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PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

  • McNellis, B.E., Knight, A.C., Nauman, T.W., Chambers, S.N., Brungard, C.W., Fick, S.E., Livensperger, C.G., Borthwick, S. and Duniway, M.C., 2023. Livestock removal increases plant cover across a heterogeneous dryland landscape on the Colorado Plateau. Environmental Research Letters, 18(3), p.034034.
  • Baker, Zeke, and Stephen E. Fick. 2022. “Loving It to Death: Land Use Conflict, Outdoor Recreation and the Contradictions of Wilderness in Southeast Utah, USA.” Environmental Sociology 1–17.
  • Fick, S.E, M. Duniway, T. Nauman, C. Brungard (2022). What determines the effectiveness of Pinyon-Juniper clearing treatments? Evidence from the remote sensing archive and counter-factual scenarios. Forest Ecology and Management
  • Schulz, Terri T., et al. "Campfire Conversations at the 2020 Annual Meeting: Insights & Lessons Learned From “Cuss-and-Discuss” Rather Than “Chalk-and-Talk”." Rangelands (2021).
  • Shackelford, Nancy, et al. (2021) "Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts." Nature Ecology & Evolution 5.9: 1283-1290.
  • Fick, Stephen E., Travis W. Nauman, Colby C. Brungard, and Michael C. Duniway. 2021. “Evaluating Natural Experiments in Ecology: Using Synthetic Controls in Assessments of Remotely Sensed Land Treatments.” Ecological Applications 31(3). doi: 10.1002/eap.2264.
  • Rettig, E. M., Fick, S. E., & Hijmans, R. J. (2020). The Female Empowerment Index (FEMI): spatial and temporal variation in women's empowerment in Nigeria. Heliyon, 6(5), e03829.
  • Koontz, M. J., North, M. P., Werner, C. M., Fick, S. E., & Latimer, A. M. (2020). Local forest structure variability increases resilience to wildfire in dry western US coniferous forests. Ecology letters, 23(3), 483-494.
  • Fick, S. E., Day, N., Duniway, M. C., Hoy‐Skubik, S., & Barger, N. N. (2019). Microsite enhancements for soil stabilization and rapid biocrust colonization in degraded drylands. Restoration Ecology.
  • Green, J. M., Croft, S. A., Duran, A. P., Balmford, A., Burgess, N. D., Fick, S., ... & Young, L. E. (2019). Linking global drivers of agricultural trade to on-the-ground impacts on biodiversity. PNAS
  • Duniway, M. C., A. A. Pfennigwerth, S. E. Fick, T. W. Nauman, J. Belnap, and N. N. Barger. 2019. Wind erosion and dust from US drylands: a review of causes, consequences, and solutions in a changing world. Ecosphere 10:e02650.
  • Fick, S. E., N. Barger, and M. Duniway. 2019. Hydrologic function of rapidly induced biocrusts. Ecohydrology: e2089.
  • Fick, S. E., J. Belnap, and M. C. Duniway. 2019. Grazing-Induced Changes to Biological Soil Crust Cover Mediate Hillslope Erosion in a Long-Term Exclosure Experiment. Rangeland Ecology & Management.
  • Fick, S. E., N. N. Barger, J. Tatarko, and M. C. Duniway. 2019. Induced biological soil crust controls on wind erodibility and dust (PM10) emissions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
  • Fick, S. E., and R. R. Evett. 2018. Distribution modelling of pre-Columbian California grasslands with soil phytoliths: New insights for prehistoric grassland ecology and restoration. PloS one 13:e0194315.
  • Morales, L. V., C. S. Sevillano-Rios, S. Fick, and T. P. Young. 2018. Differential seedling regeneration patterns across forest - grassland ecotones in two tropical treeline species (Polylepis spp.). Austral Ecology 43:514 -526.
  • Lusher, L., C. He, and S. Fick. 2018. Are professional basketball players reference-dependent? Applied Economics 50:3937-3948.
  • Hedlund, J., S. Fick, H. Carlsen, and M. Benzie. 2018. Quantifying transnational climate impact exposure: New perspectives on the global distribution of climate risk. Global Environmental Change 52:75 - 85.
  • Gardner, T., M. Benzie, J. Borner, E. Dawkins, S. Fick, R. Garrett, J. Godar, A. Grimard, S. Lake, R. Larsen, N. Mardas, C. McDermott, P. Meyfroidt, M. Osbeck, M. Persson, T. Sembres, C. Suavet, B. Strassburg, A. Trevisan, C. West, and P. Wolvekamp. 2018. Transparency and sustainability in global commodity supply chains. World Development.
  • Winkler, D. E., D. M. Backer, J. Belnap, J. B. Bradford, B. J. Butterfield, S. M. Copeland, M. C. Duniway, A. M. Faist, S. E. Fick, S. L. Jensen, A. T. Kramer, R. Mann, R. T. Massatti, M. L. McCormick, S. M. Munson, P. Olwell, S. D. Parr, A. A. Pfenningwerth, A. M. Pilmanis, B. A. Richardson, E. Samuel, K. See, K. E. Young, and S. C. Reed. 2018. Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau. Restoration ecology 26:1055 -1060.
  • Stuble, K. L., S. E. Fick, and T. P. Young. 2017. Every restoration is unique: testing year effects and site effects as drivers of initial restoration trajectories. Journal of Applied Ecology 54:1051 - 1057.
  • Persson, L., S. Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen, A. Lai, Asa Persson, and S. Fick. 2017. The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals - Explaining the Legal Implementation Gap. Sustainability 9:2176.
  • Fick, S. E., and R. J. Hijmans. 2017. WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 37:4302-4315.
  • Fick, S. E., C. Decker, M. C. Duniway, and M. E. Miller. 2016. Small-scale barriers mitigate desertification processes and enhance plant recruitment in a degraded semiarid grassland. Ecosphere 7:e01354.
  • Zefferman, E., J. T. Stevens, G. K. Charles, M. Dunbar-Irwin, T. Emam, S. Fick, L. V. Morales, K. M. Wolf, D. J. Young, and T. P. Young. 2015. Plant communities in harsh sites are less invaded: a summary of observations and proposed explanations. AoB Plants 7.
  • Young, T. P., E. P. Zefferman, K. J. Vaughn, and S. Fick. 2015. Initial success of native grasses is contingent on multiple interactions among exotic grass competition, temporal priority, rainfall and site effects. AoB Plants 7.
  • Young, D. J., L. M. Porensky, K. M. Wolf, S. E. Fick, and T. P. Young. 2015. Burning reveals cryptic plant diversity and promotes coexistence in a California prairie restoration experiment. Ecosphere 6:1- 11.