Turbulence measurements for very stable conditions near the surface are contrasted
among three sites: a high altitude basin during winter with grass or snow-covered
grass, a broad valley with complex agricultural land use, and a more narrow valley that is
influenced by a valley cold pool and cold air drainage....
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Stable and Weak-Wind Conditions
Larry Mahrt · Christoph Thomas · ScottRichardson ·
Nelson Seaman
Turbulence measurements for very stable conditions near the surface are contrasted
among three sites: a high altitude basin during winter with grass or snow-covered
grass, a broad valley with complex agricultural land use, and a more narrow valley that is
influenced by a valley cold pool and cold air drainage....
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Turbulence for Very Stable and Weak-
Wind Conditions
Larry Mahrt, Christoph Thomas, ScottRichardson, Nelson
The global terrestrial carbon sink offsets one-third of the world’s fossil fuel emissions, but the strength of this sink is highly sensitive to large-scale extreme events. In 2012, the contiguous United States experienced exceptionally warm temperatures and the most severe drought since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, resulting...
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surface air temperatures during drought. Geophys Res
Lett 41(22):7891–7897.
29. Richardson AD, et al
The global terrestrial carbon sink offsets one-third of the world’s fossil fuel emissions, but the strength of this sink is highly sensitive to large-scale extreme events. In 2012, the contiguous United States experienced exceptionally warm temperatures and the most severe drought since the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s, resulting...
The exchange of carbon dioxide is a key measure of ecosystem metabolism and a critical intersection
between the terrestrial biosphere and the Earth’s climate. Despite the general agreement that
the terrestrial ecosystems in North America provide a sizeable carbon sink, the size and distribution
of the sink remain uncertain. We...
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31.82 -110.87 WSA Scott et al., 2009
US-Ton Tonzi Ranch 38.43 -120.97 WSA Ma et al., 2007
CA-Let
The exchange of carbon dioxide is a key measure of ecosystem metabolism and a critical intersection
between the terrestrial biosphere and the Earth’s climate. Despite the general agreement that
the terrestrial ecosystems in North America provide a sizeable carbon sink, the size and distribution
of the sink remain uncertain. We...
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America
ingfeng Xiaoa,∗, Scott V. Ollingera, Steve Frolkinga, George C. Hurttb, David Y
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is the largest
and most variable component of the global terrestrial carbon
cycle. Repeatable and accurate monitoring of terrestrial
GPP is therefore critical for quantifying dynamics in
regional-to-global carbon budgets. Remote sensing provides high frequency observations of terrestrial ecosystems and is
widely used to monitor and...
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, M., Friedl, M. A., Richardson, A. D., Kiely, G., Cescatti, A., Law, B. E.,
Wohlfahrt, G., Gielen, B
To address patterns of genetic connectivity in a mass-aggregating marine fish, we analyzed genetic variation in
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), microsatellites, and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for Nassau grouper (Epinephelus
striatus). We expected Nassau grouper to exhibit genetic differentiation among its subpopulations due to its reproductive
behavior and retentive oceanographic conditions...
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, Richard S. Nemeth4,
Scott A. Heppell5, Phillippe G. Bush6, Alfonso Aguilar-Perera7, John A. B. Claydon8
Stressors associated with human activities interact in complex ways to affect marine ecosystems,
yet we lack spatially explicit assessments of cumulative impacts on ecologically and
economically key components such as marine predators. Here we develop a metric of
cumulative utilization and impact (CUI) on marine predators by combining electronic tracking...
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. Science 296, 1692-1694 (2002).
71 Edwards, M. & Richardson, A. J. Impact of climate change on marine
DIRECTOR’S NOTES:
No Exit is a timeless tale set circa World War II. Written in 1944 during the German occupation of France, this existentialist drama imagines what happens after death --- and the punishment that might be waiting for the damned. There are no torture devices in this version of...
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Kashuba - Box Office Manager
Ken Richardson - Stage Production Coordinator
Arin Dooley - Office
This paper examines the sources of uncertainty for the Forced Diffusion (FD) chamber soil
respiration (R[subscript s]) measurement technique and demonstrates a protocol for uncertainty quantification that
could be appropriate with any soil flux technique. Here we sought to quantify and compare the three primary
sources of uncertainty in R[subscript...
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; Richardson et al., 2006; Schmidt et al., 2012]. Uncertainty for ecosystem
fluxes can be partitioned into (1
The ¹⁴CO₂ composition of plant and soil respiration can be used to determine the residence time of photosynthetically fixed carbon before it is released back to the atmosphere. To estimate the residence time of actively cycled carbon in a temperate forest, we employed two approaches for estimating the Δ¹⁴CO₂ of...
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. Desai4, John B. Miller5,6,
and Scott J. Lehman7
1Department of Crops and Soil Science, Oregon State
Keywords: Spruce Production Division, World War One, IWW, Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumberman, Aircraft production, Wobblies, Pacific Northwest, WWI, Spruce
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had already set out to destroy."
John Richardson points out in an article about the Everett
HARNEY COUNTY HISTORY PROJECT
AV-Oral History #45 - Sides A/B
Subject: Henry Otley
Date: June 18, 1973
Place: Otley Home - Diamond, Oregon
Interviewers: Pauline Braymen & Marcus Haines
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the
school.
PAULINE: Yeah, I think Velfa Richardson was telling us that Hendricks was her
The bedrock of Thetis, Kuper, and seven adjacent islands and
islets of British Columbia's Gulf Islands consists of four Late Cretaceous
(Campanian) formations of the Nanaimo Group. The four, from
oldest to youngest, are the Cedar District, De Courcy, Northumberland,
and Geoffrey Formations.
The formations vary greatly in thickness but...
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, Scott, Leech, Dayman, Hudson, Ragged, and Miami (Plate 1),
may be reached only by private boat
Invasions have increased the size of regional species pools, but are typically assumed to reduce native diversity.
However, global-scale tests of this assumption have been elusive because of the focus on exotic species richness,
rather than relative abundance. This is problematic because low invader richness can indicate invasion resistance by...
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species introduction rates are the highest (Balmford
et al., 2001; Scott et al., 2001; Sax et al., 2002
Mammalian cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) is a mononuclear non-heme iron protein that catalyzes 2 the conversion of cysteine (Cys) to cysteine sulfinic acid (CSA) by an unclarified mechanism. 3 One structural study revealed a Cys-persulfenate (or Cys-persulfenic acid) formed in the active 4 site, but quantum mechanical calculations have been used...
BACKGROUND: On the basis of the 2014 guidelines for hypertension therapy in the United States,
many eligible adults remain untreated. We projected the cost-effectiveness of treating
hypertension in U.S. adults according to the 2014 guidelines.
METHODS: We used the Cardiovascular Disease Policy Model to simulate drug-treatment and
monitoring costs, costs...
Sedoheptulose 7-phosphate cyclases (SH7PCs) encompass three enzymes involved in producing the core cyclitol structures of pseudoglycosides and similar bioactive natural products. One such enzyme is ValA from Streptomyces hygroscopicus subsp. jinggangensis 5008 which makes 2-epi-5-epi-valiolone as part of the biosynthesis of the agricultural antifungal agent validamycin A. We present, as...
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. Scott, and K. Cowtan. (2010) Features and development
of Coot, Acta Crystallogr., Sect. D: Biol
Approximately 23 square miles of the east-central part
of the Tendoy Range are included in the thesis area which
lies three miles west of Dell, Montana.
Rocks ranging in age from Late Mississippian to Recent
are exposed in the study area. The upper Paleozoic section
includes approximately 4,200 feet (1,281...
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termed Brazer (Richardson, 1913) in
south-central Idaho. At the type locality, on a ridge
above Cabin
A semi-parametric PAR diffuse radiation model
was developed using commonly measured climatic variables
from 108 site-years of data from 17 AmeriFlux sites. The
model has a logistic form and improves upon previous efforts
using a larger data set and physically viable climate
variables as predictors, including relative humidity, clearness
index,...
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of Forest Ecosystems and Society College of Forestry, Oregon State University, 321 Richardson Hall
This research examines the effect of recent landownership changes and new management stewardship
mechanisms (e.g., forest certification and working forest conservation easements) on disturbance rates in Maine
forests. We quantify forest disturbance rates between 2000 and 2007 and forest cover type composition in 2007,
as detected by Landsat Thematic Mapper...
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Scott, 2005). An FIA plot
will usually fall within a 3x3 TM pixel block (90m x 90m), but due to GPS
Intensive cultivation of native grassland for dryland agriculture continuously depleted soil organic carbon (SOC) and nutrients. In 2010, we evaluated the influence of 80 yr of crop residue and nutrient management practices on SOC and N in 0- to 60-cm soil depth profiles in conventionally tilled winter wheat (Triticum aestivum...
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decomposition and nutrient mineralization often decreases with increasing C:N ratio (Scott and 8
Binkley, 1997
Ecological niche models can be a useful tool to identify candidate reintroduction sites for endangered
species but have been infrequently used for this purpose. In this paper, we (1) develop activity-specific
ecological niche models (nesting, roosting, and feeding) for the critically endangered California condor
(Gymnogyps californianus) to aid in reintroduction...
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., Peterson,
A.T., Phillips, S.J., Richardson, K., Scachetti-Pereira, R., Schapire, R.E., Soberón, J
Non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) in plant tissue are frequently quantified to make inferences about plant responses to environmental conditions. Laboratories publishing estimates of NSC of woody plants use many different methods to evaluate NSC. We asked whether NSC estimates in the recent literature could be quantitatively compared among studies. We also...
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. Quentin1,2,46, Elizabeth A. Pinkard1, Michael G. Ryan3,4,5, David T. Tissue2, L. Scott Baggett5,
Henry D
Predicting the net effects on the carbon and water
balance of semi-arid forests under future conditions depends
on ecosystem processes responding to changes in
soil and atmospheric drought. Here we apply a combination
of field observations and soil–plant–atmosphere modeling
(SPA) to study carbon and water dynamics in a regenerating
ponderosa...
Feeding cows flaxseed rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids has been shown to decrease the proportion of saturated fatty acids and increase the proportion of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in milk. Consuming products enriched in n-3 PUFAs have beneficial effects to human health; thus, feeding cows flaxseed could potentially increase...
We analyzed the impact of amenity and biodiversity protection as mandated in national forest plans on the implementation of hazardous fuel reduction treatments aimed at protecting the wildland urban interface (WUI) and restoring fire resilient forests. We used simulation modeling to delineate areas on national forests that can potentially transmit...
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, Forest Ecosystems and Society, 321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Portland State University
Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species’ threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that...
An ancient delta complex is partly recorded by the upper seven
formations of the Cretaceous Nanaimo Group exposed on Mayne and
Samuel Islands of southwestern British Columbia. Features especially
suggestive of deltaic sedimentation here are: upward-coarsening
marine to fluvial sequences, cyclic repetition of facies, subaqueous
slumping, fluvial-marine interfingering, facies changes,...
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(modified atter Richardson, 1872, 1878; Mc Le Ilan,
1927; Usher, 1952; Geologic Map of Canada, 1962)
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Clastic sedimentary rocks of the Nanaimo Group on Saltspring Island, British Columbia are Late Cretaceous in age, overlie a deformed and intruded Paleozoic basement complex, and consist of
eight formations. These eight formations, from oldest to youngest, are the Comox, Haslam, Extension-Protection, Cedar District, De Courcy, Northumberland, Geoffrey, and Spray...
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Point, Walker Hook, Athol Peninsula, Long
Harbor,
Scott Point, Welbury Point, and Ganges Harbor on the
Lateral stirring is a basic oceanographic phenomenon affecting the distribution of physical, chemical, and biological fields. Eddy stirring at scales on the order of 100 km (the mesoscale) is fairly well understood and explicitly represented in modern eddy-resolving numerical models of global ocean circulation. The same cannot be said for...
Eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis involves ~200 assembly
factors, but how these contribute to ribosome
maturation is poorly understood. Here, we
identify a network of factors on the nascent 60S subunit
that actively remodels preribosome structure. At its hub is
Rsa4, a direct substrate of the force-generating ATPase
Rea1. We show that...
Pyrodinium bahamense Plate 1906 is a tropical to subtropical dinoflagellate that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP). Based on differences in the morphology of the motile stage, as well as geographic distribution, this species was separated into two varieties, the toxic var. compressum and the non-toxic var. bahamense by Steidinger...
Natural gas extraction, often referred to as “fracking,” has increased rapidly in the U.S. in recent years. To address potential health impacts, passive air samplers were deployed in a rural community heavily affected by the natural gas boom. Samplers were analyzed for 62 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Results were grouped...
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authors thank Glenn Wilson, Ricky Scott, Jorge Padilla, Gary Points and Melissa McCartney of 392
the OSU
The presence of low-lying stratocumulus clouds and fog has been known to modify biophysical and ecological properties in coastal California where forests are frequently shaded by low-lying clouds or immersed in fog during otherwise warm and dry summer months. Summer fog and stratus can ameliorate summer drought stress and enhance...
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Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331.
E-mail address: bharat.rastogi@oregonstate.edu
Supplemental
Climate change is expected to change the distribution of species. For long-lived, sessile
species such as trees, tracking the warming climate depends on seedling colonization of
newly favorable areas. We compare the distribution of seedlings and mature trees for all but
the rarest tree species in California, Oregon and Washington,...
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. Parmesan C, Duarte C, Poloczanska E, Richardson AJ, Singer MC (2011) Overstretching attribution.
Nat Clim
Processes that influence habitat selection in landscapes involve the interaction of habitat composition and configuration
and are particularly important for species with complex life cycles. We assessed the relative influence of landscape spatial
processes and local habitat characteristics on patterns in the distribution and abundance of spawning steelhead
(Oncorhynchus mykiss),...
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occurrence: Lessons from salmonid fishes in streams. In: Scott JM,
Heglund PJ, Morrison ML, Haufler JB
Grassland and shrubland birds are declining globally due in part to anthropogenic habitat modification. Because population performance of these species is also influenced by non-anthropogenic factors, it is important to incorporate all relevant ecological drivers into demographic models. We used design-based sampling and occupancy models to test relationships of environmental...
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conservation
crisis? J Wildl Manage. 2005; 69: 1–13.
8. Noss RF, LaRoe ET, Scott JM. Endangered ecosystems of
Context:
Functional connectivity—the facilitation of individual movements among habitat patches—is essential for species’ persistence in fragmented landscapes. Evaluating functional connectivity is critical for predicting range shifts, developing conservation plans, and anticipating effects of disturbance, especially for species affected by climate change.
Objectives:
We examined whether simplifying forest structure influenced animal...
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and Society, Oregon
State University, 216 Richardson Hall, Corvallis,
OR 97331, USA
D. J. Hance
Late Cretaceous sedimentary marine and deltaic rocks of
Gabriola Island were mapped and studied during the summer of 1971.
Cretaceous strata constitute all the exposed outcrops on the island,
which is the northernmost of the Gulf Island chain of British Columbia.
The upper four formations of the Nanaimo Group are...
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State
University, Dana B. Braislin, George H. Feister, and Edward W.
Scott of Union Oil Company for
Understanding the processes that control the terrestrial exchange of carbon is critical for
assessing atmospheric CO₂ budgets. Carbonyl sulfide (COS) is taken up by vegetation during
photosynthesis following a pathway that mirrors CO₂ but has a small or nonexistent emission component,
providing a possible tracer for gross primary production. Field...
Data from large-scale biological inventories are essential for understanding and managing Earth's ecosystems.
The Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA) of the U.S. Forest Service is the largest biological inventory in
North America; however, the FIA inventory recently changed from an amalgam of different approaches to a
nationally-standardized approach in...
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quarter of the
grid measured each year (Scott et al., 1993). A decade later, the periodic
inventory merged
This study investigated how lidar-derived vegetation indices, disturbance history from Landsat time series (LTS)
imagery, plot location accuracy, and plot size influenced accuracy of statistical spatial models (nearest-neighbor
imputation maps) of forest vegetation composition and structure. Nearest-neighbor (NN) imputation maps were
developed for 539,000 ha in the central Oregon Cascades,...
Chromosome segregation relies on coordinated activity of a large assembly of proteins, the kinetochore interaction network (KIN). How conserved the underlying mechanisms driving the epigenetic phenomenon of centromere and kinetochore assembly and maintenance are remains unclear, even though various eukaryotic models have been studied. More than 50 different proteins, many...
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(Perpelescu and Fukagawa 2011,
Fukagawa and Earnshaw 2014, Scott and Sullivan
2014). CenH3 sequences of yeasts
Growing evidence indicates that disrupting the microbial community that comprises the intestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, can contribute to the development or severity of disease. As a result, it is important to discern the agents responsible for microbiome disruption. While animals are frequently exposed to a diverse array...
Considerable uncertainties often surround the causes of long-term changes in population abundance. One striking example is the precipitous decline of southern sea lions (SSL; Otaria flavescens) at the Falkland Islands, from 80 555 pups in the mid 1930s to just 5506 pups in 1965. Despite an increase in SSL abundance over...
Sensory hair cells convert mechanical motion into chemical signals. Otoferlin, a six-C2 domain transmembrane protein linked to deafness in humans, is hypothesized to play a
role in exocytosis at hair cell ribbon synapses. To date however, otoferlin has been
studied almost exclusively in mouse models, and no rescue experiments have...
The identification and mapping of surface cover types
within Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, has been effectively
completed through the utilization of LANDSAT digital
data and NASA U-2 color infrared aerial photography. Classification
of LANDSAT data for surface cover type identification
and mapping was accomplished through use of the
Interactive...
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Mount Scott, located in the east central portion of the
Park, being the highest point at 8,926
Approximately 18 square miles are included in the study area which lies 17 miles southwest of the town of Dillon, Montana. Strata exposed in the area include metamorphic, sedimentary, and volcanic rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Recent. The Paleozoic and Mesozoic section
is approximately 8000 feet thick and...
• Premise of the study: The dramatic advances offered by modern DNA sequencers continue to redefine the limits of what can be accomplished in comparative plant biology. Even with recent achievements, however, plant genomes present obstacles that can make it difficult to execute large-scale population and phylogenetic studies on next-generation...
In the future, Earth will be warmer, precipitation events will be more extreme, global mean sea level will rise, and many arid and semiarid regions will be drier. Human modifications of landscapes will also occur at an accelerated rate as developed areas increase in size and population density. We now...
To survive winter, many perennial plants become endodormant, a state of suspended growth maintained even in favorable growing environments. To understand vegetative bud endodormancy, we collected paradormant, endodormant, and ecodormant axillary buds from Populus trees growing under natural conditions. Of 44,441 Populus gene models analyzed using NimbleGen microarrays, we found...
Neogene rocks of the Deschutes basin include the middle Miocene
Columbia River Basalt Group and Simtustus Formation, and late Miocene
to early Pliocene Deschutes Formation. Assignment of Prineville
chemical-type flows to the Grande Ronde Basalt of the Columbia River
Basalt Group is based upon correlation of these lavas from their...
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, Tom Dill, Glenn
Hayman, Britt Hill, Scott Hughes, Jere Jay, Angela McDannel, Dave
Thormahlen, and Gene
Climate and terrestrial vegetation have had mutual feedbacks for nearly five hundred million years, yet both are now departing from recent historical norms, with uncertain implications for forest ecosystems. This dissertation outlines the current and potential future climate responses of lichen and bryophyte communities in the United States as part...
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and Scott Clippinger
for hospitality in Madison, Wisconsin. For contributions and development of
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) has a wide distribution in North America and is one of the
tree species most widely distributed outside its natural range. The species has been introduced to
Europe, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere around the world. At present, Douglas-fir
is an accepted and integral part of...
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) has a wide distribution in North America and is one of the
tree species most widely distributed outside its natural range. The species has been introduced to
Europe, New Zealand, South America, and elsewhere around the world. At present, Douglas-fir
is an accepted and integral part of...
Surface transient storage (STS) and hyporheic transient storage (HTS) have
functional significance in stream ecology and hydrology. Both provide refugia for aquatic
communities and their longer mean residence times (compared to the main flow) increase
the potential for biogeochemical reactions that can improve water quality. As STS and
HTS have...