Search Results - "Chris Toney"

US National Maps Attributing Forest Change: 1986–2010 by Karen G. Schleeweis, Gretchen G. Moisen, Todd A. Schroeder, Chris Toney, Elizabeth A. Freeman, Samuel N. Goward, Chengquan Huang, Jennifer L. Dungan

“…National monitoring of forestlands and the processes causing canopy cover loss, be they abrupt or gradual, partial or stand clearing, temporary (disturbance)…”
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Modeling the height of young forests regenerating from recent disturbances in Mississippi using Landsat and ICESat data by Li, Ainong, Huang, Chengquan, Sun, Guoqing, Shi, Hua, Toney, Chris, Zhu, Zhiliang, Rollins, Matthew G., Goward, Samuel N., Masek, Jeffrey G.

“…Many forestry and earth science applications require spatially detailed forest height data sets. Among the various remote sensing technologies, lidar offers…”
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Small Area Estimates for National Applications: A Database to Dashboard Strategy Using FIESTA by Frescino, Tracey S., McConville, Kelly S., White, Grayson W., Toney, J. Chris, Moisen, Gretchen G.

“…This paper demonstrates a process for translating a database of forest measurements to interactive dashboards through which users can access statistically…”
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Southwestern white pine (Pinus strobiformis) species distribution models project a large range shift and contraction due to regional climatic changes by Shirk, Andrew J., Cushman, Samuel A., Waring, Kristen M., Wehenkel, Christian A., Leal-Sáenz, Alejandro, Toney, Chris, Lopez-Sanchez, Carlos A.

“…•A warmer and drier future climate may pose extreme risk of drought stress.•Winter warming may cause failure to meet the chilling requirement for budburst.•As…”
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Testing a Landsat-based approach for mapping disturbance causality in U.S. forests by Schroeder, Todd A., Schleeweis, Karen G., Moisen, Gretchen G., Toney, Chris, Cohen, Warren B., Freeman, Elizabeth A., Yang, Zhiqiang, Huang, Chengquan

“…In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances…”
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Is whitebark pine less sensitive to climate warming when climate tolerances of juveniles are considered? by Hansen, Andrew J., East, Alyson, Keane, Robert E., Lavin, Matt, Legg, Kristin, Holden, Zachary, Toney, Chris, Alongi, Franklin

“…•The sensitivity of whitebark pine to climate change was poorly known.•New genetic techniques allowed separation of from a more warm-dry tolerant…”
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FIESTA': a forest inventory estimation and analysis R package by Frescino, Tracey S., Moisen, Gretchen G., Patterson, Paul L., Toney, Chris, White, Grayson W.

“…Ecologists are increasingly relying on national forest inventories to address a wide variety of issues. The ‘FIESTA' R package (Forest Inventory ESTimation and…”
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Shape selection in Landsat time series: a tool for monitoring forest dynamics by Moisen, Gretchen G., Meyer, Mary C., Schroeder, Todd A., Liao, Xiyue, Schleeweis, Karen G., Freeman, Elizabeth A., Toney, Chris

“…We present a new methodology for fitting nonparametric shape‐restricted regression splines to time series of Landsat imagery for the purpose of modeling,…”
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Comparative assessment of methods for estimating tree canopy cover across a rural-to-urban gradient in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA by Riemann, Rachel, Liknes, Greg, O’Neil-Dunne, Jarlath, Toney, Chris, Lister, Tonya

“…Tree canopy cover significantly affects human and wildlife habitats, local hydrology, carbon cycles, fire behavior, and ecosystem services of all types. In…”
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Past and ongoing shifts in Joshua tree distribution support future modeled range contraction by Cole, Kenneth L, Ironside, Kirsten, Eischeid, Jon, Garfin, Gregg, Duffy, Phillip B, Toney, Chris

“…The future distribution of the Joshua tree ( Yucca brevifolia ) is projected by combining a geostatistical analysis of 20th-century climates over its current…”
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Evaluating the performance and mapping of three fuel classification systems using Forest Inventory and Analysis surface fuel measurements by Keane, Robert E., Herynk, Jason M., Toney, Chris, Urbanski, Shawn P., Lutes, Duncan C., Ottmar, Roger D.

“…•Three fuel classifications were evaluated for performance and mapping accuracy.•All three fuel classifications performed poorly in describing fuel…”
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Equations to Convert Compacted Crown Ratio to Uncompacted Crown Ratio for Trees in the Interior West by Toney, Chris, Reeves, Matthew C

“…Crown ratio is the proportion of total tree length supporting live foliage. Inventory programs of the US Forest Service generally define crown ratio in terms…”
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