A5010328267- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Forest ecology and management
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Forest Management and Policy
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2017-2025
Hudson Institute
2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2018
In the Great Plains of central United States, water resources for human and aquatic life rely primarily on surface runoff local recharge from rangelands that are under rapid transformation to woodland by encroachment Eastern redcedar (redcedar; Juniperus virginiana) trees. this synthesis, current understanding impact budget available non-ecosystem use reviewed. Existing studies concluded conversion herbaceous-dominated rangeland increases precipitation loss canopy interception vegetation...
In the United States, afforestation of grasslands can be perceived a cost-effective strategy for sequestering additional carbon to generate credits sought by governments, corporations, and other stakeholders meeting their decarbonization targets. However, native grasslands, particularly in U.S. Great Plains, lead heightened vulnerability wildfires, loss critical habitat ecosystem services, potential reduced net storage over long term despite use buffer pools, if disrupts sequestration...
In the United States, afforestation of grasslands can be perceived a cost-effective strategy for sequestering additional carbon to generate credits sought by governments, corporations, and other stakeholders meeting their decarbonization targets. However, native grasslands, particularly in U.S. Great Plains, lead heightened vulnerability wildfires, loss critical habitat ecosystem services, potential reduced net storage over long term despite use buffer pools, if disrupts sequestration...
Abstract Afforestation is often viewed as the purposeful planting of trees in historically nonforested grasslands, but an unintended consequence woody encroachment, which should be considered part afforestation process. In North America's temperate grassland biome, Eastern redcedar ( Juniperus virginiana L.) a native species used tree plantings that aggressively invades absence controlling processes. Cedar well‐studied encroacher, little known about degree to cedar windbreaks, are advocated...
Abstract Wildfires are ecosystem‐level drivers of structure and function in many vegetated biomes. While numerous studies have emphasized the benefits fire to ecosystems, large wildfires also been associated with loss ecosystem services shifts vegetation abundance. The size number increasing across a regions, yet outcomes wildfire on at large‐scales still largely unknown. We introduce an exhaustive analysis wildfire‐scale response North America's grassland biome. use 18 years newly released...
Abstract Understanding how extreme drought alters spatial patterns and temporal stability in grassland biomass will become increasingly important by the end of century when climate model forecasts suggest events occur more frequently. In landscapes where grazing is driven fire (termed pyric herbivory), above‐ground plant at landscape scales typically coincides with greater variability across local communities (time‐since‐fire patches), whereas within associated lower stability. We assess...
Populus deltoides is considered to be a weak resprouter and highly susceptible wildfire, but few post‐wildfire studies have tracked P. response resprouting within the Great Plains of North America. Following wildfire in southwestern Kansas, U.S.A., we surveyed burned unburned areas cottonwood riparian forest along Cimarron River that included major understory invader, tamarisk ( Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb.). We tested following hypotheses, which are consistent with current understanding...
Abstract A modern challenge for conservation biology is to assess the consequences of policies that adhere assumptions stationarity (e.g., historic norms) in an era global environmental change. Such may result unexpected and surprising levels mitigation given future climate‐change trajectories, especially as agriculture looks protected areas buffer against production losses during periods extremes. We assessed potential impact scenarios on rates at which grasslands enrolled Conservation...