Seeing the disturbed forest for the trees: Remote sensing is underutilized to quantify critical zone response to unprecedented disturbance

K Hwang, AA Harpold, CL Tague, L Lowman… - Earth's …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the severity and extent of near surface critical zone (CZ) disturbances and
their ecosystem response is a pressing concern in the face of increasing human and natural …

Missing climate feedbacks in fire models: limitations and uncertainties in fuel loadings and the role of decomposition in fine fuel accumulation

EJ Hanan, MC Kennedy, J Ren… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has lengthened wildfire seasons and transformed fire regimes throughout
the world. Thus, capturing fuel and fire dynamics is critical for projecting Earth system …

How climate change and fire exclusion drive wildfire regimes at actionable scales

EJ Hanan, J Ren, CL Tague, CA Kolden… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Extreme wildfires are increasing in frequency globally, prompting new efforts to mitigate risk.
The ecological appropriateness of risk mitigation strategies, however, depends on what …

Simulating the role of biogeochemical hotspots in driving nitrogen export from dryland watersheds

J Ren, EJ Hanan, A Greene, C Tague… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and nitrogen (N) pollution are altering biogeochemical and ecohydrological
processes in dryland watersheds, increasing N export, and threatening water quality. While …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of vegetation succession and shrub clearing after land abandonment on the hydrological dynamics in the Central Spanish Pyrenees

M Khorchani, E Nadal-Romero, T Lasanta, C Tague - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Cropland abandonment is a global problem that has affected countries worldwide since the
19th century. Abandoned lands usually undergo a process of plant succession. This process …

[HTML][HTML] How does water yield respond to mountain pine beetle infestation in a semiarid forest?

J Ren, JC Adam, JA Hicke, EJ Hanan… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreaks in the western United States result in widespread
tree mortality, transforming forest structure within watersheds. While there is evidence that …

Projecting future fire regimes in a semiarid watershed of the inland northwestern United States: Interactions among climate change, vegetation productivity, and fuel …

J Ren, EJ Hanan, JT Abatzoglou, CA Kolden… - Earth's …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fire regimes are influenced by both exogenous drivers (eg, increases in atmospheric CO2
and climate change) and endogenous drivers (eg, vegetation and soil/litter moisture), which …

Compartment Models with Memory

T Ginn, L Schreyer - SIAM Review, 2023 - SIAM
The beauty and simplicity of compartment modeling makes it a useful approach for
simulating dynamics in an amazingly wide range of applications, which are growing rapidly …

The regional hydro-ecological simulation system for 30 years: A systematic review

B Chen, Z Liu, C He, H Peng, P **a, Y Nie - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
As the Regional Hydro-Ecological Simulation System (RHESSys) is a tool to simulate the
interactions between ecological and hydrological processes, many RHESSys-based studies …

Dryland watersheds in flux: How nitrogen deposition and changing precipitation regimes shape nitrogen export

J Ren, EJ Hanan, P D'Odorico, C Tague… - Earth's …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition and climate change are transforming the way N moves
through dryland watersheds. For example, N deposition is increasing N export to streams …