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A comparison of thinning methods in red pine: consequences for stand-level growth and tree diameter

A new method for evaluating forest thinning: growth dominance in managed Pinus resinosa stands

article by John B. Bradford et al published May 2010 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

A recruitment niche framework for improving seed‐based restoration

scientific article published in 2023

A window of opportunity for climate-change adaptation: easing tree mortality by reducing forest basal area

scholarly article by John B. Bradford & David M Bell published 20 December 2016 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Adapting management to a changing world: Warm temperatures, dry soil, and interannual variability limit restoration success of a dominant woody shrub in temperate drylands

scholarly article

Age-related patterns of forest complexity and carbon storage in pine and aspen–birch ecosystems of northern Minnesota, USA

An Integrative Ecological Drought Framework to Span Plant Stress to Ecosystem Transformation

scientific article published on 19 September 2020

Aridity increases below-ground niche breadth in grass communities

article by Bradley J. Butterfield et al published 6 January 2017 in Plant Ecology

Assessing plant production responses to climate across water-limited regions using Google Earth Engine

scientific article published in November 2019

Assessing the ecological impacts of biomass harvesting along a disturbance severity gradient

scientific article published on 27 December 2019

Assessment of population genetics and climatic variability can refine climate‐informed seed transfer guidelines

Scientific article published in March 2020

Beyond traditional ecological restoration on the Colorado Plateau

scientific article published in 2018

Biotic vs abiotic controls on temporal sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across North American drylands

scientific article published on 2 July 2021

Bridging the research-management gap: landscape science in practice on public lands in the western United States

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Carbon pools and fluxes in small temperate forest landscapes: Variability and implications for sampling design

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Carbon stocks across a chronosequence of thinned and unmanaged red pine (Pinus resinosa) stands

scientific article

Climate and soil texture influence patterns of forb species richness and composition in big sagebrush plant communities across their spatial extent in the western U.S

article

Climate change may restrict dryland forest regeneration in the 21st century.

scientific article

Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils

scientific article

Climate change, fire management, and ecological services in the southwestern US

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Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands.

scientific article

Community for data integration 2018 funded project report

scientific article published in 2020

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

article

Consequences of declining snow accumulation for water balance of mid-latitude dry regions

article

Controls over invasion of Bromus tectorum: The importance of climate, soil, disturbance and seed availability

article

Current reclamation practices after oil and gas development do not speed up succession or plant community recovery in big sagebrush ecosystems in Wyoming

scientific article published in 2017

Density-dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought

scientific article published in 2017

Desert grassland responses to climate and soil moisture suggest divergent vulnerabilities across the southwestern United States

scientific article

Detrital carbon pools in temperate forests: magnitude and potential for landscape-scale assessment

article published in 2009

Disentangling drivers of annual grass invasion: Abiotic susceptibility vs. fire-induced conversion to cheatgrass dominance in the sagebrush biome

scientific article published in 2024

Divergence in Forest-Type Response to Climate and Weather: Evidence for Regional Links Between Forest-Type Evenness and Net Primary Productivity

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Does the stress-gradient hypothesis hold water? Disentangling spatial and temporal variation in plant effects on soil moisture in dryland systems

article

Early indicators of change: divergent climate envelopes between tree life stages imply range shifts in the western United States

scholarly article by David M. Bell et al published 13 October 2013 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Ecohydrological niche of sagebrush ecosystems

article

Ecohydrological role of biological soil crusts across a gradient in levels of development

article

Ecohydrology of Adjacent Sagebrush and Lodgepole Pine Ecosystems: The Consequences of Climate Change and Disturbance

article

Ecohydrology of dry regions of the United States: precipitation pulses and intraseasonal drought

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Ecohydrology of dry regions of the United States: water balance consequences of small precipitation events

article

Ecological forecasting—21st century science for 21st century management

scientific article published in 2020

Effects of ecohydrological variables on current and future ranges, local suitability patterns, and model accuracy in big sagebrush

article

Effects of multiple interacting disturbances and salvage logging on forest carbon stocks

scientific article published in 2012

Effects of thinning on drought vulnerability and climate response in north temperate forest ecosystems

scientific article

Estimating Soil Respiration in a Subalpine Landscape Using Point, Terrain, Climate, and Greenness Data

article

Fifteen-Year Patterns of Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Following Biomass Harvesting

Forest Floor and Mineral Soil Respiration Rates in a Northern Minnesota Red Pine Chronosequence

article by Matthew Powers et al published 29 December 2017 in Forests

Forest density intensifies the importance of snowpack to growth in water-limited pine forests

scientific article published on 04 August 2020

Forest ecosystem respiration estimated from eddy covariance and chamber measurements under high turbulence and substantial tree mortality from bark beetles

scientific article

Forest management for mitigation and adaptation to climate change: Insights from long-term silviculture experiments

scholarly article by Anthony W. D’Amato et al published September 2011 in Forest Ecology and Management

Forest stand structure, productivity, and age mediate climatic effects on aspen decline

scientific article

Future soil moisture and temperature extremes imply expanding suitability for rainfed agriculture in temperate drylands.

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Gaps and hotspots in the state of knowledge of pinyon-juniper communities

scientific article published in January 2020

Hierarchical Bayesian spatial models for predicting multiple forest variables using waveform LiDAR, hyperspectral imagery, and large inventory datasets

Impacts of post-harvest slash and live-tree retention on biomass and nutrient stocks in Populus tremuloides Michx.-dominated forests, northern Minnesota, USA

article published in 2013

Incorporating temperature-sensitive Q10 and foliar respiration acclimation algorithms modifies modeled ecosystem responses to global change

article

Increasing temperature seasonality may overwhelm shifts in soil moisture to favor shrub over grass dominance in Colorado Plateau drylands

scientific article published in 2018

Influence of Disturbance on Temperate Forest Productivity

article

Influence of Repeated Prescribed Fire on Tree Growth and Mortality in Pinus resinosa Forests, Northern Minnesota

Influence of climate, post-treatment weather extremes, and soil factors on vegetation recovery after restoration treatments in the southwestern US

Influence of stocking, site quality, stand age, low-severity canopy disturbance, and forest composition on sub-boreal aspen mixedwood carbon stocks

article

Initial soil respiration response to biomass harvesting and green-tree retention in aspen-dominated forests of the Great Lakes region

article

Landscape-Scale Carbon Sampling Strategy – Lessons Learned

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Landscape-scale restoration minimizes tree growth vulnerability to 21st century drought in a dry forest

scientific article published on 17 October 2020

Life history characteristics may be as important as climate projections for defining range shifts: An example for common tree species in the intermountain western US

scientific article published in 2018

Linear Models for Airborne-Laser-Scanning-Based Operational Forest Inventory With Small Field Sample Size and Highly Correlated LiDAR Data

Long-term plant community trajectories suggest divergent responses of native and non-native perennials and annuals to vegetation removal and seeding treatments

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

Long-term thinning alters ponderosa pine reproduction in northern Arizona

scientific article published in 2016

Long-term trends in restoration and associated land treatments in the southwestern United States

scientific article published in 2017

Looking for age-related growth decline in natural forests: unexpected biomass patterns from tree rings and simulated mortality

scientific article

Low stand density moderates growth declines during hot droughts in semi‐arid forests

scientific article published on 17 May 2020

Mid-latitude shrub steppe plant communities: climate change consequences for soil water resources

scientific article

Modeling regeneration responses of big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) to abiotic conditions

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Mountain landscapes offer few opportunities for high-elevation tree species migration

scientific article

Natural Regeneration Processes in Big Sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)

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Patterns of Big Sagebrush Plant Community Composition and Stand Structure in the Western United States

scientific article published in January 2019

Patterns of growth dominance in forests of the Rocky Mountains, USA

scientific article published in 2006

Plant Production Responses to Precipitation Differ Along an Elevation Gradient and Are Enhanced Under Extremes

article

Potential Impacts of Overlapping Land-Use and Climate in a Sensitive Dryland: A Case Study of the Colorado Plateau, USA

scientific article published in 2017

Potential climate change impacts on temperate forest ecosystem processes

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Potential impacts of overlapping land-use and climate in a sensitive dryland: a case study of the Colorado Plateau, USA

scientific article published in 2017

Potential increases in natural disturbance rates could offset forest management impacts on ecosystem carbon stocks

scientific article published in 2013

Predicting tree biomass growth in the temperate-boreal ecotone: Is tree size, age, competition, or climate response most important?

scientific article

Quantifying the demographic vulnerabilities of dry woodlands to climate and competition using rangewide monitoring data

scientific article published in 2021

Quantifying understorey vegetation in the US Lake States: a proposed framework to inform regional forest carbon stocks

article

Recognizing trade-offs in multi-objective land management

article published in 2012

Recreational Trails as Corridors for Alien Plants in the Rocky Mountains, USA

article

Regulating overabundant ungulate populations: an example for elk in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

scientific article published on 5 February 2007

Robust ecological drought projections for drylands in the 21st century

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

STEPWAT2: an individual-based model for exploring the impact of climate and disturbance on dryland plant communities

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Scale dependence of disease impacts on quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) mortality in the southwestern United States

scientific article

Seed bank and big sagebrush plant community composition in a range margin for big sagebrush

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Shifts in plant functional types have time-dependent and regionally variable impacts on dryland ecosystem water balance

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Simulated big sagebrush regeneration supports predicted changes at the trailing and leading edges of distribution shifts

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Singular and interactive effects of blowdown, salvage logging, and wildfire in sub-boreal pine systems

scholarly article by Anthony W. D’Amato et al published December 2011 in Forest Ecology and Management

Small-scale water deficits after wildfires create long-lasting ecological impacts

scientific article

Soil and stand structure explain shrub mortality patterns following global change-type drought and extreme precipitation

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Soil texture and precipitation seasonality influence plant community structure in North American temperate shrub steppe

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Soil water availability shapes species richness in mid‐latitude shrub steppe plant communities

scholarly article

Spatial and ecological variation in dryland ecohydrological responses to climate change: implications for management

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Species mixture effects and climate influence growth, recruitment and mortality in Interior West USA Populus tremuloides ‐conifer communities

scientific article published on 22 June 2021

Stand density, drought, and herbivory constrain ponderosa pine regeneration pulse

Strategies for minimizing sample size for use in airborne LiDAR-based forest inventory

scientific article published in 2013

Structure and development of old-growth, unmanaged second-growth, and extended rotation Pinus resinosa forests in Minnesota, USA

scientific article published in 2013

Successes and challenges from formation to implementation of eleven broad-extent conservation programs

scientific article

THE IMPACT OF CROPPING ON PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE U.S. GREAT PLAINS

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Temperature drives global patterns in forest biomass distribution in leaves, stems, and roots

scientific article

The Influence of Climate, Soils, Weather, and Land Use on Primary Production and Biomass Seasonality in the US Great Plains

The efficacy of salvage logging in reducing subsequent fire severity in conifer-dominated forests of Minnesota, U.S.A.

scientific article published in September 2011

Thinning increases climatic resilience of red pine

article by Matthew Magruder et al published September 2013 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Thinning method and intensity influence long-term mortality trends in a red pine forest

article published in 2010

Topographic, edaphic, and vegetative controls on plant-available water

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Transient population dynamics impede restoration and may promote ecosystem transformation after disturbance

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Tree growth and competition in an old-growth Picea abies forest of boreal Sweden: influence of tree spatial patterning

scholarly article by Shawn Fraver et al published 21 June 2013 in Journal of Vegetation Science

U.S. Geological Survey landscape science strategy 2020–2030

scientific article

UAV ‐derived estimates of forest structure to inform ponderosa pine forest restoration

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Understanding the future of big sagebrush regeneration: challenges of projecting complex ecological processes

scientific article published on 12 August 2021

Variable effects of climate on forest growth in relation to climate extremes, disturbance, and forest dynamics

scientific article

Variation in Fractal Symmetry of Annual Growth in Aspen as an Indicator of Developmental Stability in Trees

Woody Debris Volume Depletion Through Decay: Implications for Biomass and Carbon Accounting