Peer-reviewed Publications
18. Mahood, Adam L., Joseph, Maxwell B., Anna I. Spiers, Michael J. Koontz, Nayani Ilangakoon, Kylen Solvik, et al. 2023. Ten simple rules for working with high resolution remote sensing data. Peer Community Journal. 3: e4. https://www.doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.223
Peer Communities In Ecology recommendation: https://doi.org/10.24072/pci.ecology.100102
17. Koontz, Michael J., Victoria M. Scholl, Anna I. Spiers, Megan E. Cattau, John Adler, Joe McGlinchy, Tristan Goulden, Brett A. Melbourne, and Jennifer K. Balch. 2022. Democratizing macroecology: integrating unoccupied aerial systems with the National Ecological Observatory Network. Ecosphere. 13: e4206. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4206
GitHub: https://github.com/mikoontz/neon-drone-workflow
16. Balch, Jennifer K., John T. Abatzoglou*, Maxwell B. Joseph*, Michael J. Koontz*, Adam L. Mahood*, Joseph McGlinchy*, Megan E. Cattau, and A. Park Williams. 2022. Warming weakens the nighttime barrier to global fire. Nature. 602:442-448. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04325-1
*Equally contributing second authors
15. Mahood, Adam L., Michael J. Koontz, and Jennifer K. Balch. 2022. Fuel connectivity, burn severity, and seedbank survivorship drive the grass fire cycle in a semi-arid shrubland. Ecology. e3968. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3968
14. Young, Derek J. N., Michael J. Koontz, and Jonah M. Weeks. 2022. Optimizing aerial imagery collection and processing parameters for drone-based individual tree mapping in structurally complex conifer forests. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13860
13. Koontz, Michael J., Andrew M. Latimer, Leif A. Mortenson, Christopher J. Fettig, and Malcolm P. North. 2021. Cross-scale interaction of host tree size and climatic water deficit governs bark beetle-induced tree mortality. Nature Communications. 12:129-141. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20455-y
*Editor's Highlight article in "Climate Change Impacts": https://www.nature.com/collections/hcfhgcahdc
Open data (drone-derived forest measurements): https://www.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/3cwf9
GitHub repository: https://github.com/mikoontz/local-structure-wpb-severity
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/jz964
12. Oldfather, Meagan F., Michael J. Koontz, Daniel F. Doak, and David D. Ackerly. Range dynamics mediated by compensatory life stage responses to experimental climate manipulations. 2021. Ecology Letters. 24 (4):772-280. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13693
11. Nagy, Chelsea R., Jennifer K. Balch, and 118 co-authors. 2021. Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data capable community. Ecosphere. 12(12): e03833. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3833
10. Iglesias, Virginia, Anna E. Braswell, Maxwell B. Joseph, Caitlin McShane, Matthew W. Rossi, Megan E. Cattau, Michael J. Koontz, Joe McGlinchy, R. Chelsea Nagy, Jennifer K. Balch, Stefan Leyk, and William R. Travis. Risky development: increasing exposure to natural hazards in the United States. Earth’s Future. 2021. 9 (7): e2020EF001795. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001795
9. Koontz, Michael J., Malcolm P. North, Chhaya M. Werner, Stephen E. Fick, and Andrew M. Latimer. 2020. Local forest structure variability increases resilience to wildfire in dry western U.S. coniferous forests. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13447
Open data (fire severity): https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/ke4qj
Github repository: https://github.com/mikoontz/remote-sensing-resistance
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/k72ye
8. Parks, Sean A., Lisa M. Holsinger, Michael J. Koontz, Luke Collins, Ellen Whitman, Marc-Andre Parisien, Rachel A. Loehman, Jennifer L. Barnes, Jean-Francois Bourdon, Jonathan Boucher, Yan Boucher, Anthony C. Caprio, Adam Collingwood, Ron J. Hall, Jane Park, Lisa B. Saperstein, Charlotte Smetanka, Rebecca J. Smith, and Nick Soverel. 2019. Giving ecological meaning to satellite-derived fire severity metrics across North American forests. Remote Sensing. 11: 1735. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11141735
*Editor's Choice article
7. Smithers, Brian V., Meagan F. Oldfather, Michael J. Koontz, Jim Bishop, Catie Bishop, Jan Nachlinger, and Seema N. Sheth. 2020. Community turnover by composition and climatic affinity across scales in an alpine system. American Journal of Botany. 107(2):239-249. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1376
Open data (alpine plant surveys): https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8968793.v1
6. Koontz, Michael J., Meagan F. Oldfather, Brett A. Melbourne, and Ruth A. Hufbauer. 2018. Parsing propagule pressure: Number, not size, of introductions drives colonization success in a novel habitat.
Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4226
Open data (beetle population censuses): https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4648865.v1
GitHub repository: https://github.com/mikoontz/ppp-establishment
Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/108324
5. Steel, Zachary L., Michael J. Koontz, and Hugh D. Safford. 2018. The changing landscape of wildfire: burn pattern trends and implications for California’s yellow pine and mixed conifer forests. Landscape Ecology. 33 (7); 1159-1176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0665-5
4. Oldfather, Meagan F., Matthew N. Britton, Prahlad D. Papper, Michael J. Koontz, Michelle M. Halbur, Celeste Dodge, Alan L. Flint, Lorraine E. Flint, and David D. Ackerly. 2016. Effects of topoclimatic complexity on the composition of woody plant communities. AoB Plants. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/plw049
3. Hufbauer, Ruth A., Marianna Szűcs, Emily Kasyon, Courtney Youngberg, Michael J. Koontz, Christopher Richards, Ty Tuff, and Brett A. Melbourne. 2015. Reply to Wootton and Pfister: The search for general context should include synthesis with laboratory model systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(44):E5904. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517210112
2. Hufbauer, Ruth A., Marianna Szűcs, Emily Kasyon, Courtney Youngberg, Michael J. Koontz, Christopher Richards, Ty Tuff, and Brett A. Melbourne. 2015. Three types of rescue can avert extinction in a changing environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(33):10557-10562. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504732112
Open data (beetle population censuses): https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.p96b7
1. Cole, Rebecca J., Creighton M. Litton, Michael J. Koontz, and Rhonda K. Loh. 2012. Vegetation recovery 16 years after feral pig removal from a wet Hawaiian forest. Biotropica 44:463-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00841.x
Refereed book chapters
1. Miller, Jesse E. D., Carly D. Ziter, and Michael J. Koontz. 2021. Fieldwork in landscape ecology. Invited chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Landscape Ecology. Routledge, p. 503.
EcoEvoRxiv preprint: https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/h8gsq
Open education materials
Michonneau, Francois, and 104 co-authors. 2019. Data Carpentry: R Ecology Lesson v2019.06.1. Zenodo.
Lessons: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3264888
Website: http://datacarpentry.org/R-ecology-lesson/
O'Brien, Lauren, Joseph Stachelek, Tracy Teal, Dev Paudel, Paul Miller, Anne Fouilloux, Chris Prener, Ethan P. White, Katrin Leinweber, Michael J. Koontz, and Whalen. 2019. Data Carpentry: Introduction to Geospatial Concepts v2019.06.1. Zenodo.
Lessons: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3258814
Website: https://datacarpentry.org/organization-geospatial/
Peek, Ryan A. and Michael J. Koontz. 2018. R for Data Analysis and Visualization in Science (R-DAVIS) v1.0.0. GitHub.
Website: https://gge-ucd.github.io/R-DAVIS/
Koontz, Michael J. and Ryan A. Peek. 2017. Data Carpentry Week: Introduction to R. v1.0.0. GitHub.
Website: https://mikoontz.github.io/data-carpentry-week/