Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Characterization of forest functional types and their role in mediating ecosystem response to environmental change Terrestrial ecologists are now called upon to provide regional scale predictions of the delivery of key ecosystem services from complex forest environments that are increasingly subjected to multiple agents of global environmental change. This necessitates the identification of the spatial …
Yellowstone Ecoregion Mountain Pine Beetle project A range of wood-boring beetles (including the mountain pine beetle) have affected broad areas of the Rocky Mountains over the past two decades. These infestations are unprecedented in historical times, and correspond to a period of warming climate that has decreased winter mortality of beetles and led to latitudinal …
From late August through September 2011, the Pagami Creek fire burned approximately 38,000 hectares of boreal forest in and around the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota, USA. The fire exhibited a wide range of behaviors across this ecologically diverse landscape where members of our lab, along with US Forest Service collaborators, had been …