Search Results - "Bielski, Christine H."

Impact of Eastern Redcedar Proliferation on Water Resources in the Great Plains USA—Current State of Knowledge by Zou, Chris, Twidwell, Dirac, Bielski, Christine, Fogarty, Dillon, Mittelstet, Aaron, Starks, Patrick, Will, Rodney, Zhong, Yu, Acharya, Bharat

“…In the Great Plains of the central United States, water resources for human and aquatic life rely primarily on surface runoff and local recharge from…”
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Resilience to Large, “Catastrophic” Wildfires in North America's Grassland Biome by Donovan, Victoria M., Twidwell, Dirac, Uden, Daniel R., Tadesse, Tsegaye, Wardlow, Brian D., Bielski, Christine H., Jones, Matthew O., Allred, Brady W., Naugle, David E., Allen, Craig R.

“…Wildfires are ecosystem‐level drivers of structure and function in many vegetated biomes. While numerous studies have emphasized the benefits of fire to…”
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Advancing Fire Ecology in 21st Century Rangelands by Twidwell, Dirac, Bielski, Christine H, Scholtz, Rheinhardt, Fuhlendorf, Samuel D

“…Fire ecology has a long history of empirical investigation in rangelands. However, the science is inconclusive and incomplete, sparking increasing interest on…”
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Overcoming an “irreversible” threshold: A 15-year fire experiment by Bielski, Christine H., Scholtz, Rheinhardt, Donovan, Victoria M., Allen, Craig R., Twidwell, Dirac

“…A key pursuit in contemporary ecology is to differentiate regime shifts that are truly irreversible from those that are hysteretic. Many ecological regime…”
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Rangeland vulnerability to state transition under global climate change by Wonkka, Carissa L., Twidwell, Dirac, Allred, Brady W., Bielski, Christine H., Donovan, Victoria M., Roberts, Caleb P., Fuhlendorf, Samuel D.

“…The rapid pace of global climate change necessitates tools for prioritizing limited climate-adaptation resources in the face of imperfect knowledge regarding…”
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Regeneration and invasion of cottonwood riparian forest following wildfire by Wonkka, Carissa L., Twidwell, Dirac, Bielski, Christine H., Allen, Craig R., Stambaugh, Michael C.

“…Populus deltoides is considered to be a weak resprouter and highly susceptible to wildfire, but few post‐wildfire studies have tracked P. deltoides response…”
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Social–ecological landscape patterns predict woody encroachment from native tree plantings in a temperate grassland by Donovan, Victoria M., Burnett, Jessica L., Bielski, Christine H., Birgé, Hannah E., Bevans, Rebecca, Twidwell, Dirac, Allen, Craig R.

“…Afforestation is often viewed as the purposeful planting of trees in historically nonforested grasslands, but an unintended consequence is woody encroachment,…”
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Pyric herbivory, scales of heterogeneity and drought by Bielski, Christine H., Twidwell, Dirac, Fuhlendorf, Samuel D., Wonkka, Carissa L., Allred, Brady W., Ochsner, Tyson E., Krueger, Erik S., Carlson, J. D., Engle, David M.

“…Understanding how extreme drought alters spatial patterns and temporal stability in grassland biomass will become increasingly important by the end of the…”
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The perpetual state of emergency that sacrifices protected areas in a changing climate by Twidwell, Dirac, Wonkka, Carissa L., Bielski, Christine H., Allen, Craig R., Angeler, David G., Drozda, Jacob, Garmestani, Ahjond S., Johnson, Julia, Powell, Larkin A., Roberts, Caleb P.

“…A modern challenge for conservation biology is to assess the consequences of policies that adhere to assumptions of stationarity (e.g., historic norms) in an…”
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