Devereux, K.D., Rother, M.T., Hawkes, A.D., Bresnahan, P.J., Reide, C. and Shew, R.D. (in-press). Tree-ring and sediment analyses reveal processes of bald cypress ghost forest formation from dredging in the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, USA. Ecology and Evolution.
Dixon, C.M., Robertson, K.M., and M.T. Rother (2024). Responses of plant species to mechanical soil disturbance in fire-dependent communities of the North American Coastal Plain: A Synthesis. Forest Ecology and Management, 565, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.122018
Zampieri. N.Z., Pau, S., and M.T. Rother (2024). Assessing the strength of climate-growth relationships in Florida longleaf pine using seasonwood measurements. Dendrochronologia. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126209
Dixon, C.M., Robertson, K.M., Reid, A.M., and M.T. Rother (2024). Mechanical soil disturbance in a pine savanna has multi-year effects on plant species composition. Ecosphere, 145(2), 1-12. Journal Impact Factor (2021): 3.593. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4759.
Bigelow, S.W., Rollosson, A., Vogel, J., Whelan, A.W., and M.T. Rother (2023). Hardwoods influence effect of climate and intraspecific competition on growth of woodland longleaf pine trees. Ecosphere, 14(2), 1–16. Journal Impact Factor (2021): 3.593. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4482
Davis, K. T., et al., including M.T. Rother (2023). Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(11), 1–9. Journal Impact Factor (2021): 12.779.
Harley, G. L., et al., including M.T. Rother. (2023). The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. dendrochronological data. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 47(4): 1–9. Journal Impact Factor (2021): 4.283.
Hutsler, T., Pricope, N.G., Gao, P., and M.T. Rother (2023). Detecting woody plants in southern Arizona using data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Remote Sensing, 15(1), 1–24. Journal Impact Factor (2021): 5.349. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15010098
Rother, M.T., Patterson, T.W., Knapp, P.A., Mitchell, T.J., and N. Allen (2022). A tree-ring record of historical fire activity in a piedmont longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) woodland in North Carolina, USA. Fire Ecology, 18(1), 1–10. Journal Impact Factor (2021): 5.364.
Margolis, E.Q., Guiterman, C.H., et al., including M.T. Rother (2022). The North American tree-ring fire-scar network. Ecosphere 13, 1–36. Journal Impact Factor (2021): 3.593.
Rother, M. T., Huffman, J. M., Guiterman, C. H., Robertson, K. M., & Jones, N. (2020). A history of recurrent, low-severity fire without fire exclusion in southeastern pine savannas, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 4751: 1-9.
Rodman, K. C., Veblen, T. T., Battaglia, M. A., Chambers, M. E., Fornwalt, P. J., Holden, Z. A., Kolb, T.E., Ouzts, J.R., & Rother, M. T. (2020). A changing climate is snuffing out post‐fire recovery in montane forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography.
Rodman, K.C., Veblen, T.T., Chapman, T.B., Rother, M.T., Wion, A.P., and Redmond, M.D. (2020). Limitations to recovery following wildfire in dry forests of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico, USA. Ecological Applications, 30: 1-20.
Davis, K. T., Higuera, P. E., Dobrowski, S. Z., Parks, S. A., Abatzoglou, J. T., Rother, M. T., & Veblen, T. T. (2020). Fire-catalyzed vegetation shifts in ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir forests of the western United States. Environmental Research Letters, 15(10), 1-12.
Davis, K.T., Dobrowski, S.Z., Higuera, P.E., Holden, Z.A., Veblen, T.T., Rother, M.T., and Parks, S. Parks, S.A., Sala, A., and Maneta, M.P. (2019). Wildfires and climate change push low-elevation forests across a critical climate threshold for tree regeneration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (13): 6193-6198.
Rother, M.T., Huffman, J.M., Harley, G.H., Platt, W.J., Jones, N., Robertson, K.M., and Orzell, S.L. (2018). Cambial phenology informs tree-ring analysis of fire seasonality in Coastal Plain Pine Savannas. Fire Ecology 14, 164–185.
Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Kemp, K.B., Higuera, P.E., Harvey, B.J., Rother, M.T., Donato, D.D., Morgan, P., and Veblen, T.T. (2018). Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change. Ecology Letters 21: 243–252. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12889
Harley, G., Baisan, C., Brown, P. Falk, D., Flately, W., Grissino-Mayer, H., Hessl, A., Heyerdahl, E., Kaye, M., Lafon, C., Margolis, E., Maxwell, R., Naito, A., Platt, W., Rother, M., Saladyga, T., Sherriff, R., Stachowiak, L., Stambaugh, M., Sutherland, E., and Taylor, A. (2018). Advancing dendrochronological studies of fire in the United States. Fire 1(11), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1010011
Rother, M.T. and Veblen, T.T. (2017). Climate Drives Episodic Conifer Establishment after Fire in Dry Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Colorado Front Range, USA. Forests 8(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/f8050159
Huffman, J.M. and Rother, M.T. (2017). Dendrochronological field methods for fire history in pine ecosystems of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Tree-Ring Research 73(1), 42–46. https://doi.org/10.3959/1536-1098-73.1.42
Rother, M.T. and Veblen, T.T. (2016). Limited conifer regeneration following wildfires in dry ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range. Ecosphere 7(12), 1-17, e01594. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1594
Rother, M.T., Veblen, T.T., and Furman, L.G. (2015). A field experiment informs expected patterns of conifer regeneration after disturbance under changing climate conditions. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 45, 1607–1616. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2015-0033
Rother, M.T. and Grissino-Mayer, H.D. (2014). Climatic influences on fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Zuni Mountains, New Mexico, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 322, 69–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.034
Rother, M.T. (2018). Longleaf tree rings reveal a fiery past in pine savannas. The Longleaf Leader XI (1), 12–13.
Rother, M.T. (2016). Long after the flames, tree rings tell the story of past fires. Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy e-journal.