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Thomas W. Swetnam

University of Arizona · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Atmospheric Science
Research interest
Research interests include Geography, Fire regime, Ecology, Environmental science, Climate change, and Precipitation.
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citations
4,813
works
29
NIH funding
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Recent publications

Increasing Hydroclimatic Whiplash Can Amplify Wildfire Risk in a Warming Climate
Global Change Biology 2025cited by 26position: middledoi
The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network
Ecosphere 2022cited by 67position: middledoi
Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE
Science Advances 2022cited by 50position: middledoi
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
Ecological Applications 2021cited by 378position: middledoi
Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021cited by 133position: middledoi
Fire Suppression Impacts on Fuels and Fire Intensity in the Western U.S.: Insights from Archaeological Luminescence Dating in Northern New Mexico
Fire 2020cited by 33position: middledoi
Widespread fire years in the US–Mexico Sky Islands are contingent on both winter and monsoon precipitation
International Journal of Wildland Fire 2020cited by 16position: lastdoi
Spatiotemporal variability of human–fire interactions on the Navajo Nation
Ecosphere 2019cited by 37position: lastdoi
Human Fire Legacies on Ecological Landscapes
Frontiers in Earth Science 2018cited by 23position: middledoi
Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America
PLoS ONE 2017cited by 182position: lastdoi
Long-Term Persistence and Fire Resilience of Oak Shrubfields in Dry Conifer Forests of Northern New Mexico
Ecosystems 2017cited by 119position: lastdoi
Drought, multi-seasonal climate, and wildfire in northern New Mexico
Climatic Change 2017cited by 43position: lastdoi
Native American depopulation, reforestation, and fire regimes in the Southwest United States, 1492–1900 CE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016cited by 155position: lastdoi
Multiscale perspectives of fire, climate and humans in western North America and the Jemez Mountains, USA
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2016cited by 122position: firstdoi
Average Stand Age from Forest Inventory Plots Does Not Describe Historical Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America
PLoS ONE 2016cited by 66position: middledoi
Disturbance and productivity interactions mediate stability of forest composition and structure
Ecological Applications 2016cited by 43position: middledoi
Eleventh-century shift in timber procurement areas for the great houses of Chaco Canyon
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015cited by 61position: middledoi
Local-scale and regional climate controls on historical fire regimes in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Forest Ecology and Management 2015cited by 22position: middledoi
Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States
International Journal of Wildland Fire 2014cited by 161position: middledoi
Fire severity, size, and climate associations diverge from historical precedent along an ecological gradient in the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona, USA
Forest Ecology and Management 2014cited by 130position: lastdoi
Causes and Implications of Extreme Atmospheric Moisture Demand during the Record-Breaking 2011 Wildfire Season in the Southwestern United States
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2014cited by 115position: middledoi
Pyrogeography, historical ecology, and the human dimensions of fire regimes
Journal of Biogeography 2014cited by 66position: lastdoi
Post-fire forest dynamics and climate variability affect spatial and temporal properties of spruce beetle outbreaks on a Sky Island mountain range
Forest Ecology and Management 2014cited by 34position: lastdoi
Managing Forests and Fire in Changing Climates
Science 2013cited by 463position: middledoi
Unsupported inferences of high‐severity fire in historical dry forests of the western <scp>U</scp>nited <scp>S</scp>tates: response to <scp>W</scp>illiams and <scp>B</scp>aker
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2013cited by 86position: middledoi
A comparison of targeted and systematic fire-scar sampling for estimating historical fire frequency in south-western ponderosa pine forests
International Journal of Wildland Fire 2013cited by 57position: lastdoi
Historical fire–climate relationships of upper elevation fire regimes in the south-western United States
International Journal of Wildland Fire 2013cited by 40position: lastdoi
Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality
Nature Climate Change 2012cited by 1,971position: middledoi
Is drought the main decline factor at the rear edge of Europe? The case of southern Iberian pine plantations
Forest Ecology and Management 2012cited by 114position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

Donald A. Falk · University of Arizona11 papers (2013–2020)Ellis Q. Margolis · University of Arizona7 papers (2013–2022) · 6 papers (2014–2022)Craig D. Allen · University of Nebraska–Lincoln5 papers (2012–2019)Christopher H. Guiterman · University of Arizona5 papers (2015–2022) · 5 papers (2013–2022)Christopher D. O’Connor · University of Arizona4 papers (2014–2022)Calvin A. Farris · University of Arizona4 papers (2013–2022) · 4 papers (2016–2021)Ann M. Lynch · University of Arizona3 papers (2014–2016)Christopher H. Baisan · University of Arizona3 papers (2013–2019)Richard Seager · Dartmouth College3 papers (2012–2014)Joshua Farella · University of Arizona3 papers (2016–2021)Nate G. McDowell · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory3 papers (2012–2014)Max Berkelhammer · University of Colorado Boulder2 papers (2014–2014) · 2 papers (2014–2014) · 2 papers (2014–2014)Jeffrey Dean · University of Arizona2 papers (2012–2015)Scott L. Stephens · University of California, Berkeley2 papers (2013–2013)Michael A. Crimmins · University of Arizona2 papers (2014–2014)