Search Results - "HOWE, ROBERT W"

Mechanisms underlying local functional and phylogenetic beta diversity in two temperate forests by Wang, Xugao, Wiegand, Thorsten, Swenson, Nathan G, Wolf, Amy T, Howe, Robert W, Hao, Zhanqing, Lin, Fei, Ye, Ji, Yuan, Zuoqiang

“…Although trait information has been widely used to explore underlying mechanisms of forest community structure, most studies have focused on local patterns of…”
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Application of habitat association models across regions: Useful explanatory power retained in wetland bird case study by Elliott, Lisa H., Bracey, Annie M., Niemi, Gerald J., Johnson, Douglas H., Gehring, Thomas M., Gnass Giese, Erin E., Fiorino, Giuseppe E., Howe, Robert W., Lawrence, Gregory J., Norment, Christopher J., Tozer, Douglas C., Igl, Lawrence D.

“…Species often exhibit regionally specific habitat associations, so habitat association models developed in one region might not be accurate or even appropriate…”
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Effects of human land use on avian functional and taxonomic diversity within the upland coastal zone of the North American Great Lakes by Bracey, Annie M., Kovalenko, Katya E., Niemi, Gerald, Gnass Giese, Erin E., Howe, Robert W., Grinde, Alexis R.

“…Breeding birds in North America's eastern and boreal forests have experienced significant population declines in recent decades due largely to habitat loss…”
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Comparative evolutionary diversity and phylogenetic structure across multiple forest dynamics plots: a mega-phylogeny approach by Erickson, David L, Jones, Frank A, Swenson, Nathan G, Pei, Nancai, Bourg, Norman A, Chen, Wenna, Davies, Stuart J, Ge, Xue-Jun, Hao, Zhanqing, Howe, Robert W, Huang, Chun-Lin, Larson, Andrew J, Lum, Shawn K Y, Lutz, James A, Ma, Keping, Meegaskumbura, Madhava, Mi, Xiangcheng, Parker, John D, Fang-Sun, I, Wright, S Joseph, Wolf, Amy T, Ye, W, Xing, Dingliang, Zimmerman, Jess K, Kress, W John

“…Forest dynamics plots, which now span longitudes, latitudes, and habitat types across the globe, offer unparalleled insights into the ecological and…”
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Influence of call broadcast timing within point counts and survey duration on detection probability of marsh breeding birds by Tozer, Douglas C., Falconer, C. Myles, Bracey, Annie M., Gnass Giese, Erin E., Niemi, Gerald J., Howe, Robert W., Gehring, Thomas M., Norment, Christopher J.

“…The Standardized North American Marsh Bird Monitoring Protocol recommends point counts consisting of a 5-min passive observation period, meant to be free of…”
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The unexpected influence of legacy conspecific density dependence by Magee, Lukas J., LaManna, Joseph A., Wolf, Amy T., Howe, Robert W., Lu, Yuanming, Valle, Denis, Smith, Daniel J. B., Bagchi, Robert, Bauman, David, Johnson, Daniel J.

“…When plants die, neighbours escape competition. Living conspecifics could disproportionately benefit because they are freed from negative intraspecific…”
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Modeling a cross-ecosystem subsidy: forest songbird response to emergent aquatic insects by Schilke, Paul R., Bartrons, Mireia, Gorzo, Jessica M., Vander Zanden, M. Jake, Gratton, Claudio, Howe, Robert W., Pidgeon, Anna M.

“…Context Resource movements across ecosystem boundaries are important determinants of the diversity and abundance of organisms in the donor and recipient…”
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Tree-mycorrhizal associations detected remotely from canopy spectral properties by Fisher, Joshua B., Sweeney, Sean, Brzostek, Edward R., Evans, Tom P., Johnson, Daniel J., Myers, Jonathan A., Bourg, Norman A., Wolf, Amy T., Howe, Robert W., Phillips, Richard P.

“…A central challenge in global ecology is the identification of key functional processes in ecosystems that scale, but do not require, data for individual…”
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Standardized Measures of Coastal Wetland Condition: Implementation at a Laurentian Great Lakes Basin-Wide Scale by Uzarski, Donald G., Brady, Valerie J., Cooper, Matthew J., Wilcox, Douglas A., Albert, Dennis A., Axler, Richard P., Bostwick, Peg, Brown, Terry N., Ciborowski, Jan J. H., Danz, Nicholas P., Gathman, Joseph P., Gehring, Thomas M., Grabas, Greg P., Garwood, Anne, Howe, Robert W., Johnson, Lucinda B., Lamberti, Gary A., Moerke, Ashley H., Murry, Brent A., Niemi, Gerald J., Norment, Christopher J., Ruetz, Carl R., Steinman, Alan D., Tozer, Douglas C., Wheeler, Ryan, O’Donnell, T. Kevin, Schneider, John P.

“…Since European settlement, over 50 % of coastal wetlands have been lost in the Laurentian Great Lakes basin, causing growing concern and increased monitoring…”
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Increasing marsh bird abundance in coastal wetlands of the Great Lakes, 2011–2021, likely caused by increasing water levels by Tozer, Douglas C, Bracey, Annie M, Fiorino, Giuseppe E, Gehring, Thomas M, Gnass Giese, Erin E, Grabas, Greg P, Howe, Robert W, Lawrence, Gregory J, Niemi, Gerald J, Wheelock, Bridget A, Ethier, Danielle M

“…Wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes of North America (i.e., lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario) provide critical habitat for marsh birds. We…”
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Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities by Wiegand, Thorsten, Wang, Xugao, Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina J., Bourg, Norman A., Cao, Min, Ci, Xiuqin, Davies, Stuart J., Hao, Zhanqing, Howe, Robert W., Kress, W. John, Lian, Juyu, Li, Jie, Lin, Luxiang, Lin, Yiching, Ma, Keping, McShea, William, Mi, Xiangcheng, Su, Sheng-Hsin, Sun, I-Fang, Wolf, Amy, Ye, Wanhui, Huth, Andreas

“…Ecology cannot yet fully explain why so many tree species coexist in natural communities such as tropical forests. A major difficulty is linking…”
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Leveraging a Landscape-Level Monitoring and Assessment Program for Developing Resilient Shorelines throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes by Uzarski, Donald G., Wilcox, Douglas A., Brady, Valerie J., Cooper, Matthew J., Albert, Dennis A., Ciborowski, Jan J. H., Danz, Nicholas P., Garwood, Anne, Gathman, Joseph P., Gehring, Thomas M., Grabas, Greg P., Howe, Robert W., Johnson, Lucinda B., Lamberti, Gary A., Moerke, Ashley H., Niemi, Gerald J., Redder, Todd, Ruetz III, Carl R., Steinman, Alan D., Tozer, Douglas C., O’Donnell, T. Kevin

“…Traditionally, ecosystem monitoring, conservation, and restoration have been conducted in a piecemeal manner at the local scale without regional landscape…”
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Environment‐ and trait‐mediated scaling of tree occupancy in forests worldwide by Ren, Haibao, Keil, Petr, Mi, Xiangcheng, Ma, Keping, Hao, Zhanqing, Ye, Wanhui, Lin, Luxiang, Valencia, Renato, Fletcher, Christine Dawn, Thomas, Duncan W., Howe, Robert W., Lutz, James, Bourg, Norman A., Su, Sheng‐Hsin, Sun, I‐Fang, Zhu, Li, Chang, Li‐Wan, Wang, Xihua, Du, Xiaojun, Kenfack, David, Chuyong, George B., Jetz, Walter, Hurlbert, Allen

“…Aim The relationship between the proportion of sites occupied by a species and the area of a site [occupancy–area relationship (OAR)] offers key information…”
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Influence of Local, Landscape, and Regional Variables on Sedge and Marsh Wren Occurrence in Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands by Panci, Hannah G., Niemi, Gerald J., Regal, Ronald R., Tozer, Douglas C., Gehring, Thomas M., Howe, Robert W., Norment, Christopher J.

“…We determined the influence of habitat, landscape, geographic, and climate variables on Sedge Wren ( Cistothorus platensis ) and Marsh Wren ( C. palustris )…”
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Integrated measures of anthropogenic stress in the U.S. Great lakes basin by Danz, Nicholas P, Niemi, Gerald J, Regal, Ronald R, Hollenhorst, Tom, Johnson, Lucinda B, Hanowski, JoAnn M, Axler, Richard P, Ciborowski, Jan J H, Hrabik, Thomas, Brady, Valerie J, Kelly, John R, Morrice, John A, Brazner, John C, Howe, Robert W, Johnston, Carol A, Host, George E

“…Integrated, quantitative expressions of anthropogenic stress over large geographic regions can be valuable tools in environmental research and management…”
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Modeling regional-scale habitat of forest birds when land management guidelines are needed but information is limited by Beaudry, Frederic, Pidgeon, Anna M., Radeloff, Volker C., Howe, Robert W., Mladenoff, David J., Bartelt, Gerald A.

“…Conservation planning at broad spatial scales facilitates coherence between local land management and objectives set at the state or provincial level. Habitat…”
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Sensitivity of breeding birds to the "human footprint" in western Great Lakes forest landscapes by Gnass Giese, Erin E, Howe, Robert W, Wolf, Amy T, Miller, Nicholas A, Walton, Nicholas G

“…Breeding birds in forest ecosystems are generally diverse, habitat selective, and easily sampled. Because they must integrate environmental variables over…”
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Optimizing regional conservation planning for forest birds by Beaudry, Frederic, Pidgeon, Anna M., Mladenoff, David J., Howe, Robert W., Bartelt, Gerald A., Radeloff, Volker C.

“…1. Habitat conservation, particularly for large, multiple use areas, must account for the needs of multiple species. However, an unresolved issue is how to…”
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The importance of spatial scale for conservation and assessment of anuran populations in coastal wetlands of the western Great Lakes, USA by PRICE, Steven J, MARKS, David R, HOWE, Robert W, HANOWSKI, Joann M, NIEMI, Gerald J

“…Distributions of pond-breeding amphibians may be influenced by habitat factors at different spatial scales. We used anuran calling surveys to investigate the…”
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Responsiveness of Great Lakes Wetland Indicators to Human Disturbances at Multiple Spatial Scales: A Multi-Assemblage Assessment by Brazner, John C., Danz, Nicolas P., Trebitz, Anett S., Niemi, Gerald J., Regal, Ronald R., Hollenhorst, Tom, Host, George E., Reavie, Euan D., Brown, Terry N., Hanowski, JoAnn M., Johnston, Carol A., Johnson, Lucinda B., Howe, Robert W., Ciborowski, Jan J. H.

“…Developing indicators of ecosystem condition is a priority in the Great Lakes, but little is known about appropriate spatial scales to characterize disturbance…”
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