Competition amplifies drought stress in forests across broad climatic and compositional gradients

Categories: Publication; Tags: Data Visualization & Tools, Drought, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Forests, Landscapes, All tags... National CASC, Science Tools For Managers, USA, aridity, competitive intensity, dendrochronology, drought severity, drought stress, forest density, forest growth, forest response, long-term experimental forests, Fewer tags

Integrating ecological forecasting methods to improve applications for natural resource management: An invasive species example

Projecting the effects of climate change on plant and animal species distributions and abundance is critical to successful long‐term conservation and restoration efforts. There have been significant recent advances made in the areas of: (1) climate forecasts; (2) habitat niche modeling; (3) mechanistic modeling; and (4) observation techniques and networks. However, projections of biological change are fundamentally limited by a lack of integration and inter‐comparison between these various forecasting approaches. The proposed working group will focus on integrating ecological forecasting methods for two well studied invasive species: cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar). Our goal is to...

Categories: Project; Tags: All Working Groups, Completed, Ecosystems, Ecosystems, Invasive Species, All tags... Land Resources, ecological forecasting, Fewer tags