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Geomechanical modeling of induced seismicity source parameters and implications for seismic hazard assessment Geomechanical modeling of induced seismicity source parameters and implications for seismic hazard assessment, credited to Goertz-Allmann, BP, published in 2012. Published in Geophysics, volume 78, issue 1, in 2012. Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Geophysics Fluid-induced seismicity: Theory, modeling, and applications Operations including borehole fluid injections are typical for exploration and development of hydrocarbon or geothermic reservoirs. Microseismicity occurring during such operations has a large potential for understanding physics of the seismogenic process as well as in obtaining detailed information about reservoirs at locations as far as several kilometers from boreholes. We propose that the phenomenon of microseismicity triggering by borehole fluid injections is related to the process of the Frenkel-Biot slow wave propagation. In the low-frequency range (hours or days of fluid injection durations) this process reduces to the pore-pressure diffusion. We search for diffusion-related features of induced micro seismicity.... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Journal of Engineering Mechanics-Asce Data compilation of soil respiration, moisture, and temperature measurements from global warming experiments from 1994-2014 This dataset is the largest global dataset to date of soil respiration, moisture, and temperature measurements, totaling >3800 observations representing 27 temperature manipulation studies, spanning nine biomes and nearly two decades of warming experiments. Data for this study were obtained from a combination of unpublished data and published literature values. We find that although warming increases soil respiration rates, there is limited evidence for a shifting respiration response with experimental warming. We also note a universal decline in the temperature sensitivity of respiration at soil temperatures >25°C. This dataset includes 3817 observations, from control (n=1812), first (i.e., lowest or sole) level... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Boreal Forest, Desert, Ecology, Meadow, Northern Shrubland, All tags... Southern Shrubland, Temperate Agriculture, Temperate Forest, Temperate Grassland, Wet Sedge Tundra, climate change, experimental warming, instantaneous data, soil moisture, soil respiration, soil sciences, soil temperature, Fewer tags Long-term research on forest dynamics in the Pacific Northwest: a network of permanent forest plots Changes in the composition, structure, and functions of forest ecosystems typically occur over long periods of time. In the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, for example, it is not unusual for individual dominant trees to survive for 500 years or longer (Franklin and Dyrness, 1973; Waring and Franklin, 1979). Significant compositional and structural changes may continue to occur 750 years after a stand-initiating disturbance (Franklin and Spies, 1991). Documenting and understanding these changes requires a variety of approaches. At least five complementary approaches have been taken to increase, scientific understanding of these intrinsically slow changes: chronosequences (Pickett, 1989); palynology... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Tree above-ground biomass allometries for carbon stocks estimation in the natural forests of Colombia In this study, we analyzed the above-ground biomass data for 631 trees with a diameter ⩾10 cm from different biogeographical regions in Colombia. The aims of this research were (1) to evaluate the accuracy of the most commonly employed pantropical allometric models for the estimation of above-ground biomass of natural forests in different sites located along a complex environmental gradient, (2) to develop new models that enable more precise estimations of current carbon stores in the above-ground biomass of natural forest ecosystems in Colombia, and (3) to evaluate the effect on allometric models of forest type classifications as determinants of above-ground biomass variation. The Brown et al. (1989) model for... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Testing metabolic theory with models of tree growth that include light competition Summary 1. Metabolic scaling theory predicts that diameter growth rates of tree species are related to tree diameter by a universal scaling law. This model has been criticised because it ignores the influence of competition for resources such as light on the scaling of demographic rates with size. 2. We here test whether scaling exponents of abundant tropical tree species comply with the prediction of metabolic scaling theory and evaluate whether the scaling of growth with size depends on light availability. Light reaching each individual tree was estimated from yearly vertical censuses of canopy density, and a hierarchical Bayesian approach allowed quantifying confidence intervals for scaling exponents and accounting... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation Flow and Residence Times of Dynamic River Bank Storage and Sinuosity-Driven Hyporheic Exchange Abstract Hydrologic exchange fluxes (HEFs) vary significantly along river corridors due to spatio-temporal changes in discharge and geomorphology. This variability results in the emergence of biogeochemical hot-spots and hot-moments that ultimately control solute and energy transport and ecosystem services from the local to the watershed scales. In this work, we use a reduced-order model to gain mechanistic understanding of river bank storage and sinuosity-driven hyporheic exchange induced by transient river discharge. This is the first time that a systematic analysis of both processes is presented and serves as an initial step to propose parsimonious, physics-based models for better predictions of water quality... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation The impact of climate and reservoirs on longitudinal riverine carbon fluxes from two major watersheds in the Central and Intermontane West A nested sampling network on the Colorado (CR) and Missouri Rivers (MR) provided data to assess impacts of large-scale reservoir systems and climate on carbon export. The Load Estimator (LOADEST) model was used to estimate both dissolved inorganic and organic carbon (DIC and DOC) fluxes for a total of 22 sites along the main stems of the CR and MR. Both the upper CR and MR DIC and DOC fluxes increased longitudinally, but the lower CR fluxes decreased while the lower MRs continued to increase. We examined multiple factors through space and time that help explain these flux patterns. Seasonal variability in precipitation and temperature, along with site-level concentration versus discharge relationships proved to... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation A novel multiproxy approach: The PAGES North America 2k working group The North America 2k (NAM2k) Working Group recently met at the USGS Powell Center to begin Phase 2 of the NAM2k project in earnest. Phase 2 aims to build on the success of the first phase by expanding the scope of the project, both by including a more diverse and comprehensive array of paleoclimatic evidence for the past two millennia in North America, and by analyzing additional indicators and reconstructions of parameters beyond surface temperature, most notably, hydroclimate. Twenty working group members with expertise in tree rings, lake and marine sediments, corals, speleothems, boreholes, ice cores, glacial landforms, and climate modeling participated in the meeting. Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Accounting for the ecosystem services of migratory species: Quantifying migration support and spatial subsidies Migratory species support ecosystem process and function in multiple areas, establishing ecological linkages between their different habitats. As they travel, migratory species also provide ecosystem services to people in many different locations. Previous research suggests there may be spatial mismatches between locations where humans use services and the ecosystems that produce them. This occurs with migratory species, between the areas that most support the species' population viability - and hence their long-term ability to provide services - and the locations where species provide the most ecosystem services. This paper presents a conceptual framework for estimating how much a particular location supports the... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation River restoration by dam removal: Enhancing connectivity at watershed scales The prolonged history of industrialization, flood control, and hydropower production has led to the construction of 80,000 dams across the U.S. generating significant hydrologic, ecological, and social adjustments. With the increased ecological attention on re-establishing riverine connectivity, dam removal is becoming an important part of large-scale river restoration nationally, especially in New England, due to its early European settlement and history of waterpower-based industry. To capture the broader dimensions of dam removal, we constructed a GIS database of all inventoried dams in New England irrespective of size and reservoir volume to document the magnitude of fragmentation. We compared the characteristics... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Mercury in western North America: A synthesis of environmental contamination, fluxes, bioaccumulation, and risk to fish and wildlife Western North America is a region defined by extreme gradients in geomorphology and climate, which support a diverse array of ecological communities and natural resources. The region also has extreme gradients in mercury (Hg) contamination due to a broad distribution of inorganic Hg sources. These diverse Hg sources and a varied landscape create a unique and complex mosaic of ecological risk from Hg impairment associated with differential methylmercury (MeHg) production and bioaccumulation. Understanding the landscape-scale variation in the magnitude and relative importance of processes associated with Hg transport, methylation, and MeHg bioaccumulation requires a multidisciplinary synthesis that transcends small-scale... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation The metabolic regimes of flowing waters Abstract The processes and biomass that characterize any ecosystem are fundamentally constrained by the total amount of energy that is either fixed within or delivered across its boundaries. Ultimately, ecosystems may be understood and classified by their rates of total and net productivity and by the seasonal patterns of photosynthesis and respiration. Such understanding is well developed for terrestrial and lentic ecosystems but our understanding of ecosystem phenology has lagged well behind for rivers. The proliferation of reliable and inexpensive sensors for monitoring dissolved oxygen and carbon dioxide is underpinning a revolution in our understanding of the ecosystem energetics of rivers. Here, we synthesize... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation A method to detect discontinuities in census data Abstract The distribution of pattern across scales has predictive power in the analysis of complex systems. Discontinuity approaches remain a fruitful avenue of research in the quest for quantitative measures of resilience because discontinuity analysis provides an objective means of identifying scales in complex systems and facilitates delineation of hierarchical patterns in processes, structure, and resources. However, current discontinuity methods have been considered too subjective, too complicated and opaque, or have become computationally obsolete; given the ubiquity of discontinuities in ecological and other complex systems, a simple and transparent method for detection is needed. In this study, we present... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Hydromechanical characterization of CO2 injection sites Hydromechanical characterization of CO2 injection sites, credited to Vilarrasa, Víctor, published in 2012. Published in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, in 2012. Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Elsevier Ltd, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, dimensional analysis IS PURE SHEAR STIMULATION ALWAYS THE MECHANISM OF STIMULATION IN EGS? IS PURE SHEAR STIMULATION ALWAYS THE MECHANISM OF STIMULATION IN EGS?, credited to McClure, M, published in 2013. Published in PROCEEDINGS, Thirty-Eighth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, February 11-13, 2013, in 2013. Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Conference Citation Global croplands and their water use for food security in the twenty-first century Special Issue Forward in Programmetric Engineering and Remote Sensing journal Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation Ituri forest dynamics plots, Democratic Republic of Congo Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Designing systems to monitor carbon stocks in forests and shrublands The United Nations framework convention on climate change (FCCC) commits signatory nations to monitor changes in all fluxes and sinks of carbon, including those related to vegetation and soil. This paper describes a system for monitoring carbon in New Zealand’s forests and shrublands (6.3 and 2.6 million ha, respectively), which was tested on a 60 km-wide transect across the South Island. A 9 km2 grid was superimposed onto a land-cover map (SPOT imagery) to obtain 62 ground-sampling points. New permanent plots were established at 43 of these points and 18 existing plots were revisited (one site was inaccessible). On each plot, the dimensions of all trees, shrubs and coarse woody debris (CWD) were measured, and these... Categories: Publication; Types: Citation Barro Colorado island forest dynamics plot, Panama Categories: Publication; Types: Citation 1 2 3 4 5 ... 13 »