Quantifying vulnerability of quaking aspen woodlands and associate bird communities to global climate change in the northern Great Basin

FY2011Aspen populations are in decline across western North America due to altered fire regimes, herbivory, drought, pathogens, and competition with conifers. Aspen stands typically support higher avian biodiversity than surrounding habitats, and maintaining current distributions of several avian species is likely tied to persistence of aspen on the landscape. We are examining effects of climate change on aspen and associated avian communities in isolated mountain ranges of the northern Great Basin, by coupling empirical models of avian-habitat relationships with spatially-explicit landscape simulations of vegetation and disturbance dynamics (using LANDIS-II) under various climate change scenarios. We are addressing...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Academics & scientific researchers, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, LANDIS-II, LANDIS-II, All tags... LANDIS-II, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, Nevada, Nevada, Nevada, Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection, Project, State agencies, aspen, avian, avian, avian, biodiversity, biodiversity, biodiversity, birds, birds, birds, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, empirical models, empirical models, empirical models, fire, fire, fire, northern great basin, populus tremuloides, populus tremuloides, populus tremuloides, wildfire, wildfire, wildfire, Fewer tags