Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
Featured Product
LANDIS II
LANDIS is a forest landscape model designed to simulate forest growth, competition, seed dispersal succession, and disturbances (including fire, wind, harvesting, insects, global change), across large (>1 million ha) landscapes.
International Recognition
Agroforestry phytoremediation
buffer systems in the Great Lakes Basin, USA research recognized in August 2021 issue of the newsletter of the UN-FAO International Commission on Poplars and Other Fast-Growing Trees Sustaining People and the Environment
![[photo:] Pagami Creek Fire.](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_disturbance.jpg "Landscape Disturbances")
![[photo:] Landscape Scales](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_landscape_scales.jpg "Landscape Scales")
![[photo:] Little brown bat](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_conservation.jpg "Protecting Populations of Conservation or Restoration Concern")
![[photo:] Woody Crop Systems](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_woody-crop-systems.jpg "Woody Crop Systems")
![[photo:] climate Change.](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_climate_change.jpg "Climate Change")
![[photo:] Rhinelander Experimental Forest](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_rhinelanderef.jpg "Rhinelander Experimental Forest")
As the Institute of Applied Ecosystem Studies (IAES), Northern Research Station scientists are working to better integrate science with landscape-scale restoration and contemporary conservation challenges. We are assisting land managers by describing ecological change at different scales and disturbance gradients, and we develop tools that bridge site-specific experimental results to meet the broader scale information needs of policy makers and resource managers. Our research is guided by five focus areas
Research Focus Areas
- Increase resilience of forest ecosystems to extreme disturbances that alter large-scale spatial patterns
- Maintain forest ecosystem services at landscape scales using decision support tools
- Ensure populations of conservation or restoration concern remain connected in changing landscapes
- Advance renewable energy sources and pollution remediation through short rotation woody crop production systems
- Improve forest management guidelines in changing climate and atmosphere
Recent Publications
- Gustafson, Eric J.; Kern, Christel C.; Kabrick, John M. 2023. Can assisted tree migration today sustain forest ecosystem goods and services for the future?. Forest Ecology and Management
- Liang, Yu ; Gustafson, Eric J.; He, Hong S.; Serra-Diaz, Josep M.; Duveneck, Matthew J.; Thompson, Jonathan R. 2022. What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?. Global Change Biology
- Keller, Gwendolen ; Slesak, Robert ; Bronson, Dustin ; Windmuller-Campione, Marcella 2022. Effects of flooding on survival and performance of potential replacement species in black ash swamp hardwood forests. In: Jain, Theresa B.; Schuler, Thomas M. [comp.]. Foundational concepts in silviculture with emphasis on reforestation and early stand improvement - 2022 National Silviculture Workshop. Proc. RMRS-P-80. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 3 p.
- Pilipovic, Andrej ; Headlee, William L.; Zalesny, Ronald S.; Pekec, Saša ; Bauer, Edmund O. 2022. Water use efficiency of poplars grown for biomass production in the Midwestern United States. GCB Bioenergy
- Zalesny, Ronald S.; Pilipovic, Andrej 2022. Growth and Development of Short-Rotation Woody Crops for Rural and Urban Applications. Forests
Science Delivery
- 2015 NES Program description
- 2012 NES Program description
- 2011 NES Program description
Recent Scientific Presentations
| Venue Title | Presentation Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th Session of the International Poplar Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Berlin, Germany | Establishment of hybrid poplar for surface mine reclamation in the southern coalfield of West Virginia, USA | Ron Zalesny, etal | 2016 |
| North American Ornithological Conference, Washington, D.C. | Proactive Management of the Kirtland’s Warbler under Changing Environmental and Management Conditions | Donner, Deahn | 2016 |
| Face-to-Face meeting with Chippewa NF; Cass Lake, MN | Using LANDIS-II to guide management under a changing climate: a research-management collaboration on the Chippewa National Forest | Gustafson, Eric; Sturtevant, Brian | 2016 |
| 31st Annual U.S. Landscape Ecology Symposium; Asheville, NC | Using first principles to increase the robustness of forest landscape models for projecting climate change impacts | Gustafson, Eric; Miranda, Brian; Sturtevant, Brian | 2016 |
| 75th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN | Population viability analyses to evaluate post-delisting management of the Kirtland’s warbler | Donner, Deahn | 2016 |
| North American Joint Bat Working Group Meeting; St. Louis, MO | Resistance to White-Nose Syndrome in bat populations of the Northern Forest: exploring the critical disease-genotype-microbiome link. | Donner, Deahn; Marquardt, Paula | 2015 |
| 3rd Science in the Northwoods Conference; Boulder Junction, WI | Beaver management in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin | Donner, Deahn | 2015 |