Thomas W. Swetnam

University of Arizona — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

61h-index28.3kcitations189works10.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(128), Tree-ring climate responses(97), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(66), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(37), Landslides and related hazards(30)

Publications189 total

Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Increasing Hydroclimatic Whiplash Can Amplify Wildfire Risk in a Warming Climate
Global Change Biology·2025· 19 citedOpen Access
Indigenous Land Use and Fire Resilience of Southwest USA Ponderosa Pine Forests
2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Indigenous fire management and cross-scale fire-climate relationships in the Southwest United States from 1500 to 1900 CE
Science Advances·2022· 46 citedOpen Access
The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network
Ecosphere·2022· 60 citedOpen Access
The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia
Environmental Research Letters·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
Ecological Applications·2021· 356 citedOpen Access
Native American fire management at an ancient wildland–urban interface in the Southwest United States
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021· 126 citedOpen Access
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·2021· 21 cited
Fire and climate in the eastern Siberia over the past 500 years (1500-2010 CE)
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts·2020
Widespread fire years in the US–Mexico Sky Islands are contingent on both winter and monsoon precipitation
International Journal of Wildland Fire·2020· 16 citedOpen Access
Fire Suppression Impacts on Fuels and Fire Intensity in the Western U.S.: Insights from Archaeological Luminescence Dating in Northern New Mexico
Fire·2020· 31 citedOpen Access
Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
American Antiquity·2020· 10 citedOpen Access
Spatiotemporal variability of human–fire interactions on the Navajo Nation
Ecosphere·2019· 35 citedOpen Access
Movin’ on Up: Insights into Habitations on the Slopes of Cañon de San Diego, New Mexico
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology·2019
Human Fire Legacies on Ecological Landscapes
Frontiers in Earth Science·2018· 23 citedOpen Access
Age-related climate sensitivity in Pinus Edulis at Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, USA
Dendrochronologia·2018· 4 cited
Direct and indirect climate controls predict heterogeneous early-mid 21st century wildfire burned area across western and boreal North America
PLoS ONE·2017· 177 citedOpen Access
Fire History of Rhyolite Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument
UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona)·2017· 27 cited
Interactions of Fire Regimes and Land Use in the Central Rio Grande Valley
Europe PMC (PubMed Central)·2017· 37 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Craig D. Allen(10), Donald A. Falk(8), Peter M. Brown(6), Christopher I. Roos(5), Christopher H. Baisan(5), Park Williams(4), Julio L. Betancourt(4), A. L. Westerling(3), Jon E. Keeley(3), Meg A. Krawchuk(3), Alison K. Macalady(3), Richard Seager(3), Nate G. McDowell(3), Penelope Morgan(3), Peter Z. Fulé(3), Ann M. Lynch(3), Thomas Kitzberger(3), Thomas T. Veblen(3), Matthew Liebmann(3), Joshua Farella(3)