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Visual narrative vs. traditional slideshow for engaging youth in biodiversity education
(2024)Engaging youth in early and sustained conservation education has important implications for promoting positive attitudes and behaviors in those who will become the future of conservation and management. Towards this goal, ... -
Evaluating the interactive effects of artificial light at night and background color on tadpole crypsis, background adaptation efficacy, and growth
(Elsevier, 2023-09-15)Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a global pollutant of rising concern. While alterations to natural day-night cycles caused by ALAN can affect a variety of traits, the broader fitness and ecological implications of these ... -
Art Exhibit for Comprehension and Interest of Disease Ecology Research
(ASM Journals, Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, 2023)Art is a common approach for communicating and educating about science, yet it remains unclear the extent to which science art can benefit varied audiences in varied contexts. To examine this gap, we developed an art exhibit ... -
Tadpole Pigmentation and Predation
(Elsevier, Environmental Pollution, 2022-06-09)Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a pervasive pollutant that influences wildlife at both the individual and community level. In this study, we tested the individual-level effects of ALAN on three species of tadpole prey ... -
Bryophyte cover estimation in a boreal black spruce forest using airborne lidar and multispectral sensors
(Elsevier, 2009-03)Bryophytes are the dominant ground cover vegetation layer in many boreal forests and in some of these forests the net primary production of bryophytes exceeds the overstory. Therefore it is necessary to quantify their ... -
Scaling Gross Primary Production (GPP) over boreal and deciduous forest landscapes in support of MODIS GPP product validation
(Elsevier, 2003-06-18)The Moderate Resolution Imaging Radiometer (MODIS) is the primary instrument in the NASA Earth Observing System for monitoring the seasonality of global terrestrial vegetation. Estimates of 8-day mean daily gross primary ... -
Simulation of boreal black spruce chronosequences: Comparison to field measurements and model evaluation
(Journal of Geophysical Research, 2006-06-08)This study used the Biome Biogeochemical Cycles (Biome-BGC) process model to simulate boreal forest dynamics, compared the results with a variety of measured carbon content and flux data from two boreal chronosequences in ... -
Life cycle inventories of roundwood production in northern Wisconsin: Inputs into an industrial forest carbon budget
(Elsevier, 2005)Carbon budgets are developed to understand ecosystem dynamics and are increasingly being used to develop global change policy. Traditionally, forest carbon budgets have focused on the biological carbon cycle; however, it ... -
Patterns and Mechanisms of the Forest Carbon Cycle
(Annual Reviews Energy and Environment, 2003)Forests are an important source for ?ber and fuel for humans and contain the majority of the total terrestrial carbon (C). The amount of C stored in the vegetation and soil are strongly in?uenced by environmental constraints ... -
Effects of fire on regional evapotranspiration in the central Canadian boreal forest
(2009)Changes in fire regimes are driving the carbon balance of much of the North American boreal forest, but few studies have examined fire-driven changes in evapotranspiration (ET) at a regional scale. This study used a version ... -
FOREST-BGC, A general model of forest ecosystem processes for regional applications. II. Dynamic carbon allocation and nitrogen budgets
(Heron Publishing, 1991)A new version of the ecosystem process model FOREST-BGC is presented that uses stand water and nitrogen limitations to alter the leaf/root/stem carbon allocation fraction dynamically at each annual iteration. Water deficit ... -
Reimplementation of the BIOME-BGC model to simulate successional change
(Heron Publishing, 2005)Biogeochemical process models are increasingly employed to simulate current and future forest dynamics, but most simulate only a single canopy type. This limitation means that mixed stands, canopy succession and understory ... -
Improved simulation of poorly drained forests using Biome-BGC
(Tree Physiology, 2007)Summary Forested wetlands and peatlands are important in boreal and terrestrial biogeochemical cycling, but most general-purpose forest process models are designed and parameterized for upland systems. We describe changes ... -
Fire as the dominant driver of central Canadian boreal forest carbon balance
(Nature, 2007)Changes in climate, atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and fire regimes have been occurring for decades in the global boreal forest, with future climate change likely to increase fire frequency ? the primary disturbance ...
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