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2007

Baker, W.L., T.T. Veblen and R.L. Sherriff. 2007. Fire, fuels, and restoration of ponderosa pine-Douglas-fir forests in the Rocky Mountains, USA. Journal of Biogeography. 34:251-269.

Bigler, C., D. G. Gavin, C. Gunning, and T. T. Veblen. 2007. Drought induces lagged tree mortality in a subalpine forest in the Rocky Mountains. Oikos. In press.

Daniels, L.D., T.T. Veblen and R. Villalba. 2007. Use of thin sections to improve age estimates of Nothofagus pumilio seedlings. EcoScience 14:17-22.

Drury , S.A. and T.T. Veblen. 2007. Spatial and temporal variability in fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Durango, Mexico. Plant Ecology. In press.

González, M.E. and T.T. Veblen. 2007. Incendios en bosques de Araucaria araucana y consideraciones ecológicas al madereo de aprovechamiento en áreas recientemente quemadas. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 80:243-253.

Kitzberger, T., P. M. Brown, E. K. Heyerdahl, T. W. Swetnam, and T. T. Veblen. 2007. Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multi-century wildfire synchrony over western North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104:543-548.

Kulakowski, D. and T.T. Veblen. 2007. Effect of prior disturbances on the extent and severity of a 2002 wildfire in Colorado subalpine forests. Ecology 88:759-69.

Kurzel, B.P., T.T. Veblen and D. Kulakowski. 2007. A typology of stand structure and dynamics of Quaking aspen in northwestern Colorado. Forest Ecology and Management 252:176-190.

Platt, R.V., T.T. Veblen and R.L. Sherriff. A Spatial Model of Forest Management Strategies and Outcomes in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Natural Hazards Review.

Raffaele, E., T. Kitzberger and T.T. Veblen. 2007. Interactive effects of introduced herbivores and post-flowering die-off of bamboos on tree regeneration and the understory in a Nothofagus forest, Argentina. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 371-378.

Schoennagel, T., T.T. Veblen, D. Kulakowski, and A. Holz. 2007. Multidecadal climate variability and interactions among Pacific and Atlantic sea surface temperature anomalies affect subalpine fire occurrence, western Colorado (USA). Ecology 88:2891-2902.

Sherriff, R.L. and T.T. Veblen. 2007. A spatially explicit reconstruction of historical fire occurrence in the ponderosa pine zone of the Colorado Front Range. Ecosystems 9:1342-1347.

Sherriff, R.L. and T.T. Veblen. Variability in fire-climate relationships in ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range. International Journal of Wildland Fire. In press.

Sibold, J.S., T. T. Veblen, K. Chipko, L. Lawson, E. Mathis, and J. Scott. 2007. Influences of surface fire, mountain pine beetle, and blowdown on lodgepole pine stand development in the northern Colorado Front Range. Ecological Applications 17:1638-1655.

Tercero-Bucardo, N., T. Kitzberger, T.T. Veblen, and E. Raffaele. 2007. A field experiment on climatic and herbivore impacts on post-fire tree regeneration in northwestern Patagonia. Journal of Ecology 95:771-779.

Veblen, T.T. 2007. Temperate Forests of the Southern Andean Region. Pages 217-231 in T.T. Veblen, A. Orme, and K. Young. Eds. Physical Geography of South America. Oxford University Press.

Veblen, T.T., K.R. Young, and A.R. Orme. 2007. Future Environments of South America. Pages 340-352 in T.T. Veblen, A. Orme, and K. Young. Eds. Physical Geography of South America. Oxford University Press.

Young, K.R., P.E. Berry and T.T. Veblen. 2007. Flora and vegetation. Pages 91-100 in: T.T. Veblen, A. Orme, and K. Young. Eds. Physical Geography of South America. Oxford University Press.

2006

DellaSala, D., J. Karr, T. Schoennagel, D. Perry, R. Noss, D. Lindenmayer, R. Beschta, R. Hutto, M. Swanson, and J. Evans (2006). Post-disturbance logging debate ignores many issues. Science. 314: 51-52. Available as PDF from: http://spot.colorado.edu/~schoenna/publications.html

Gonzalez, M.E. and T. T. Veblen (2006). Climatic influences on fire in Araucaria araucana - Nothofagus forests in the Andean cordillera of south-central Chile. Ecoscience. In press.

Holz , C.A. and T.T. Veblen (2006). Tree regeneration responses to Chusquea montana bamboo dieback in a subalpine Nothofagus forest in the southern Andes. Journal of Vegetation Science 17:19-28.

Kaufmann, M.R., T.T. Veblen, and W.H. Romme (2006). Historical fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range, and recommendations for ecological restoration and fuels management. Front Range Fuels Treatment Partnership Roundtable, findings of the Ecology Workgroup. www.frftp.org/roundtable/pipo.pdf.

Kitzberger,T., P.M. Brown, E.K. Heyerdahl, T.W. Swetnam, and T.T. Veblen (2006). Contingent Pacific-Atlantic Ocean influence on multi-century wildfire synchrony over western North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In press

Kulakowski, D. and T.T. Veblen (2006). The effect of fires on susceptibility of subalpine forests to a nineteenth century spruce beetle outbreak in western Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 36:2974-2982.

Kulakowski, D. and T.T. Veblen (2006). Historical range of variability of forest vegetation of Grand Mesa National Forest, Colorado. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Fort Collins. 84 pages. Available as PDF from: http://www.cfri.colostate.edu/reports.htm

Kulakowski, D., T.T. Veblen, and B.P. Kurzel (2006). Influences of infrequent fire, elevation and pre-fire vegetation on the persistence of quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides Michx.) in the Flat Tops area, Colorado. Journal of Biogeography 33:1397-1413.

League, K. and T.T. Veblen (2006). Climatic variability and episodic Pinus ponderosa establishment along the forest-grassland ecotones of Colorado. Forest Ecology and Management 228:98-107.

Noss, R. F., J. F. Franklin, W. L. Baker, T. Schoennagel, and P. B. Moyle (2006). Managing fire-prone forests in the western United States. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8: 481-487. Available as PDF from: http://spot.colorado.edu/~schoenna/publications.html

Noss, R. (ed.), J. Franklin, W. Baker, T. Schoennagel, and P. Moyle (2006). Ecological science relevant to management policies for fire-prone forests of the western United States. Society for Conservation Biology Scientific Panel on Fire in Western U.S. Forests. Available as PDF from: https://www.conbio.org/Sections/NAmerica/FireWhitepaper.pdf

Paritsis, J., E. Raffaele, and T.T. Veblen (2006). Vegetation disturbance by fire affects plant reproductive phenology in a shrubland community in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 30:387-395.

Platt, R.V., T.T. Veblen, R.S. Sherriff (2006). Are wildfire mitigation and restoration of historic forest structure compatible? A spatial modeling assessment. Annals of the Assoc. of Am. Geographers 96:455-470.

Romme, W.H., J. Clement, J. Hicke, D. Kulakowski, L.H. MacDonald, T.L. Schoennagel, and T.T. Veblen (2006). Recent forest insect outbreaks and fire risk in Colorado forests: A brief synthesis of relevant research. Colorado Forest Research Institute, Report (refereed), 24 pp. Available as PDF: http://www.cfri.colostate.edu/reports.htm

Sherriff, R.L. and T.T. Veblen (2006). Ecological effects of changes in fire regimes in Pinus ponderosa ecosystems in the Colorado Front Range. Journal of Vegetation Science. 17:705-718.

Sibold, J.S. and T.T. Veblen (2006). Relationships of subalpine forest fires in the ColoradoFront Range to interannual and multi-decadal scale climatic variation. Journal of Biogeography 33:833-842.

Sibold, J.S., T.T. Veblen and M.E. Gonzalez (2006). Spatial and temporal variation in historic fire regimes in subalpine forests across the Colorado Front Range in Rocky Mountain National Park. Journal of Biogeography 32: 631-647.

Veblen, T.T. and J.A. Donnegan. Historical Range of Variability of Forest Vegetation of the National Forests of the Colorado Front Range. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region and the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, Fort Collins. 151 pages. Available as PDF (3.5 MB).

2005

Bigler, C., D. Kulakowski, and T.T. Veblen (2005). Multiple disturbance interactions and drought influence fire severity in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. Ecology 86:3018-3029.

Bigler, C. (2005). CrossdateR: a visualization tool to assess the quality of crossdated increment cores. Technical Report. Website (including manual and R functions).

Gonzalez, M.E. and T. T. Veblen (2005). Climatic influences on fire in Araucaria araucana - Nothofagus forests in the Andean cordillera of south-central Chile. Journal of Biogeography 32:1187-1202.

Gonzalez, M.E., T. T. Veblen, and J.S. Sibold (2005). Fire history in Araucaria-Nothofagus forests in Villarrica National Park, Chile. Journal of Biogeography 32:1187-1202.

Kitzberger, T., E. Raffaele, and T.T. Veblen (2005). Variable community responses to herbivory in fire-altered landscapes of northern Patagonia, Argentina. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 22:85-91. Available as PDF (804 KB).

Mermoz, M., T. Kitzberger, and T.T. Veblen (2005). Landscape influences on occurrence and spread of wildfires in Patagonian forests and shrublands. Ecology 86:2705-2715.

Schoennagel, T., T.T. Veblen, W.H. Romme, J.S. Sibold and E.R. Cook (2005). ENSO and PDO variability affect drought-induced fire occurrence in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests. Ecological Applications 15:2000-2014.

Veblen, T.T., J.J. Armesto, B.R. Burns, T. Kitzberger, A. Lara, B. León, and K.R. Young (2005). The coniferous forests of South America. In: F. Andersson and S. Gessel (eds.), Ecosystems of the World: Coniferous Forests. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

2004

Daniels, L.D. and T.T. Veblen (2004). Spatio-temporal influences of climate on altitudinal treeline in Northern Patagonia. Ecology 85: 1284-1296.
Available as PDF (332 KB).

Farley, K.A. and E.F. Kelly (2004). Effects of afforestation of a páramo grassland on soil nutrient status. Forest Ecology and Management 195: 281-290.
Available as PDF (148 KB).

Farley, K.A., E.F. Kelly and R.G.M. Hofstede (2004). Soil organic carbon and water retention after conversion of grasslands to pine plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes. Ecosystems 7(7): 729-739.

Hicke, J.A., R.L. Sherriff, T.T. Veblen, and G.P. Asner (2004). Carbon accumulation in Colorado ponderosa pine stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 1283-1295.
Available as PDF (1 MB).

Kulakowski, D., T.T. Veblen and S. Drinkwater (2004). The persistence of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the Grand Mesa area, Colorado. Ecological Applications 14(5): 1603-1614.

Pollman, W. and T.T. Veblen (2004). Nothofagus regeneration dynamics in south-central Chile: a test of a general model. Ecological Monographs 74(4): 615-634.

Schoennagel, T.L., T.T. Veblen and W.H. Romme (2004). The interaction of fire, fuels and climate across Rocky Mountain forests. BioScience 54: 661-676.
Available as PDF (1.5 MB).

Veblen, T.T., T. Kitzberger, and R. Villalba (2004). Nuevos paradigmas en ecología y su influencia sobre el conocimiento de la dinámica de los bosques del sur de Argentina y Chile. Pages 1-48 in: M.F. Arturi, J.L. Frangi and J.F. Goya (eds.). Ecología y Manejo de Bosques de Argentina. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
Available as PDF (1.5 MB).

2003

Alaback, P., T.T. Veblen, C. Whitlock, A. Lara, T. Kitzberger, R. Villalba (2003). Climatic and human influences on fire regimes in temperate forest ecosystems in North and South America. Pages 49-87 in G.A. Bradshaw and P.A. Marquet (eds), How Landscapes Change. Springer-Verlag.

Bebi, P., D. Kulakowski, and T.T. Veblen (2003). Interactions between fire and spruce beetle in a subalpine Rocky Mountain forest landscape. Ecology 84:362-371.

Daniels, L.D. and T.T. Veblen (2003). Regional and local effects of disturbance and climate on altitudinal treelines in northern Patagonia. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 733-742.

Daniels, L.D. and T.T. Veblen (2003). Altitudinal treelines of the southern Andes near 40° S. Forest Chronicle 79:237-241.

Kitzberger, T., and T.T. Veblen (2003). Influences of climate on fire in northern Patagonia, Argentina. Pages 290-315 in: T.T. Veblen, W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro and T.W. Swetnam (eds). Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Springer-Verlag.

Kitzberger, T., E. Raffaele, and T. Veblen (2003). Variable community responses to herbivory in fire-altered landscapes of northern Patagonia, Argentina. Pages 300-307 in N. Allsopp, A.R. Palmer, S.J. Milton, K.P. Kirkman, GiH. Kerley, C.R. Hurt, and C.J. Brown (editors), Proceedings of the VIIth International Rangelands Congress. 26 July - 1 August 2003, Durban, South Africa.

Kulakowski, D., and T.T. Veblen (2003). Subalpine forest development following a blowdown in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado, USA. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 653-660.

Kulakowski, D., T.T. Veblen, and P. Bebi (2003). Effects of fire and spruce beetle outbreak legacies on the disturbance regime of a subalpine forest in Colorado. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1445-1456.
Available as PDF (1 MB).

Romme, W.H., T.T. Veblen, M.R. Kaufmann, R. Sherriff and C.M. Regan (2003). Ecological effects of the Hayman Fire Part 1: Historical (Pre-1860) and current (1860-2002) fire regimes. Pages 151-163 in: Hayman Fire Case Study Analysis. USDA Forest Service Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-114.

Romme, W.H., M.R. Kaufmann, T.T. Veblen, R. Sherriff and C.M. Regan (2003). Ecological effects of the Hayman Fire Part 1: Historical (Pre-1860) and current (1860-2002) forest and landscape structure. Pages 164-171 in: Hayman Fire Case Study Analysis. USDA Forest Service Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-114.

Romme, W.H., C.M. Regan, M.R. Kaufmann, L. Huckaby, and T.T. Veblen (2003). Part 4: Forest succession. Pages 179-187 in: Hayman Fire Case Study Analysis. USDA Forest Service Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-114.

Veblen, T.T. (2003). Historic range of variability of mountain forest ecosystems: concepts and applications. Forest Chronicle 79:223-226.

Veblen, T.T. (2003). Key issues in fire regime research for fuels management and ecological restoration. Pages 259-276 in: P. Omi and L. Joyce (technical eds). Fire, Fuel Treatments and Ecological Restoration: Conference proceeedings; 2002 16-18 April; Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 475 p. Available as PDF (120 KB).

Veblen, T.T., T. Kitzberger, E. Raffaele, and D.C. Lorenz (2003). Fire history and vegetation change in northern Patagonia, Argentina. Pages 259-289 in: T.T. Veblen, W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro and T.W. Swetnam (eds). Fire Regimes and Climatic Change in Temperate Ecosystems of the Western Americas. Springer-Verlag.

Young, K. R., Mark A. Blumler, Lori D. Daniels, Thomas T. Veblen, and Susy S. Ziegler (2003). Biogeography. Pages 17-31 in: C. Willmott and G. Gaile, eds. Geography in America. Second Edition.

2002

Baker, W.L., P.H. Flaherty, J.D. Lindemann, T.T. Veblen, K.S. Eisenhart, and D. Kulakowski (2002). Effect of vegetation on the impact of a severe blowdown in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 168: 63-75.

Gonzalez, M.E., T.T. Veblen, C. Donoso, and L. Valeria (2002). Tree regeneration responses in a lowland Nothofagus-dominated forest after bamboo dieback in South-Central Chile. Plant Ecology 161: 59-73.

Keane, R.E., K.C. Ryan, T.T. Veblen, C.D. Allen, J. Logan, B. Hawkes (2002). Cascading effects of fire exclusion in Rocky Mountain ecosystems: A literature review. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Report RMRS-GTR-91, 24 pp.

Keane, R.E., K.C. Ryan, T.T. Veblen, C. Allen, J. Logan, and B. Hawkes (2002). The cascading effects of fire exclusion in Rocky Mountain ecosystems. In: J. Baron, D. Fagre, and R. Hauer (eds.). Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective. Island Press.

Kulakowski, D. and T. T. Veblen (2002). Influences of fire history and topography on the pattern of a severe wind blowdown in a Colorado subalpine forest. Journal of Ecology 90(5): 806-819.

Stohlgren, T.J., T.T. Veblen, K. Kendall, W.L. Baker, A. Logan and M. Ryan. Montane and subalpine ecosystems (2002). In: J. Baron, D. Fagre, and R. Hauer (eds.). Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective. Island Press.

Veblen, T.T. (2002). Carl O. Sauer and geographical biogeography. Pages 163-182 in: K. Mathewson (ed.), Culture, Land, and Legacy: Carl O. Sauer and the Berkeley School of Geography. Geoscience and Man 37. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

Veblen, T.T. and T. Kitzberger (2002). Inter-hemispheric comparison of fire history: The Colorado Front Range, U.S.A. and the Northern Patagonian Andes, Argentina. Plant Ecology 163: 187-207.

2001

Donnegan, J.A., T.T. Veblen, and J.S. Sibold (2001). Climatic and human influences on fire history in Pike National Forest, central Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31: 1526-1539.

Kitzberger, T., T.W. Swetnam, and T.T. Veblen (2001). Inter-hemispheric synchrony of forest fires and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 10: 315-326.

Raffaele, E. and T. T. Veblen (2001). Effects of cattle grazing on early postfire regeneration of matorral in northwest Patagonia, Argentina. Natural Areas Journal 21: 243-249.

Sherriff, R.L., T.T. Veblen, and J.S. Sibold (2001). Fire history in high elevation subalpine forests in the Colorado Front Range. Ecoscience 8: 369-380.

Veblen, T.T., D. Kulakowski, K.S. Eisenhart, and W.L. Baker (2001). Subalpine forest damage from a severe windstorm in northern Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31: 2089-2097.

2000

Daniels, L.D. and T.T. Veblen (2000). ENSO effects on temperature and precipitation of the Patagonian-Andean region: Implications for biogeography. Physical Geography 21: 223-243.

Eisenhart, K. and T. T. Veblen (2000). Dendrochronological detection of spruce bark beetle outbreaks in northwestern Colorado. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 30: 1788-98.

Grau, H.R. and T.T. Veblen (2000). Rainfall variability, fire, and vegetation dynamics in subtropical montane ecosystems in northwestern Argentina. Journal of Biogeography 27:1107-1121.

Kitzberger, T., D.F. Steinaker, and T.T. Veblen (2000). Effects of climatic variability on facilitation of tree establishment in northern Patagonia. Ecology 81:1914-1924.

Veblen, T.T. (2000). Disturbance patterns in southern Rocky Mountain forests. Pages 31-54 in: R.L. Knight, F.. Smith, S.W. Buskirk, W.H. Romme and W.L. Baker (eds.). Forest Fragmentation in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Colorado University Press.

Veblen, T.T., T. Kitzberger and J. Donnegan (2000). Climatic and human influences on fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests in the Colorado Front Range. Ecological Applications 10:1178-1195.

1999

Kitzberger, T. and T.T. Veblen (1999). Fire-induced changes in northern Patagonian landscapes. Landscape Ecology 14:1-15.

Veblen, T.T., T. Kitzberger, R. Villalba, and J. Donnegan (1999). Fire history in northern Patagonia: The roles of humans and climatic variation. Ecological Monographs 69:47-67.

1998

Mast, J.N., T.T. Veblen, Y.B. Linhart (1998). Disturbance and climatic influences on age structure of ponderosa pine at the pine/grassland ecotone, Colorado Front Range. Journal of Biogeography 25:743-755.

Villalba, R. and T.T. Veblen (1998). Influences of large-scale climatic variability on episodic tree mortality at the forest-steppe ecotone in northern Patagonia. Ecology 79:2624-2640.

1997

Kitzberger, T. and T.T. Veblen (1997). Influences of humans and ENSO on fire history of Austrocedrus chilensis woodlands. Ecoscience 4: 508-520.

Kitzberger, T., T.T. Veblen and R. Villalba (1997). Climatic influences on fire regimes along a rainforest-to-xeric woodland gradient in northern Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Biogeography 24: 35-47.

Mast, J.N., T.T. Veblen, and M.E. Hodgson (1997). Tree invasion within a pine/grassland ecotone: An approach with historic aerial photography and GIS modeling. Forest Ecology and Management 93:181-194.

Rebertus, A. J., T. Kitzberger, T.T. Veblen, and L.M. Roovers (1997). Blowdown history and landscape patterns in the Andes of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Ecology 78: 678-692.

Villalba, R. and T.T. Veblen (1997). Regional patterns of tree population age structures in northern Patagonia: climatic and disturbance influences. Journal of Ecology 85:113-124.

Villalba, R. and T.T. Veblen (1997). Spatial and temporal variation in tree growth along the forest-steppe ecotone in northern Patagonia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27: 580-597.

1996

Veblen, T.T., C. Donoso, T. Kitzberger, and A.J. Rebertus (1996). Ecology of southern Chilean and Argentinean Nothofagus forests. Pages 293-353 in: T.T. Veblen, R.S. Hill, and J. Read (eds.), Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests. Yale University Press.

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