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Megan M. Friggens, PhD

Megan M. Friggens, PhD

Research Ecologist

Rocky Mountain Research Station

megan.friggens@usda.gov

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D. Max Smith, Megan M. Friggens. 2024. Co-production of a vulnerability assessment for aquatic and riparian ecosystems in the southwestern United States
Stephanie Mueller, Martha Sample, Alexander Evans, William Flatley, Andrea Thode, Megan M. Friggens. 2024. Fire-climate interactions in the Southwest: Literature review and annotated bibliography
Kelsey E. Paolini, Michael K. Schwartz, Megan M. Friggens, Samuel A. Cushman, Julie Weckworth, Joseph D. Holbrook. 2023. A review of population and landscape level dynamics associated with pneumonia outbreaks in bighorn sheep with implications for land management
Martha Sample, Andrea E. Thode, Courtney Peterson, Michael R. Gallagher, William Flatley, Megan M. Friggens, Alexander Evans, Rachel A. Loehman, Shaula Hedwall, Leslie Brandt, Maria Janowiak, Chris Swanston. 2022. Adaptation strategies and approaches for managing fire in a changing climate
Megan M. Friggens, Rachel A. Loehman, Connie I Constan, Rebekah R. Kneifel. 2021. Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA
Megan M. Friggens. 2020. FireCLIME VA: A new fire and climate vulnerability assessment tool for the U.S
Jack Triepke, Megan M. Friggens. 2020. How vulnerable are southwestern U.S. ecosystems to climate change?
Brian Cooke, Megan M. Friggens, Katelyn P. Driscoll, Emile Elia, Anne Bradley, Cara Farr, Anna Jaramillo-Scarborough. 2020. Resources for postfire response: Empowering land managers with new After Fire Toolkit
Megan M. Friggens, Stephanie Mueller, Mary Williams. 2020. Using science management partnerships to develop landscape level indicators and assessments to measure vulnerability of Pinon-Juniper woodlands
Katelyn P. Driscoll, Megan M. Friggens. 2019. Assessing risk in a postfire landscape: Are currently available tools good for the local land owner?
Megan M. Friggens, R. Loehman, A. Thode, W. Flatley, A. Evans, W. Bunn, C. Wilcox, S. Mueller, L. Yocom, D. Falk. 2019. User guide to the FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment (VA) tool: A rapid and flexible system for assessing ecosystem vulnerability to climate-fire interactions
Megan M. Friggens, Mary I. Williams, Karen Bagne, Tosha T. Wixom, Samuel A. Cushman. 2018. Effects of climate change on terrestrial animals [Chapter 9]
Megan M. Friggens, Deborah M. Finch. 2015. Implications of climate change for bird conservation in the southwestern U.S
Megan M. Friggens, Carly Woodlief. 2015. Final Report: Synthesis of aquatic climate change vulnerability assessments for the Interior West
Megan M. Friggens, Carol B. Raish, Deborah M. Finch, Alice McSweeney. 2015. The influence of personal belief, agency mission and city size on open space decision making processes in three southwestern cities
Megan M. Friggens, Rachel A. Loehman, Lisa M. Holsinger, Deborah M. Finch. 2014. Vulnerability of riparian obligate species to the interactive effect of fire, climate and hydrological change
Karen Bagne, Megan M. Friggens, Sharon Coe, Deborah M. Finch. 2014. The importance of assessing climate change vulnerability to address species conservation
Dennis S. Ojima, Louis Iverson, Brent L. Sohngen, James Vose, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Grant M. Domke, David L. Peterson, Jeremy S. Littell, Stephen Matthews, Anantha M. Prasad, Matthew Peters, Gary W. Yohe, Megan M. Friggens. 2014. Risk assessment [Chapter 9]
Megan M. Friggens, Karen Bagne, Deborah M. Finch, D. Falk, J. Triepke, Ann M. Lynch. 2013. Review and recommendations for climate change vulnerability assessment approaches with examples from the Southwest
Megan M. Friggens, Deborah M. Finch, Karen E. Bagne, Sharon Coe, David L. Hawksworth. 2013. Vulnerability of species to climate change in the Southwest: terrestrial species of the Middle Rio Grande
Megan M. Friggens, Stephen Matthews. 2012. Risk assessment for two bird species in northern Wisconsin
Megan M. Friggens, Stephen Matthews. 2012. Appendix 2: Risk-based framework and risk case studies. Risk Assessment for two bird species in northern Wisconsin.
Sybill K. Amelon, Robert Brooks, Jessie Glaeser, Megan M. Friggens, Daniel Lindner, Susan Loeb, Ann M. Lynch, Drew Minnis, Roger W. Perry, Mary M. Rowland, Monica Tomosy, Ted Weller. 2012. U.S. Forest Service Research and Development (USFS R/D) national science strategy on White Nose Syndrome (WNS)
Justin B. Runyon, Jack L. Butler, Megan M. Friggens, Susan E. Meyer, Sharlene E. Sing. 2012. Invasive species and climate change (Chapter 7)
Megan M. Friggens, Jeremy R. Pinto, Kas Dumroese, Nancy L. Shaw. 2012. Decision support: Vulnerability, conservation, and restoration (Chapter 8)
Marcus V. Warwell, Jeanne C. Chambers, Stanley G. Kitchen, Megan M. Friggens. 2012. Modeling and predicting vegetation response of western USA grasslands, shrublands, and deserts to climate change (Chapter 1)
Sharon J. Coe, Deborah M. Finch, Megan M. Friggens. 2012. An assessment of climate change and the vulnerability of wildlife in the Sky Islands of the Southwest
Jennifer E. Davison, Sharon Coe, Deborah M. Finch, Erika Rowland, Megan M. Friggens, Lisa J. Graumlich. 2012. Bringing indices of species vulnerability to climate change into geographic space: an assessment across the Coronado national forest
Karen Bagne, Megan M. Friggens, Deborah M. Finch. 2011. A System for Assessing Vulnerability of Species (SAVS) to Climate Change
Megan M. Friggens, Paulette L. Ford, R. R. Parmenter, M. Boyden, K. Gage. 2011. Assessing plague risk and presence through surveys of small mammal flea communities
Deborah M. Finch, Karen Bagne, Megan M. Friggens, D. M. Smith, K. M. Brodhead. 2011. A review of climate change effects on terrestrial rangeland birds
Karen Bagne, Deborah M. Finch, Megan M. Friggens. 2011. Vulnerability of amphibians to climate change: implications for rangeland management
Deborah M. Finch, Megan M. Friggens, Karen Bagne. 2011. Case Study 3: Species vulnerability assessment for the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico
Megan M. Friggens, Paul Beier. 2010. Anthropogenic disturbance and the risk of flea-borne disease transmission
Megan M. Friggens. 2010. Fleas, hosts and habitat: What can we predict about the spread of vector-borne zoonotic diseases?
Megan M. Friggens, Robert R. Parmenter, Michael Boyden, Paulette L. Ford, Kenneth Gage, Paul Keim. 2010. Flea abundance, diversity, and plague in Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni) and their burrows in montane grasslands in northern New Mexico
Megan M. Friggens. 2008. Is there a link between anthropogenic disturbance and the diversity and abundance of rodent flea communities?
Megan M. Friggens, Donald W. Duszynski. 2005. Four new cestode species from the spiral intestine of the round stingray, Urobatis halleri, in the Northern Gulf of California, Mexico
Megan M. Friggens, J. H. Brown. 2005. Niche partitioning in the cestode communities of two elasmobranchs
Megan M. Friggens, K. H. Decker, D. W. Duszynski. 2001. Prevalence of Eimeria (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in reintroduced Gunnison's prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni)

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Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, Ph.D., Forestry, 2010
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, M.S., Biology, 2002
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, B.S., Biology, 1999

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