Recent Publications

Engel, A., Simler-Williamson, A., Ravenscraft, A., Bittleston, L., & de Graaff, M. A. (2024). Interactive effects of fungal community structure and soil moisture on Wyoming big sagebrush performance. Plant and Soil, 1-23.

Heil, J. A., Simler-Williamson, A., Striluk, M. L., Trawick, D., Capezza, R., Osorio, A., ... & Bittleston, L. S. (2024). Weather and leaf age separately contribute to temporal shifts in phyllosphere community structure and composition. bioRxiv, 2024-06.

Quiroga, G. B., Simler-Williamson, A. B., Frangioso, K. M., Frankel, S. J., Rizzo, D. M., & Cobb, R. C. (2023). An experimental comparison of stand management approaches to sudden oak death: prevention vs. restoration. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 53(12), 969-980.

Simler-Williamson, A.B & Germino, MJ. (2022). “Statistical considerations of nonrandom treatment applications reveal region-wide benefits of widespread post-fire restoration action.” Nature Communications. 13 (1), 1-14.

Simler-Williamson AB, Applestein C, Germino MJ. (2022). Interannual variation in climate contributes to contingency in post-fire restoration outcomes in seeded sagebrush steppe. Conservation Science and Practice, e12737.

Rosenthal, L., Simler-Williamson, A.B., & Rizzo, D.M. (2021). “Community-level prevalence of a forest disease, not individual-level disease risk, declines with tree diversity.” Ecology Letters. 24 (11), 2477-2489.

Applestein, C., Simler-Williamson, A.B., & Germino, MJ. (2021) “Weather and distance to fire refugia limit landscape-level impacts of fungal disease on exotic annual grasses.” Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13638

Simler-Williamson, A.B., Metz, M.R., Frangioso, K.M., & Rizzo, D.M. (2021) “Wildfire alters the disturbance impacts of an emerging forest disease via changes to host occurrence and demographic structure.” Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13495.

Simler-Williamson, A.B, Rizzo, D.M., Cobb, R.C. (2019) “Interactive Effects of Global Change on Pests, Pathogens, and Forest Dynamics.” Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics. 50. 381-403.

Simler, A.B., Williamson, M.A., Schwartz, M.W., & Rizzo, D.M. (2019) “Amplifying plant disease risk through assisted migration.” Conservation Letters. 12 (2), e12605.

Simler-Williamson, A.B., Metz, M.R., Frangioso, K.M., Meentemeyer, R.K., & Rizzo, D.M. (2019). “Compound disturbance alters opportunities for seedling regeneration in forests dominated by vegetative reproduction.” Ecosphere. 12:10.

Simler, A.B., Metz, M.R., Frangioso, K.M., Meentemeyer, R.K., & Rizzo, D.M. (2018) “Novel disturbance interactions between wildfire and disease impact survival and growth of resprouting trees.” Ecology. 99(10): 2217–2229.

Metz, M.R., Varner, J.M., Simler, A.B, Frangioso, K.M., & Rizzo, D.M. (2017). “Implications of Sudden Oak Death for fire management.” Forest Phytophthoras. 7(1): 30-44.