Samuel Walker Flake

All or nothing? The importance of considering partial dieback for tree responses to fire

Hoffmann, W. A., Flake, S. W., & Durigan, G. (2025, August 28). Trees, Vol. 39.

Impacts of climate-driven insect population change on sawtimber provisioning, carbon sequestration, and water retention: a case study of bark beetle outbreaks in the USA

Chen, H., Sloggy, M. R., Flake, S. W., Evans, S., & Maxwell, C. J. (2025, January 6). Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Vol. 7.

Linking leaf traits and litter flammability using a novel framework, tested with Brazilian Cerrado trees

Flake, S. W., Elliott, P. J., Durigan, G., Rossatto, D. R., & Hoffmann, W. A. (2025, March 23). Functional Ecology, Vol. 3.

Restoring Historic Forest Disturbance Frequency Would Partially Mitigate Droughts in the Central Sierra Nevada Mountains

Boardman, E. N., Duan, Z., Wigmosta, M. S., Flake, S. W., Sloggy, M. R., Tarricone, J., & Harpold, A. A. (2025, April 1). Water Resources Research, Vol. 61.

Spatiotemporal patterns of diversity and diversity-stability relationships as a function of compounding disturbances and forest management

Hefty, K. L., Povak, N. A., Manley, P. N., Flake, S. W., & Zeller, K. A. (2025, April 17). Landscape Ecology, Vol. 40.

Ecological and climatic transferability of airborne lidar-driven aboveground biomass models in Piñon-Juniper woodlands

Eastburn, J. F., Campbell, M. J., Dennison, P. E., Anderegg, W. R., Barrett, K. J., Fekety, P. A., … Vogeler, J. C. (2024, June 10). GIScience & Remote Sensing, Vol. 61.

Stem wound healing is dependent upon bark and trunk growth rates in Brazilian savanna

Hoffmann, W. A., Flake, S. W., Rossatto, D. R., Antonio, A. C. D., Durigan, G., & Abreu, R. C. R. (2024, January 8). Trees, Vol. 38, pp. 197–204.

Managing for biodiversity: The effects of climate, management and natural disturbance on wildlife species richness

Zeller, K. A., Povak, N. A., Manley, P., Flake, S. W., & Hefty, K. L. (2023, October 11). Diversity and Distributions, Vol. 29, pp. 1623–1638.

Drought Alters The Understory of Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands Indirectly through Tree Dieback

Flake, S. W., & Weisberg, P. J. (2021, March 20). Rangeland Ecology & Management, Vol. 76, pp. 118–128.

Not all trees can make a forest: Tree species composition and competition control forest encroachment in a tropical savanna

Flake, S. W., Honda, E. A., Pilon, N. A. L., Hoffmann, W. A., & Durigan, G. (2021, December 3). Journal of Ecology, Vol. 1, pp. 301–312.

Savannas are not old fields: Functional trajectories of forest expansion in a fire‐suppressed Brazilian savanna are driven by habitat generalists

Flake, S. W., Abreu, R. C. R., Durigan, G., & Hoffmann, W. A. (2021, May 4). Functional Ecology, Vol. 5, pp. 1797–1809.

Upper and lower treeline biogeographic patterns in semi‐arid pinyon‐juniper woodlands

Garbarino, M., Malandra, F., Dilts, T., Flake, S., Montalto, L., Spinsante, S., & Weisberg, P. J. (2020, October 3). Journal of Biogeography, Vol. 47, pp. 2634–2644.

Seeding native species increases resistance to annual grass invasion following prescribed burning of semiarid woodlands

Urza, A. K., Weisberg, P. J., Chambers, J. C., Board, D., & Flake, S. W. (2019, February 26). Biological Invasions, Vol. 2, pp. 1993–2007.

Widespread mortality and defoliation of pinyon pine in central Nevada mountains

Flake, S. W., & Weisberg, P. J. (2019, April 1). Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Vol. 100, p. e01507.

Fine‐scale stand structure mediates drought‐induced tree mortality in pinyon–juniper woodlands

Flake, S. W., & Weisberg, P. J. (2018, December 13). Ecological Applications, Vol. 29.

Rare frost events reinforce tropical savanna–forest boundaries

Hoffmann, W. A., Flake, S. W., Abreu, R. C. R., Pilon, N. A. L., Rossatto, D. R., & Durigan, G. (2018, July 19). (P. Bellingham, Ed.). Journal of Ecology, Vol. 107, pp. 468–477.