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Ecological thresholds, climate extremes, and tree species' distributions across the Pacific coastal United States

Creator:

Lintz, Heather E.

Abstract:

Species' distributions across the landscape are perhaps the least understood yet most conspicuous features of life on earth. Ecologists have long studied species' distributions; yet, many questions remain about why species occur where they do. Such questions persist largely because species' distributions are complex systems with challenging properties like non-linearity,...

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Dissertation

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. Ecological Thresholds, Climate Extremes, and Tree Species’ Distributions across the Pacific Coastal United
Mapping disturbance interactions from earth and space : insect effects on tree mortality, fuels, and wildfires across forests of the Pacific Northwest

Creator:

Meigs, Garrett W.

Abstract:

Given the vital role of forest ecosystems in landscape pattern and process, it is important to quantify the effects, feedbacks, and uncertainties associated with forest disturbance dynamics. In western North America, insects and wildfires are both native disturbances that have influenced forests for millennia, and both are projected to increase...

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Dissertation

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; fuel, insect disturbance; Landsat time series; mountain pine beetle; Pacific Northwest; spectral