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Final Citation Check

Date: 2026-07-23

Object reviewed: docs/manuscripts/fire_vase_developmental_morphology/manuscript_climate_revision_science_style.md

Bottom Line

No new main-text citations were added. The current 16-reference set is real, cited in the manuscript, and appropriately matched to the claims it supports. The manuscript remains intentionally lean: technical citations for ridge regression, blocked validation, and software packages can be added in a final supplementary methods section if those implementation details become more prominent, but they are not required for the current main-text argument.

Integrity Checks

  • In-text citation groups found: (1-3), (4), (5-7), (8), (9-11), (1-3), (12), (13), and (14-16).
  • References cited: 1 through 16.
  • Missing references for cited numbers: none.
  • Uncited references: none.
  • Abstract citations: none, consistent with the Science-style draft.
  • First-use order is correct for unique citations; repeated (1-3) later in the Results section does not disturb citation order.

Claim Fit

  • References 1-3 correctly support the broad climate-fire motivation: warming, earlier springs, anthropogenic climate effects, fuel aridity, VPD, and warming-driven fuel drying.
  • Reference 4 correctly supports the shift from final burned area to daily fire growth histories and the hazard relevance of fast daily growth.
  • References 5-7 correctly support the MODIS burned-area, FIRED event, and FIREDpy/perimeter data provenance.
  • Reference 8 correctly supports gridMET as the high-resolution gridded meteorological data source used for ecological applications in the conterminous United States.
  • References 9-11 correctly support the conceptual method framing: morphometrics/shape spaces, functional data analysis for histories or curves, and PCA/dimension reduction.
  • Reference 12 correctly supports the statement that human ignitions reshape the spatial and seasonal fire niche.
  • Reference 13 correctly supports the need for spatially explicit daily fire progression tracking.
  • References 14-16 correctly support the role of environmental controls, fuels, vegetation/topography, fire boundaries, spread constraints, and scale-dependent topographic controls.

Verified Bibliographic Records

External records checked included publisher, DOI, PubMed, USGS, NOAA, NASA, FRAMES, Nature, Springer, Wiley, MDPI, CSIRO, EPA HERO, and university bibliographic pages. The citation metadata in the manuscript matched the verified records for author lists, year, title, journal/book, volume, pages or article number, and DOI where applicable.

Remaining Pre-Submission Item

The only citation-related item left is not a scholarly-source problem: before submission, replace the placeholder repository availability note with the final archival repository DOI/accession for the derived tables, figure-generation scripts, and manuscript-generation code.