Publications

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[20] Birch, J.D., Lutz, J. A., Dickinson, M. B., Franklin, J., Larson, A. J., Swanson, M. E., and J. R. Miesel. 2025. Small scale fire refugia increase soil bacterial and fungal richness and increase

community cohesion nine years after fire. Science of the Total Environment. 966:178677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.17867

[19] Hupperts, S., Rodriguez-Ramos, J. C., Ishangulyyeva, G., Wasyliw, J., Birch, J.D., Franklin, J., Kwak, J., Chang, S. C., Erbilgin, N., and J. Karst. 2025. Long-term inorganic nitrogen addition increases soil fungal necromass in a deciduous dominated boreal forest. Functional Ecology. 00:1 – 13. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14730

[18] Birch, J.D., DeRose, R.J., and J. Lutz. (2024). Spruce up your climate analysis: dendroclimatology of Picea engelmannii and Picea pungens. Ecosphere. 15(11): e70047. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70047

[17] Wright, T., Chikamoto, Y., Birch, J.D., and Lutz, J.A. (2024). Remote sensing detection of growing season freeze-induced defoliation of montane quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in southern Utah, USA. Remote Sensing. 16(18):3477. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16183477

[16] Birch, J. D., Reiner, A., Dickinson, M., and J. Miesel. (2023). Prescribed fire reduced bark beetle impacts and had mixed effects on fuels 13-years after combined mastication and fire treatment in a Sierra mixed-conifer forest. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121510

[15] Birch, J.D. and Lutz, J.A. 2023. Fire regime attributes of Utah: past as prolog. Fire. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6110423

[14] Birch, J. D., Dickinson, M., Reiner, A., Knapp, E., Lutz, J. A., and J. Miesel. (2023). Heading and backing fire behaviors mediate the influence of fuels on wildfire energy. International Journal of Wildland Fire. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF22010

[13] Birch, J.D. and Lutz, J.A. 2023. Spatial patterns of seedlings dominated by proximity to deadwood and adult trees for Pinus flexilis and Pinus longaeva. Forest Ecology and Management. 540:121049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121049

[12] Birch, J.D., Lutz, J.A., Struckman, S., Miesel, J.R., and J. Karst. (2023). Large-diameter trees and deadwood correspond with belowground ectomycorrhizal fungal richness. Ecological Processes. 12:3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-022-00415-8

[11] Birch, J. D., Chikamoto, Y., DeRose, R. J., Manvailer, V., Hogg, E. H., Karst, J., Love, D. M., and J. A. Lutz. (2023). Frost-induced defoliation in Populus tremuloides causes repeated growth reductions over 185 years. Ecosystems. doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00799-w

[10] Reiner, A. L., Baker, C., Wahlberg, M., Rau, B. M., Birch, J. D. (2022). Region-Specific Remote-Sensing Models for Predicting Burn Severity, Basal Area Change, and Canopy Cover Change following Fire in the Southwestern United States. Fire. 5(5) 137. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5050137

[9] Birch, J. D., Lutz, J. A., and J. Karst. (2022). Dancing with Douglas-fir: Determinism dominates fungal community assembly processes. Journal of Ecology. 110 (8) https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13910

[8] Haughland, D.L., Hood, A., Thauvette, D., Toni, S.A., Cao, M., Birch, J. D., Wasyliw, J., Hjartarson, L., Villeneuve, M., Stordock, A., Fielder, D.A., Lewis, M., Evans, D., Royko, D., Bolduc, R., Webster, H., Singh, J. D., Schafer, K. A., Davidson, H. E., and C. Shier. (2022) Getting to know our neighbours: 108 urban lichens of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and an initial assessment of their utility as community-science indicators. Opuscula Philolichenum.

[7] Birch, J. D., J. A. Lutz, B. L. Turner, and J. Karst. 2021. Divergent, age-associated fungal communities of Pinus flexilis and Pinus longaeva. Forest Ecology and Management. 494:119277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119277

[6] Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., V. Herrmann, C. R. Rollinson, B. Gonzalez, E. B. Gonzalez-Akre, N. Pederson, M. R. Alexander, C. D. Allen, R. Alfaro-Sánchez, T. Awada, J. L. Baltzer, P. J. Baker, Birch, J. D., S. Bunyavejchewin, P. Cherubini, S. J. Davies, C. Dow, R. Helcoski, J. Kašpar, J. A. Lutz, E. Q. Margolis, J. T. Maxwell, S. M. McMahon, C. Piponiot, S. E. Russo, P. Šamonil, A. E. Sniderhan, A. J. Tepley, I. Vašíčková, M. Vlam, and P. A. Zuidema. (2021). Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15934

[5] Karst, J., J. Wasyliw, Birch, J. D., J. Franklin, S. X. Chang, and N. Erbilgin. (2021). Long-term nitrogen addition does not sustain host tree stem radial growth but doubles the abundance of high-biomass ectomycorrhizal fungi. Global Change Biology. 27:4125-4138. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15713

[4] Birch, J. D., S. W. Simard, K. J. Beiler, and J. Karst. (2021). Beyond seedlings: Ectomycorrhizal fungal networks and growth of mature Pseudotsuga menziesii. Journal of Ecology 109:806-818. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13507

[3] Lutz, J. A., Struckman, S., Furniss, T. J., Birch, J. D., Yocom, L. L., and D. J. McAvoy. (2021). Large-diameter trees, snags, and deadwood in southern Utah, USA. Ecological Processes 10:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13717-020-00275-

[2] Birch, J. D., J. A. Lutz, S. W. Simard, R. Pelletier, G. H. LaRoi, and J. Karst. (2019). Density-dependent processes fluctuate over 50 years in an ecotone forest. Oecologia. 191:909-918. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04534-6

[1] Birch, J. D., J. A. Lutz, E. Hogg, S. W. Simard, R. Pelletier, G. H. LaRoi, and J. Karst. (2019). Decline of an ecotone forest: 50 years of demography in the southern boreal forest. Ecosphere. 10:e02698. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2698