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Through the Smoke: Spotted Owls, Wildfire, and Forest Restoration
Cushman, Ganey, Jones
In this webinar, RMRS research ecologist Sam Cushman, wildlife biologist Joe Ganey, and research ecologist Gavin Jones discussed their latest research on spotted owls and wildfire, including modeling the impacts of habitat loss under climate change…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Understanding the importance of dynamic landscape connectivity
Zeller, Lewison, Fletcher, Tulbure, Jennings
Landscape connectivity is increasingly promoted as a conservation tool to combat the negative effects of habitat loss, fragmentation, and climate change. Given its importance as a key conservation strategy, connectivity science is a rapidly growing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Fire X Fauna Webinar: Mammals, Birds x Fire in Western Forests
Sanderlin, Wilson, Thompson
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development Exploring pyrodiversity and biodiversity: effects of fire on bird and small mammal communities of the Southwest,…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Fire X Fauna Webinar: Spotted Owls x Fire
Lesmeister, Jones, Ganey
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development Quantification of wildfire severity in forests for northern spotted owls, Damon Lesmeister, Research Wildlife…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Fire X Fauna Webinar: Bats x Fire across the US
Perry, Loeb, White, Weller
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development Prescribed fire effects on bats and bat habitat in the eastern U.S., Roger Perry, Research Wildlife Biologist…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Integration of Fire Ecology and the Bioeconomy into Wildfire Management
Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Responses of ground-dwelling spider (Arachnida: Araneae) communities to wildfire in three habitats in northern New Mexico, USA, with notes on mites and harvestmen (Arachnida: Acari, Opiliones)
Brantley
Catastrophic wildfire is increasingly common in forests of the western United States because climate change is increasing ambient temperatures and periods of drought. In 2011, the Las Conchas wildfire burned in the Santa Fe National Forest of New…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Qualitative synthesis of temperate bat responses to silvicultural treatments-where do we go from here?
Loeb
Most bat species depend on forests for roosting, foraging, and drinking during part or all of their life cycles. Many of the world’s forests are managed using a variety of silvicultural treatments and, over the past 40 years, researchers have…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Press-pulse interactions and long-term community dynamics in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland
Collins, Chung, Baur, Hallmark, Ohlert, Rudgers
Questions Reordering of dominant species is an important mechanism of community response to global environmental change. We asked how wildfire (a pulse event) interacts with directional changes in climate (environmental presses) to affect plant…
Year: 2020
Type: Document

Natural hazard threats to pollinators and pollination
Nicholson, Egan
Natural hazards are naturally occurring physical events that can impact human welfare both directly and indirectly, via shocks to ecosystems and the services they provide. Animal‐mediated pollination is critical for sustaining agricultural economies…
Year: 2020
Type: Document