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The objectives of this project are to understand current trends in climate change across the western conterminous United States, assess the potential impact of these changes on major vegetation types of high importance to BLM management, and interpret these changes to assist BLM in determining climate smart management strategies.
| U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
The objectives of this project are to understand current trends in climate change across the western conterminous United States, assess the potential impact of these changes on major vegetation types of high importance to BLM management, and interpret these changes to assist BLM in determining climate smart management strategies.
Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends.
Forests in California have changed dramatically during the 20th century. Shifts in forest structure including densification, declines in large trees and tree basal area have altered the function, productivity, and resilience of modern day forests.
In support of natural resource agencies in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, we report on a series of component analyses and an updated Landscape Conservation Design for temperate grassland conservation.
| Hurricane disturbances, tree diversity, and succession in North Carolina Piedmont forests, USA
Windthrow plays a critical role in maintainingspecies diversity in temperate forests. Do large-scale strongwind events (i.e., tropical cyclones, including hurricanes,typhoons and severe cyclonic storms) increase tree diver-sity in severely damaged forest areas?
| Species diversity as a surrogate for conservation of phylogenetic and functional diversity in terrestrial vertebrates across the Americas
