenig, Diana Macias, Ian S. Pearse, Miranda D. Redmond. 2024. Community synchrony in seed production is associated with trait similarity and climate across North America
• Michael A. Battaglia, Katherine Nigro. 2022. Wildfire: Helping aspen get one step ahead of a warming climate
• Kyle C. Rodman, Robert A. Andrus, Amanda R. Carlson, Trevor A. Carter, Teresa B. Chapman, Jonathan D. Coop, Paula J. Fornwalt, Nathan S. Gill, Brian J. Harvey, Ashley E. Hoffman, Katharine C. Kelsey, Dominik Kulakowski, Daniel C. Laughlin, Jenna E. Morris, Jose Negron, Katherine Nigro, Gregory S. Pappas, Miranda D. Redmond, Charles C. Rhoades, Monique E. Rocca, Zoe H. Schapira, Jason S. Sibold, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Thomas T. Veblen, Jianmin Wang, Xiaoyang Zhang, Sarah J. Hart. 2022. Rocky Mountain forests are poised to recover following bark beetle outbreaks but with altered composition
• Katherine Nigro, Monique E. Rocca, Michael A. Battaglia, Jonathan D. Coop, Miranda D. Redmond. 2022. Wildfire catalyzes upward range expansion of trembling aspen in southern Rocky Mountain beetle-killed forests

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Nigro, K.M., Bankston, T.Z., Demarest, A.B., Foster, A.C., Gonzalez, A.D., Hill, E.M., Wion, A.P., Wion, G.D., Addington, R.N., Amme, N. and May, T.M., 2023. Mastication Treatments Increase Perennial Herbaceous Cover Across Soil Types in Southeastern Colorado Piñon-Juniper Woodlands. Rangeland Ecology & Management, 88, pp.28-38.Nigro, K. and Molinari, N., 2019. Status and trends of fire activity in southern California yellow pine and mixed conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 441, pp.20-31.

• Program
  

  Forest and Woodland Ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/fwe
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Enhancing Engelmann spruce productivity with careful seedling selection

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/enhancing-engelmann-spruce-productivity-careful-seedling-selection

• Colorado State University, PhD Ecology, Disturbance and population ecology of trees, 2023
• University of California, Santa Barbara, B. S. Ecology and Evolution, Ecology and Evolution, 2015