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Faculty and Staff
Philip E. Higuera
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Earth
Sciences
National Parks Ecological Research Fellow
Paleoecology Lab, Montana State University
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Contact Information
Office: Traphagen Hall #221
Phone (lab):
(406) 994-6856
Phone (office): (406)
994-6912
Email:
philip.higuera(AT)montana.edu
Website:
www.montana.edu/phiguera
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle, 2006
M.S., University of Washington, Seattle, 2002
B.A., Middlebury College, Vermont, 1998
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Research Interests
- Spatial and temporal patterns of
vegetation change in forested and mountainous landscapes at late
Quaternary and Holocene timescales
- The role of fire and other disturbance
processes in controlling vegetation
- The direct and indirect impacts of
climate change on vegetation communities
- Methods for reconstructing fire regimes
with sediment charcoal records
Selected Publications
Higuera, P.E., L.B. Brubaker,
P.M. Anderson, F.S. Hu, and T.A. Brown. Vegetation mediated the
impacts of postglacial climate change on fire regimes in the
southcentral Brooks Range, Alaska. Ecology.
In press.
Higuera,
P.E.,
L.B. Brubaker, P.M. Anderson, T. A. Brown, A. T. Kennedy, and F.S. Hu.
2008. Frequent
Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleo-records for Arctic
Environmental Change. PLoS
ONE,
3: e0001744.
Higuera,
P.E.,
Peters, M.E., Brubaker, L.B.,
and D.G.
Gavin. 2007. Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment
charcoal records with a
simulation model. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26:
1790-1809.
Peters,
M.E., and
P.E.
Higuera. 2007. Quantifying the source area of macroscopic
charcoal with a
particle dispersal model. Quaternary
Research, 67:
304-310.
Hu, F.S., L.B.
Brubaker, D.G. Gavin, P.E.
Higuera,
J.A. Lynch, T.S. Rupp, and W. Tinner. 2006. How climate and
vegetation influence the fire regime of the Alaskan Boreal Biome: the
Holocene perspective. Mitigation
and Adaptation Strategies for Global
Change,
11:829-846.
Higuera, P.E.,
D.G. Sprugel, and L.B. Brubaker. 2005. Reconstructing fire regimes with
charcoal from small-hollow sediments: a calibration with tree-ring
records of fire. The Holocene, 15: 238-251.
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