Sean A. Parks, PhD

Research Ecologist

Rocky Mountain Research Station

sean.parks@usda.gov

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Jonathan D. Coop, Jared A. Balik, Jessika R. McFarland, Sean A. Parks, Kyle C. Rodman, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Meg A. Krawchuk, Cameron E. Naficy, Marc-André Parisien, Ellen Whitman. 2026. Faster, bigger, more severe: Extreme wildfire spread sets the stage for forest ecosystem change in western and boreal North America
Jeffrey R. Chandler, Sean A. Parks, Tyler J. Hoecker, Alina Cansler, Solomon Z. Dobrowski. 2026. Beyond average: A new approach to calculating fire regime departures applied to Western United States forests
Jaclyn Rushing, Kira Hefty, Teresa Hollingsworth, Amanda E. Cravens, Chris A. Armatas, Clare Boerigter, Kellie Carim, Shelley D. Crausbay, Olga Helmy, David J. Lawrence, Lauren Redmore, Gregor W. Schuurman, Eric J. Taylor, Jennifer Nifer L. Wilkening, Katherine Zeller, Sean A. Parks. 2026. Wicked problems in practice: Responding to ecological transformation in wilderness
Clare Boerigter, Sean A. Parks, Jonathan W. Long, Jonathan D. Coop, Melanie Armstrong, Don L. Hankins, Serra J. Hoagland. 2026. Response to the letter regarding “Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century”
Tyler J. Hoecker, Kimberley T. Davis, Caitlin Littlefield, Jeffrey Chandler, Sean A. Parks, Andrew Maguire, Kerry Kemp, Svetlana Yegorova, Solomon Dobrowski. 2026. Alternative future vegetation pathways reveal potential transformations of western US ecosystems
Kira Hefty, Jaclyn Rushing, Dan Ben-Horin, Anjelica Spencer, Madeline Grant-Hoffman, Denita Weeks, Kyra Clark-Wolf, Imtiaz Rangwala, Sean A. Parks, Frederick Klasner, Teresa Hollingsworth. 2025. RAD decisions in rad landscapes: Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
Kira Hefty, Jaclyn Rushing, Sean A. Parks, Jimmy Gaudry, Shelley Crausbay, Teresa Hollingsworth. 2025. RAD Decisions in rad landscapes: Climate adaptation for whitebark pine in wilderness
Svetlana V. Yegorova, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Sean A. Parks, Kimberley T. Davis, Kerry L. Metlen, Ryan D. Haugo, Thomas J. Timberlake, Tyler J. Hoecker, Kerry B. Kemp, Max Wahlberg, Cameron E. Naficy, Sean M. A. Jeronimo, Katherine Fitzgerald, Upekala Wijayratne. 2025. Changing climate may drive large shifts in vegetation zones of Oregon, USA
Sean A. Parks, Kira Hefty, Jaclyn Rushing, Sara A. Goeking, Diana F. Tomback, Sharon M. Hood, Chris Toney, Destin L. Harrell, James Lindstrom, Cameron E. Naficy, Michele R. Slaton, Benjamin S. Soderquist, E. J. Taylor. 2025. Whitebark pine in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century
Clare Boerigter, Sean A. Parks, Jonathan W. Long, Jonathan D. Coop, Melanie Armstrong, Don L. Hankins, Serra J. Hoagland. 2025. Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century
Sean A. Parks, Jonathan D. Coop, Kimberley T. Davis. 2025. Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests
Matthew P. Harris, Jonathan D. Coop, Jared A. Balik, Jessika R. McFarland, Sean A. Parks, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann. 2025. Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes
Svetlana V Yegorova, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Laurie Yung, Sean A. Parks, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Kimberley T. Davis, Caitlin Littlefield, Marco P. Maneta, Carina Wyborn, Patrick Wurster, Robin Rank, Douglas Brinkerhoff, Thomas Colligan. 2025. Spatial climate analogs in climate change research, impact assessment, and decision-making
Gavin M. Jones, Craig Thompson, Sarah Sawyer, Kari Norman, Sean A. Parks, Tanya M. Hayes, Don L. Hankins. 2025. Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes
Kira Hefty, Jaclyn Rushing, Sean A. Parks, Teresa Hollingsworth. 2025. RAD decisions in rad landscapes: Climate adaptation for whitebark pine in wilderness
Jessika R McFarland, Jonathan D Coop, Jared A Balik, Kyle C Rodman, Sean A. Parks, Camille S Stevens-Rumann. 2025. Extreme fire spread events burn more severely and homogenize postfire landscapes in the southwestern United States
Ellis Margolis, Andreas Wion, John Abatzoglou, Lori Daniels, Donald Falk, Chris Guiterman, James Johnston, Kurt Kipfmueller, Charles Lafon, Rachel A. Loehman, Maggie Lonergan, Cameron Naficy, Marc-André Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Jeanne Portier, Michael Stambaugh, Ellen Whitman, A. Park Williams, Larissa Yocum. 2025. Spatiotemporal synchrony of climate and fire occurrence across North American forests (1750-1880)
Sean A. Parks, Christopher H. Guiterman, Ellis Q. Margolis, Margaret Lonergan, Ellen Whitman, John T. Abatzoglou, Donald A. Falk, James D. Johnston, Lori D. Daniels, Charles W. Lafon, Rachel A. Loehman, Kurt F. Kipfmueller, Cameron E. Naficy, Marc-André Parisien, Jeanne Portier, Michael C. Stambaugh, A. Park Williams, Andreas P. Wion, Larissa L. Yocom. 2025. A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned
Jay Thomas, Clare Boerigter, Sean A. Parks, Jonathan W. Long. 2025. Restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire
Clare Boerigter, Sean A. Parks, Jonathan Coop, Michael A. Munoz. 2024. Prescribed fire and wilderness: Barriers and opportunities in a time of change
Emma J. McClure, Jonathan D. Coop, Christopher H. Guiterman, Ellis Q. Margolis, Sean A. Parks. 2024. Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States
Clare Boerigter, Sean A. Parks, Jonathan W. Long, Jonathan D. Coop, Melanie Armstrong, Don L. Hankins. 2024. Untrammeling the wilderness: Restoring natural conditions through the return of human‑ignited fire
Quinn E. Barber, Piyush Jain, Ellen Whitman, Dan K. Thompson, Luc Guindon, Sean A. Parks, Xianli Wang, Matthew G. Hethcoat, Marc-André Parisien. 2024. The Canadian Fire Spread Dataset
Jazlynn Hall, Manette E. Sandor, Brian J. Harvey, Sean A. Parks, Anna T. Trugman, A. Park Williams, Winslow D. Hansen. 2024. Forest carbon storage in the western United States: Distribution, drivers, and trends
Ellen Whitman, Quinn E. Barber, Piyush Jain, Sean A. Parks, Luc Guindon, Dan K. Thompson, Marc-André Parisien. 2024. A modest increase in fire weather overcomes resistance to fire spread in recently burned boreal forests
Jared A. Balik, Jonathan D. Coop, Meg A. Krawchuk, Cameron E. Naficy, Marc-André Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Ellen Whitman. 2024. Biogeographic patterns of daily wildfire spread and extremes across North America
Jane G. Cawson, Luke Collins, Sean A. Parks, Rachael H. Nolan, Trent D. Penman. 2024. Atmospheric dryness removes barriers to the development of large forest fires
Mark R. Kreider, Philip E. Higuera, Sean A. Parks, William L. Rice, Nadia White, Andrew J. Larson. 2024. Fire suppression makes wildfires more severe and accentuates impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation
Sylvia Kantor, Kimberley T. Davis, Jose Iniguez, Sean A. Parks, Kyle Rodman. 2024. Fire refugia: Predicting locations of forest resistance and recruitment in a fire prone world
Jason J. Taylor, Teresa Hollingsworth, Chris A. Armatas, Kellie Carim, Kira Hefty, Olga Helmy, Lisa M. Holsinger, Danette Paige, Sean A. Parks, Lauren Redmore, Jaclyn Rushing, Erana J. Taylor, Katherine Zeller. 2023. The future of wilderness research: A 10-Year wilderness science strategic plan for the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
Kyle C. Rodman, Kimberley T. Davis, Sean A. Parks, Teresa B. Chapman, Jonathan D. Coop, Jose Iniguez, John P. Roccaforte, Andrew J. Sanchez Meador, Judith D. Springer, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Michael T. Stoddard, Amy E. M. Waltz, Tzeidle N. Wasserman. 2023. Refuge-yeah or refuge-nah? Predicting locations of forest resistance and recruitment in a fiery world
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, John T. Abatzoglou, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Katherine Zeller. 2023. Response to concerns raised about the likelihood of protected areas serving as steppingstones for species responding to climate change
Tyler J. Hoecker, Sean A. Parks, Meade Krosby, Solomon Z. Dobrowski. 2023. Widespread exposure to altered fire regimes under 2 °C warming is projected to transform conifer forests of the Western United States
Melissa R. Jaffe, Mark R. Kreider, David L. R. Affleck, Philip E. Higuera, Carl A. Seielstad, Sean A. Parks, Andrew J. Larson. 2023. Mesic mixed-conifer forests are resilient to both historical high-severity fire and contemporary reburns in the US Northern Rocky Mountains
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Kori Blankenship, Greg Dillon, Sara A. Goeking, Randy Swaty. 2023. Contemporary wildfires are more severe compared to the historical reference period in western US dry conifer forests
Mark R. Kreider, Melissa R. Jaffe, Julia K. Berkey, Sean A. Parks, Andrew J. Larson. 2023. The scientific value of fire in wilderness
Sean A. Parks. 2023. Stepping stones: How will the world’s protected areas support species undergoing climate-induced range shifts?
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, John T. Abatzoglou, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Katherine Zeller. 2023. Protected areas not likely to serve as steppingstones for species undergoing climate-induced range shifts
Alexander A. Howe, Sean A. Parks, Brian J. Harvey, Saba J. Saberi, James A. Lutz, Larissa L. Yocom. 2022. Comparing Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 for burn severity mapping in western North America
Gavin M. Jones, J. Ayars, Sean A. Parks, Helen E. Chmura, Samuel A. Cushman, Jamie S. Sanderlin. 2022. Pyrodiversity in a warming world: Research challenges and opportunities
Silvia Kantor, Sean A. Parks, Jack Triepke, Kimberley T. Davis. 2022. How a forest disappears: Conversion of forest to nonforest vegetation following wildfire
Qingqing Xu, Anthony LeRoy Westerling, Andrew Notohamiprodjo, Christine Wiedinmyer, Joshua J. Picotte, Sean A. Parks, Matthew D. Hurteau, Miriam E. Marlier, Crystal A. Kolden, Jonathan A. Sam, W. Jonathan Baldwin, Christiana Ade. 2022. Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory: An example implementation over California
David W. Huffman, Jose Iniguez, Kurt F. Kipfmueller, Stanley G. Kitchen, Keith Lombardo, Donald McKenzie, Andrew G. Merschel, Kerry L. Metlen, Jesse Minor, Christopher D. O'Connor, Laura Platt, William J. Platt, Thomas Saladyga, Amanda B. Stan, Scott Stephens, Colleen Sutheimer, Ramzi Touchan, Peter J. Weisberg, Ellis Q. Margolis, Christopher H. Guiterman, Raphael D. Chavardes, Jonathan D. Coop, Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, Denyse A. Dawe, Donald A. Falk, James D. Johnston, Evan Larson, Hang Li, Joseph M. Marschall, Cameron E. Naficy, Adam T. Naito, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Jeanne Portier, Helen M. Poulos, Kevin M. Robertson, James H. Speer, Michael Stambaugh, Thomas W. Swetnam, Alan J. Tepley, Ichchha Thapa, Craig D. Allen, Yves Bergeron, Lori D. Daniels, Peter Z. Fule, David Gervais, Martin P. Girardin, Grant L. Harley, Jill E. Harvey, Kira M. Hoffman, Jean M. Huffman, Matthew D. Hurteau, Lane B. Johnson, Charles W. Lafon, Manuel K. Lopez, R. Stockton Maxwell, Jed Meunier, Malcolm P. North, Monica T. Rother, Micah R. Schmidt, Rosemary L. Sherriff, Lauren A. Stachowiak, Alan Taylor, Erana J. Taylor, Valerie Trouet, Miguel L. Villarreal, Larissa L. Yocom, Karen B. Arabas, Alexis H. Arizpe, Dominique Arseneault, Alicia Azpeleta Tarancon, Christopher Baisan, Erica Bigio, Franco Biondi, Gabriel D. Cahalan, Anthony Caprio, Julian Cerano-Paredes, Brandon M. Collins, Daniel C. C. Dey, Igor Drobyshev, Calvin Farris, M. Adele Fenwick, William Flatley, M. Lisa Floyd, Ze'ev Gedalof, Andres Holz, Lauren F. Howard. 2022. The North American tree-ring fire-scar network
Adrian Israel Silva-Cardoza, Daniel Jose Vega-Nieva, Jaime Briseno-Reyes, Carlos Ivan Briones-Herrera, Pablito Marcelo Lopez-Serrano, Jose Javier Corral-Rivas, Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger. 2022. Evaluating a new relative phenological correction and the effect of sentinel-based earth engine compositing approaches to map fire severity and burned area
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Katherine Zeller, John T. Abatzoglou, Charles Besancon, Bryce L. Nordgren, Joshua J. Lawler. 2022. Efficacy of the global protected area network is threatened by disappearing climates and potential transboundary range shifts
Ellen Whitman, Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Marc-Andre Parisien. 2022. Climate-induced fire regime amplification in Alberta, Canada
Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Scott Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman. 2022. Extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent and future climate in the western USA
Lisa M. Holsinger, Sean A. Parks, Lisa B. Saperstein, Rachel A. Loehman, Ellen Whitman, Jennifer Barnes, Marc‐André Parisien. 2022. Improved fire severity mapping in the North American boreal forest using a hybrid composite method
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Morgan A. Voss, Rachel A. Loehman, Nathaniel P. Robinson. 2021. Correction: Parks et al. Mean composite fire severity metrics computed with Google Earth Engine offer improved accuracy and expanded mapping potential
Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Drew S. Lyons, Clark Hollenberg, Carlos Carroll, Sean A. Parks, John T. Abatzoglou, Katherine Hegewisch, Josh Gage. 2021. Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes
Susan J. Prichard, Paul F. Hessburg, R. Keala Hagmann, Nicholas Povak, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Matthew D. Hurteau, Van R. Kane, Robert E. Keane, Leda N. Kobziar, Crystal A. Kolden, Malcolm P. North, Sean A. Parks, Hugh D. Safford, Jens Stevens, Larissa L. Yocom, Derek J. Churchill, Robert W. Gray, David W. Huffman, Frank K. Lake, Pratima Khatri‐Chhetri. 2021. Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questions
Ellen Whitman, Marc-Andre Parisien, Lisa M. Holsinger, Jane Park, Sean A. Parks. 2020. A method for creating a burn severity atlas: An example from Alberta, Canada
Kimberley T. Davis, Philip E. Higuera, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Sean A. Parks, John T. Abatzoglou, Monica T. Rother, Thomas T. Veblen. 2020. Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States
Sean A. Parks, J. T. Abatzoglou. 2020. Warmer and drier fire seasons contribute to increases in area burned at high severity in western US forests from 1985 to 2017
Caitlin E. Littlefield, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, John T. Abatzoglou, Sean A. Parks, Kimberley T. Davis. 2020. A climatic dipole drives short- and long-term patterns of postfire forest recovery in the western United States
Carlos Ivan Briones-Herrera, Daniel Jose Vega-Nieva, Norma Angelica Monjaras-Vega, Jaime Briseno-Reyes, Pablito Marcelo Lopez-Serrano, Jose Javier Corral-Rivas, Ernesto Alvarado-Celestino, Stefano Arellano-Perez, Juan Gabriel Alvarez-Gonzalez, Ana Daria Ruiz-Gonzalez, W. Matt Jolly, Sean A. Parks. 2020. Near real-time automated early mapping of the perimeter of large forest fires from the aggregation of VIIRS and MODIS active fires in Mexico
Garrett W. Meigs, Christopher J. Dunn, Sean A. Parks, Meg A. Krawchuk. 2020. Influence of topography and fuels on fire refugia probability under varying fire weather conditions in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA
Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Camille S. Stevens-Rumann, Shelley D. Crausbay, Philip E. Higuera, Matthew D. Hurteau, Alan Tepley, Ellen Whitman, Timothy Assal, Brandon M. Collins, Kimberley T. Davis, Solomon Dobrowski, Donald A. Falk, Paula J. Fornwalt, Peter Z. Fule, Brian J. Harvey, Van R. Kane, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Ellis Q. Margolis, Malcolm P. North, Marc-Andre Parisien, Susan Prichard, Kyle C. Rodman. 2020. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes
Marc-Andre Parisien, Alan Ager, Ana M. Barros, Denyse Dawe, Sandy Erni, Mark A. Finney, Charles W. McHugh, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Karin Riley, Karen C. Short, Christopher A. Stockdale, Xianli Wang, Ellen Whitman. 2020. Commentary on the article “Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada - Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning” by J. L. Beverly and N. McLoughlin
Marc-Andre Parisien, Quinn E. Barber, Kelvin G. Hirsch, Christopher A. Stockdale, Sandy Erni, Xianli Wang, Dominique Arseneault, Sean A. Parks. 2020. Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest
John T. Abatzoglou, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Sean A. Parks. 2020. Multivariate climate departures have outpaced univariate changes across global lands
Sean A. Parks, Carlos Carroll, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Brady W. Allred. 2020. Human land uses reduce climate connectivity across North America
Sean A. Parks. 2019. A double whammy: Climate change and stand-replacing wildfires
Narendran Kodandapani, Sean A. Parks. 2019. Effects of drought on wildfires in forest landscapes of the Western Ghats, India
Nicolas Mansuy, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz. 2019. Contrasting human influences and macro-environmental factors on fire activity inside and outside protected areas of North America
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Michael J. Koontz, Luke Collins, Ellen Whitman, Marc-Andre Parisien, Rachel A. Loehman, Jennifer L. Barnes, Jean-Francois Bourdon, Jonathan Boucher, Yan Boucher, Anthony C. Caprio, Adam Collingwood, Ron J. Hall, Jane Park, Lisa B. Saperstein, Charlotte Smetanka, Rebecca J. Smith, Nick Soverel. 2019. Giving ecological meaning to satellite-derived fire severity metrics across North American forests
Paul F. Hessburg, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Nicholas Povak, Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Thomas Spies, Alina Cansler, Michael A. Battaglia, Carl N. Skinner. 2019. Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of Western North American forests
Lisa M. Holsinger, Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Enric Batllori, Max A. Moritz. 2019. Climate change likely to reshape vegetation in North America's largest protected areas
Kimberley T. Davis, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Philip E. Higuera, Zachary A. Holden, Thomas T. Veblen, Monica T. Rother, Sean A. Parks, Anna Sala, Marco P. Maneta. 2019. Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration
Sean A. Parks, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, John D. Shaw, Carol L. Miller. 2019. Living on the edge: Trailing edge forests at risk of fire-facilitated conversion to non-forest
Sean A. Parks. 2018. A world in pixels: How new research is helping to predict probability of high-severity fire
Carlos Carroll, Sean A. Parks, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, David R. Roberts. 2018. Climatic, topographic, and anthropogenic factors determine connectivity between current and future climate analogs in North America
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Morgan A. Voss, Rachel A. Loehman, Nathaniel P. Robinson. 2018. Mean composite fire severity metrics computed with Google Earth engine offer improved accuracy and expanded mapping potential
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Matthew H. Panunto, W. Matt Jolly, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Greg Dillon. 2018. High-severity fire: Evaluating its key drivers and mapping its probability across western US forests
Sean A. Parks, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Matthew H. Panunto. 2018. What drives low-severity fire in the southwestern USA?
Ryan B. Walker, Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Laura Trader. 2018. Fire regimes approaching historic norms reduce wildfire-facilitated conversion from forest to non-forest
John T. Abatzoglou, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Sean A. Parks, Katherine C. Hegewisch. 2018. Data Descriptor: TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958-2015
Sean A. Parks, Marc‐Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Lisa M. Holsinger, Scott Baggett. 2018. Fine-scale spatial climate variation and drought mediate the likelihood of reburning
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien. 2018. Analog-based fire regime and vegetation shifts in mountainous regions of the western US
Penelope Morgan, Andrew T. Hudak, Ashley Wells, Sean A. Parks, L. Scott Baggett, Benjamin C. Bright, Patricia Green. 2017. Multidecadal trends in area burned with high severity in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area 1880-2012
Enric Batllori, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Max A. Moritz, Carol L. Miller. 2017. Potential relocation of climatic environments suggests high rates of climate displacement within the North American protection network
Brian Cooke, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Lisa M. Holsinger, Cara Nelson, Zack Holden, Scott Baggett, Benjamin Bird. 2016. Wildland fire: Nature's fuel treatment
Kevin Barnett, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Helen T. Naughton. 2016. Beyond fuel treatment effectiveness: Characterizing interactions between fire and treatments in the US
Lisa M. Holsinger, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller. 2016. Weather, fuels, and topography impede wildland fire spread in western US landscapes
Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Evan R. DeLancey, Francois-Nicolas Robinne, Mike D. Flannigan. 2016. The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America
Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Sean A. Parks. 2016. Climate change velocity underestimates climate change exposure in mountainous regions
Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Sarah R. McClernan, Lisa M. Holsinger. 2016. Influences of prior wildfires on vegetation response to subsequent fire in a reburned Southwestern landscape
Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, John T. Abatzoglou, Lisa M. Holsinger, Marc-Andre Parisien, Solomon Z. Dobrowski. 2016. How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US?
Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Lisa M. Holsinger, Scott Baggett, Benjamin J. Bird. 2016. Wildland fire limits subsequent fire occurrence
Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Lisa M. Holsinger, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, John Abatzoglou. 2015. Wildland fire deficit and surplus in the western United States, 1984-2012
Sean A. Parks, Lisa M. Holsinger, Carol L. Miller, Cara R. Nelson. 2015. Wildland fire as a self-regulating mechanism: The role of previous burns and weather in limiting fire progression
Jonathan D. Coop, Lisa M. Holsinger, Sarah McClernan, Sean A. Parks. 2015. Influences of previous wildfires on change, resistance, and resilience to reburning in a montane southwestern landscape
Enric Batllori, Carol L. Miller, Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Max A. Moritz. 2014. Is U.S. climatic diversity well represented within the existing federal protection network?
Sean A. Parks. 2014. Mapping day-of-burning with coarse-resolution satellite fire-detection data
Sean A. Parks, Greg Dillon, Carol L. Miller. 2014. A new metric for quantifying burn severity: The Relativized Burn Ratio
Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller, Solomon Z. Dobrowski. 2014. Fire activity and severity in the western US vary along proxy gradients representing fuel amount and fuel moisture
Xianli Wang, Marc-Andre Parisien, Mike D. Flannigan, Sean A. Parks, Kerry R. Anderson, John M. Little, Steve W. Taylor. 2014. The potential and realized spread of wildfires across Canada
Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Meg A. Krawchuk, John M. Little, Mike D. Flannigan, Lynn M. Gowman, Max A. Moritz. 2014. An analysis of controls on fire activity in boreal Canada: comparing models built with different temporal resolutions
Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Cara R. Nelson, Zachary A. Holden. 2014. Previous fires moderate burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas
Michael K. Schwartz, Joel Saunder, Kristine L. Pilgrim, Ray Vinkey, Michael K. Lucid, Sean A. Parks, Nathan Albrecht. 2013. Fisher population and landscape genetics
Andrew J. Larson, R. Travis Belote, C. Alina Cansler, Sean A. Parks, Matthew S. Dietz. 2013. Latent resilience in ponderosa pine forest: effects of resumed frequent fire
Blake R. Hossack, Winsor H. Lowe, R. Ken Honeycutt, Sean A. Parks, Paul Stephen Corn. 2013. Interactive effects of wildfire, forest management, and isolation on amphibian and parasite abundance
John R. Squires, Nicholas J. DeCesare, Lucretia E. Olson, Jay A. Kolbe, Mark Hebblewhite, Sean A. Parks. 2013. Combining resource selection and movement behavior to predict corridors for Canada lynx at their southern range periphery
Sean A. Parks, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Schwartz. 2012. Effects of weighting schemes on the identification of wildlife corridors generated with least-cost methods
Joe H. Scott, Donald Helmbrecht, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller. 2012. Quantifying the threat of unsuppressed wildfires reaching the adjacent wildland-urban interface on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming
Bill Zielinski, Ric Schlexer, Sean A. Parks, Kristine L. Pilgrim, Michael K. Schwartz. 2012. Small geographic range but not panmictic: how forests structure the endangered Point Arena mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa nigra)
Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller. 2012. Spatial bottom-up controls on fire likelihood vary across western North America
Jeffrey P. Copeland, Kevin S. McKelvey, Michael K. Schwartz, Jeremy S. Littell, Keith B. Aubry, John R. Squires, Sean A. Parks, Marketa M. Elsner, Guillaume S. Mauger. 2011. Climate change predicted to shift wolverine distributions, connectivity, and dispersal corridors
Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Carol L. Miller, Meg A. Krawchuck, Mark Heathcott, Max A. Moritz. 2011. Contributions of ignitions, fuels, and weather to the spatial patterns of burn probability of a boreal landscape
Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Carol L. Miller. 2011. Multi-scale evaluation of the environmental controls on burn probability in a southern Sierra Nevada landscape
Marc-Andre Parisien, Sean A. Parks, Meg A. Krawchuck, Mike D. Flannigan, Lynn M. Bowman, Max A. Moritz. 2011. Scale-dependent controls on the area burned in the boreal forest of Canada, 1980-2005
Seth W. Bigelow, Sean A. Parks. 2010. Predicting altered connectivity of patchy forests under group selection silviculture
Brett H. Davis, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks. 2010. Retrospective fire modeling: Quantifying the impacts of fire suppression
Patricia N. Manley, Sean A. Parks, Lori Campbell, M.D. Schlesinger. 2009. Modeling urban land development as a continuum to address fine-grained habitat heterogeneity
Patricia N. Manley, Dennis D. Murphy, Lori Campbell, Kirsten E. Heckmann, Susan Merideth, Sean A. Parks, Monte P. Sanford, Matthew D. Schlesinger. 2006. Biotic diversity interfaces with urbanization in the Lake Tahoe basin

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