Severe droughts occurred in the western United States during recent decades, and continued human greenhouse gas emissions are expected to exacerbate warming and drying in this region. We investigated the role of water availability in shaping forest carbon cycling and morphological traits in the eastern Cascade Mountains, Oregon, focusing on...
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, Oregon
Berner, L. T., & Law, B. E. (2015). Water limitations on forest carbon cycling and
conifer
Severe droughts occurred in the western United States during recent decades, and continued human greenhouse gas emissions are expected to exacerbate warming and drying in this region. We investigated the role of water availability in shaping forest carbon cycling and morphological traits in the eastern Cascade Mountains, Oregon, focusing on...
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, Oregon
Berner, L. T., & Law, B. E. (2015). Water limitations on forest carbon cycling and
conifer
We investigated the species identity and local use of cetaceans on the Gilbert
Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Working with the Kiribati Ministry of Environment,
Lands and Agricultural Development and Fisheries Division, we visited
the islands of Tarawa, Tabiteuea (North), Butaritari and Onotoa from June to
July 2009, and collected 24...
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the
Gilbert Islands, Republic of Kiribati
Baker, C. S., Hutt, A., Thompson, K., Dalebout, M. L
Forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest of the USA are changing as a result of climate change. Specifically, rise of global temperatures, decline of winter precipitation, earlier loss of snowpack, and increased summer drought are altering the range of Pinus contorta. Simultaneously, flux in environmental conditions within the historic P....
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. Garcia1,2 & Jane E. Smith3 & Daniel L. Luoma1 & Melanie D. Jones4
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We present genetic and morphological evidence supporting the recognition of a
previously synonymized species of Mesoplodon beaked whale in the tropical Indo-Pacific,
Mesoplodon hotaula. Although the new species is closely-related to the rare
ginkgo-toothed beaked whale M. ginkgodens, we show that these two lineages can be
differentiated by maternally (mitochondrial...
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Deraniyagala 1963: A new species
of beaked whale in the tropical Indo-Pacific
Dalebout, M. L., Scott Baker, C
Statistics of central tendency and dispersion may
not capture relevant or desired characteristics of the distribution
of continuous phenomena and, thus, they may not
adequately describe temporal patterns of change. Here, we
present two methodological approaches that can help to identify
temporal changes in environmental regimes. First, we
use higher-order...
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environmental data
Arismendi, I., Johnson, S. L., & Dunham, J. B. (2015). Technical Note:
Higher-order
We used multi-season occupancy analyses to model 2 fates of northern spotted owl territories in
relation to habitat amount, habitat fragmentation, and the presence of barred owls in Washington State,
USA, 1989–2005. Local colonization is the probability a territory unoccupied by a spotted owl in year i would
be occupied...
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. Gutiérrez, R. G. Anthony, T. Cullinan, L. V. Diller,
E. D. Forsman, and A. B. Franklin. 2007. A synopsis of
Seedling recruitment is a critical driver of population dynamics and community assembly, yet we know little about functional traits that define different recruitment strategies. For the first time, we examined whether trait relatedness across germination and seedling stages allows the identification of general recruitment strategies which share core functional attributes...
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. Larson1,6 · Roger L. Sheley2 · Stuart P. Hardegree3 · Paul S. Doescher4 ·
Jeremy J. James5
Received: 22
First-year tree seedlings represent a particularly vulnerable life stage and successful seedling establishment is crucial for forest
regeneration. We investigated the extent to which Pinus ponderosa P. & C. Lawson populations from different climate zones
exhibit differential expression of functional traits that may facilitate their establishment. Seeds from two populations...
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. L., Meinzer, F. C., McCulloh, K. A., Woodruff, D. R., & Marias, D. E.
(2015). Expression of
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...
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changes: A review of methods and research needs
Jon D. Pelletier1, A. Brad Murray2, Jennifer L. Pierce3