Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences

D Fraisl, G Hager, B Bedessem, M Gold… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Citizen science is an increasingly acknowledged approach applied in many scientific
domains, and particularly within the environmental and ecological sciences, in which non …

Redundancy analysis: A Swiss Army Knife for landscape genomics

T Capblancq, BR Forester - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape genomics identifies how spatial and environmental factors structure the amount
and distribution of genetic variation among populations. Landscape genomic analyses have …

Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest

JL Baltzer, NJ Day, XJ Walker… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Intensifying wildfire activity and climate change can drive rapid forest compositional shifts. In
boreal North America, black spruce shapes forest flammability and depends on fire for …

Abrupt, climate-induced increase in wildfires in British Columbia since the mid-2000s

MA Parisien, QE Barber, ML Bourbonnais… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
In the province of British Columbia, Canada, four of the most severe wildfire seasons of the
last century occurred in the past 7 years: 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2023. To investigate trends …

Genomic mechanisms of climate adaptation in polyploid bioenergy switchgrass

JT Lovell, AH MacQueen, S Mamidi, J Bonnette… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Long-term climate change and periodic environmental extremes threaten food and fuel
security and global crop productivity,–. Although molecular and adaptive breeding strategies …

Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers

M Todesco, GL Owens, N Bercovich, JS Légaré… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Species often include multiple ecotypes that are adapted to different environments.
However, it is unclear how ecotypes arise and how their distinctive combinations of adaptive …

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

JT Abatzoglou, SZ Dobrowski, SA Parks… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
We present TerraClimate, a dataset of high-spatial resolution (1/24,~ 4-km) monthly climate
and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces from 1958–2015. TerraClimate …

Urbanization, climate and species traits shape mammal communities from local to continental scales

JD Haight, SJ Hall, M Fidino… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Human-driven environmental changes shape ecological communities from local to global
scales. Within cities, landscape-scale patterns and processes and species characteristics …

ENVIREM: an expanded set of bioclimatic and topographic variables increases flexibility and improves performance of ecological niche modeling

PO Title, JB Bemmels - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution modeling is a valuable tool with many applications across ecology and
evolutionary biology. The selection of biologically meaningful environmental variables that …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the presence and distribution of tree species in Canada's forested ecosystems

T Hermosilla, A Bastyr, NC Coops, JC White… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of tree species is required to inform management, planning, and
monitoring of forests as well as to characterize habitat and ecosystem function. Remotely …