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Identifying conditions where reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) functions as a driver of forest loss in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain under different hydrological scenarios

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2010-08-27

Citation

De Jager, N.R., and Rohweder, J.J., 2023, Identifying conditions where reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea) functions as a driver of forest loss in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain under different hydrological scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P971TC5G.

Summary

Most of the world’s river-floodplain ecosystems are simultaneously undergoing modifications to their hydrological regimes and experiencing species invasions, making it unclear whether invasive species are the main drivers of ecosystem change or simply responding to changes in the hydrological regime. We simulated patterns of forest recruitment and succession in a 2200 ha portion of the Upper Mississippi River floodplain with and without removal of invasive Phalaris arundinacea and under two different future 100-year hydrological scenarios: a future maintaining the average flooding conditions of the past 40 years (random) and a future that projects an observed upward 40-year trend in flooding conditions forward (trending). By comparing [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Nathan R De Jager
Process Contact :
Jason J Rohweder, Nathan R De Jager
Originator :
Nathan R De Jager, Jason J Rohweder
Metadata Contact :
Jason J Rohweder
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
SDC Data Owner :
Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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Identifying_conditions_Phalaris_arundinacea_driver_forest_loss_UMR.xml
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reed_canary_grass_passenger_driver_forest_loss_TFD_TREND.gdb.zip 5.31 MB application/zip
reed_canary_grass_passenger_driver_forest_loss_TFD_RANDOM.gdb.zip 5.33 MB application/zip
reed_canary_grass_passenger_driver_forest_loss_MAX_AGE_TREE_COHORT.gdb.zip 1.69 MB application/zip
reed_canary_grass_passenger_driver_forest_loss_ECOREGIONS.gdb.zip 132.7 KB application/zip
reed_canary_grass_passenger_driver_forest_loss_INITIAL_COMMUNITIES.gdb.zip 129.42 KB application/zip

Purpose

The purpose of this research is to help management agencies employ similar methods to address future impacts of invasive species and hydrological changes by identifying the conditions associated with Phalaris functioning as a driver of forest loss in this system.

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