Pinyon-juniper (PJ) plant communities cover a large area across North America and provide critical habitat for wildlife, biodiversity and ecosystem functions, and rich cultural resources …
Dryland woodland ecosystems worldwide have experienced widespread drought‐and heat‐ related tree mortality events coupled with extreme wildfire behavior. In contrast to other …
Drought events occurring under warmer temperatures (ie “hotter droughts”) have resulted in widespread tree mortality across the globe, and may result in biome‐level vegetation shifts …
SE Fick, TW Nauman, CC Brungard… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the intermountain western US, expansion of Pinyon (Pinus edulis) and Juniper (Juniperus spp.) woodlands (PJ) into grasslands and shrublands is a pervasive phenomenon, and an …
EM Brice, BA Miller, H Zhang, K Goldstein… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although natural resource managers are concerned about climate change, many are unable to adequately incorporate climate change science into their adaptation strategies or …
Recent droughts and increasing temperatures have resulted in extensive tree mortality across the globe. Understanding the environmental controls on tree regeneration following …
River corridors along non-perennial stream networks provide diverse physical and ecological functions that are thought to be related to the spatial and temporal variability of …
Widespread piñon (Pinus edulis) mortality occurred across the southwestern USA during 2002–2003 in response to drought and bark beetle infestations. Given the recent mortality …
J Ding, DJ Eldridge - Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Encroachment of woody plants into savannas and grasslands has increased markedly over the past century due to global changes in climate and intensified land use disturbance (eg …