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Haleakala National Park, Hawaii |
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Successional Dynamics Studying forest succession is difficult because trees live longer than we do. And just because the forests we see around us developed one way, forests might develop differently in the future. My Master’s research examined forest development at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon. More...
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Remote Sensing Landscape scale ecological processes such as succession, fire, disease, climate change and human impact can sometimes only be examined with satellite or aerial imagery. More... Photo credit: NASA (Apollo 8) |
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Climate Change Climate has seldom been static, but now it is changing rapidly compared with the recent past. Climate changes are likely to change disturbance regimes and species assemblages. My particular interest is in changes in vegetation of western North America. More... |
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Physiological Determinants of Forest Diversity Many North American forests have less species diversity in the understory than old-growth forests in our region. Is the thin understory solely a result of the successional stage? Or can forests be manipulated to encourage species diversity? |
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The Greater Yosemite Ecosystem Much of the Yosemite ecosystem has been protected, but both humans and natural agents have influenced vegetation in this system for thousands of years. My dissertation uses a rich spatial dataset of vegetation plots and satellite data to examine succession from 1935 to present. More...
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