Rocky Mountain Research Station

Jose M. Iñiguez

Landscape Ecologist

Phone: 928-556-2159
e-mail: jiniguez at fs.fed.us

Address:
Rocky Mountain Station
Southwest Forest Science Complex
2500 South Pine Knoll Drive
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Abbreviated Vitae

• Conduct multi-scale research projects that provide new insights into fire and wildlife habitat spatial patterns.
• Transform research results into applicable knowledge that leads to better land management.

• Stand and landscape level analysis of fire history patterns in the Santa Catalina Mountains of southeastern Arizona.
• Effects of landscape fuel arrangements and climate on fire history patterns in small mountain ranges of southeastern Arizona.
• Pre-settlement age structure response to moisture and fire history variability.
• Iniguez, J.M., Swetnam, T.W., and C.H. Baisa. 2009. Spatially and temporally variable fire regime Rincon Peak, Arizona, US. Fire Ecology 5:3-21. full text PDF
• Iniguez, J. M., T.W. Swetnam, S.R. Yool. 2008. Topography affected landscape fire history patterns in southern Arizona, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 295–303. full text PDF
• Iñiguez, J.M. 2006. Landscape fire history and age structure patterns in the sky islands of southeastern Arizona. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. Dissertation. full text PDF
• Iníguez, J.M., J.L. Ganey, P.J. Dougherty, and J.D. Bailey. 2005. Using cluster analysis and a classification and regression tree model to identify cover types in the sky islands of southeastern Arizona. Pp.195-200 in: Gottfried, G.J.; B.S. Gebow, L.G. Eskew, and C.B. Edminster, compilers. Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II. Proceedings RMRS-P-36. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Fort Collins, CO. full text PDF
• Iniguez, J. M. 2000. Cover type and structural classification in the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona Northern Arizona University: M.S. Thesis. 75 p. available from Cline Library

• Iñiguez, J.M. 2006. Effects of moisture and fire history on age structure patterns. Presentation, 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. San Diego, CA.
• Iñiguez, J.M. 2005. Understanding fire history spatial patterns. Presentation, Fire History and Climate Synthesis in Western North America. Flagstaff, AZ.
• Iñiguez, J.M. 2004. Cover types of the sky islands in southeastern Arizona. Presentation, Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: Biodiversity and Management of Madrean Archipelagos II Conference. Tucson, AZ.
• Iñiguez, J.M. 2005. The mixed fire history of Rincon Peak. Presentation, Saguaro National Park. Tucson, AZ.
• Iñiguez, J.M. 2005. La importancia de incendos historicos en el manejo contemporanio. Presentation, Nuevas Estrategias para el Manejo del Fuego en las Ecosistemas del Norte de Mexico, a Nature Conservancy workshop for park managers in Mexico. Saltillo, Cuahuila, Mexico.