T Rupp
	Telephone (primary): (907) 474-7535 Telephone (secondary): (907) 474-5539 Fax: (907) 474-6184 E-mail1 (primary): ffsr@uaf.edu E-mail2 (secondary): Web URL: http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffsr/ Address: Department of Forest Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks O'Neill Bldg Fairbanks, AK 99775-7200 United States

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Publications (34)

Journal Articles:

Rupp, T.S., A.M. Starfield and F.S. Chapin III. 2000 A frame-based spatially explicit model of subarctic vegetation response to climatic change: comparison with a point model. Landscape Ecology 15:383-400.

Rupp, T.S., F.S. Chapin III and A.M. Starfield. 2000 Response of subarctic vegetation to transient climatic change on the Seward Peninsula in north-west Alaska. Global Change Biology 6:541-555.

Rupp, T.S., F.S. Chapin III and A.M. Starfield. 2001 Modeling the influence of topographic barriers on treeline advance of the forest-tundra ecotone in northwestern Alaska. Climatic Change 48:399-416.

Rupp, T.S., A.M. Starfield, F.S. Chapin and P. Duffy. 2002 Modeling the impact of black spruce on the fire regime of Alaskan boreal forest. Climatic Change 55:213-233.

Chapin, F.S., T.S. Rupp, A.M. Starfield, L. DeWilde, E.S. Zavaleta, N. Fresco, J. Henkelman and A.D. McGuire. 2003 Planning for resilience: modeling change in human-fire interactions in the Alaskan boreal forest. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1:255-261.

Lloyd, A.H., T.S. Rupp, C.L. Fastie and A.M. Starfield. 2003 Patterns and dynamics of treeline advance on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D2):8161. 10.1029/2001JD000852.

Turner, M.G., S.L. Collins, A.L. Lugo, J.J. Magnusen, T.S. Rupp and F.J. Swanson. 2003 Disturbance Dynamics and Ecological Response: The Contribution of Long-term Ecological Research. BioScience 53:46-56.

Epstein, H.E., J. Beringer, W.A. Gould, A.H. Lloyd, C.D. Thompson, F.S. Chapin, III, G.J. Michaelson, C.L. Ping, T.S. Rupp, and D.A. Walker. 2004 The nature of spatial transitions in the Arctic. ournal of Biogeography 31(12), 1917-1933.

Haight, R. G., David T. Cleland, Roger B. Hammer, Volker C. Radeloff, and T. Scott Rupp. 2004 Assessing Fire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Journal of Forestry, October/November 2004: 41-48.

Keane, R. E., Geoffrey J. Cary, Ian D. Davies, Michael D. Flannigan, Robert H. Gardner, Sandra Lavorel, James M. Lenihan, Chao Li, T. Scott Rupp. 2004 A classification of landscape fire succession models: spatial simulations of fire and vegetation dynamics. Ecological Modelling 179: 3-27.

Calef, M.P., A.D. McGuire, H.E. Epstein, T.S. Rupp, and H.H. Shugart. 2005 Analysis of vegetation distribution in Interior Alaska and sensitivity to climate change using a logistic regression approach. Journal of Biogeography. 32:863-878.

Chapin, F.S., III, M. Sturm, M.C. Serreze, J.P McFadden, J.R. Key, A.H. Lloyd, A.D. McGuire, T.S. Rupp, A.H. Lynch, J.P Schimel, J. Beringer, W.L. Chapman, H.E. Epstein, E.S. Euskirchen, L.D. Hinzman, G. Jia, C.L. Ping, K.D. Tape, C.D.C. Thompson, D.A. Walker, and J.M. Welker. 2005 Role of Land-Surface Changes in Arctic Summer Warming. Science. Published online September 22 2005;10.1126/science.1117368 (Science Express Reports)

Duffy, P.A., J.E. Walsh, J.M. Graham, D.H. Mann, and T.S. Rupp. 2005 Impacts of large-scale atmospheric-ocean variablilty on Alaskan fire season severity. Ecological Applications. 15(4):1317-1330.

Cary, G.J., R.E. Keane, R.H. Gardner, S. Lavorel, M.D. Flannigan, I.D. Davies, C. LI, J.M. Lenihan, T.S. Rupp, F. Mouillot. 2006 Comparison of the Sensitivity of Landscape-fire-succession Models to Variation in Terrain, Fuel Pattern, Climate and Weather. Landscape Ecology 21(1):121-137 DOI:10.1007/s10980-005-7302-9

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(4):829-846. DOI: 10.1007/s11027-005-9015-4

Rupp, T.S., Olson, M., Adams, L., Dale, B., Joly, K., Henkelman, J., Collins, W., and A.M. Starfield. 2006 Simulating the influence of a changing fire regime on caribou winter foraging habitat. Ecological Applications. 16:1730-1743

Butler, L.G., K. Kielland, T.S. Rupp, and T.A. Hanley. 2007 Interactive controls of herbivory and fluvial dynamics over vegetation patterns along the Tanana River, Interior Alaska. Journal of Biogeography 34:1622-1631

Duffy, P.A., J. Epting, J.M. Graham, T.S. Rupp, and A.D. McGuire. 2007 Analysis of Alaskan burn severity patterns using remotely sensed data. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2007, 16: 277-284

Natcher, D. C., M. Calef, O. Huntington, S. Trainor, H. P. Huntington, L. DeWilde, S. Rupp and F. Stuart Chapin III. 2007 Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska. Ecology and Society 12 (1): 7. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art7/.

Rupp, T.S., X. Chen, M. Olson, and A.D. McGuire. 2007 Sensitivity of simulated boreal fire dynamics to uncertainties in climate drivers. Earth Interactions 11(3):1-21. 2007. DOI:10.1175/EI189.1

Chapin, F. S., III, S. F. Trainor, O. Huntington, A. L. Lovecraft, E. Zavaleta, D. C. Natcher, A. D. McGuire, J. L. Nelson, L. Ray, M. Calef, N. L. Fresco, H. Huntington, T. S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, and R. L. Naylor. 2008 Increasing wildfire in the boreal forest: Causes, consequences, and pathways to potential solutions of a wicked problem. BioScience. Vol. 58 No. 6 p531-540 doi:10.1641/B580609

Cheyette, D.L., T.S. Rupp, and S. Rodman. 2008 Developing fire behavior fuel models for the wildland-urban interface in Anchorage, Alaska. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 23(3) p.149-155

Kurkowski, T.A., D.H. Mann, T.S. Rupp, and D.L. Verbyla. 2008 Relative importance of different secondary successional pathways in an Alaskan boreal forest. Can. J. For. Res. 38(7): 1911-1923. doi:10.1139/X08-039.

McGuire, A.D., J. Walsh, J.S. Kimball, J.S. Clein, S.E. Euskirchen, S. Drobot, U.C. Herzfeld, J. Maslanik, R.B. Lammers, M.A. Rawlins, C.J. Vorosmarty, T.S. Rupp, W. Wu, and M. Calef.. 2008 The Western Arctic Linkage Experiment (WALE): Overview and Synthesis. Earth Interactions, Vol. 12, Paper No. 7, pp 1-13, DOI: 10.1175/2008EI239.1.

Brubaker, L.B., P.E. Higuera, T.S. Rupp, M. Olson, P.M. Anderson, and F.S. Hu. 2009. Linking sediment charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of past fire regime change in Alaskan boreal forests. Ecology. In press.

Trainor, S.F., M. Calef, D. Natcher, F.S. Chapin III, A.D. McGuire, O. Huntington, P. Duffy, T.S. Rupp, L. DeWilde, M. Kwart, N. Fresco, and A.L. Lovecraft. 2009 Vulnerability and adaptation to climate-related fire impacts in rural and urban interior Alaska. Polar Research 28: 100-118. doi:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00101.x

Books:

Book Chapters:

Yarie, J. and S. Rupp. 1997. Components of a geographic forest ecosystem model used for potential management of interior Alaska's forests. Pages 182-192 in P. Hajjila , M. Heino and E. Puranen, editors. Forest management for bioenergy. The Finnish Forest Research Institute,

Csiszar, I., C.O. Justice, A.D. McGuire, M.A. Cochrane, D.P. Roy, F. Brown, S.G. Conard, P.G.H. Frost, L. Giglio, C. Elvidge, M.D. Flannigan, E. Kasischke, D.J. McRae, T.S. Rupp, B.J. Stocks, and D.L. Verbyla. 2004. Land use and fires. Chapter 19 (pages 329-350) in Land Change Science: Observing Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. Edited by Gutman, G., Janetos, A.C., Justice, C.O., Moran, E.F., Mustard, J.F., Rindfuss, R.R., Skole, D., Turner II, B.L., and Cochrane, M.A. Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Juday, G.P., V. Barber, E. Vaganov, S. Rupp, S. Sparrow, J. Yarie, H. Linderholm, E. Berg, R. D'Arrigo, P. Duffy, O. Eggertsson, V.V. Furyaev, E.H. Hogg, S. Huttunen, G. Jacoby, V.Ya. Kaplunov, S. Kellomaki, A.V. Kirdyanov, C.E. Lewis, S. Linder, M.M. Naurzbaev, F.I. Pleshikov, Yu.V. Savva, O.V. Sidorova, V.D. Stakanov, N.M. Tchebakova, E.N. Valendik, E.F. Vedrova, and M. Wilmking. 2005. Forests, Land Management, Agriculture. In Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, Arctic Council, Cambridge University Press, pages 781-862.

Kasischke, E. S., T. S. Rupp, and D. L. Verbyla. 2006. Fire trends in the Alaskan boreal forest. Pages 285-301 in F. S. Chapin, III, M. W. Oswood, K. Van Cleve, L. A. Viereck, and D. L. Verbyla, editors. Alaska's Changing Boreal Forest. Oxford University Press, New York.

Keane, R.E., G.J. Cary, I.D. Davies, M.D. Flannigan, R.H. Gardener, S. Lavorel, J.M. Lenihan, C. LI, T.S. Rupp. 2007. Understanding Global Fire Dynamics by Classifying and Comparing Spatial Models of Vegetation and Fire. Pages 139-148 in: Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World. Edited by J. Canadell, D. Pataki, L. Pitelka. Springer-Verlag.

Conference Proceedings:

Rupp, S. 1996. Landscape-level modeling of spruce seedfall using a geographic information system. January 21-26, 1996. (National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa Barbara, California, USA).

Rupp, S. 1997. A geographic model of white spruce establishment patterns in interior Alaska: applied use and management implications. July 8-11, 1997.

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Thesis and Dissertations:

Rupp, T.S. 1998. Boreal forest regeneration dynamics: modeling early forest establishment patterns in interior Alaska. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Alaska Fairbanks. Fairbanks, Alaska, USA.