In many regions of the world, forest management has shifted from practices emphasizing timber production to more sustainable harvesting that integrates ecological values, including maintenance of biodiversity, wildlife habitat, and ecological goods and services. To this end, management strategies emphasize retention of stand structures that meet the needs of forest-obligate...
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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.10.026
DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco
Wildfires pose complex challenges to policymakers and fire agencies. Fuel break networks and area-wide fuel treatments are risk-management options to reduce losses from large fires. Two fuel management scenarios covering 3% of the fire-prone Algarve region of Portugal and differing in the intensity of treatment in 120-m wide fuel breaks...
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Management 211, 83–96. doi:10.1016/
J.FORECO.2005.01.034
Agee JK, Bahro BB, Finney MA, Omi PN, Sapsis DB
Quaking aspens (Populus tremuloides Michx.) are found in diverse habitats throughout North America. While the biogeography of aspens' distribution has been documented, the drivers of the phenotypic diversity of aspen are still being explored. In our study, we examined differences in climate between northern and southwestern populations of aspen, finding...
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tremuloides in North America linked to
climate. Forest Ecology and Management, 299, 35-51. doi: DOI
10.1016
Widespread habitat degradation and uncharacteristic fire, insect, and disease outbreaks in forests across
the western United States have led to highly publicized calls to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration.
Despite these calls, we frequently lack a comprehensive understanding of forest restoration
needs. In this study we demonstrate...
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across Oregon and Washington, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 335,
37-50. doi:10.1016/j.foreco
Phellinus sulphurascens (previously the Douglas-fir form of Phellinus weirii) is an important native pathogen causing laminated root rot in forests of western North America. Visual crown symptoms, or attacks by bark or ambrosia beetles appear only during advanced stages of the disease with extensive infection in the lower bole. Ethanol...
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Ecology and Management, 360, 261-272. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.039
10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.039
Accurately monitoring tropical forest carbon stocks is a challenge that remains outstanding. Allometric models that consider tree diameter, height and wood density as predictors are currently used in most tropical forest carbon studies. In particular, a pantropical biomass model has been widely used for approximately a decade, and its most...
Quaking aspens (Populus tremuloides Michx.) are found in diverse habitats throughout North America. While the biogeography of aspens' distribution has been documented, the drivers of the phenotypic diversity of aspen are still being explored. In our study, we examined differences in climate between northern and southwestern populations of aspen, finding...
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, climate, and sudden decline in western USA. For. Ecol.
Manage. 258:2353–2364. doi:10.1016/j.foreco
Linked atmospheric and wildfire changes will complicate future management of native coldwater fishes in fire-prone
landscapes, and new approaches to management that incorporate uncertainty are needed to address this challenge. We used a
Bayesian network (BN) approach to evaluate population vulnerability of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in the Wenatchee River...
Polycentric networks of formal organizations and informal stakeholder groups, as opposed to centralized institutional hierarchies, can be critically important for strengthening the capacity of governance systems to adapt to unexpected social and biophysical change. Adaptive governance is one type of environmental governance characterized by the emergence of networks that stimulate...
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...