Funding was received from the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada to JK and the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(Projects 1153,1398 and 1423 to JAL)which has designated this as Journal Paper 9626.
Background: Large-diameter trees have an outsized influence on aboveground forest dynamics, composition, and structure. Although their influence on aboveground processes is well studied, their role in shaping belowgro...
Funding was received from the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(projects 1153,1398,and 1423 to JAL);the National Science Foundation(DEB#1542681 to JAL and colleagues);the Smithsonian Institution ForestGEO.Research was performed under a 5-year permit(2016–2020)from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station.
Background:Baseline levels of tree mortality can,over time,contribute to high snag densities and high levels of deadwood(down woody debris)if fire is infrequent and decomposition is slow.Deadwood can be important for ...
Funding was received from the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(projects 1153 and 1398 to JAL and 1423 to JAL,LLY,and DJM)and the Smithsonian Institution ForestGEO.Research was performed under the National Park Service research permits CEBR-2014-SCI-0001,CEBR-2015-SCI0001,CEBR-2016-SCI-0001,CEBR-2017-SCI-0001,CEBR-2018-SCI-0001,and CEBR-2019-SCI-0001 for study CEBR-00016.
Background:The epidemic Dendroctonus rufipennis(spruce beetle)outbreak in the subalpine forests of the Colorado Plateau in the 1990s killed most larger Picea engelmannii(Engelmann spruce)trees.One quarter century late...
Funding was received from the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station(projects 1153,1398,and 1423 to JAL);the Joint Fire Science Program(award 16-1-04-02 to JAL and AJL);the National Park Service(Awards P14AC00122 and P14AC00197 to JAL);the Smithsonian Institution ForestGEO.Re-search was performed under National Park Service research permits YOSE-2013-SCI-0012,YOSE-2014-SCI-0005,YOSE-2015-SCI-0014,YOSE-2016-SCI-0006,YOSE-2017-SCI-0008,YOSE-2018-SCI-0006,and YOSE-2019-SCI-0009 for study YOSE-0051.
The reintroduction of fire to landscapes where it was once common is considered a priority to restore historical forest dynamics,including reducing tree density and decreasing levels of woody biomass on the forest flo...
Background:Sustainable land management is considered as one of the useful approaches to combat the threat of various forms of land degradation in Ethiopia.Despite this,there is scant information regarding households’...
Funding was provided by the Northern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service;The Aspen-FACE experiment was principally supported by the Office of Science(BER),US Department of Energy Grant No.DE-FG02-95ER62125 to Michigan Technological University;Contract No.DE-AC02-98CH10886 to Brookhaven National Laboratory;Office of Science(BER),US Department of Energy Interagency Agreement No.DE-AI02-09ER64717 to the US Forest Service,Northern Research Station;the US Forest Service Northern Global Change Program;the Canadian Forest Service.
Introduction:The Aspen-FACE experiment was an 11-year study of the effect of elevated CO_(2) and ozone(alone and in combination)on the growth of model aspen communities(pure aspen,aspen-birch,and aspen-maple)in the fi...