A5068370002- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest ecology and management
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Plant and animal studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2016-2025
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
2023
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2016-2019
Ecological Society of America
2016-2019
Graves Gilbert Clinic
2019
University of Colorado Boulder
2019
Montana Institute on Ecosystems
2019
Montana State University
2019
James Cook University
2017
Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
2017
Species distribution models (SDMs) are numerical tools that combine observations of species occurrence or abundance with environmental estimates. They used to gain ecological and evolutionary insights predict distributions across landscapes, ...Read More
Biome-scale disturbances by eruptive herbivores provide valuable insights into species interactions, ecosystem function, and impacts of global change. We present a conceptual framework using one system as model, emphasizing interactions across levels biological hierarchy spatiotemporal scales. Bark beetles are major natural disturbance agents in western North American forests. However, recent bark beetle population eruptions have exceeded the frequencies, impacts, ranges documented during...
Ecosystem management is driven by explicit goals, executed policies, protocols, and practices, made adaptable monitoring research based on our best understanding of the ecological interactions processes necessary to sustain ecosystem composition, structure, function. In recent years, sustainability has become an explicitly stated, even legislatively mandated, goal natural resource agencies. practice, however, approaches have often focused maximizing short‐term yield economic gain rather than...
Disturbance regimes are changing rapidly, and the consequences of such changes for ecosystems linked social‐ecological systems will be profound. This paper synthesizes current understanding disturbance with an emphasis on fundamental contributions to contemporary landscape ecosystem ecology, then identifies future research priorities. Studies led insights about heterogeneity, scale, thresholds in space time catalyzed new paradigms ecology. Because they create vegetation patterns,...
▪ Abstract Landscape ecology focuses on the reciprocal interactions between spatial pattern and ecological processes, it is well integrated with ecology. The field has grown rapidly over past 15 years. persistent influence of land-use history natural disturbance contemporary ecosystems become apparent. Development metrics largely stabilized, they are widely used to relate landscape responses. Analyses conducted at multiple scales have demonstrated importance for many taxa, spatially mediated...
Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, this trend will continue response to further warming. As a consequence, wildland–urban interface is projected experience substantially higher risk of climate-driven fires coming decades. Although many plants, animals, ecosystem services benefit from fire, it unknown how ecosystems respond burning Policy management focused primarily on specified resilience approaches aimed at resistance...
The rapid anthropogenic climate change that is being experienced in the early twenty-first century intimately entwined with health and functioning of biosphere. Climate impacting ecosystems through changes mean conditions variability, coupled other associated such as increased ocean acidification atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. It also interacts pressures on ecosystems, including degradation, defaunation fragmentation. There a need to understand ecological dynamics these impacts,...
Climate change is likely to alter wildfire regimes, but the magnitude and timing of potential climate-driven changes in regional fire regimes are not well understood. We considered how occurrence, size, spatial location large fires might respond climate projections Greater Yellowstone ecosystem (GYE) (Wyoming), a wildland dominated by conifer forests characterized infrequent, high-severity fire. developed suite statistical models that related monthly data (1972-1999) occurrence size >200 ha...
Landscape connectivity refers to the functional relationship among habitat patches, owing spatial contagion of and movement responses organisms landscape structure. Heterogeneous landscapes provide a particular challenge for modelling population-level fragmentation, because individuals may be utilizing multiple habitats varying degrees across landscape. We apply neutral models understand how species' affinities interacted with structure (i.e., abundance, distribution, quality as measured by...
Within the next 50 to 100 years, support and maintenance of an extended human family 8 11 billion people will be difficult at best. The authors this Policy Forum describe changes that are required if we hope meet needs aspirations humans while improving health our planet9s ecosystems. Problems as diverse disease transmission global climate change have benefited substantially from advances in ecology. Such set stage for emergence a proactive ecological science which social political...
Abstract. A map of burn severity resulting from the 1988 fires that occurred in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) was derived Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery and used to assess isolation burned areas, heterogeneity resulted burning under moderate severe conditions, relationship between fire size. The majority severely areas were within close proximity (50 200 m) unburned or lightly suggesting few sites are very far potential sources propagules for plant reestablishment. Fires conditions...
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 affected >250000 ha, creating a mosaic burn severities across the landscape and providing an ideal opportunity to study effects fire size pattern on postfire succession. We asked whether vegetation responses differed between small large burned patches within fire-created in National Park (YNP) evaluated influence spatial patterning vegetation. Living (1 ha), moderate (70–200 (500–3600 ha) patch at each three geographic locations was sampled annually from 1990...
As cities warm and the need for climate adaptation strategies increases, a more detailed understanding of cooling effects land cover across continuum spatial scales will be necessary to guide management decisions. We asked how tree canopy impervious surface interact influence daytime nighttime summer air temperature, vary with scale at which land-cover data are analyzed (10-, 30-, 60-, 90-m radii). A bicycle-mounted measurement system was used sample temperature every 5 m along 10 transects...