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Displaying 1 - 10 of 63,230 PublicationsEmpirical ecology to support mechanistic modelling: Different objectives, better approaches and unique benefits
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1. Modern ecological management problems are characterized by large scales, rapid environmental change, multiple stressors and conflicts between local and global conservation objectives. These problems are too complex to address with field studies alone, and statistical models that assume past system behaviours can predict future responses are risky when systems are changing rapidly. Mechanistic simulation models, though, can avoid that assumption while accommodating important natural complexities. 2. Making mechanistic models credible requires empirical studies, but traditional study topics ...AuthorsSteven F. Railsback, Cara A. Gallagher, Volker Grimm, Matthew A. McCary, Bret C. HarveySourceMethods in Ecology and EvolutionYear2025- This essay examines the important roles of growth and yield models in forest management decision-making in the Pacific Northwest United States. It outlines how these models help managers evaluate and optimize forest productivity on commercial timberlands by incorporating site indices, growth responses to silvicultural treatments like thinning, fertilization, and vegetation control, the potential impacts of climate change, and other factors. The essay reflects on how growth and yield models help forest managers optimize stand development, balance multiple objectives, and adapt to changing envir...AuthorsSukhyun Joo, Hailemariam Temesgen, Bryce Frank, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Don ReimerKeywordsSourceJournal of Forestry. 36(8): 1959.Year2025
- Innovative floodplain reconnection actions are being implemented in various river systems, with the goal of restoring natural processes that support dynamic floodplains, rivers, and aquatic ecosystems. But how effective are these restoration actions? Aquatic macroinvertebrates respond quickly to flow, substrate, and temperature changes. Therefore, we examined the response of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages to an intensive river and floodplain restoration project in the South Fork McKenzie River of western Oregon (U.S.A.) for 3 years (spring and fall each year) following implementation. T...AuthorsShannon Claeson, Rebecca L. Flitcroft, Kate MeyerKeywordsSourceRestoration EcologyYear2025
- Cut stumps can be temporary hot spots of carbon emissions due to connections to decaying root systems. Drivers of variation in stump decomposition have yet to be clearly identified, including interactions with stump sprouting, an important regeneration pathway after harvest in temperate deciduous forests. The aim of this study was to identify the effects of sprouting relative to other abiotic and biotic factors on carbon emissions from cut stumps. We measured carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) flux from the surface of cut stumps 0–4 years following a canopy gap harvest in an upland mixed-o...AuthorsMorgan L. Arteman, Jodi A. Forrester, Tara L. KeyserKeywordsSourceScience of The Total EnvironmentYear2025
- In 2016, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program collected forest and tree measurements from 149 plots in Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). Of these, 78 were remeasured plots first established in 2005, and 71 were new plots that were established to meet the Micronesia Challenge, a regional conservation initiative. We recorded 131 tree species and 280 dominant vascular plant species, including 18 invasive plant species. Invasive plant species were present in half of FSM forest area, and the vine ...AuthorsJulian Dendy, Olaf Kuegler, Ashley D. Lehman, Wendolin Roseo Marquez, Marlyter SilbanuzKeywordsSourceGen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-1035. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 64 p.Year2025
- Motivation: Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The updated version expands version 1.0 of the database by doubling the number of studies and includes substantial additional curation to the taxonomic accuracy of the records, as well as the metadata. Moreover, we now provide an R package (BioTIMEr) to facilitate use of the database. Main Types of Variables Included: The database is composed of one main data table containing the abundance records and 1...AuthorsMaria Dornelas, Laura H. Antão, Amanda E. Bates, Viviana Brambilla, Jonathan M. Chase, Cher F. Y. Chow, Ada Fontrodona‐Eslava, Anne E. Magurran, Inês S. Martins, Faye Moyes, Alban Sagouis, Samuel Adu‐Acheampong, Daniel Acquah‐Lamptey, Dušan Adam, Penelope A. Ajani, Aitor Albaina, Pablo Almaraz, Jeongseop An, Roger Sigismund Anderson, Madelaine Jean Robertson Anderson, Alexsander Z. Antunes, Ivan Arismendi, Linda Armbrecht, Pedro Aros‐Mardones, Sreejith Kalpuzha Ashtamoorthy, Narayanan Ayyappan, Gal Badihi, Joseph J. Bailey, Andrew H. Baird, Mark Edward Baird, Sreekumar Vadakkethil Balakrishnan, José António L. Barão‐Nóbrega, Adi Barash, Miguel Barbosa, Jos Barlow, Claus Bässler, Matthieu Beaumont, Natalie Beenaerts, Tiago Octavio Begot, Wallace Beiroz, Ricardo Beldade, David M. Bell, Alecia Bellgrove, Jonathan Belmaker, Lisandro Benedetti‐Cecchi, Cassandra E. Benkwitt, Pamela Medina‐van Berkum, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Matthew G. Betts, Maxwell Kelvin Billah, Anne D. Bjorkman, Magdalena Błażewicz, Christopher P. Bloch, Shane A. Blowes, Antonio Bode, Juliano A. Bogoni, Thomas Bolger, Timothy C. Bonebrake, Erik Bonsdorff, Roberta Bottarin, Luke N. Brokensha, Rob W. Brooker, Andrew J. Brooks, Helge Bruelheide, Thiago Almeida Bueno, Claire Laguionie, Mariana Lopes Campagnoli, James Cant, Erica Pellegrini Caramaschi, Alexandre Caron, Tadhg Carroll, Tancredi Caruso, Juan Carvajal‐Quintero, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Edward Castañeda‐Moya, Pedro V Castilho, Sonia Zanini Cechin, Shahar Chaikin, Uchangi Manjunatha Chandrashekara, Tory J. Chase, Chaolun Allen Chen, Jorge José Cherem, Sei‐Woong Choi, Erica M. Christensen, Alexander V Christianini, Jackson Wing Four Chu, Peter Coad, Carl Van Colen, Lise Comte, Elisabeth J. Cooper, J. Hans C. Cornelissen, Eddy Cosson, Unai Cotano, Luc Crevecoeur, Shannan Kyle Crow, Graeme S. Cumming, Vanessa S. Daga, Gabriella Damasceno, Gergana N. Daskalova, Claire H. Davies, Robert A. Davis, Frank P. Day, Sussy De‐La‐Zerda, Amy Elizabeth Deacon, Indradatta de Castro‐Arrazola, Steven Degraer, Kharran Deonarinesingh, Juan C. Diaz‐Ricaurte, Christopher R. Dickman, Tara Dirilgen, Ciaran John Dolan, J. Emmett Duffy, Timothy E. Dunn, Giselda Durigan, Ciara Dwyer, Stevan Earl, Dor Edelist, Graham John Edgar, Sally Edmondson, Ashley K. Elgin, Kari Elsa Ellingsen, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Ruth S. Eriksen, S. K. Morgan Ernest, Ruben Escribano, Paula Cabral Eterovick, Brian S. Evans, Jason D. Everett, Vesela Evtimova, Dan A. Exton, Andrew J. Fairbairn, Felipe Moreli Fantacini, Fabiano Turini Farah, Fábio Zanella Farneda, Mario E. Favila, Philippe Fernandez‐Fournier, Braulio Fernández‐Zapata, Diogo F. Ferreira, Carola Ferronato, Christopher R. du Feu, Alessandra Fidelis, David A. Fifield, Vilmar Picinatto Filho, Walter Mesquita Filho, Robert N. L. Fitt, Carlos A. H. Flechtmann, William R. Fraser, Donna L. Fraser, Lídia Freixas, John Fryxell, Garrett J. Fundakowski, Scott Stanley Gabara, Elise Gallois, Mariana García Criado, Emili García‐Berthou, Joaquim Garrabou, Andrew R. Gates, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Anna Gavioli, Tal Gavriel, Benoit Gendreau‐Berthiaume, Xingli Giam, Carina Gjerdrum, Michael Glemnitz, Jasmin Annica Godbold, Daniel Gómez‐Gras, Rodrigo Barbosa Gonçalves, Andy Goold, Richard R. Gordon, Menachem Goren, Fernando Vilas Boas Goulart, William A. GouldKeywordsSourceGlobal Ecology and Biogeography. 34(5): e70003.Year2025
- California forest land managers seek current information about tree utilization and the volume of merchantable bole wood residue produced by commercial timber harvesting. To address this need, University of Montana, Bureau of Business and Economic Research analysts investigated timber harvest utilization at active logging sites in California from 2018 through 2022. This research characterized current tree utilization, logging operations, and woody biomass left onsite after harvest. Study results were used to compute state-level utilization factors, which indicated that in California, for every...AuthorsEric A. Simmons, Lucas P. Koch, Todd A. Morgan, Erik C. Berg, Glenn A. ChristensenKeywordsSourceResour. Bull. PNW-RB-273. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 23 p. (Online only).Year2025
- 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
