Donald A. Falk

University of Arizona — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

43h-index8.4kcitations159works7.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Fire effects on ecosystems(100), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(46), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(36), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(36), Tree-ring climate responses(25)

Publications158 total

Repeated fire and extended drought influence forest resilience in Arizona Sky Islands
Fire Ecology·2025Open Access
A horizon scan to inform research priorities on post-wildfire forest restoration and recovery in the western United States
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Quantifying Forest Structural and Functional Responses to Fire Severity Using Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Data
Geographies·2025Open Access
Dendrochronology and Isotope Chronology of Juglans neotropica and Its Response to El Niño-Related Rainfall Events in Tropical Highlands of Piura, Northern Peru
Plants·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned
Nature Communications·2025· 39 citedOpen Access
Soil biogeochemical and hydraulic property response to wildfire across forested ecosystems of the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, USA
CATENA·2025· 3 cited
Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880)
Global Ecology and Biogeography·2025· 4 citedOpen Access
Examining the Impacts of Pre-Fire Forest Conditions on Burn Severity Using Multiple Remote Sensing Platforms
Remote Sensing·2024· 12 citedOpen Access
Mortality thresholds of juvenile trees to drought and heatwaves: implications for forest regeneration across a landscape gradient
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Repeated Fire and Extended Drought Influence Forest Resilience in Arizona Sky Islands
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis
International Journal of Wildland Fire·2023· 40 citedOpen Access
Traversing the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: A Least Cost Path Analysis
Human Ecology·2023· 3 cited
WILDFIRES EFFECTS ON SOIL PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES IN THE SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINS, ARIZONA, USA
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America·2023
The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network
Ecosphere·2022· 60 citedOpen Access
Vegetation type conversion in the US Southwest: frontline observations and management responses
Fire Ecology·2022· 81 citedOpen Access
<i>To the Last Smoke: An Anthology</i>. By Stephen J. Pyne. Tucson (Arizona): University of Arizona Press. $29.95 (paper). x + 436 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-8165-4012-9. 2020.
The Quarterly Review of Biology·2022
Mechanisms of forest resilience
Forest Ecology and Management·2022· 212 cited
Growth rings across the Tree of Life: demographic insights from biogenic time series data
2021· 3 cited
The intervention continuum in restoration ecology: rethinking the active–passive dichotomy
Restoration Ecology·2021· 152 citedOpen Access
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition, and fire regimes of western North American forests
Ecological Applications·2021· 356 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Thomas W. Swetnam(15), Peter Z. Fulé(9), Donald McKenzie(7), Craig D. Allen(6), Peter M. Brown(6), Calvin A. Farris(6), Ellis Q. Margolis(5), Alan H. Taylor(5), Carol Miller(5), Malcolm P. North(4), Robert E. Keane(4), Scott L. Stephens(4), Hugh D. Safford(4), Christopher H. Guiterman(4), Christopher D. O’Connor(4), Jonathan D. Coop(3), Alan J. Tepley(3), R. Keala Hagmann(3), Jens T. Stevens(3), Larissa L. Yocom(3)