Hart, S. J., O. Santiago, J. D. Carrell, and T. T. Veblen. 2025. Drought may initiate western spruce budworm outbreaks, but multi-year periods of increased moisture availability promote widespread defoliation. Forest Ecology and Management 594, 122932.
Buonanduci, M., S. J. Hart, P. C. Tobin, and B. J. Harvey. 2025. Patterns and drivers of biotic disturbance hotspots in western United States coniferous forests. Ecography, e07680.
Tutland, N. J., O. Santiago, T. R. Heydman, K. C. Rodman, and S. J. Hart. 2025. Disturbance history has limited influence on subalpine fir decline. Forest Ecology and Management 585, 122622.
Rodman, K. C., P. J. Fornwalt, Z. A. Holden, J. E. Crouse, K. T. Davis, L. A. E. Marshall, M. T. Stoddard, R. A. Andrus, M. E. Chambers, T. B. Chapman, S. J. Hart, E. L. Jungck, C. A. Scholegel, and C. S. Stevens-Rumann. 2024. Green is the New Black: Outcomes of Post-Fire Tree Planting Across the US Interior West, Forest Ecology and Management, 574:122358, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122358.
Howe, M., S. J. Hart, and A. M. Trowbridge. 2024. Budworms, beetles, and wildfire: Disturbance interactions influence the likelihood of insect-caused disturbances at a subcontinental scale, Journal of Ecology, 112:2567-2584, doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.14408.
X. Walker, S. J. Hart, W. Hansen, M. Jean, C. Brown, T. Chapin, R. Hewitt, T. Hollingsworth, M. Mack, K. Spellman, J. Johnstone. 2024. Factors limiting the potential range expansion of lodgepole pine in Interior Alaska. Ecological Applications, doi:10.1002/eap.2983.
Cook, M., T. B. Chapman, S. J. Hart, A. Paudel, and J. Balch. 2024. Mapping Quaking Aspen Using Seasonal Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Composite Imagery across the Southern Rockies, USA. Remote Sensing 16(9), doi: 10.3390/rs16091619.
Tutland, N. J., K. C. Rodman, R. A. Andrus, and S. J. Hart. 2023. Overlapping outbreaks of multiple bark beetle species are rarely more severe than single-species outbreaks. Ecosphere 14, doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4478.
Harvey, B. J., S. J. Hart, P. C. Tobin, T. T. Veblen, D. C. Donato, M. S. Buonanduci, A. Pane, H. Stanke, and K. C. Rodman. 2023. Emergent hotspots of biotic disturbances and their consequences for forest resilience. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 21:388-396, doi: 10.1002/fee.2659.
Rodman, K. C., R. A. Andrus, A. R. Carlson, T. A. Carter, T. B. Chapman, J. D. Coop, P. J. Fornwalt, N. S. Gill, B. J. Harvey, A. E. Hoffman, K. C. Kelsey, D. Kulakowski, D. C. Laughlin, J. E. Morris, J. F. Negrón, K. M. Nigro, G. S. Pappas, M. D. Redmond, C. C. Rhoades, M. E. Rocca, Z. H. Schapira, J. S. Sibold, C. S. Stevens-Rumann, T. T. Veblen, J. Wang, X. Zhang, and S. J. Hart. 2022. Rocky Mountain forests are poised to recover following bark beetle outbreaks, but with altered composition. Journal of Ecology 00:1-21, doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13999.
Cole, H. M., R. A. Andrus, C. Butkiewicz, K. C. Rodman, O. Santiago, N. J. Tutland, A. Waupochick, and S. J. Hart. 2022. Outbreaks of Douglas-fir beetle follow western spruce budworm defoliation in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA. Forests 13:371.
Wion, A. P., D. D. Breshears, C. J. W. Carroll, N. S. Cobb, S. J. Hart, D. J. Law, N. Meneses, and M. D. Redmond. 2022. Dead again: predictions of repeat tree die-off under hotter droughts confirm mortality thresholds for a dryland conifer species. Environmental Research Letters 17:074031.
Jaime, L., S. J. Hart, F. Lloret, T. T. Veblen, R. Andrus, K. Rodman, and E. Batllori. 2022. Species climatic suitability explains insect–host dynamics in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA. Ecosystems 25:91–104.
Rodman, K. C., R. A. Andrus, C. L. Butkiewicz, T. B. Chapman, N. S. Gill, B. J. Harvey, D. Kulakowski, N. J. Tutland, T. T. Veblen, and S. J. Hart. 2021. Effects of bark beetle outbreaks on forest landscape pattern in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. Remote Sensing 13:1089.
Rodman, K. C., R. A. Andrus, T. T. Veblen, and S. J. Hart. 2021. Disturbance detection in Landsat time series is influenced by tree mortality agent and severity, not by prior disturbance. Remote Sensing of Environment 254:112244.
Buřivalová, Z., S. J. Hart, V. C. Radeloff, and U. Srinivasan. 2021. Early warning sign of forest loss in protected areas. Current Biology.
Greuel, R. J., G. É. Degré-Timmons, J. L. Baltzer, J. F. Johnstone, E. J. B. McIntire, N. J. Day, S. J. Hart, P. D. McLoughlin, F. K. A. Schmiegelow, M. R. Turetsky, A. Truchon-Savard, M. D. van Telgen, and S. G. Cumming. 2021. Predicting patterns of terrestrial lichen biomass recovery following boreal wildfires. Ecosphere 12:e03481.
Ye, S., J. Rogan, Z. Zhu, T. J. Hawbaker, S. J. Hart, R. A. Andrus, A. J. H. Meddens, J. A. Hicke, J. R. Eastman, and D. Kulakowski. 2021. Detecting subtle change from dense Landsat time series: Case studies of mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle disturbance. Remote Sensing of Environment 263:112560.
Andrus, R. A., S. J. Hart, N. Tutland, and T. T. Veblen. 2021. Future dominance by quaking aspen expected following short-interval, compounded disturbance interaction. Ecosphere 12:e03345.
Hart, S. J., and D. L. Preston. 2020. Fire weather drives daily area burned and observations of fire behavior in mountain pine beetle affected landscapes. Environmental Research Letters 15:054007.
Andrus, R. A., S. J. Hart, and T. T. Veblen. 2020. Forest recovery following synchronous outbreaks of spruce and western balsam bark beetle is slowed by ungulate browsing. Ecology 101:e02998.
Hart, S.J., J. Henkelman, P.D. McLoughlin, S.E. Nielsen, A. Truchon-Savard, and J.F. Johnstone. 2019. Examining forest resilience to changing fire frequency in a fire-prone region of boreal forest. Global Change Biology 25:869-884.
Sommerfeld, A., C. Senf, B. Buma, A. W. D’Amato, T. Després, I. Díaz-Hormazábal, S. Fraver, L. E. Frelich, Á. G. Gutiérrez, S. J. Hart, B. J. Harvey, H. S. He, T. Hlásny, A. Holz, T. Kitzberger, D. Kulakowski, D. Lindenmayer, A. S. Mori, J. Müller, J. Paritsis, G. L. W. Perry, S. L. Stephens, M. Svoboda, M. G. Turner, T. T. Veblen, and R. Seidl. 2018. Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome. Nature Communications 9:4355.
Holz, A., S.J. Hart, G.J. Williamson, T.T. Veblen, and J.C. Aravena. 2018. Latitudinal patterns in tree radial growth and vegetation productivity as bioindicators of ecosystem response to recent warming in southern South America. Journal of Biogeography 45:1140-1152.
Andrus, R.A., B.J. Harvey, K. Rodman, S.J. Hart, and T.T. Veblen. 2018. Moisture availability limits subalpine tree establishment. Ecology 99:657-575.
Hart, S.J., T.T. Veblen, D. Schenider, and N.P. Molotch. 2017. Summer and winter drought drive the initiation and spread of spruce beetle outbreak. Ecology 98:2698-2707.
Andrus, R. A., T. T. Veblen, B. J. Harvey, B.J., and S. J. Hart. 2016. Fire severity unaffected by spruce beetle outbreak in spruce-fir forests in southwestern Colorado. Ecological Applications 25:700-711.
Preston, D. L., N. Caine, D. M. McKnight, M. W. Williams, K. Hell, M. P. Miller, S. J. Hart, and P. T. J. Johnson. 2016. Climate regulates alpine lake ice cover phenology and aquatic ecosystem structure. Geophysical Research Letters 43:5353-5360.
Temperli, C., T. T. Veblen, S. J. Hart, D. Kulakowski and A. J. Tepley. 2015. Interactions among spruce beetle disturbance, climate change and forest dynamics captured by a forest landscape model. Ecosphere 6:1-20
Hart, S.J., T. Schoennegal, T. T. Veblen, and T. B. Chapman. 2015. Area burned in the western United States is not influenced by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks. 2015. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 112:4375-4380.
Hart, S.J., and T. T. Veblen. 2015. Detection of spruce beetle-induced tree mortality using high- and medium-resolution remotely sensed imagery. 2015. Remote Sensing of Environment 168:134-145.
Hart, S.J., T. T. Veblen, N. Mietkiewicz and D. Kulakowski. 2015. Negative feedbacks on bark beetle outbreaks: widespread severe spruce beetle outbreak may restrict future outbreak. PloS One 10:e0127975.
Hart, S.J., T. T. Veblen and D. Kulakowski. 2014. Do tree and stand-level attributes determine susceptibility of spruce-fir forests to spruce beetle outbreaks? Forest Ecology and Management 318:44-53.
Temperli, C., Hart, S.J., T. T. Veblen, D. Kulakowski, J. J. Hicks, and R. Andrus. 2014. Are density reduction treatments effective at managing for resistance or resilience to spruce beetle disturbance in the southern Rocky Mountains? Forest Ecology and Management 334:53-63.
Hart, S. J., T. T. Veblen, E. Eisenhart, D. Jarvis, and D. Kulakowski. 2014. Drought limits spruce beetle outbreaks. Ecology 4:930-939.
Hart, S. J. and C. P. Laroque. 2013. Searching for thresholds in the dendroclimatic response of subalpine fir and Engelmann spruce. Dendrochronologia 31:9-15.
Anderson, F., J. Brunt, R. Cameron, B. Caverhill, D. Clapp, H. Clapp, B. Coulthard, S. J. Hart, L. Helmer, S. Hubley, D. Hulburt, T. Imlay, R. Jameson, P. Kidd, C. P. Laroque, R. Marotte, K. Marshall, S. C. Mitchell, T. Neily, K. Nickerson, N. O’Neill, B. E. Phillips, C. Pross, G. Proulx, L. Proulx, C. Reardon, J. Todd, and J. Towers. 2012. Bioblitz of the Lake Rossignol Wilderness Area. Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science 47:33–57.
Smith, J. M., S. J. Hart, T. B. Chapman, T. T. Veblen, and T. Schoennagel. 2012. Dendroecological reconstruction of 1980s mountain pine beetle outbreak in lodgepole pine forests in northwestern Colorado. Ecoscience 19:113–126.
Hart, S. J., D. J. Smith, and J. J. Clague. 2010. A multi-species dendroclimatic reconstruction of Chilko River streamflow, British Columbia, Canada. Hydrological processes 24:2752–2761.
Hart, S. J., J. J. Clague, and D. J. Smith. 2010. Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of Little Ice Age paraglacial activity in the vicinity of the Homathko Icefield, British Columbia Coast Mountains, Canada. Geomorphology 121:197–205.
Harvey, B. J., S. J. Hart, and C. A. Cansler. 2021. The disturbance regime concept. The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology. Routledge.