Peer-reviewed Publications
Sayedi S.S……Hoffman, K.M. et al. 2024. Assessing Changes in Global Fire Regimes. Fire Ecology. Open access here.
Steel, Z.L., Miller, E.D.S., Ponisio, L.C., Tingley, M.W., Wilkin, K., Blakey, R. Hoffman, K.M. and Jones, G. 2023. A roadmap for pyrodiversity science. Journal of Biogeography. Available here.
Parisien, M.A., Barber, Q.E., Bourbonnais, M.L., Daniels, L.D., Flannigan, M.D., Gray, R.W., Hoffman, K.M., Jain, P., Stephens, S.L., Taylor, SW. and Whitman, E. 2023. Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s. Nature Communications Earth & Environment. Free and available here.
Margolis, E.Q., Guiterman, C. H…..Hoffman, K.M. and others. 2022. The North American Tree-ring Fire Scar Network. Ecosphere. Free and available here.
Hoffman, K.M., Christianson AC, Gray R & Daniels LD. 2022. Western Canada’s new wildfire reality needs a new approach to fire management. Environmental Research Letters. Open Access. Free and available here.
Hoffman, K.M., Christianson AC, Davis EL, Wickham SB & Trant AJ. 2022. How does cultural burning impact biodiversity? Frontiers for Young Minds. Free and available here.
Hoffman, K.M., A. Cardinal Christianson, S. Dickson-Hoyle, K. Copes-Gerbitz, W. Nikolakis, D. A. Diabo, R. McLeod, H. J. Michell, A. Al Mamun, A Zahara, N. Mauro, J. Gilchrist, R. Myers Ross & L. D. Daniels. 2022. The right to burn: Barriers and opportunities for Indigenous-led fire stewardship in Canada. Facets. Free and available here.
Hoffman, K.M., E.L. Davis, S.B Wickham, K Schang, A. Johnson, T. Larking, P.N. Lauriault, N. Quynh Le, E. Swerdfager & A.J. Trant. 2021. Conservation of Earth’s biodiversity is embedded in Indigenous fire stewardship. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. Click here for the open-access paper.
Hoffman, K.M., B.M. Starzomski, I.J.W. Giesbrecht, K.P. Lertzman & A.J. Trant. 2021. Old growth forest structure in a low-productivity hypermaritime rainforest in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Ecosphere 12(5)e03513. Access the paper here: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3513
Hoffman, K.M., S.B Wickham, W.S McInnes and B.M Starzomski. 2019. Fire exclusion destroys habitats for at-risk species in a British Columbia protected area. Fire. Access the paper here: https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/2/3/48/review_report
Hoffman, K.M., A.J. Trant, W. Nijland, and B.M. Starzomski. 2018. Ecological legacies of fire detected using plot-level measurements and LiDAR in an old growth coastal temperate rainforest. Forest Ecology and Management. Access the paper here: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1WzrP1L~GwGcLF
Heger, T.J., I.J.W. Giesbrecht, J. Gustavsen, J. del Campo, C. T. E. Kellogg, K. M. Hoffman, K. Lertzman, W. W. Mohn, and P. J. Keeling. 2017 . High-throughput environmental sequencing reveals high diversity of litter and moss associated protist communities along a gradient of drainage and tree productivity. Environmental Microbiology.
Hoffman, K.M., K.P. Lertzman and B.M. Starzomski 2017. Ecological legacies of anthropogenic burning in a British Columbia coastal temperate rain forest. Journal of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13096. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.13096/abstract
Hoffman, K. M., D.G. Gavin and B.M. Starzomski 2016. Seven hundred years of human-driven and climate-influenced fire activity in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest. Royal Society Open Science. doi:10.1098/rsos.160608. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/10/160608.article-info
Trant, A.J., W. Nijland, K.M. Hoffman, D. McLaren, D.L. Matthews, T.A. Nelson, and B.M. Starzomski 2016. Intertidal resource-use over millennia enhances forest productivity. Nature Communications 7(12491). doi:10.1038/ncomms12491. www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12491
Hoffman, K.M., D.G. Gavin, K.P. Lertzman, D. Smith, and B.M. Starzomski 2016. 13,000 years of fire history derived from soil charcoal in a British Columbia coastal temperate rainforest. Ecosphere (DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1415) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.1415/full
Hoffman, K.M. and D. Smith 2013. Late Holocene glacial activity at Bromley Glacier, Cambria Icefield, northern British Columbia Coast Mountains, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50(6):599-606. http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/toc/cjes/0/ja
Hoffman, K.M., C. Coccola, K. House, and A. Marvoort 2012. A forest in transition: The role of small-scale disturbances, The Arbutus Review 3(1): 1-22. http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/arbutus/article/view/11526
REPORTS and OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Hoffman K.M. 2023. Canada’s wildfire approach needs to shift from reactive to proactive. Opinion: The Globe and Mail.
Hoffman K.M. 2021. As climate change increases the risk of fires, Canada’s approach to wildfire management isn’t working. Opinion: The Globe and Mail.
Gray R, Hoffman K.M. & Daniels LD. 2021. Yes, we can save B.C. from the worst wildfires. Opinion: The Times Colonist.
Hoffman K.M., Davis EL, Wickham SB & Trant AJ. 2021. Supporting Indigenous-led fire stewardship can help conserve global biodiversity. Canada Wildfire Newsletter.
Wickham SB, Davis EL, Trant AJ & Hoffman K.M. 2021. Indigenous fire stewardship can help curb the biodiversity crisis. The Conversation.
Coggins S, Clason A, Burton PJB, Hoffman K.M., Hamilton E. 2021. Wildfire research and extension. BC Forest Professional.
Hoffman K.M. and L.V. Grant. 2019. The 2018-2019 Telkwa permitting system. Government Report, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Range and Natural Resource Operations 43 pp.
Hoffman, K.M., S. B. Wickham, and B. M. Starzomski. 2018. Three Management Objectives to Slow Garry Oak Meadow Encroachment and Restore Taylor's Checkerspot Habitat in Helliwell Provincial Park. Hornby Island, British Columbia. Technical Report: British Columbia Parks.
Hoffman, K.M. 2018. 13,000 years of fire activity in a temperate rainforest on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. PhD in the School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia.
Hoffman, K.M. 2017. Quest for fire. Coast Mountain Culture. The Lost Issue: Summer 2017. http://mountainculturegroup.com/how-first-nations-managed-forest-fires-bc/?platform=hootsuite
Hoffman, K.M. 2014. The Bog. The Cleanest Line.
Hoffman, K.M. 2014. Plant diversity of Mt. Edziza Provincial Park, Technical Report: British Columbia Parks.
Bremer, E., K.M. Hoffman, H. Sanguspan, and M. Gruselle. 2014. PRS probes provide a sensitive measure of soil nutrient supply diverse wetland ecosystems, Technical Report: Western AG Innovations.
Hoffman, K.M. 2012. A one hundred year re-survey and dendroglaciological investigation of late Holocene activity at Bromley Glacier, British Columbia Coast Mountains. BSc Honours Geography. University of Victoria. Victoria, British Columbia.