Craig D Allen

Biographic Data

ID6231820
NAMECraig D Allen
GIVEN NAMESCraig D
FAMILY NAMEAllen
SIGNATUREALLEN C D
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Geological Survey
ORCID0000-0002-8777-5989
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Tree mortality in a warming world: Causes, patterns, and implications

    Open AccessChuixiang Yi, George R Hendrey et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    This ERL focus collection has published 17 papers that have advanced our understanding of different dimensions of warming-induced tree mortality. Here we summarize these focus collection papers, organized by four topics related to tree mortality: pathogens, droughts/heat waves, fire/bark beetles, and teleconnections/air pollution. This focus collection illustrates a variety of methods in measuring and modeling tree-mortality, and adds significant…

  • Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat

    Open AccessNate G McDowell, Charlotte Grossiord et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Predictions of warmer droughts causing increasing forest mortality are becoming abundant, yet few studies have investigated the mechanisms of forest persistence. To examine the resistance of forests to warmer droughts, we used a five-year precipitation reduction (45% removal), heat (+4 C above ambient) and combined drought and heat experiment in an isolated stand of mature Pinus edulis-Juniperus monosperma. Despite severe experimental drought and…

  • On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessCraig D Allen, David D Breshears et al.ARTICLEEcosphere2015

    Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated broad‐scale forest die‐off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter drought”, an emerging characteristic of the Anthropocene—are the focus of rapidly expanding literature. Despite recent observational, experimental, and modeling studies suggesting increased vulnerability of trees to hotter drought and associated pests and pathogens, substantial d…

  • Carbon stocks of trees killed by bark beetles and wildfire in the western United States

    Open AccessJeffrey A Hicke, Arjan J H Meddens et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2013

    Forests are major components of the carbon cycle, and disturbances are important influences of forest carbon. Our objective was to contribute to the understanding of forest carbon cycling by quantifying the amount of carbon in trees killed by two disturbance types, fires and bark beetles, in the western United States in recent decades. We combined existing spatial data sets of forest biomass, burn severity, and beetle-caused tree mortality to est…

  • A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

    Open AccessCraig D Allen, Alison K Macalady et al.ARTICLEForest Ecology and Management2010

  • Development of the mixed conifer forest in northern New Mexico and its relationship to Holocene environmental change

    Open AccessR Scott Anderson, Renata B Jass et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2008

    Chihuahueños Bog (2925 m) in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico contains one of the few records of late-glacial and postglacial development of the mixed conifer forest in southwestern North America. The Chihuahueños Bog record extends to over 15,000 cal yr BP. An Artemisia steppe, then an open Picea woodland grew around a small pond until ca. 11,700 cal yr BP when Pinus ponderosa became established. C/N ratios, δ 13 C and δ 15 N values in…

  • Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: Why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

    Open AccessNate G McDowell, Nate McDowell et al.ARTICLENew Phytologist2008

    Severe droughts have been associated with regional‐scale forest mortality worldwide. Climate change is expected to exacerbate regional mortality events; however, prediction remains difficult because the physiological mechanisms underlying drought survival and mortality are poorly understood. We developed a hydraulically based theory considering carbon balance and insect resistance that allowed development and examination of hypotheses regarding s…

  • Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought

    Open AccessDavid D Breshears, Neil S Cobb et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2005

    Future drought is projected to occur under warmer temperature conditions as climate change progresses, referred to here as global-change-type drought, yet quantitative assessments of the triggers and potential extent of drought-induced vegetation die-off remain pivotal uncertainties in assessing climate-change impacts. Of particular concern is regional-scale mortality of overstory trees, which rapidly alters ecosystem type, associated ecosystem p…

  • Applied Historical Ecology: Using the Past to Manage for the Future

    Open AccessThomas W Swetnam, Craig D Allen et al.ARTICLEEcological Applications1999

    Applied historical ecology is the use of historical knowledge in the management of ecosystems. Historical perspectives increase our understanding of the dynamic nature of landscapes and provide a frame of reference for assessing modern patterns and processes. Historical records, however, are often too brief or fragmentary to be useful, or they are not obtainable for the process or structure of interest. Even where long historical time series can …