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Forest Response to Water Availability and Disturbance in the Western United States

Creator:

Berner, Logan T.

Abstract:

Earth’s atmosphere is unequivocally warming due to CO₂ and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities and this is having widespread impacts on forest ecosystems that provide important services to human societies. Forest ecosystems help regulate atmospheric CO2 concentrations by sequestering carbon in tree biomass and soils, which is...

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Identifying factors driving sensitivity to fragmentation in forest breeding songbirds

Creator:

Valente, Jonathon J.

Abstract:

Habitat loss and fragmentation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Fragmentation impacts landscape configuration, resulting in a larger number of patches that are smaller in size and further apart from one another. Island biogeography and metapopulation theory predict populations in these remnant patches should be smaller, have higher extinction...

Resource Type:

Dissertation