Sparkle Malone

About

Sparkle Malone is an Assistant Professor at the Yale School of the Environment and the Center for Natural Carbon Capture. Sparkle’s primary research focus is to improve our understanding of how climate and disturbance regimes influence spatial and temporal variability in ecosystem structure and function. Using remote sensing, eddy covariance, and spatial and temporal models she explores questions related to ecosystem condition, sustainability, and vulnerability to climate extremes.

Work

Yale University School of the Environment

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Assistant Professor

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Florida International University

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Assistant Professor

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USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station

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Scientist

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Education

University of Alabama

United States of America
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Ph.D Biology

University of Florida

United States of America
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M.S.

Publications

How will climate change alter the distribution of Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine?

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El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) amplifies precipitation extremes, enhancing CO

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Long-term research informs carbon source/sink dynamics in Everglades short-and long-hydroperiod marshes

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RustMapper: White Pine Blister Rust Risk Across High Elevation Forests in the Western United States

Scientific Data

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Sea-level rise and freshwater management are reshaping coastal landscapes

Journal of Environmental Management

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Resilience to Hurricanes Is High in Mangrove Blue Carbon Forests

Global Change Biology

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Methane emissions from subtropical wetlands: An evaluation of the role of data filtering on annual methane budgets

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

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Gaps in network infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions for the United States

Biogeosciences

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Addressing bias in faculty retention

Ecological Applications

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In situ adaptation and ecological release facilitate the occupied niche expansion of a non‐native Madagascan day gecko in Florida

Ecology and Evolution

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Freshwater wetland plants respond nonlinearly to inundation over a sustained period

American Journal of Botany

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Gaps in Network Infrastructure limit our understanding of biogenic methane emissions in the United States

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Understanding drivers of aquatic ecosystem metabolism in freshwater subtropical ridge and slough wetlands

Ecosphere

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Monitoring Grassland Management Effects on Soil Organic Carbon—A Matter of Scale

Agronomy

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Monitoring Grassland Management Effects on Soil Organic Carbon—A Matter of Scale

Agronomy

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Alternate furrow irrigation can maintain grain yield and nutrient content, and increase crop water productivity in dry season maize in sub-tropical climate of South Asia

Agricultural Water Management

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Intensified inundation shifts a freshwater wetland from a CO2 sink to a source

Global Change Biology

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Towards connecting biodiversity and geodiversity across scales with satellite remote sensing

Global Ecology and Biogeography

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Mixed-severity fire fosters heterogeneous spatial patterns of conifer regeneration in a dry conifer forest

Forests

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Responses of Salt Marsh Plant Rhizosphere Diazotroph Assemblages to Drought

Microorganisms

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Contrasting Photosynthetic Responses of Two Dominant Macrophyte Species to Seasonal Inundation in an Everglades Freshwater Prairie

Wetlands

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Comparison of sensible heat flux measured by large aperture scintillometer and eddy covariance in a seasonally-inundated wetland

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

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The future of subalpine forests in the Southern Rocky Mountains: Trajectories for Pinus aristata genetic lineages

PLOS ONE

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Monitoring changes in water use efficiency to understand drought induced tree mortality

Forests

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Drought resistance across California ecosystems: Evaluating changes in carbon dynamics using satellite imagery

Ecosphere

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Impacts of climate change on submerged and emergent wetland plants

Aquatic Botany

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Patterns of conifer regeneration following high severity wildfire in ponderosa pine--dominated forests of the Colorado Front Range

Forest Ecology and Management

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Sensitivity to low-temperature events: Implications for CO2 dynamics in subtropical coastal ecosystems

Wetlands

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Ecosystem resistance in the face of climate change: a case study from the freshwater marshes of the Florida Everglades

Ecosphere

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Novel approach to evaluate the dynamic variation of wind drift and evaporation losses under moving irrigation systems

Biosystems Engineering

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Seasonal patterns in energy partitioning of two freshwater marsh ecosystems in the Florida Everglades

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

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Hydrology drives Everglades ecosystem function: implications for ecosystem vulnerability to drought, energy balance, climate teleconnections and climate change

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Influence of hydroperiod on aquatic primary productivity between short-and long-hydroperiod Florida Everglades marshes

AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts

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El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) enhances CO2 exchange rates in freshwater marsh ecosystems in the Florida Everglades

PLoS One

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Integrated carbon budget models for the Everglades terrestrial-coastal-oceanic gradient: Current status and needs for inter-site comparisons

Oceanography

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Effects of simulated drought on the carbon balance of Everglades short-hydroperiod marsh

Global Change Biology

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Carbon dioxide exchange rates from short-and long-hydroperiod Everglades freshwater marsh

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

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Race and wildfire risk perceptions among rural forestland owners in north-central Florida

Society & Natural Resources

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A tool for rapid post-hurricane urban tree debris estimates using high resolution aerial imagery

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

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Modeling relationships among 217 fires using remote sensing of burn severity in southern pine forests

Remote Sensing

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Black belt landowners respond to state-sponsored wildland fire mitigation policies and programs

Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS--139. Asheville, NC: US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 25 p.

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Wildland fire risk and social vulnerability in the Southeastern United States: An exploratory spatial data analysis approach

Forest Policy and Economics

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Effect of fire size and severity on subsequent fires using differenced normalized burn ratios in pine dominated flatwood forests in Florida

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