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Modeling Forest Response to Changing Climate Conditions in Western North America

Creator:

Hawkins, Linnia R.

Abstract:

Forests play an integral role in the global carbon cycle, regulating the atmospheric CO₂ concentration by sequestering nearly one third of anthropogenic carbon emissions and storing carbon for centuries. Forest ecosystems are integrated into the culture, ecology, and economy of western North America, supporting wildlife habitat, local economies, recreation, and...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Simulated response of ecosystem processes to climate change in northern California and western Nevada

Creator:

McGlinchy, Maureen C.

Abstract:

In order to investigate potential climate impacts on landscape-scale ecosystem processes, I implemented a dynamic general vegetation model (DGVM) over a large domain in northern California and western Nevada on a rectangular grid of ca. 800-meter spatial resolution. I used 100 years of observed, monthly climate and nine future climate...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Interactive influences of wildfire and nonnative species on plant community succession in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Creator:

Ainsworth, Alison

Abstract:

The role of fire as a natural disturbance, its interactions with nonnative species and effects of repeated fires in the Hawaiian Islands have received little investigation. We are unsure of the role fire played in shaping forest structure and composition as well as affecting evolutionary processes of the native biota....

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis