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Creator:: Blauvelt, Katie
Abstract:: The western United States is experiencing significant changes in wildfire and snow regimes as a result of warming temperatures. An amplification of wildfire activity and reduction in snow water equivalent, snow covered area, and earlier spring snowmelt are documented trends that are projected to continue into the future. With an...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: presented on May 2, 2013 Title: Post-fire Vegetation Response to Snow in the Western United States

Creator:: Hu, J. Michelle
Abstract:: This study utilized long-term daily precipitation and snow-water equivalent (SWE) data derived from the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Snow Telemetry Network (SNOTEL). All existing SNOTEL sites in the Olympic, Coast and Cascade ranges in Washington (n = 66) and Oregon (n = 52) and in the California Sierra Nevada (n...
Resource Type:: Dataset

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
Full Text:: ............................................................................................. 2 CHAPTER 2. WATER LIMITATIONS ON FOREST CARBON CYCLING AND CONIFER TRAITS ALONG A STEEP CLIMATIC

Creator:: Castillo, Jessica A.
Abstract:: American pikas (Ochotona princeps) are considered an indicator species of climate change. Adaptations for cold climates and active winters make pikas particularly sensitive to increasing temperatures. This, combined with evidence that multiple historically occupied populations have been extirpated within the past century, contributed to American pikas becoming a focal species...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: study sites. I identified a general trend that south-west facing aspects pose greater resistance to

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