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Content Changing aspen distribution in response to climate change and fire is a major focus of biodiversity conservation, yet little is known about the potential response of aspen to these two driving forces along topoclimatic gradients. Objective This study is set to evaluate how aspen distribution might shift in response to different climate-fire scenarios in a semi-arid montane landscape, and quantify the influence of fire regime along topoclimatic gradients. Methods We used a novel integration of a forest landscape succession and disturbance model (LANDIS-II) with a fine-scale climatic water deficit approach to simulate dynamics of aspen and associated conifer and shrub species over the next 150 years under...
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Publication;
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LCC Network Science Catalog,
Report,
aspen woodland,
biota, All tags...
california,
cold desert,
community structure,
completed,
disturbance ecology,
environment,
fire regime,
idaho,
livestock,
management,
nevada,
northern great basin,
oregon,
restoration,
threats,
utah,
vegetation treatment,
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FY2011Aspen populations are in decline across western North America due to altered fire regimes, herbivory, drought, pathogens, and competition with conifers. Aspen stands typically support higher avian biodiversity than surrounding habitats, and maintaining current distributions of several avian species is likely tied to persistence of aspen on the landscape. We are examining effects of climate change on aspen and associated avian communities in isolated mountain ranges of the northern Great Basin, by coupling empirical models of avian-habitat relationships with spatially-explicit landscape simulations of vegetation and disturbance dynamics (using LANDIS-II) under various climate change scenarios. We are addressing...
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Project;
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OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Data Acquisition and Development,
Federal resource managers,
LANDIS-II,
LANDIS-II, All tags...
LANDIS-II,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Monitoring,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Nevada,
Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection,
Project,
State agencies,
aspen,
avian,
avian,
avian,
biodiversity,
biodiversity,
biodiversity,
birds,
birds,
birds,
climate change,
climate change,
climate change,
completed,
empirical models,
empirical models,
empirical models,
fire,
fire,
fire,
northern great basin,
populus tremuloides,
populus tremuloides,
populus tremuloides,
wildfire,
wildfire,
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