Publications

  • Turner MG, Smithwick EAH, Tinker DB, and Romme WH. 2009. Variation in foliar nitrogen and aboveground net primary production in young postfire lodgepole pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere 39:1024-1035.
  • Smithwick EAH, Kashian DM, Ryan MG, and Turner MG. 2009. Long-Term Nitrogen Storage and Soil Nitrogen Availability in Post-Fire Lodgepole Pine Ecosystems. Ecosystems 12:792-806.
  • Smithwick EAH, Ryan MG, Kashian DM, Romme WH, Tinker DB, and Turner MG. 2009. Modeling the effects of fire and climate change on carbon and nitrogen storage in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stands, Global Change Biology 15:535-548.
  • Schoennagel T, Turner MG, and Smithwick EAH. 2008. Landscape heterogeneity following large fires: insights from Yellowstone National Park, USA, International Journal of Wildland Fire, in press.
  • Metzger KL, Smithwick EAH, Tinker DB, Romme WH, Balser TC, and Turner MG. 2008. Influence of coarse wood and pine saplings on nitrogen mineralization and microbial communities in young post-fire Pinus contorta. Forest Ecology and Management 256:59-67.
  • Turner, MG, Smithwick EAH, Metzger KL, Tinker DB, and Romme WH. 2007. Inorganic nitrogen availability following severe stand-replacing fire in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, inaugural paper, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104 (12): 4782-4789.
  • Smithwick EAH. 2006. Editorial: Role of microbial communities in mediating ecosystem response to disturbance, Special Issue in Plant and Soil 289:1-3
  • Smithwick EAH.  2006. Gentle introduction to complexity on landscapes.  Book Review for Ecology 87(11):2954-2955
  • Smithwick EAH, Harmon ME, Domingo JB. 2006. Changing temporal patterns of forest carbon stores and net ecosystem carbon balance: The stand to landscape transformation, Landscape Ecology 22(1): 77-94. 
  • Smithwick EAH, Mack MC, Turner MG, Chapin III FS, Zhu J, Balser TC. 2005. Spatial heterogeneity and soil nitrogen dynamics after severe fire in a black spruce (Picea mariana) forest, Alaska: Distinct controls at different scales. Biogeochemistry 76: 517-537 
  • Smithwick EAH, Turner MG, Mack MC, Chapin III, FS. 2005. Post-fire soil nitrogen cycling in northern conifer landscapes affected by severe, stand-replacing fires.  Ecosystems 8: 163-181
  • Smithwick EAH, Turner MG, Metzger KL, Balser TC. 2005. Variation in NH4+ mineralization and microbial communities with stand age in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests, Yellowstone National Park (USA). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37: 1546-1559
  • Homann PS, Harmon ME, Remillard SM, Smithwick EAH.  2005. What the soil reveals: Maximum ecosystem C stores of the Pacific Northwest region, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 220: 270-283
  • Miller JM, Turner MG, Smithwick EAH, Dent LC, Stanley EH. 2004. Extrapolation: the science of predicting ecological patterns and processes. Bioscience 54(4): 310-320
  • Smithwick EAH, Harmon ME, Domingo JB. 2003. Modeling multi-scale effects of light limitations and edge-induced mortality on carbon stores in forest landscapes. Landscape Ecology 18(7): 701-721
  • Korontzi S, Ward DE, Susott RA, Yokelson RJ, Justice CO, Hobbs PV, Smithwick EAH, Hao WM.  2003. Seasonal variation and ecosystem dependence of emission factors for selected trace gases and PM2.5 for southern African savanna fires. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D24), 4758
  • Smithwick EAH, Harmon ME, Acker SA, Remillard SM. 2002. Potential upper bounds of carbon stores in the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Applications 12(5): 1303-1317
  • Hoffa EA, Ward DE, Hao WM, Susott RA, Wakimoto RH. 1999. Seasonality of carbon emissions from biomass burning in a Zambian savanna. Journal of Geophysical Research 104: 13,841 – 13,853.

Meeting Abstracts

  • Smithwick EAH, Ryan MG, Kashian DM, Romme WH, Tinker DB, and Turner MG. Post-fire spatial and temporal complexity in Yellowstone: what does it mean for climate change forecasts? International Association of Wildland Fire, The '88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond, Jackson Hole, WY, September 22-27, 2008
  • Smithwick EAH, Kashian DM, Ryan MG, Turner MG. Broad-scale patterns of ecosystem nitrogen stocks and soil nitrogen availability in post-fire lodgepole pine ecosystems. Ecological Society of America 2008 Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, August 2008.
  • Smithwick EAH, Ryan M, Kashian DM, Romme WH, Tinker DB, Turner MG. Modeling the effects of changing climate and fire regimes on productivity, carbon storage and nitrogen fluxes in lodgepole pine forest stands, 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, San Diego CA, November 2006.
  • Smithwick EAH. Understanding post-fire spatial and temporal heterogeneity in microbial community composition using a landscape approach. Ecological Society of America 2005 Meeting, Montreal Canada, August 2005.
  • Smithwick EAH, Mack MC, Turner MG, Chapin III FS, Zhu J, Balser TC. Spatial heterogeneity of ecosystem processes after severe fire in a black spruce (P. mariana) forest, Alaska (USA). Ecological Society of America 2004 Meeting, Portland OR, August 2004.
  • Smithwick EAH, Turner MG, Metzger KL, Balser TC. 2003.  Variation in gross nitrogen mineralization and microbial communities along a chronosequence of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stands, Yellowstone National Park.  American Geophysical Union 2003 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2003.
  • Smithwick EAH, Harmon ME. Potential upper bounds of carbon storage in forests of the Pacific Northwest, International USA/Russia Carbon Symposium, Corvallis, OR, March 2001.
  • Hoffa EA, Harmon ME, Domingo JB. Landscape-scale carbon storage as a function of disturbance regimes: Results of a new modeling strategy, American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, December 2000.
  • Hoffa EA, Harmon ME. Theoretical evaluation of scaling issues in carbon flux studies, Poster, H.J. Andrews LTER Symposium, Corvallis, OR, February 2000.
  • Hoffa EA. Estimating potential carbon storage for different management regimes: Integration of space and time, Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Newport, OR, May 2000.
  • Hoffa EA, Harmon ME, Remillard SM, Acker SA. Potential upper bounds of carbon stores in the Pacific Northwest, Poster, Ecological Society of America, Spokane, WA, August 1999.
  • Hoffa EA, Harmon ME.  Carbon cycling on the edge, Ecological Society of America, Snowbird, UT, August 2000.
  • Hoffa EA, Harmon ME. Modeling potential carbon storage at the landscape scale incorporating disturbance, LTER Science Hour, December, 1999.