Refereed Publications

DOI links are listed for all manuscripts.  PDF files are posted where journal copyright rules permit it.  If you don’t have access to a particular journal, please email me and I will be happy to provide a copy of any material.

 

Lutz JA, Martin KA, Lundquist JD (2012) Using fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing to measure ground surface temperature in thinned and unthinned forests. Northwest Science 86(2): 108-121. (DOI)

 

Lutz JA, Larson AJ, Swanson ME, Freund JA. (2012) Ecological importance of large-diameter trees in a temperate mixed-conifer forest. PLoS ONE. 7(5): e36131 (DOI)

 

Kane VR, Gersonde RF, Lutz JA, McGaughey RJ, Bakker JD, Franklin JF (2011) Patch dynamics and the development of structural and spatial heterogeneity in Pacific Northwest forests . Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41:2276-2291. (DOI)

 

Lutz JA, Key CH, Kolden CA, Kane JT, van Wagtendonk JW (2011) Fire frequency, area burned, and severity: A quantitative approach to defining a normal fire year. Fire Ecology 7(2): 51-65. (DOI) (.pdf)

 

Tarnay LW, Lutz JA (2011) Sustainable fire: Preserving carbon stocks and protecting air quality.  Park Science 28(1):48-55. (On-line) (.pdf) (National Park Service Webpage, 10/20/2011) (National Park Service Webpage, 11/19/2011)

 

Littell JS, O’neil EE, McKenzie D, Hicke JA, Lutz JA, Norheim RA, Elsner MM (2010) Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA. Climatic Change 102:129-158.  (DOI)

 

Kane VR, McGaughey R, Bakker JD, Gersonde R, Lutz JA, Franklin JF (2010) Comparisons between field– and LiDAR-based measures of stand structural complexity. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40(4) 761-773. (DOI)

 

Kane VR, Bakker JD, McGaughey RJ, Lutz JA, Gersonde R, Franklin JF (2010) Examining conifer canopy structural complexity across forest ages and zones with LiDAR data. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 40(4) 774-787. (DOI)

 

Lutz JA, van Wagtendonk JW, Franklin JF (2010) Climatic water deficit, tree species ranges, and climate change in Yosemite National Park. Journal of Biogeography 37(5) 936-950. (DOI) 

 

Lutz JA, van Wagtendonk JW, Thode AE, Miller JD, Franklin JF (2009) Climate, lightning ignitions, and fire severity in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 18(7):765-774.  (DOI)  Summary.  Press: BBC, KQED (Audio). USGS Science Pick, December 2009. IJWF top ten most downloaded, 11/2009-10/2010.

 

Sprugel DG, Grieve K, Gersonde R, Dovčiak M, Lutz JA, Halpern CB (2009) Use of stand maps and a light model to predict consequences of ecological thinning. Ecological Modelling 220(24) 3565-3575. (DOI) 

 

Littell JS, O’neil EE, McKenzie D, Hicke JA, Lutz JA, Norheim RA, Elsner MM (2009) Forest ecosystems, disturbance, and climatic change in Washington State, USA.  Chapter 7 in Climate Impacts Group (eds.) The Washington Climate Change Impacts Assessment. (.pdf)

 

Lutz JA, van Wagtendonk JW, Franklin JF (2009) Twentieth-century decline of large-diameter trees in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 257(11):2296-2307. (DOI) Press: BBC, USGS, USGS Home Page, Associated Press, New York Times, Science Daily, San Francisco Chronicle, E&E News PM, Land Letter, Union Democrat, Frontiers, KZYX—Philo, CA (Audio), TBS eFM—Seoul, Korea (Audio).  FEM top ten most downloaded, April-June 2009.

 

Roberts S, van Wagtendonk JW, Kelt DA, Miles AK, Lutz JA (2008) Modeling the effects of fire severity and spatial complexity on small mammals in Yosemite National Park, California.  Fire Ecology 4(2):83-104. (DOI) (.pdf)

 

Kane VR, Gillespie AR, McGaughey R, Lutz JA, Ceder K, Franklin JF (2008) Interpretation and topographic correction of conifer forest canopy self-shadowing using spectral mixture analysis.  Remote Sensing of Environment 112(10):3820-3832. (DOI) (.pdf)

 

Lutz JA, Freund JA, Hagmann RK, Kane VR, Larson AJ, Franklin JF (2008) Mid-career graduate students in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(7):392-393. (DOI) (.pdf)

 

Larson AJ, Lutz JA, Gersonde RF, Franklin JF, Hietpas FF (2008) Productivity influences the rate of forest structural development. Ecological Applications 18:899-910. (DOI) (.pdf)

 

van Wagtendonk JW, Lutz JA (2007) Fire regime attributes of wildland fires in Yosemite National Park, USA.  Fire Ecology 3(2):34-52. (DOI) (.pdf)

 

Lutz JA, Halpern CB (2006) Tree mortality during early forest development: a long-term study of rates, causes, and consequences. Ecological Monographs 76(2):257-275. (DOI) (.pdf) 

 

Submitted

Kane VR, Lutz JA, Roberts SL, Smith DF, McGaughey RJ, Brooks ML. Landscape-scale effects of fire severity on mixed-conifer and red fir forest structure in Yosemite National Park.

 

Fisher EV, Mackay KRM, Cusack DF, DeSantis LRG, Hartzell-Nichols L, Lutz JA, Melbourne-Thomas J, Meyer R, Riveros-Iregui DA, Sorte CJB, Taylor JR, White SA. Is pre-tenure interdisciplinary research a career risk?

 

Presentations and Posters (as lead author)

Lutz JA. DISCCRS VI Symposium (Introduction, Research Overview, Poster) Colorado Springs, October 22—29, 2011.

 

Lutz JA. Fire frequency, area burned, and severity: A quantitative approach to defining a normal fire year.   (Invited presentation) Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Beijing, July 28, 2011. 

 

Lutz JA. Climate, fire, and Implications of 2011 Snowpack in Yosemite.  Yosemite National Park Fire and Aviation Management briefing. April 13, 2011. 

 

Lutz JA. The Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot: 2010. (Invited presentation). National Park Service regional on-line program. November 10, 2010.

 

Lutz JA. The Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot: 2009. (Invited Poster, Presentation). AAAS Pacific Division 91st Annual Meeting.  Ashland, Oregon, June 16, 2010.

 

Lutz JA. The Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot and fire. (Invited presentation). Yosemite Fire Science Symposium, Yosemite National Park. April 28, 2010.

 

Lutz JA. Using Landsat and LiDAR to refine fire management objectives. (Invited presentation).  Yosemite Fire Science Symposium, Yosemite National Park. April 27, 2010.

 

Lutz JA. Climate, fire, and Yosemite’s big trees. (Invited presentation). National Parks Conservation Association Fresno forum, September 25, 2009. 

 

Lutz JA. Climate, fire, and vegetation change in Yosemite National Park. (Invited presentation). Yosemite Forum, Yosemite National Park. June 9, 2009. 

 

Lutz JA. Climate matters: Washington forests in the 21st century.  (Invited Presentation). Denman Lecture Series—The Future of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest.  May 14, 2009. (Televised).

 

Lutz JA, van Wagtendonk JW, Franklin JF. Twentieth-century decline of large-diameter trees in Yosemite National Park, California, USA (Presentation). CEREC, Bishop, CA, November 5—8, 2008.

 

Lutz JA, van Wagtendonk JW, Thode AE, Miller JD, Franklin JF. Climate, lightning ignitions, and fire severity in Yosemite National Park, California, USA (Presentation). CEREC, Bishop, CA, November 5—8, 2008.

 

Lutz JA, van Wagtendonk JW, Franklin JF. Describing forests in Yosemite National Park with annual actual evapotranspiration and deficit: improving spatial resolution of gridded climate models with soil and topographic data (Poster). CEREC, Bishop, CA, November 5—8, 2008.

 

Lutz JA. Graduate student address. College of Forest Resources commencement ceremony. June 13, 2008.

 

Lutz JA, van Wagtendonk JW, Thode AE, Miller JD, Franklin JF. Predicting fire in Yosemite National Park: snow depth, natural ignitions, burn severity and burn complexity (Presentation).  August 8th, 2007. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting.  San Jose, CA.  

 

Lutz JA., and Halpern, C. B. Mortality and early coniferous forest development (Presentation).  March 8, 2006.  Northwest Science annual meeting.  Boise, ID.

 

Lutz JA. Rates, patterns and causes of tree mortality during canopy closure: 20 years of forest development (Invited presentation).  December 6, 2004. Invited presentation to the USFS Corvallis Research Lab and OSU College of Forestry.

 

 

Non-Refereed Publications

Kane VR, Lutz JA (2012) Fire and the restructuring of forests in Yosemite National Park. Final report to Yosemite National Park.

 

Lutz JA (2011) Scaling of climate change scenarios: Yosemite case study. Final report to The Nature Conservancy.

 

Knox J, Lutz JA (2010) Return to the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot. California Surveyor, 163:10-12. (.pdf)

 

Moore R, Lutz JA (2009) Establishing the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot. California Surveyor, 159:14-17. (.pdf)

 

Lutz JA The water balance of the Okanogan River Watershed.  Basin analysis prepared for the Okanogan Conservation District.  May 24, 2009. (.pdf)

 

 

Dissertation and Theses

Lutz JA (2008) Climate, fire, and vegetation change in Yosemite National Park. Dissertation. University of Washington, College of Forest Resources. Seattle, Washington, USA. 169 p. (Summary)

 

Lutz JA (2005) The contribution of mortality to early coniferous forest development. Masters Thesis. University of Washington, College of Forest Resources. Seattle, Washington, USA.  95 p. (.pdf) 

 

Lutz JA (1985b) Rule-based design management. Masters Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 106 p.

 

Lutz JA (1985a) Competitive strategy in the electronics computer aided engineering industry. Masters Thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 40 p.

 

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