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  1. Djenontin INS, Rivera I, Abdulai A-SJ, Elias F, Qiu T, Twine W, Chen H, Kamoto JF, Smithwick EAH, Fleischman FD. Understanding future local aspirations for restoration in mosaic tropical-forest-woodlands: learning from southern Malawi. Global Environmental Change, submitted. 
  2. Donovan VM, Weidig N, Robertson K, Wonkka C, Smithwick EAH. Ignition location influences destruction and injury caused by wildfire in the wildland-urban interface of the eastern United States. Landscape Ecology, submitted. 
  3. Kotikot SM, Smithwick EAH, Gergel S, Nankaya J, and Abila R. Designing regenerative landscapes: using spatial indicators to diagnose landscape reorganization under alternative policies and management. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, in review. 
  4. Hamilton C*, Smithwick EAH, Perry GLW, Pou D. Ecological memory of post-colonial land ownership: Maori and non-Maori lands in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Regional Environmental Change, in review. 
  5. Zipp K, Shr Y-H, Smithwick EAH, Dems C, Kaye M, Miller ZD, Newman P, Taylor A, Wu H. Feeling the burn: the optimal timing of prescribed fires for recreational benefits in the mid-Atlantic United States. Land Economics, in review. 
  6. Yu M, Riadi S, Sauda S, Holmes L, Smithwick EAH. 2026. Probabilistic assessment of PM2.5 and ozone co-occurring extremes under wildfire smoke in the contiguous United States. Environmental Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6c04403. 
  7. Kotikot SM*, Smithwick EAH, Gergel S, Nankaya J, Abila R. 2026. Modeling multifunctional landscape change in southern Kenya: spatial tradeoffs and drivers in arid and semi-arid systems. Ecological Informatics 98, 103959, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2026.103959. 
  8. Amoah EI *, McCloskey P, Ouedraogo RS, Chelal J, Akuleut C, Mwambumba BI, Meli BK, Oyugi CA, Kibwanga ES, Cleophas EK, Ochola FO, Wanjiru CN, Morang’a K, Mushira LW, Maboke MK, Titus NS, Oltimbao SL, Odawa SA, Mwegosi GV, Hassan SM, Smithwick EAH, Hughes DP. 2025. AI-powered measurement verification and reporting system for agroforestry trees to estimate carbon sequestration potential. Sustainable Environment 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/27658511.2025.2607826. 
  9. Perry GLW, Brock JMR, Guy CB, Hamilton C, Lee F, Pou DL, Williams E, Smithwick EAH. 2025. Social and ecological context shape biological invasions in complex landscapes. Current Reports in Landscape Ecology 11 (2): https://doi.org/10.1007/s40823-025-00110-2. 
  10. Kotikot, SM*, Smithwick EAH, Gergel S, Nankaya J, Abila R, Mabwoga S. 2025. Historical land policies influence contemporary landscape patterns in agropastoral landscapes. Landscape Ecology 40 (163), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02178-x 
  11. Mucioki, M, Powell B, Aderman H, Smithwick EAH, Holen D, Hamilton C, Chi G. 2025. Mindfulness, gratitude and sharing are central to berry harvesting practice, sustainability and adaptation in rural Alaska.  Ecosystems and People 21:1, 2559671, https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2025.2559671 
  12. Howarth M, Smithwick EAH, McPhillips L, Mejia, A. 2025. Scaling nature-based solutions for fluvial floods: A worldwide systematic review. WIREs Water 12(2): e70011. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.70011 
  13. Kotikot SM*, Smithwick EAH, Nankaya J, Gergel S, Zimmerer K, Abila R. 2025. Heterogeneous perceptions of rainfall patterns among agropastoral land users in sub-Saharan Africa. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1286-1308. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2482899 
  14. Zhou S, Chi G, Qiu H, Lei Z, Smithwick EAH, Chen J. 2024. Relocation preference and settlement; lessons from the poverty alleviation relocation program in China, PLOS One, 19 (10) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309534. 
  15. Helgeson C, Keller K, Nicholas RE, Srikrishnan V, Cooper C, Smithwick EAH, Tuana N. 2024. Integrating values to improve the relevance and inclusiveness of climate-risk research, Earth Futures, 12, e2022EF003025. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003025 
  16. Smithwick EAH, Wu H, Spangler K, Adib M, Wang R, Dems C, Taylor AH, Kaye MW, Zipp K, Newman P, Miller ZD, Zhao A. 2024. Barriers and Opportunities for Implementing Prescribed Fire: Lessons from Managers in the mid-Atlantic Region, United States, Fire Ecology 20 (77). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-024-00315-6. 
  17. Kotikot SM*, Spencer O, Cissell JR, Connette G, Smithwick EAH, Durdall A, Grimes KW, Stewart HA, Tzadik O, Canty SWJ. 2024. Building a mangrove ecosystem monitoring tool for managers using Sentinel-2 imagery in Google Earth Engine, Ocean and Coastal Management 256, 107307, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107307  
  18. Kotikot SM*, Smithwick EAH, Greatrex H. 2024. Observations of enhanced rainfall variability in Kenya, East Africa. Scientific Reports 14, 12915. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-63786-2 
  19. Spangler K*, Smithwick EAH, Buechler S., Baka J. 2023. Just energy imaginaries? Examining realities of solar development on Pennsylvania’s farmland. Energy Research & Social Science, 108: 103394. https://doi. org.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103394 
  20. Lucash MD, Williams N, Srikrishnan, V, Keller K, Scheller, RM, Helgeson C, Nicholas RE, Smithwick EAH. 2023. Balancing multiple forest management objectives under climate change in central Wisconsin, U.S.A., Trees, Forests, and People 14: 100460.h https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2023.100460 
  21. Hamilton C*, Smithwick EAH. Spellman KV, Baltensperger AP, Spellman BT, Chi, G.  2023. Data for: Predicting berry plant habitat under climate change in Bristol Bay, AK https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7wm37pvxz [Data Set] 
  22. Hamilton C*, Smithwick EAH. Spellman KV, Baltensperger AP, Spellman BT, Chi, G. 2024. Predicting the suitable habitat distribution of berry plants under climate change. Landscape Ecology 39 (18), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-024-01839-7 
  23. Nasr-Azadani E*, Smithwick EAH. Steidle SJ, Lucash MS, Wardrop DH, Fregien N, Kenote Jr T.  2023. Integrating Menominee model for sustainable forestry with Systems Thinking competency through 3D virtual tours. Sustainability Science 18: 2605-2628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01399-w 
  24. Smithwick EAH, Baka J, Bird D, Blaszscak-Boxe C, Cole, Charles A., Fuentes, JD, Gergel S, Glenna L, Grady D, Graefe A, Hunt C, Iulo, LD, Kaye J, Keller K. 2023. Regenerative Landscape Design: An Integrative Framework to Enhance Sustainability Planning, Ecology and Society, 28(4) https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14483-280405 
  25. Steidle S, Lucash ML, Nasr-Azadani E*, Smithwick EAH. 2023. Testing presence, assessing attitudes: study of a virtual tour in an “aesthetically challenged” landscape, Journal of Environmental Management 337: 117574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117574 
  26. Wu H, Miller ZD, Wang R, Zipp K, Newman P, Shr Y-H, Dems CL, Taylor A, Kaye M, Smithwick EAH. 2022. Public and management perspectives about prescribed fire in the Mid-Atlantic, United States. Journal of Environmental Management 322: 116100 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116100. 
  27. Peeler JL*, Smithwick EAH. 2021. Interactions between landscape and local factors inform spatial action planning in post-fire forest environments. Landscape Ecology 36(12): 3523-3537, 10.1007/s10980-021-01325-4. 
  28. Zhao A, Taylor AH, Smithwick EAH, Kaye M, Harris L. 2021. Simulated fire regimes favor oak and pine but affect carbon stocks in mixed oak forests in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 2021. Forest Ecology and Management 494: 119332 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119332 
  29. Smithwick EAH.  2021. Chapter 7: Nutrient Flows on Landscapes.  Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology, Taylor and Francis, Group; Francis R., Millington, J., Perry G., Minor, E., eds. Routledge, 502pp, ISBN 9780367024567. 
  30. Dems C, Taylor AH, Smithwick EAH, Kreye J, Kaye MW. 2021. Prescribed fire alters structure and composition of a Mid-Atlantic oak forest up to eight years after burning. Fire Ecology 17 (10), https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-021-00093-5 .  
  31. Olson SK*, Smithwick EAH, Lucash MS, Scheller RM, Nicholas RE, and Ruckert K, Caldwell C. 2021. Landscape-scale forest re-organization following insect invasion, harvest, and climate change. Ecosystems, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00616-w.  
  32. Peeler JL*, Smithwick EAH. 2020. Seed source pattern and terrain have scale-dependent effects on post-fire tree recovery. Landscape Ecology 35 (9): 1945-1959. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01071-z  
  33. Field J, Richard TL, Smithwick EAH, Cai H, Laser MS, LeBauer DS, Long, SP, Paustian K, Qin Z, Sheehan JJ, Smith, P, Wang MQ, Lynd L. 2020. The logic of greenhouse gas mitigation through cellulosic biofuel production is sound.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(36): 21968-21977, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920877117  [top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric] 
  34. Miller ZD, Wu H, Zipp K, Dems CL, Smithwick EAH, Kaye M, Newman P, Zhao A, Taylor A. 2020. Hunter and non-hunter perceptions of costs, benefits and likelihood of outcomes of prescribed fire in the mid-Atlantic region. Society and Natural Resources 33(10): 1321-1327, https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.1780359 
  35. Young C, Fritz H, Smithwick EAH, Venter J. 2020. Patch-scale selection patterns of grazing herbivores in the central basalt plains of Kruger National Park. African Journal of Range & Forage Science 37 (3): 199-213. https://doi.org/10.2989/10220119.2020.1733084 
  36. Gergel S, Powell B, Baudron F, Wood SLR, Rhemtulla J, Kennedy G, Rasmussen L, Ickowitz A, Fagan M, Smithwick EAH, Rainieri J, Wood, S A, Groot JCJ, Sunderland TCH. 2020. Conceptual linkages between landscape diversity and diet diversity: a roadmap for transdisciplinary research.  Bioscience, biaa048, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa048 
  37. Young C, Fritz H, Smithwick EAH, Venter J. 2020. The landscape-scale drivers of herbivore assemblage distribution on the central basalt plains of Kruger National Park. Journal of Tropical Ecology 36(1):13-28, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467419000312. 
  38. Smithwick, EAH, Caldwell C, Klippel A, Scheller R, Tuana N, Bird R, Keller K, Lucash M, Nicholas R, Olson S, Ruckert K, Oyler J, Helgeson C, Huang, J.  2019. Transdisciplinary collaborative learning for triangulating ways of knowing across traditional and Western knowledge systems concerning future climate and forests. Collaboration Across Boundaries for Social-Ecological Systems Science, Perz Stephen G., ed., Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13827-1_1 
  39. Rasmussen LV, Fagan M, Ickowitz A, Wood S, Kiennedy G, Powell B, Baudron F, Gergel S, Jun S, Smithwick EAH, Sunderland T, Wood S, Rhemtulla J.  2019. Forest pattern, not just amount, influences dietary quality in five African countries. Global Food Security, Available online 31 October 2019, 100331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2019.100331 
  40. Lucash M, Ruckert KL, Nicholas RE, Scheller RM, Smithwick EAH. 2019.  Complex interactions among successional trajectories and climate govern spatial resilience after severe windstorms in central Wisconsin, U.S.A., Landscape Ecology, online 07 Nov 2019, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00929-1. 
  41. Baldwin D*, Manfreda S, Lin H, Smithwick EAH. 2019. Estimating root zone soil moisture across the Eastern United States with passive microwave satellite data and a simple hydrologic model.  Remote Sensing 11(17) https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11172013. 
  42. Rochner M, Masfield B, Jahi CM, Smithwick EAH, Romero A, Lane SA, Lave R, Biermann C. 2019.  The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography.  The AAG Review of Books 7 (3): 203-213. DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2019.1615327. 
  43. Smithwick EAH. 2019. Carbon stocks and biodiversity of coastal lowland forests in South Africa: implications for aligning sustainable development and carbon mitigation initiatives.  Carbon Management 10 (4): 349-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2019.1620035 
  44. Buma B, Harvey B, Gavin D, Kelly R, Loboda T, McNeil B, Marlon J, Meddens A, Raffa K, Shuman B, Smithwick EAH, & McLauchlan K. 2019. The value of linking short and long-term perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience. Landscape Ecology (34): 17-33. 
  45. Horn KJ, Thomas RQ, Pardo LH, Lawrence GB, Clark CM, Fenn ME, Lawrence GB, Perakis SS, Smithwick EAH, Baldwin DC*, Braun S, Nordin A, Perry CH, Phelan JN, Schaberg PG, St.Clair SB, Warby R, Watmough S.  2018.  Growth and survival relationships of 71 tree species with nitrogen and sulfur deposition across the conterminous U.S. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205296. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205296 
  46. Moon, JB, Wardrop DH, Smithwick EAH, Naithani KJ. 2018. Fine-scale spatial homogenization of microbial habitats: a multivariate index of headwater wetland complex condition.  Ecological Applications 29 (1), e01816, doi: 10.1002/eap.1816 
  47. Smithwick EAH, Baxter E, Kim K, Edel-Malizia S, Rocco S, Blackstock D. 2018. Interactive videos enhance learning about socio-ecological systems. Journal of Geography 117(1):40-49, DOI: /10.1080/00221341.2017.1374433 
  48. Peeler JL*, Smithwick EAH. 2018. Exploring invasibility with species distribution modeling: How does fire promote cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) invasion within lower montane forests? Diversity & Distributions. 00:1–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12765 
  49. Averill KM*, Mortensen DA, Smithwick EAH, Kalisz S, McShea WJ, Bourg NA, Parker JD, Royo AA, Abrams MD, Apsley DK, Blossey B, Boucher CH, Caraher KL, DiTommaso A, Johnson SE, Masson R, Nuzzo VA. 2018. A regional assessment of white-tailed deer effects on plant invasion.  AoB Plants 10(1), plx047, doi:10.1093/aobpla/plx047 
  50. Taber ED*, Hutchinson, ML, Smithwick EAH, Blanford JI. 2017.  A decade of colonization: the spread of the Asian Tiger Mosquito in Pennsylvania and Implications for disease risk. Journal of Vector Ecology 42(1): 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvec.12234 
  51. Baldwin D*, Manfreda S, Keller K, Smithwick EAH. 2017. Predicting root zone soil moisture with soil properties and satellite near-surface moisture data across the conterminous United States, Journal of Hydrology 546:393-404, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.01.020 
  52. Blackstock D, Edel-Malizia S, Bittner K, and Smithwick E. 2017.  Investigating Interactive video assessment tools for online and blended learning.  Proceedings of the International Conference on eLearning, Orlando, FL, U.S.A. 
  53. Smithwick EAH, Baldwin DC*, Naithani KJ*. 2016. Grassland productivity in response to nutrient additions and herbivory is scale-dependent, PeerJ 4:e2745; DOI 10.7717/peerj.2745 
  54. Smithwick EAH. 2016.  Build social costs into wildfire risks.  Nature (Correspondence) 535 (7611): 231. doi:10.1038/535231b 
  55. Wu J*, Smithwick EAH. 2016. Landscape fragmentation as a risk factor for Buruli ulcer disease. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 95(1): 63-69.  doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0647  
  56. Averill KM*, Mortensen DA, Smithwick EAH, Post E.  2016. Generalist herbivore feeding selectivity is plant species-specific, regardless of nature/introduced status.  Biological Invasions 18(5): 1247-1263. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-016-1063-z 
  57. Tschakert P, Ricciardi V, Smithwick EAH, Machado M, Ferring D, Hausermann H, Bug L. 2016. Situated knowledge of pathogenic landscapes in Ghana: understanding the emergence of Buruli ulcer through qualitative analysis.  Social Science and Medicine 150: 160-171. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.12.005  
  58. Taber E* and Smithwick EAH. 2015. Influence of protected areas on malaria prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa.  Applied Geography 64:35-45. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.09.001 
  59. Wu J*, Tschakert P, Klutse E, Ferring D, Ricciardi V, H Hausermann H, Oppong J, Smithwick EAH. 2015. Buruli ulcer disease and its association with land cover in Southwestern Ghana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease 9(6):30003840. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003840 
  60. Keane RE, McKenzie D, Falk DA, Smithwick EAH, Miller C, Kellogg, L-K B. 2015. Representing climate, disturbance, and vegetation interactions in landscape models. Ecological Modelling 309-310: 33-47. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.04.009 
  61. Keane RE, Loehman R, Clark, J, Smithwick EAH, Miller C.  2015. Exploring interactions among multiple disturbance agents in forest landscapes: simulating effects of fire, beetles, and disease under climate change.  Ch.8, pp 201-231,  in Simulation Modeling of Forest Landscape Disturbances, Perera A., Remmel, R. and Buse L., eds., Springer International Publishing Switzerland, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-19809-5_8. 
  62. Hagarty J, Azanu D, Atosona B, Voegborlo R, Smithwick EAH, Singha K. 2015. Chemistry of natural waters and its relation to Buruli Ulcer in Ghana. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 3: 457-472. doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2015.03.006 
  63. Wu, J*, Smithwick EAH, Ferring D, Hausermann H, Oppong J, Ricciardi V, Tschakert P 2015.  Buruli Ulcer (BU) and landscape disturbance in Ghana 2007-2010.  Data set.  Available online [http://www.datacommons.psu.edu/] at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.  doi:10.13014/D3G44N6X 
  64. McCormack ML*, Crisfield E*, Raczka B, Schnekenburger F, Eissenstat DM, Smithwick EAH. 2015. Sensitivity of four ecological models to adjustments in fine root turnover rate.  Ecological Modeling 297: 107-117. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.013 
  65. Smithwick EAH, McCormack ML *, Lucash M, Sivandran G. 2014. Improving the representation of roots in terrestrial models. Ecological Modelling 291: 193-204. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.07.023 
  66. McCormack ML*, Adams TS, Smithwick EAH, Eissenstat DM. 2014. Variability in root production and root phenology alter estimates of fine root turnover rate. Ecology 95: 2224-2235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-1942.1 
  67. McLauchlan KK, Higuera PE, Gavin DG, Perakis SS, Mack MC, Alexander H, Battles J, Biondi F, Buma B, Colombaroli D, Enders S, Engstrom DR, Hu FS, Marlon JR, Marshall J, McGlone M, Morris JL, Nave LE, Shuman BN, Smithwick E, Urrego DH, Wardle DA, Williams CJ, Williams JJ.  2014. Reconstructing disturbances and their biogeochemical consequences over multiple timescales. BioScience 64(2): 105-116. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/bit017 
  68. McCormack ML*, Eissenstat DM, Prasad AM, Smithwick EAH. 2013. Regional scale patterns of fine root lifespan and turnover under current and future climate. Global Change Biology 19(6): 1697-1708. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12163 
  69. Smithwick EAH, Eissenstat DM, Lovett G, Bowden R, Rustad L, and Driscoll C. 2013. Root stress and nitrogen deposition: consequences and research priorities. New Phytologist 197 (3): 712-719. doi: 10.1111/nph.12081  
  70. Smithwick EAH, Naithani KJ*, Balser TC, Romme WH, and Turner MG. 2012. Fine-scale spatial distribution of microbial communities and soil nitrogen cycling following wildfire. PLoS One, 7(11):e50597.  doi:. 10.1371/journal.pone.0050597  
  71. Hausermann H, Tschakert P, Smithwick EAH, Ferring D, Amankwah R, Klutse E, Hagarty J, Kromel L. 2012. Contours of risk: spatializing human behaviors to understand disease dynamics in changing landscapes.  EcoHealth (9): 251-255, doi:10.1007/s10393-012-0780-8. 
  72. McCormack ML*, Adams TS, Smithwick EAH, Eissenstat DM. 2012. Predicting fine root lifespan from functional traits in temperate trees.  New Phytologist 195(4): 823-831. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04198.x 
  73. Smithwick EAH. 2011. Pyrogeography and biogeochemical resilience, pp143-164 in The Landscape Ecology of Fire, eds. by D. McKenzie, D. Falk, C. Miller, Springer. DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-0301-8_6 
  74. Westerling AL, Turner MG, Smithwick EAH, Romme WH, Ryan MG. 2011.  Continued warming could transform Greater Yellowstone fire regimes by mid-21st Century, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108: 13165-13170. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1110199108 
  75. Turner MG, Romme WH, Smithwick EAH, Tinker DB, Zhu J. 2011. Variation in aboveground cover influences soil nitrogen availability at fine spatial scales following severe fire in subalpine conifer forests. Ecosystems 14(7):1081-1095. doi: 10.1007/s10021-011-9465-3 
  76. Cleveland MR*, Smithwick EAH, Wardrop DH, Brooks RB. 2011. The wetland disturbance index: links with soil and water nitrate concentrations. Wetlands 31(5):853-863. doi: 10.1007/s13157-011-0200-9 
  77. Smithwick EAH, Westerling AL, Turner MG, Romme WH, Ryan MG. Vulnerability of Landscape Carbon Fluxes to Future Climate and Fire in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.” In: Questioning Greater Yellowstone’s Future: Climate, Land Use, and Invasive Species. Proceedings of the 10th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. October 11–13, 2010, Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, Yellowstone National Park. C. Andersen, ed., 131–134. Yellowstone National Park, WY, and Laramie, WY: Yellowstone Center for Resources and University of Wyoming William D. Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources 
  78. Smithwick EAH. 2010. Pyrogeography:  Lessons for future northeastern U.S. landscapes. Penn State Environmental Law Review 18(2): 101-121. 
  79. Smithwick EAH. 2010. Disturbance ecology, biogeochemistry and resilience: three decades of inquiry. Organized Oral Session 34. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 91:80-93. 
  80. Turner MG, Smithwick EAH, Tinker DB, and Romme WH. 2009. Variation in foliar nitrogen and aboveground net primary production in young postfire lodgepole pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere 39:1024-1035. https://doi.org/10.1139/X09-029 
  81. Smithwick EAH, Kashian DM, Ryan MG, and Turner MG. 2009. Long-term nitrogen storage and soil nitrogen availability in post-fire lodgepole pine ecosystems. Ecosystems 12:792-806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-009-9257-1 
  82. Smithwick EAH, Ryan MG, Kashian DM, Romme WH, Tinker DB, and Turner MG. 2009. Modeling the effects of fire and climate change on carbon and nitrogen storage in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) stands. Global Change Biology 15:535-548. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01659.x 
  83. Schoennagel T, Turner MG, and Smithwick EAH. 2008. Landscape heterogeneity following large fires: insights from Yellowstone National Park, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17: 742-753. doi: 10.1071/WF07146 
  84. Metzger KL, Smithwick EAH, Tinker DB, Romme WH, Balser TC, and Turner MG. 2008. Influence of coarse wood and pine saplings on nitrogen mineralization and microbial communities in young post-fire Pinus contorta. Forest Ecology and Management 256:59-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.03.043 
  85. Turner MG, Smithwick EAH, Metzger KL, Tinker DB, and Romme WH. 2007. Inorganic nitrogen availability following severe stand-replacing fire in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, inaugural paper, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 104 (12): 4782-4789. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700180104 
  86. Smithwick EAH. 2006. Editorial: Role of microbial communities in mediating ecosystem response to disturbance, Special Issue in Plant and Soil 289:1-3. doi:10.1007/s11104-006-9084-5 
  87. Smithwick EAH, Harmon ME, Domingo JB. 2006. Changing temporal patterns of forest carbon stores and net ecosystem carbon balance: The stand to landscape transformation, Landscape Ecology 22(1): 77-94. doi: 10.1007/s10980-006-9006-1 
  88. Smithwick EAH.  2006. Gentle introduction to complexity on landscapes.  Book Review for Ecology 87(11):2954-2955, doi: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2954:GITCOL]2.0.CO;2 
  89. Smithwick EAH, Mack MC, Turner MG, Chapin III FS, Zhu J, Balser TC. 2005. Spatial heterogeneity and soil nitrogen dynamics after severe fire in a black spruce (Picea mariana) forest, Alaska: Distinct controls at different scales. Biogeochemistry 76: 517-537. doi: 10.1007/s10533-005-0031-y 
  90. Smithwick EAH, Turner MG, Mack MC, Chapin III, FS. 2005. Post-fire soil N cycling in northern conifer forests affected by severe, stand-replacing wildfires.  Ecosystems 8: 163-181. doi: 10.1007/s10021-004-0097-8 
  91. Smithwick EAH, Turner MG, Metzger KL, Balser TC. 2005. Variation in NH4+ mineralization and microbial communities with stand age in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests, Yellowstone National Park (USA). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 37: 1546-1559. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.01.016 
  92. Homann PS, Harmon ME, Remillard SM, Smithwick EAH.  2005. What the soil reveals: Maximum ecosystem C stores of the Pacific Northwest region, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 220: 270-283. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.08.035 
  93. Miller JM, Turner MG, Smithwick EAH, Dent LC, Stanley EH. 2004. Spatial extrapolation: the science of predicting ecological patterns and processes. Bioscience 54(4): 310-320 doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0310:SETSOP]2.0.CO;2 
  94. Smithwick EAH, Harmon ME, Domingo JB. 2003. Modeling multi-scale effects of light limitations and edge-induced mortality on carbon stores in forest landscapes. Landscape Ecology 18(7): 701-721 doi: 10.1023/B:LAND.0000004254.94982.67 
  95. Korontzi S, Ward DE, Susott RA, Yokelson RJ, Justice CO, Hobbs PV, Smithwick EAH, Hao WM.  2003. Seasonal variation and ecosystem dependence of emission factors for selected trace gases and PM2.5 for southern African savanna fires. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D24), 4758. doi: 10.1029/2003JD003730 
  96. Smithwick EAH, Harmon ME, Acker SA, Remillard SM. 2002. Potential upper bounds of carbon stores in the Pacific Northwest. Ecological Applications 12(5): 1303-1317. doi: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1303:PUBOCS]2.0.CO;2 
  97. Hoffa EA (maiden name), Ward DE, Hao WM, Susott RA, Wakimoto RH. 1999. Seasonality of carbon emissions from biomass burning in a Zambian savanna. Journal of Geophysical Research 104: 13,841 – 13,853. doi: 10.1029/1999JD900091