Recent Publications (in the last five years)

Gustafson, EJ, MS Lucash, AZ Shvidenko, BR Sturtevant, BR Miranda, D Schepaschenko, H Matsumoto. 2024. Climate change and disturbance interact to alter landscape reflectivity (albedo) in boreal forests across a large latitudinal gradient in Siberia. Science of the Total Environment 956 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177043

Deak, AK, MS Lucash, MR Coughlan, S Weiss, LCR Silva. 2024. Prescribed fire placement matters more than increasing frequency and extent in a simulated Pacific Northwest landscape. Ecosphere 15 (4), e4827. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4827

Lucash MS, NG Williams, V Srikrishnan, K Keller, RM Scheller, C Hegelson, RE Nicholas and EAH Smithwick. 2023. Balancing multiple forest management objectives under climate change in central Wisconsin, U.S.A. Trees, Forests and People 14: 100460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2023.100460

Weiss, SA, AM Marshall, KR Hayes, DM Nicolsky, B Buma and MS Lucash. 2023. Future transitions from a conifer to a deciduous-dominated landscape are accelerated by greater wildfire activity and climate change in interior Alaska. Landsc Ecol 38, 2569–2589 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01733-8

Nasr-Azadani, E, EAH Smithwick, SJ Steidle, MS Lucash, DH Wardrop, NT Fregien, and TR Kenote. 2023. Integrating Menominee model for sustainable forestry with Systems Thinking competency through 3D virtual tours. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-023-01399-w

Williams, NG, MS Lucash, MR Ouellette, T Brussel, EJ Gustafson, SA Weiss, BR Sturtevant, DG Schepaschenko and AZ Shvidenko. 2023. Simulating dynamic fire regime and vegetation change in a warming Siberia. Fire Ecology 19 (1), 1-29. https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00188-1

Lucash, MS, AM Marshall, SA Weiss, JW McNabb, DJ Nicolsky, G Flerchinger, TE Link, JG Vogel, RM Scheller, RZ Abramoff, and VE Romanovsky. 2023. Burning trees in frozen soil: Simulating fire, vegetation, soil, and hydrology in the boreal forests of Alaska. Ecological Modelling 481, 110367. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304380023000959

Steidle, S, MS Lucash, E Nasr-Azadani, and E Smithwick. 2023. Testing presence, assessing attitudes: Study of a 3D virtual tour in an “aesthetically challenged” landscape. Journal of Environmental Management 337, 117574. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479723003626

Lucash M, S Weiss, MJ Duveneck and RM Scheller. 2022. Managing for red-cockaded woodpeckers is more complicated under climate change. Journal of Wildlife Management 86:e22309. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22309

Shuman, JK, JK Balch, RT Barnes, PE Higuera, CI Roos, DW Schwilk, E Stavros, T Banerjee, MM Bela, J Bendix, S Bertolino, S Bililign, KD Bladon, P Brando, RE Breidenthal, B Buma, D Calhoun, LMV Carvalho, ME Cattau, KM Cawley, SChandra, ML Chipman, J Cobian-Iñiguez, E Conlisk, JD Coop, A Cullen, KT Davis, A Dayalu, F De Sales, M Dolman, LM Ellsworth, S Franklin, CH Guiterman, M Hamilton, EJ Hanan, WD Hansen, S Hantson, BJ Harvey, A Holz, T Huang, MD Hurteau, NT Ilangakoon, M Jennings, C Jones, A Klimaszewski-Patterson, LN Kobziar, J Kominoski, B Kosovic, MA Krawchuk, P Laris, J Leonard, S Marcela Loria-Salazar, M Lucash, H Mahmoud, E Margolis, T Maxwell, JL McCarty, DB McWethy, RS Meyer, JR Miesel, W Keith Moser, R Chelsea Nagy, D Niyogi, H M Palmer, A Pellegrini, B Poulter, K Robertson, AV Rocha, M Sadegh, F Santos, F Scordo, JO Sexton, AS Sharma, A.M.S Smith, AJ Soja, C Still, T Swetnam, AD Syphard, MW Tingley, A Tohidi, AT Trugman, M Turetsky, J M Varner, Y Wang, T Whitman, S Yelenik, X Zhang 2022. Reimagine fire for the anthropocene. PNAS Nexus, 1(3), 115. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac115

Shabaga, JA, R Bracho, PA Klockow, MS Lucash and JG Vogel 2022. Shortened fire intervals stimulate carbon losses from heterotrophic respiration and reduce understorey plant productivity in boreal forests. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00761-w

Huang, J, MS Lucash, RM Scheller, and A Klippel. 2020. Walking through the forests of the future: using data-driven virtual reality to visualize forests under climate change. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 35:6, 1155-1178. doi/10.1080/13658816.2020.1830997

Schrum, P, RM Scheller, MJ Duveneck, and MS Lucash. 2020. Base-Hurricane: A new extension for the Landis-II forest landscape model. Environmental Modelling & Software 133: 104833. doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104833

Buma B, SA Weiss, K Hayes and MS Lucash. 2020. Wildland fire reburning trends across the US West suggest only short-term negative feedback and differing climatic effects. Environmental Research Letters 15(3): 034026. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c70

Buma, B, K Hayes, S Weiss and M Lucash. 2022. Short-interval fires increasing in the Alaskan boreal forest as fire self-regulation decays across forest types. Scientific Reports 12: 4901. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-08912-8