A5072635820- Forest Management and Policy
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Environmental Conservation and Management
University of Northern British Columbia
2015-2024
ETH Zurich
2009-2018
Institute of Forest Ecology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2013-2015
Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
2013
The University of Queensland
2007-2011
University of Calgary
2004-2005
University of Toronto
1999-2000
Bark beetles are a key forest disturbance agent worldwide, with their impact shaped by climate, susceptibility, and interactions other disturbances such as windthrow fire. There is ample evidence of the among these factors at small spatial temporal scales, but projecting long‐term landscape‐scale impacts remains challenge. We developed spatially explicit model European spruce bark beetle ( Ips typographus ) dynamics that incorporates phenology susceptibility integrated it in...
Predicting abundance across a species' distribution is useful for studies of ecology and biodiversity management. Modeling survey data in relation to environmental variables can be powerful method extrapolating abundances and, consequently, calculating total ultimately trends. Research this area has demonstrated that models are often unstable produce spurious estimates, until recently our ability remove detection error limited the development accurate models. The N-mixture model accounts...
Briner, S., R. Huber, P. Bebi, C. Elkin, D. Schmatz, and A. Grêt-Regamey. 2013. Trade-offs between ecosystem services in a mountain region. Ecology Society 18(3): 35. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05576-180335
Abstract Limiting the increase in global average temperature to 2 °C is objective of international efforts aimed at avoiding dangerous climate impacts. However, regional response terrestrial ecosystems and services that they provide under such a scenario are largely unknown. We focus on mountain forests E uropean A lps evaluate how range ecosystem ( ES ) projected be impacted warmer world, using four novel scenarios. employ three complementary forest models assess wide two climatically...
Developing adaptive forest management strategies is essential to maintain the provisioning of goods and services (FGS) under future climate change. We assessed how change affect development FGS for a diverse case-study landscape in Central Europe. Using process-based model (LandClim) we simulated dynamics range scenarios Black Forest, Germany, which shaped by various practices. focused on interdependencies between timber production diversity, most valued this region. found that conversion...
Huber, R., A. Rigling, P. Bebi, F. S. Brand, Briner, Buttler, C. Elkin, Gillet, Grêt-Regamey, Hirschi, H. Lischke, R. W. Scholz, Seidl, T. Spiegelberger, Walz, Zimmermann, and Bugmann. 2013. Sustainable land use in mountain regions under global change: synthesis across scales disciplines. Ecology Society 18(3): 36. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05499-180336
In many regions of the world, drought is projected to increase under climate change, with potential negative consequences for forests and their ecosystem services (ES). Forest thinning has been proposed as a method at least temporarily mitigating impacts, but its general applicability longer-term impacts are unclear. We use process-based forest model upscale experimental data evaluating in drought-susceptible valley interior European Alps, specific aim assessing (1) when where may be most...
Aim Forest communities in the European Central Alps are highly sensitive to climatic change. Palaeobotanical studies have demonstrated that forests rapidly expanded upslope during Holocene warm intervals and contracted when temperatures fell. However, temperature alone cannot account for important changes tree species abundance. For example, population expansion by Norway spruce (Picea abies), a dominant subalpine species, lagged suitable about 3000 years eastern 6000 western Switzerland. We...
MEPS Marine Ecology Progress Series Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsTheme Sections 335:143-153 (2007) - doi:10.3354/meps335143 Desperate larvae: influence of deferred costs and habitat requirements on selection Che Elkin1, Dustin J. Marshall2,* 1Ecology Centre/School Integrative Biology, 2School Biology/Centre for Studies, The University Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia *Corresponding...
Abstract Aim The objective of conservation planning is often to prioritize patches based on their estimated contribution metapopulation or metacommunity viability. that an individual patch makes will depend its intrinsic characteristics, such as habitat quality, well location relative other patches, connectivity. Here we systematically evaluate five value metrics determine the importance including estimate quality into metrics. Location We tested in landscapes designed represent different...
Summary Low internal energy reserves at the beginning of breeding season may impose physiological constraints on an animal's reproductive investment and alter optimal trade‐off between in reproduction somatic condition. Here we examine how energetic condition female Mountain Pine Beetles ( Dendroctonus ponderosae ) affects their investment. We starved beetles to simulate decrease that accompanies dispersal tested whether had decreased egg number size, or both. further distinguished changes...
Abstract Many organisms occupy heterogeneous landscapes that contain both barriers to movement as well corridors facilitate dispersal. The extent which such features determine population connectivity will depend on the mechanisms utilized by disperse. Here we examined interaction between landscape structure and dispersal in endemic aquatic snail, Fonscochlea accepta , fragmented artesian spring ecosystem of arid central Australia. We used frequentist Bayesian analyses microsatellite data...
The fundamental processes that influence metapopulation dynamics (extinction and recolonization) will often depend on landscape structure. Disturbances increase patch extinction rates frequently be dependent such they are spatially aggregated have an increased likelihood of occurring in some areas. Similarly, structure can organism movement, producing asymmetric dispersal between patches. Using a stochastic, explicit model, we examine how landscape‐dependent correlations disturbance...
Silvicultural site preparation methods are used as planned disturbances for counteracting soil and vegetation constraints, well facilitating successful tree regeneration growth. Understanding the possible effects of silvicultural on ecosystem evaluating an ecological disturbance can help guide selection application techniques forest management goals. This review evaluates that commonly in boreal mixedwood ecosystems agents by comparing each technique area disturbed degree biomass...
Teleost fishes of the Coregonidae are good model systems for studying postglacial evolution, adaptive radiation and ecological speciation. Of particular interest is whether repeated occurrence sympatric species pairs results from in-situ divergence a single lineage or multiple invasions one more different lineages. Here, we analysed genetic structure Baltic ciscoes (Coregonus albula complex), examining 271 individuals 8 lakes in northern Germany using 1244 polymorphic AFLP loci. Six had only...