Hugh D. Safford

13.1k citations

138 papers · 7.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 48

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.2%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 71
- Forest ecology and management 12
Global and Planetary Change top 0.2%
- Fire effects on ecosystems 90
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 18
Ecological Modeling top 0.5%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 13
Ecology top 0.5%
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management 68
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.5%
- Landslides and related hazards 11
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Plant and animal studies 14

Co-authors: Jay Miller Susan Harrison Joshua H. Viers Zachary L. Steel Andrea E. Thode Michael A. Crimmins Solomon Z. Dobrowski Jens T. Stevens
Cited by: Nature and Landscape Conservation Global and Planetary Change Ecological Modeling
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 paper)PLoS ONE (1 paper)Ecology (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

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Hugh D. Safford

133 papers receiving 6.8k citations

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1	The hidden variable: Impacts of human decision-making on prescribed fire outcomes Journal of Environmental Management ·Rut Domènech,Marc Castellnou,Víctor Resco de Dios,David B. Sapsis,Joseph C. Restaino,Hugh D. Safford	2025	0
2	Burn to Save, or Save to Burn? Management May Be Key to Conservation of an Iconic Old-Growth Stand in California, USA Fire ·JonahMaria Weeks,P. Bryant Nagelson,Sarah M. Bisbing,Hugh D. Safford	2025	0
3	Post-fire resurveys reveal predictability of long-term conifer recruitment in severely burned California dry forests Forest Ecology and Management ·Claire M. Tortorelli,Derek J. N. Young,Matthew J. Reilly,Ramona J. Butz,Hugh D. Safford,Nina Venuti,Kevin R. Welch,Andrew M. Latimer	2024	0
4	Principles of fire ecology Fire Ecology ·Leda N. Kobziar,J. Kevin Hiers,Claire M. Belcher,William J. Bond,Carolyn A. F. Enquist,E. Louise Loudermilk,Jessica Miesel,Joseph J. O’Brien,Juli G. Pausas,Sharon M. Hood,Robert E. Keane,Penelope Morgan,Melissa R. A. Pingree,Karin L. Riley,Hugh D. Safford,Francisco Seijo,J. Morgan Varner,Tamara Wall,Adam C. Watts	2024	12
5	Thinning with follow-up burning treatments have increased effectiveness at reducing severity in California's largest wildfire Forest Ecology and Management ·Kristen L. Shive,Michelle Coppoletta,Rebecca Bewley Wayman,Alison K. Paulson,Kristen N. Wilson,John T. Abatzaglou,Saba J. Saberi,Becky L. Estes,Hugh D. Safford	2024	11
6	Climate change and California’s terrestrial biodiversity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Susan Harrison,Janet Franklin,Rebecca R. Hernandez,Makihiko Ikegami,Hugh D. Safford,James H. Thorne	2024	11
7	Assessing spatial and temporal variation in obligate resprouting, obligate seeding, and facultative seeding shrub species in California’s Mediterranean-type climate region Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ·Emma C. Underwood,Quinn M. Sorenson,Charlie Schrader-Patton,Nicole A. Molinari,Hugh D. Safford	2023	2
8	Wildfire facilitates upslope advance in a shade‐intolerant but not a shade‐tolerant conifer Ecological Applications ·Emily G. Brodie,Joseph A. E. Stewart,Sara Winsemius,Jesse E. D. Miller,Andrew M. Latimer,Hugh D. Safford	2023	3
9	Drivers of California’s changing wildfires: a state-of-the-knowledge synthesis International Journal of Wildland Fire ·Glen M. MacDonald,Tamara Wall,Carolyn A. F. Enquist,Sarah R. LeRoy,John B. Bradford,David D. Breshears,Timothy J. Brown,Daniel R. Cayan,Chunyu Dong,Donald A. Falk,Erica Fleishman,Alexander Gershunov,Molly E. Hunter,Rachel A. Loehman,Phillip J. van Mantgem,Beth Rose Middleton,Hugh D. Safford,Mark W. Schwartz,Valérie Trouet	2023	21
10	High‐severity fire drives persistent floristic homogenization in human‐altered forests Ecosphere ·JonahMaria Weeks,Jesse E. D. Miller,Zachary L. Steel,Evan Batzer,Hugh D. Safford	2023	20
11	A Brief History of the Natural Areas Movement Natural Areas Journal ·Reed F. Noss,Greg Aplet,Patrick Comer,Carolyn A. F. Enquist,Jerry F. Franklin,John L. Riley,Hugh D. Safford	2023	3
12	Overcoming obstacles to prescribed fire in the North American Mediterranean climate zone Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment ·John N. Williams,Lenya Quinn‐Davidson,Hugh D. Safford,Ashley Grupenhoff,Beth Rose Middleton,Joe Restaino,Edward B. Smith,C. Adlam,Hiram Rivera‐Huerta	2023	6
13	Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: 10 common questionsbreakdown → Ecological Applications ·Susan J. Prichard,Paul F. Hessburg,R. Keala Hagmann,Nicholas A. Povak,Solomon Z. Dobrowski,Matthew D. Hurteau,Van R. Kane,Robert E. Keane,Leda N. Kobziar,Crystal A. Kolden,Malcolm P. North,Sean A. Parks,Hugh D. Safford,Jens T. Stevens,Larissa L. Yocom,Derek J. Churchill,Robert W. Gray,David W. Huffman,Frank K. Lake,Pratima Khatri‐Chhetri	2021	209
14	Productivity modifies the effects of fire severity on understory diversity Ecology ·Emily G. Brodie,Jesse E. D. Miller,Hugh D. Safford	2021	12
15	Are plant community responses to wildfire contingent upon historical disturbance regimes? Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Jesse E. D. Miller,Hugh D. Safford	2020	43
16	Assisted gene flow in the context of large‐scale forest management in California,USA Ecosphere ·Derek J. N. Young,Thomas D. Blush,Michael J. Landram,Jessica W. Wright,Andrew M. Latimer,Hugh D. Safford	2020	28
17	Altered fire regimes cause long‐term lichen diversity losses Global Change Biology ·Jesse E. D. Miller,Heather T. Root,Hugh D. Safford	2018	28
18	The changing landscape of wildfire: burn pattern trends and implications for California’s yellow pine and mixed conifer forests Landscape Ecology ·Zachary L. Steel,Michael J. Koontz,Hugh D. Safford	2018	78
19	Fire severity alters the distribution of pyrogenic carbon stocks across ecosystem pools in a Californian mixed‐conifer forest Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Bernardo Maestrini,Erin C. Alvey,Matthew D. Hurteau,Hugh D. Safford,Jessica Miesel	2017	27
20	Quantitative Evidence for Increasing Forest Fire Severity in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade Mountains, California and Nevada, USAbreakdown → Ecosystems ·Jay Miller,Hugh D. Safford,Michael A. Crimmins,Andrea E. Thode	2008	601

About Hugh D. Safford

Hugh D. Safford is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, having authored 138 papers that have together received 7.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fire effects on ecosystems (90 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (71 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (68 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers), Plant and animal studies (14 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers), Forest ecology and management (12 papers) and Landslides and related hazards (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (3.1k citations), Global and Planetary Change (5.0k citations) and Ecological Modeling (795 citations). Hugh D. Safford has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Jay Miller, Susan Harrison, Joshua H. Viers, Zachary L. Steel, Andrea E. Thode, Michael A. Crimmins, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Jens T. Stevens, Andrew M. Latimer and James H. Thorne. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

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