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Displaying 1 - 10 of 63,222 Publications- Background: Despite progress in reducing industrial air pollution, rising wildfire frequency and intensity, driven in part by climate change, pose significant health risks. Accurate estimates of wildfire-generated fine particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameterAuthorsAva Orr, Claire E. Adam, Jon Graham, Zachary A. Holden, Lu Hu, Zeina Jaffar, Cindy Leary, Christopher T. Migliaccio, Katrina Mullan, Curtis Noonan, Erin O. Semmens, Shawn Urbanski, Ethan Walker, Erin L. LandguthKeywordsSourceEnvironmental Health Perspectives. 133(6): 066.Year2025
Spatial climate analogs in climate change research, impact assessment, and decision-making
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Climate adaptation requires actionable scientific information about potential climate impacts. Spatial climate analogs answer the question, ‘where does the future climate of a focal location occur today?’ Analogs provide a means to develop measures of climate change exposure and can be applied to project climate change impacts. Although analogs are the basis for empirical models, recent applications of analogs have been structured as spatial models, which can contribute distinct information compared to more commonly used nonspatial approaches. Analogs may improve our ability to communicate cli...AuthorsSvetlana V Yegorova, Solomon Z. Dobrowski, Laurie Yung, Sean A. Parks, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Kimberley T. Davis, Caitlin Littlefield, Marco P. Maneta, Carina Wyborn, Patrick Wurster, Robin Rank, Douglas Brinkerhoff, Thomas ColliganKeywordsSourceBioScience. 75: 362-378.Year2025- Everglades National Park (EVER) is located within fifty miles of Miami, Florida. Miami-Dade County is home to approximately 2.7 million people with 71.6 percent of the population identifying as Hispanic or Latino. Despite proximity to this diverse urban area, the demographics of EVER’s visitors largely do not represent the surrounding community. Conceptual frameworks of constraints can facilitate understanding of low park visitation among traditionally underserved communities; however, they have been criticized for being relatively superficial due to their predominantly quantitative modeling a...AuthorsJaclyn Fox Rushing, Elena R. Thomas, Jennifer M. Thomsen, Christopher A. Armatas, William L. RiceKeywordsSourceAnnals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2025.2493826.Year2025
- Changing fire regimes have important implications for biodiversity and challenge traditional conservation approaches that rely on historical conditions as proxies for ecological integrity. This historical-centric approach becomes increasingly tenuous under climate change, necessitating direct tests of environmental impacts on biodiversity. At the same time, widespread departures from historical fire regimes have limited the ability to sample diverse fire histories. We examined 2 areas in California’s Sierra Nevada (USA) with active fire regimes to study the responses of bird, plant, and bat co...AuthorsZachary L. Steel, Alissa M. Fogg, Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, Kate Wilkin, Brandon M. Collins, Ryan Burnett, Marc D. Meyer, Amarina Wuenschel, Scott L. StephensKeywordsSourceConservation Biology. 2025: e70079.Year2025
- Background. Wildland firefighters are exposed to hazards when working which can, and do, result in serious injury or death. Understanding the activities in which firefighters are engaged when they are injured, the hazards to which they were exposed during that activity and the resulting injury severity is critical to manage the risk of serious injury to firefighters.Aims. This study aims to provide an assessment of wildland firefighter injuries.Methods. A set of 435 severe injuries in wildland firefighters in the United States from 2019 to 2023 was classified by activity being performed, hazar...AuthorsErin J. Belval, Bradley M. Pietruszka, Alex ViktoraKeywordsSourceInternational Journal of Wildland Fire. 34: WF25038.Year2025
SmartScreen-AIS: A high-throughput qPCR chip for nationwide surveillance of aquatic invasive species
Effective wildlife conservation requires frequent and widespread data on species occurrence. With the maturation of eDNA-based monitoring - now widely recognized as sensitive, cost effective, and legally defensible - nationally coordinated eDNA strategies are beginning to take shape. Such ambitious initiatives will require eDNA analytics with the throughput and sensitivity required for surveillance of many protected, pathogenic, and invasive species across broad geographic scales. Here, we help meet this need with SmartScreen-AIS: a high-throughput qPCR (HT-qPCR) chip with 46 assays targeting ...AuthorsJohn A. Kronenberger, Taylor M. Wilcox, Michael K. SchwartzKeywordsSourceEnvironmental DNA. 7: e70144.Year2025- Open forest restoration transitions closed-canopy forests to a structure amenable to shade-intolerant species such as oak and often includes thinning or prescribed burns to promote diverse species composition. We measured how oak restoration treatments influenced ground-layer species assemblages and successional patterns in an ecologically diverse mesic hardwood forest. We tested how repeated prescribed fire, midstory herbicide applications, and the combination of shelterwood overstory harvest and prescribed fire influenced species diversity and turnover, and if species showed affinity to part...AuthorsBrandy Benz, Jodi A. Forrester, Tara L. Keyser, Cathryn H. GreenbergKeywordsSourceRestoration EcologyYear2025
- The so-called "ghost moth", also known as the puriri moth, occurs only in native forests of North Island of New Zealand. The species has a most unique life history. The eggs hatch in forest floor litter, transform to caterpillars that then select native understory hardwood trees to crawl up the trunks and burrow into the cambium, creating large cavities they seal up with a membrane. They inhabit the tree cavity for several years, transforming into pupal stages, and eventually emerging as a winged adult. The free-flying adults live for only a few days, to mate and for the females to disperse th...AuthorsBruce G. MarcotKeywordsSourceWings, Spring 2025. 48 (1): 11-15.Year2025
- We examined the relation of an Olympic Mountain (Washington, U.S.A.) whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) population to its physical and biological environments. We analyzed temperature, light, soil moisture, foliar nutrients, tree size and age, white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), plant species canopy cover, slope stability, and snow cover data to assess the dynamic nature of the whitebark pine population and plant communities since the end of the Little Ice Age around 1850 Common Era. We found that high summer temperatures, drought, and slope stability were important in controlling tr...AuthorsDavid H. Peter, Timothy B. HarringtonKeywordsSourceGen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-1026. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 364 p. (Online Only).Year2025
- Mechanical thinning is often prescribed in dry coniferous forests to reduce stand density, ladder fuels, and canopy fuels before using prescribed burning to manage surface fuels. Mechanical mastication is a tool for thinning forests where commercial thinning is not viable. We evaluated the effects of mastication-based thinning – with and without subsequent prescribed burning – on forest structure and fuels in dry coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA. We thinned stands by masticating small-diameter trees and depositing the resulting slash on the forest floor. We then used prescribed...AuthorsDavid W. Peterson, Richy J. Harrod, Erich K. Dodson, Peter L. Ohlson, Natalie C. Pawlikowski, Kathryn B. Ireland, Roger D. OttmarSourceForest Ecology and Management. 593(8): 122909.Year2025
