SEAN A PARKS

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ID7367860
NOMESEAN A PARKS
PRENOMESSEAN A
SOBRENOMEPARKS
ASSINATURAPARKS S A
AFILIAÇÕESRocky Mountain Research Station
ORCID0000-0002-2982-5255
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR11
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2016
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H0

  • Snowpack decline kindles more severe fire in the western United States

    Open AccessJared A Balik, Jonathan D Coop et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2026

    Climate change is reducing winter snowpack and advancing spring snowmelt across the western United States, interacting with El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) teleconnections that drive spatially predictable interannual fluctuations that contribute to high- or low-snow winters. Early snowmelt extends the fire season, enhancing opportunities for ignition and increasing fuel dryness, both of which contribute to greater burned areas. However, relat…

  • Whitebark pine in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century

    Open AccessSEAN A PARKS, Kira L Hefty et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    Whitebark pine (WBP; Pinus albicaulis ) is a five-needle conifer tree species native to the western United States (US) and southwestern Canada. In the US, this ecologically important species is listed as ‘threatened’ under the Endangered Species Act because of population declines from compound stressors, including climate change, introduced white pine blister rust (WPBR), widespread outbreaks of mountain pine beetle, and altered fire regimes. Spe…

  • Climate-induced fire regime amplification in Alberta, Canada

    Open AccessEllen Whitman, SEAN A PARKS et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Acting as a top-down control on fire activity, climate strongly affects wildfire in North American ecosystems through fuel moisture and ignitions. Departures from historical fire regimes due to climate change have significant implications for the structure and composition of boreal forests, as well as fire management and operations. In this research, we characterize the relationship between trends in climate and fire regime characteristics, for a…

  • Efficacy of the global protected area network is threatened by disappearing climates and potential transboundary range shifts

    Open AccessSEAN A PARKS, Lisa M Holsinger et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Protected areas are essential to conserving biodiversity, yet changing climatic conditions challenge their efficacy. For example, novel and disappearing climates within the protected area network indicate that extant species may not have suitable climate in protected areas in the future. Further, potential transboundary range shifts, those that involve movement from one country to another, are also challenging because physical (e.g. fencing) and …

  • Wildfire burn severity and emissions inventory

    Open AccessQingqing Xu, A L Westerling et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Wildfire severity is a key indicator of both direct ecosystem impacts and indirect emissions impacts that affect air quality, climate, and public health far beyond the spatial footprint of the flames. Comprehensive, accurate inventories of severity and emissions are essential for assessing these impacts and setting appropriate fire management and health care preparedness strategies, as is the ability to project emissions for future wildfires. The…

  • Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States

    Open AccessKimberley T Davis, P E Higuera et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2020

    Increased wildfire activity combined with warm and dry post-fire conditions may undermine the mechanisms maintaining forest resilience to wildfires, potentially causing ecosystem transitions, or fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts. Stand-replacing fire is especially likely to catalyze vegetation shifts expected from climate change, by killing mature trees that are less sensitive to climate than juveniles. To understand the vulnerability of forests t…

  • Contrasting human influences and macro-environmental factors on fire activity inside and outside protected areas of North America

    Open AccessNicolas Mansuy, Carol Miller et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2019

    Human activities threaten the effectiveness of protected areas (PAs) in achieving their conservation goals across the globe. In this study, we contrast the influence of human and macro-environmental factors driving fire activity inside and outside PAs. Using area burned between 1984 and 2014 for 11 ecoregions in Canada and the United States, we built and compared statistical models of fire likelihood using the MaxEnt software and a set of 11 key …

  • TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

    Open AccessJohn T Abatzoglou, Solomon Z Dobrowski et al.ARTICLEScientific Data2018

    We present TerraClimate, a dataset of high-spatial resolution (1/24°, ~4-km) monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from 1958–2015. TerraClimate uses climatically aided interpolation, combining high-spatial resolution climatological normals from the WorldClim dataset, with coarser resolution time varying (i.e., monthly) data from other sources to produce a monthly dataset of precipitation, maximum and minimum t…

  • High-severity fire

    Open AccessSEAN A PARKS, Lisa M Holsinger et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Wildland fire is a critical process in forests of the western United States (US). Variation in fire behavior, which is heavily influenced by fuel loading, terrain, weather, and vegetation type, leads to heterogeneity in fire severity across landscapes. The relative influence of these factors in driving fire severity, however, is poorly understood. Here, we explore the drivers of high-severity fire for forested ecoregions in the western US over th…

  • The spatially varying influence of humans on fire probability in North America

    Open AccessMarc‐André Parisien, Marc-André Parisien et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Humans affect fire regimes by providing ignition sources in some cases, suppressing wildfires in others, and altering natural vegetation in ways that may either promote or limit fire. In North America, several studies have evaluated the effects of society on fire activity; however, most studies have been regional or subcontinental in scope and used different data and methods, thereby making continent-wide comparisons difficult. We circumvent thes…

  • How will climate change affect wildland fire severity in the western US

    Open AccessSEAN A PARKS, Carol Miller et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Fire regime characteristics in North America are expected to change over the next several decades as a result of anthropogenic climate change. Although some fire regime characteristics (e.g., area burned and fire season length) are relatively well-studied in the context of a changing climate, fire severity has received less attention. In this study, we used observed data from 1984 to 2012 for the western United States (US) to build a statistical …