A5081651266- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest ecology and management
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine animal studies overview
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
The Nature Conservancy
2007-2009
Virginia Tech
2007
Virginia Department of Education
2007
Winrock International (United States)
2007
Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural solutions” (NCS): 20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage avoid greenhouse gas emissions across forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. show NCS provide over one-third the cost-effective needed between now 2030...
Limiting climate warming to <2°C requires increased mitigation efforts, including land stewardship, whose potential in the United States is poorly understood. We quantified of natural solutions (NCS)—21 conservation, restoration, and improved management interventions on agricultural lands—to increase carbon storage avoid greenhouse gas emissions States. found a maximum 1.2 (0.9 1.6) Pg CO2e year−1, equivalent 21% current net annual At market prices (USD 10 per Mg CO2e), 299 Tg year−1 could...
Quasi-experimental methods increasingly are used to evaluate the impacts of conservation interventions by generating credible estimates counterfactual baselines. These generally require large samples for statistical comparisons, presenting a challenge evaluating innovative policies implemented within few pioneering jurisdictions. Single jurisdictions often studied using comparative methods, which rely on analysts' selection best case comparisons. The synthetic control method (SCM) offers one...
Abstract Background Extensive drainage of peatlands in the southeastern United States coastal plain for purposes agriculture and timber harvesting has led to large releases soil carbon as dioxide (CO 2 ) due enhanced peat decomposition. Growth mechanisms that provide financial incentives reducing emissions from land use land-use change could increase funding hydrological restoration reduces CO these ecosystems. Measuring respiration physical drivers across a range site characteristics...
Projects to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) are designed carbon through avoided degradation, in many cases, produce additional community biodiversity conservation co-benefits. While these co-benefits can be significant, quantifying impacts has been challenging, most projects use simple species presence demonstrate positive impact. Some of the same tools applied quantification climate mitigation benefits have relevance potential application estimating for...
Abstract Accurately assessing forest structure and productivity is critical to making timely management decisions monitoring plant communities. This study aims evaluate the prediction accuracy of site-level stand biomass tables from diameter distribution models. The efficacy single Weibull function two finite mixture models was compared for six species groups on three mixed-hardwood sites in eastern Tennessee, USA. To model performance, types stand/biomass were generated. first type...
In the first comprehensive survey of tern colonies in Honduras Bay Islands, 46 cays were surveyed 2005 and 2006 three species terns observed nesting on ten individual cays. Apparent colony turnover was high between years for Least (Sternula antillarum) Roseate (Sterna dougallii) Terns, from 71% to 100%, respectively. The nest records Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus) are documented.
Dispersal and establishment of new breeding populations Sitta pusilla (Brown-headed Nuthatch) outside its historic range in Virginia have been recorded since the 1960s. We systematically gathered published unpublished occurrences Brown-headed Nuthatches beyond their from 1966 to 2019 evaluated local landscape characteristics sites these areas. expanded distribution into 29 counties, with confirmed and/or sustained observations over more than 1 year at 38 16 counties (26 Piedmont 10 counties;...