scholarly journals Enhancing Forest Productivity, Value, and Health through Silviculture in a Changing World

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1550
Author(s):  
Nelson Thiffault ◽  
Bradley D. Pinno
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Forest Productivity ◽  
Changing World

Global change is inducing important stresses to forests worldwide [...]

Mangrove forests in a rapidly changing world: Global change impacts and conservation opportunities along the Gulf of Mexico coast

2018 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 120-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Osland ◽  
Laura C. Feher ◽  
Jorge López-Portillo ◽  
Richard H. Day ◽  
Daniel O. Suman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Mexico Coast ◽  
Changing World

scholarly journals Solar UV radiation in a changing world: roles of cryosphere–land–water–atmosphere interfaces in global biogeochemical cycles

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 747-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Sulzberger ◽  
A. T. Austin ◽  
R. M. Cory ◽  
R. G. Zepp ◽  
N. D. Paul
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Uv Radiation ◽  
Aquatic Ecosystems ◽  
Biogeochemical Cycles ◽  
Solar Uv Radiation ◽  
Solar Uv ◽  
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ◽  
Land Water ◽  
Environmental Compartments ◽  
Changing World

Influence of global change on biogeochemical cycles within and between environmental compartments: cryosphere, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and the atmosphere.

scholarly journals Understanding Mountain Lakes in a Changing World

Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Oleksy ◽  
Joshua Culpepper
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Mountain Lakes ◽  
Fort Collins ◽  
Changing World

Mountain Lakes and Global Change Workshop; Fort Collins, Colorado, 6–8 March 2017

scholarly journals Monitoring Forest Phenology in a Changing World

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Ross E. J. Gray ◽  
Robert M. Ewers
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Change ◽  
Spatial Resolution ◽  
Ecosystem Functioning ◽  
Ecosystem Processes ◽  
Plant Phenology ◽  
Robust Methods ◽  
Monitoring Methods ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Changing World

Plant phenology is strongly interlinked with ecosystem processes and biodiversity. Like many other aspects of ecosystem functioning, it is affected by habitat and climate change, with both global change drivers altering the timings and frequency of phenological events. As such, there has been an increased focus in recent years to monitor phenology in different biomes. A range of approaches for monitoring phenology have been developed to increase our understanding on its role in ecosystems, ranging from the use of satellites and drones to collection traps, each with their own merits and limitations. Here, we outline the trade-offs between methods (spatial resolution, temporal resolution, cost, data processing), and discuss how their use can be optimised in different environments and for different goals. We also emphasise emerging technologies that will be the focus of monitoring in the years to follow and the challenges of monitoring phenology that still need to be addressed. We conclude that there is a need to integrate studies that incorporate multiple monitoring methods, allowing the strengths of one to compensate for the weaknesses of another, with a view to developing robust methods for upscaling phenological observations from point locations to biome and global scales and reconciling data from varied sources and environments. Such developments are needed if we are to accurately quantify the impacts of a changing world on plant phenology.

scholarly journals BII-Implementation: The causes and consequences of plant biodiversity across scales in a rapidly changing world

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeannine Cavender-Bares ◽  
Peter Reich ◽  
Philip Townsend ◽  
Arindam Banerjee ◽  
Ethan Butler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Global Change ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Plant Biodiversity ◽  
Biodiversity Research ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training ◽  
Changing World

The proposed Biology Integration Institute will bring together two major research institutions in the Upper Midwest—the University of Minnesota (UMN) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW)—to investigate the causes and consequences of plant biodiversity across scales in a rapidly changing world—from genes and molecules within cells and tissues to communities, ecosystems, landscapes and the biosphere. The Institute focuses on plant biodiversity, defined broadly to encompass the heterogeneity within life that occurs from the smallest to the largest biological scales. A premise of the Institute is that life is envisioned as occurring at different scales nested within several contrasting conceptions of biological hierarchies, defined by the separate but related fields of physiology, evolutionary biology and ecology. The Institute will emphasize the use of ‘spectral biology’—detection of biological properties based on the interaction of light energy with matter—and process-oriented predictive models to investigate the processes by which biological components at one scale give rise to emergent properties at higher scales. Through an iterative process that harnesses cutting edge technologies to observe a suite of carefully designed empirical systems—including the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and some of the world’s longest running and state-of-the-art global change experiments—the Institute will advance biological understanding and theory of the causes and consequences of changes in biodiversity and at the interface of plant physiology, ecology and evolution. INTELLECTUAL MERIT The Institute brings together a diverse, gender-balanced and highly productive team with significant leadership experience that spans biological disciplines and career stages and is poised to integrate biology in new ways. Together, the team will harness the potential of spectral biology, experiments, observations and synthetic modeling in a manner never before possible to transform understanding of how variation within and among biological scales drives plant and ecosystem responses to global change over diurnal, seasonal and millennial time scales. In doing so, it will use and advance state-of-the-art theory. The institute team posits that the designed projects will unearth transformative understanding and biological rules at each of the various scales that will enable an unprecedented capacity to discern the linkages between physiological, ecological and evolutionary processes in relation to the multi-dimensional nature of biodiversity in this time of massive planetary change. A strength of the proposed Institute is that it leverages prior federal investments in research and formalizes partnerships with foreign institutions heavily invested in related biodiversity research. Most of the planned projects leverage existing research initiatives, infrastructure, working groups, experiments, training programs, and public outreach infrastructure, all of which are already highly synergistic and collaborative, and will bring together members of the overall research and training team. BROADER IMPACTS A central goal of the proposed Institute is to train the next generation of diverse integrative biologists. Post-doctoral, graduate student and undergraduate trainees, recruited from non-traditional and underrepresented groups, including through formal engagement with Native American communities, will receive a range of mentoring and training opportunities. Annual summer training workshops will be offered at UMN and UW as well as training experiences with the Global Change and Biodiversity Research Priority Program (URPP-GCB) at the University of Zurich (UZH) and through the Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory (CABO). The Institute will engage diverse K-12 audiences, the general public and Native American communities through Market Science modules, Minute Earth videos, a museum exhibit and public engagement and educational activities through the Bell Museum of Natural History, the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve (CCESR) and the Wisconsin Tribal Conservation Association.

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