Creating strategic reserves to protect forest carbon and reduce biodiversity losses in the United States

BE Law, WR Moomaw, TW Hudiburg, WH Schlesinger… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper provides a review and comparison of strategies to increase forest carbon, and
reduce species losses for climate change mitigation and adaptation in the United States. It …

Forest carbon emission sources are not equal: Putting fire, harvest, and fossil fuel emissions in context

KJ Bartowitz, ES Walsh, JE Stenzel… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change has intensified the scale of global wildfire impacts in recent decades. In
order to reduce fire impacts, management policies are being proposed in the western United …

isocalcR: An R package to streamline and standardize stable isotope calculations in ecological research

JM Mathias, TW Hudiburg - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The use of stable isotopes to characterize ecosystem dynamics and infer leaf gas exchange
processes has become increasingly prevalent over the last few decades within the …

Nutrient leaching potential along a time series of forest water reclamation facilities in northern Idaho

E Joshi, MR Schwarzbach, B Briggs, ER Coats… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Forest water reclamation is a decades-old practice of repurposing municipal reclaimed
water using land application on forests to filter nutrients and increase wood production …

Protect large trees for climate mitigation, biodiversity, and forest resilience

DJ Mildrexler, LT Berner, BE Law… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Protecting the climate system requires urgently reducing carbon emissions to the
atmosphere and increasing cumulative carbon stocks in natural systems. Recent studies …

A Future Without Control Basins: Compound Forest Disturbance and the Disappearance of Undisturbed Forested Catchments in the Western United States

KE Schneider, T Hogue - Ecohydrology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, forest disturbances caused by wildfire, insect and disease‐induced forest
mortality and drought have increased in frequency and magnitude, especially in the Western …

Effectiveness of forest density reduction treatments for increasing drought resistance of ponderosa pine growth

DJN Young, BL Estes, S Gross… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As the climate changes, it is increasingly important to understand how forests will respond to
drought and how forest management can influence those outcomes. In many forests that …

Mechanisms controlling carbon sinks in semi‐arid mountain ecosystems

W Guo, M Safeeq, H Liu, X Wu, G Cui… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Feedbacks between the intertwined water and carbon cycles in semi‐arid mountain
ecosystems can introduce large uncertainties into projections of carbon storage. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing deforestation patterns in China from 2000 to 2019

Y Zhang, L Zhang, H Wang, Y Wang, J Ding, J Shen… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forests are important for the global carbon cycle, hydrothermal balance, and climate
change. Human activities can exert a significant impact on forest ecosystems, thereby …

Vulnerability of northern rocky mountain forests under future drought, fire, and harvest

JE Stenzel, CA Kolden, PC Buotte… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Novel climate and disturbance regimes in the 21st century threaten to increase the
vulnerability of some western US forests to loss of biomass and function. However, the …