Long-term monitoring of western aspen—lessons learned

Strand, Eva K.; Bunting, Stephen C.; Starcevich, Leigh Ann; Nahorniak, Matt; Dicus, Gordon H.; Garrett, Lisa K.

doi:10.1007/s10661-015-4746-5

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“…Her notable works include the development of spatial mapping tools to assess fuels in rangeland ecosystems [354], and assessing successional rates of western aspen woodlands [355]. Her recent works include assessing the impacts of fire severity and duff distribution on vegetation recovery in sagebrush steppe ecosystems [356], and further understanding of western aspen species through long-term monitoring [357].…”

Section: Recognizing Women Leaders In Fire Sciencementioning

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science: Revisited

Smith

Strand

2018

Fire

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In August, 2018, an editorial in Fire entitled Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science was published. This was intended to ignite a conversation into diversity in fire science by highlighting several women leaders in fire research and development. This editorial was released alongside a new Topical Collection in Fire called Diversity Leaders in Fire Science. The response on social media was fantastic, leading to numerous recommendations of women leaders in fire science that had been inadvertently missed in the first editorial. In this editorial, we acknowledge 145 women leaders in fire science to promote diversity across our disciplines. Fire is continually committed to improving diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the journal and welcomes perspectives, viewpoints, and constructive criticisms to help advance that mission.

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Section: Recognizing Women Leaders In Fire Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science: Revisited

Smith

Strand

2018

Fire

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Monitoring Protocols: Options, Approaches, Implementation, Benefits

Karl

Pyke²

2017

Rangeland Systems

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Monitoring and adaptive management are fundamental concepts to rangeland management across land management agencies and embodied as best management practices for private landowners. Historically, rangeland monitoring was limited to determining impacts or maximizing the potential of specific land uses-typically grazing. Over the past several decades, though, the uses of and disturbances to rangelands have increased dramatically against a backdrop of global climate change that adds uncertainty to predictions of future rangeland conditions. Thus, today's monitoring needs are more complex (or multidimensional) and yet still must be reconciled with the realities of costs to collect requisite data. However, conceptual advances in rangeland ecology and management and changes in natural resource policies and societal values over the past 25 years have facilitated new approaches to monitoring that can support rangeland management's diverse information needs. Additionally, advances in sensor technologies and remote-sensing techniques have broadened the suite of rangeland attributes that can be monitored and the temporal and spatial scales at which they can be monitored. We review some of the conceptual and technological advancements and provide examples of how they have influenced rangeland monitoring. We then discuss implications of these developments for rangeland management and highlight what we see as challenges and opportunities for implementing effective rangeland monitoring. We conclude with a vision for how monitoring can contribute to rangeland information needs in the future.

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Rapid regeneration offsets losses from warming-induced tree mortality in an aspen-dominated broad-leaved forest in northern China

Zhao

Zhou

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PLoS ONE

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Worldwide tree mortality as induced by climate change presents a challenge to forest managers. To successfully manage vulnerable forests requires the capacity of regeneration to compensate for losses from tree mortality. We observed rapid regeneration and the growth release of young trees after warming-induced mortality in a David aspen-dominated (Populus davidiana) broad-leaved forest in Inner Mongolia, China, as based on individual tree measurements taken in 2012 and 2015 from a 6-ha permanent plot. Warming and drought stress killed large trees 10–15 m tall with a total number of 2881 trees during 2011–2012, and also thinned the upper crowns. David aspen recruitment increased 2 times during 2012–2015 and resulted in a high transition probability of David aspen replacing the same or other species, whereas the recruitment of Mongolian oak (Quercus mongolica) was much lower: it decreased from 2012 to 2015, indicating that rapid regeneration represented a regrowth phase for David aspen, and not succession to Mongolian oak. Further, we found that the recruitment density increased with canopy openness, thus implying that warming-induced mortality enhanced regeneration. Our results suggest that David aspen has a high regrowth ability to offset individual losses from warming-induced mortality. This important insight has implications for managing this vulnerable forest in the semi-arid region of northern China.

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Long-term monitoring of western aspen—lessons learned

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science: Revisited

Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science: Revisited

Monitoring Protocols: Options, Approaches, Implementation, Benefits

Rapid regeneration offsets losses from warming-induced tree mortality in an aspen-dominated broad-leaved forest in northern China

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