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Craig D. Allen

University of Nebraska–Lincoln · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Atmospheric Science
Research interest
Research interests include Fire effects on ecosystems, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, and Forest ecology and management.
h-index
71
citations
44,100
works
261
NIH funding
primary concept
Ecosystem
email

Recent publications

Transformative capacity of social-ecological systems
Ecology and Society 2026cited by 5position: lastdoi
Author Correction: Droughts preceding tree mortality events have increased in duration and intensity, especially in dry biomes.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Tree Mortality in Boreal Primary Forests is Sensitive to Climate and Stand Structure: High-Resolution Evidence Across a Gradient of Protected Landscapes
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events
Nature Plants 2025cited by 22position: middledoi
Droughts preceding tree mortality events have increased in duration and intensity, especially in dry biomes.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Satellite-based evidence of recent decline in global forest recovery rate from tree mortality events.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Effects of Niche Marginality on Hotter‐Drought Tree Mortality in Angiosperms and Gymnosperms
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024cited by 104position: lastdoi
Climate-induced tree-mortality pulses are obscured by broad-scale and long-term greening.
2024cited by 18position: contributordoi
Modeling bark thickness and probability of trunk cavity occurrence relative to tree size in Araucaria angustifolia trees
Trees 2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Increased hydraulic risk in assemblages of woody plant species predicts spatial patterns of drought-induced mortality.
2023cited by 17position: contributordoi
Exploring the impacts of unprecedented climate extremes on forest ecosystems: hypotheses to guide modeling and experimental studies
Biogeosciences 2023cited by 9position: contributordoi
Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth’s forests
Nature Communications 2022cited by 612position: lastdoi
Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2022cited by 560position: middledoi
Global field observations of tree die-off reveal hotter-drought fingerprint for Earth's forests.
2022cited by 179position: contributordoi
The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network
Ecosphere 2022cited by 67position: middledoi
Tree mortality in a warming world: causes, patterns, and implications
Environmental Research Letters 2022cited by 35position: contributordoi
Nature-based framework for sustainable afforestation in global drylands under changing climate.
2022cited by 22position: contributordoi
Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests.
2022cited by 22position: contributordoi
Drought years promote bark beetle outbreaks in Mexican forests of Abies religiosa and Pinus pseudostrobus
Forest Ecology and Management 2022cited by 18position: contributordoi
Field-based tree mortality constraint reduces estimates of model-projected forest carbon sinks.
2022cited by 9position: contributordoi
Old‐growth structural attributes associated with the last giant subtropical conifers in South America
2022cited by 2position: contributordoi
Exploring the impacts of unprecedented climate extremes on forest ecosystems: hypotheses to guide modeling and experimental studies
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Supplementary material to "Exploring the impacts of unprecedented climate extremes on forest ecosystems: hypotheses to guide modeling and experimental studies"
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Valleys of fire: historical fire regimes of forest-grassland ecotones across the montane landscape of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, USA
Landscape Ecology 2021cited by 20position: contributordoi
Precipitation Gradient Drives Divergent Relationship between Non-Structural Carbohydrates and Water Availability in Pinus tabulaeformis of Northern China
Forests 2021cited by 15position: contributordoi
Extreme Events Trigger Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystem Collapses in the Southwestern USA and Southwestern Australia
Ecological studies 2021cited by 11position: lastdoi
Mortality predispositions of conifers across western USA.
2021cited by 10position: contributordoi
Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world
Science 2020cited by 1,272position: middledoi
Forest Management Under Megadrought: Urgent Needs at Finer Scale and Higher Intensity
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2020cited by 29position: lastdoi

Grants

DISES-RCN: Resilience in agricultural socio-environmental systems
NSF2109082$403,0202021–2026PIRePORTER
RII Track-2 FEC: Resilience Informatics for the Convergence of Critical Capacities to Address Regional-scale Environmental Change
NSF1920938$3,953,2652019–2024PIRePORTER
Convergence NNA: Adaptive Capacity and Resilience in the New Arctic: Identifying Pathways to Equitable, Desirable Outcomes for People and Nature Through Convergence
NSF1744417$99,8642018–2019PIRePORTER
NRT-INFEWS: Training in Theory and Application of Cross-scale Resilience in Agriculturally Dominated Social Ecological Systems
NSF1735362$2,998,8862017–2023PIRePORTER
IGERT--Resilience and Adaptive Governance in Stressed Watersheds
NSF0903469$3,116,1732009–2015PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 20 papers (2021–2026)David D. Breshears · University of Arizona8 papers (2015–2022)Nate G. McDowell · Pacific Northwest National Laboratory7 papers (2012–2020)William M. Hammond · University of Tennessee Health Science Center6 papers (2022–2026)Thomas W. Swetnam · University of Arizona5 papers (2012–2019)Donald A. Falk · University of Arizona4 papers (2013–2019)Chonggang Xu · Los Alamos National Laboratory4 papers (2014–2020)William R. L. Anderegg · University of Utah4 papers (2015–2018)Charlotte Grossiord · École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile3 papers (2019–2020)Nathan L. Stephenson · United States Geological Survey3 papers (2015–2020)Jason P. Field · University of Arizona3 papers (2018–2021)Anja Rammig · Technical University of Munich3 papers (2022–2023)Jeremy W. Lichstein · Princeton University3 papers (2022–2023)Jennifer Holm · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory3 papers (2022–2023)Jeffrey S. Dukes · Stanford University3 papers (2022–2023)Klaus Steenberg Larsen · Danish Geodata Agency3 papers (2022–2023)David Medvigy · University of California, Santa Barbara3 papers (2022–2023)Yiqi Luo · Cornell University3 papers (2022–2023)Benjamin Smith · Addenbrooke's Hospital3 papers (2022–2023)Xiangtao Xu · Cornell University3 papers (2022–2023)