Max A. Moritz

University of California, Santa Barbara — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(141), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(38), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(36), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(33), Landslides and related hazards(32)

Publications207 total

The effectiveness of prescribed burning for protecting houses during wildfires in Australia
Fire Ecology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Towards predicting flammability of Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests: drought stress and fuel moisture are strongly linked in angiosperms but decoupled in gymnosperms
Fire Ecology·2025Open Access
Landscaping defensible space: Plant flammability testing informs recommendations to reduce community fire hazard
Landscape and Urban Planning·2025Open Access
Anthropogenic warming drives earlier wildfire season onset in California
Science Advances·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Geographic Fire Response Standards Emerging from Human–Environment Interactions
Annals of the American Association of Geographers·2025· 1 cited
Elevating survivability as the goal of community wildfire risk reduction
Cell Reports Sustainability·2025Open Access
Towards predicting flammability of Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests: drought stress and fuel moisture are strongly linked in angiosperms but decoupled in gymnosperms
2025Open Access
California plan to ban most plants within 5 feet of homes for wildfire safety overlooks some important truths about flammability
2025Open Access
Increasing vulnerability of an endemic Mediterranean-climate conifer to changing climate and fire regime
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Enhancing urban resilience in historical centers: a scenario-based approach to seismic risk and strengthening interventions
Disaster Prevention and Resilience·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Quantifying the sampling error on burn counts in Monte-Carlo wildfire simulations using Poisson and Gamma distributions
Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment·2024· 1 cited
Developing effective wildfire risk mitigation plans for the wildland urban interface
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation·2023· 20 citedOpen Access
Disturbance, Mechanisms of
Elsevier eBooks·2023· 1 cited
Quantifying the sampling error on burn counts in Monte-Carlo wildfire simulations using Poisson and Gamma distributions
Research Square (Research Square)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Live fuel moisture and water potential exhibit differing relationships with leaf‐level flammability thresholds
Functional Ecology·2023· 19 citedOpen Access
Fire Characteristics and Hydrologic Connectivity Influence Short‐Term Responses of North Temperate Lakes to Wildfire
Geophysical Research Letters·2023· 12 citedOpen Access
Tissue-Level Flammability Testing: A Review of Existing Methods and a Comparison of a Novel Hot Plate Design to an Epiradiator Design
Fire·2023· 10 citedOpen Access
The role of fire in terrestrial vertebrate richness patterns
Ecology Letters·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Data and Code for: The Role of Fire in Terrestrial Vertebrate Richness Patterns
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Data and Code for: The Role of Fire in Terrestrial Vertebrate Richness Patterns
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Meg A. Krawchuk(11), Marc‐André Parisien(9), Enric Batllori(7), Philip E. Dennison(6), Jennifer K. Balch(5), Jon E. Keeley(5), Dennis C. Odion(4), Hugh D. Safford(4), Sean A. Parks(4), David M. J. S. Bowman(3), Mark A. Cochrane(3), Carla M. D’Antonio(3), Tania Schoennagel(3), Alexandra D. Syphard(3), Katharine Hayhoe(3), Scott L. Stephens(3), Mike Flannigan(3), Dominick A. DellaSala(3), Paulo Artaxo(2), William J. Bond(2)