Paul Henne, Ph.D.
Paul Henne studies the impacts of environmental change on forest ecosystems. His research aims to understand how climate change, wildfire, and management regimes interact to affect tree species distributions and carbon stocks in the forests of the Rocky Mountains.
Professional Experience
2015-present, Research Ecologist, U.S. Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, CO, USA
2014-2015, Oberassistent, Paleoecology, Institute of Plant Sciences, and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland
2008-2014, Postdoc, Paleoecology, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland
2007-2008, Postdoc, Paleoecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Education and Certifications
PhD, Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
BS, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Michigan, 1999
Science and Products
Understanding long-term drivers of vegetation change and stability in the Southern Rocky Mountains with paleoecological data and ecological models
Drought and Disturbances as Drivers of Long-Term Ecological Transformation and Risk
Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA (data release)
Simulated annual area burned for eleven extensively forested ecoregions in the western United States for 1980 - 2099
Data inputs and outputs for simulations of species distributions in response to future fire size and climate change in the boreal-temperate ecotone of northeastern China
Landscape inputs and simulation output for the LANDIS-II model in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Data release for: Spatially explicit reconstruction of post-megafire forest recovery through landscape modeling
Pre-fire biomass, burn severity, biomass consumption, and fire perimeter data for the 1987 Black Dragon Fire in China
Data release for: Evaluating k-nearest neighbor (kNN) imputation models for species-level aboveground forest biomass mapping in northeast China
Data release for estimating soil respiration in a subalpine landscape using point, terrain, climate and greenness data
Simulating past and future fire impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems
Pollen in polar ice implies eastern Canadian forest dynamics diverged from climate after European settlement
Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA
An aridity threshold model of fire sizes and annual area burned in extensively forested ecoregions of the western USA
A new indicator approach to reconstruct agricultural land use in Europe from sedimentary pollen assemblages
Large fires or small fires, will they differ in affecting shifts in species composition and distributions under climate change?
Alpine glacier reveals ecosystem impacts of Europe's prosperity and peril over the last millennium
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)
The changes in species composition mediate direct effects of climate change on future fire regimes of boreal forests in northeastern China
Increased burning in a warming climate reduces carbon uptake in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem despite productivity gains
Spatially explicit reconstruction of post-megafire forest recovery through landscape modeling
A critical assessment of human-impact indices based on anthropogenic pollen indicators
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
Science and Products
Understanding long-term drivers of vegetation change and stability in the Southern Rocky Mountains with paleoecological data and ecological models
Drought and Disturbances as Drivers of Long-Term Ecological Transformation and Risk
Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA (data release)
Simulated annual area burned for eleven extensively forested ecoregions in the western United States for 1980 - 2099
Data inputs and outputs for simulations of species distributions in response to future fire size and climate change in the boreal-temperate ecotone of northeastern China
Landscape inputs and simulation output for the LANDIS-II model in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Data release for: Spatially explicit reconstruction of post-megafire forest recovery through landscape modeling
Pre-fire biomass, burn severity, biomass consumption, and fire perimeter data for the 1987 Black Dragon Fire in China
Data release for: Evaluating k-nearest neighbor (kNN) imputation models for species-level aboveground forest biomass mapping in northeast China
Data release for estimating soil respiration in a subalpine landscape using point, terrain, climate and greenness data
Simulating past and future fire impacts on Mediterranean ecosystems
Pollen in polar ice implies eastern Canadian forest dynamics diverged from climate after European settlement
Changes in wildfire occurrence and risk to homes from 1990 through 2019 in the Southern Rocky Mountains, USA
An aridity threshold model of fire sizes and annual area burned in extensively forested ecoregions of the western USA
A new indicator approach to reconstruct agricultural land use in Europe from sedimentary pollen assemblages
Large fires or small fires, will they differ in affecting shifts in species composition and distributions under climate change?
Alpine glacier reveals ecosystem impacts of Europe's prosperity and peril over the last millennium
8,000 years of climate, vegetation, fire and land-use dynamics in the thermo-mediterranean vegetation belt of northern Sardinia (Italy)
The changes in species composition mediate direct effects of climate change on future fire regimes of boreal forests in northeastern China
Increased burning in a warming climate reduces carbon uptake in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem despite productivity gains
Spatially explicit reconstruction of post-megafire forest recovery through landscape modeling
A critical assessment of human-impact indices based on anthropogenic pollen indicators
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.