Forest-restoration efforts are increasing in the western United States in response to realized and expected changes in climate and disturbance regimes. Managers are challenged to find practical and defensible targets to shift forest composition, structure, and spatial pattern to a more resistant and resilient state. The Northeast Washington Forest Vision 2020 project on the Colville National Forest presented an opportunity to...

The tropical Atlantic is home to multiple coupled climate variations covering a wide range of timescales and impacting societally relevant phenomena such as continental rainfall, Atlantic hurricane activity, oceanic biological productivity, and atmospheric circulation in the equatorial Pacific. The tropical Atlantic also connects the southern and northern branches of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and receives...

An enclosure experiment was performed in the brackish layer of a Norwegian fjord, a system where both phytoplankton and bacterial growth have previously been hypothesized to be phosphorus (p) limited. All enclosures had a succession pattern characterized by an initial autotrophic phase with positive net community production, increasing phytoplankton primary production, and chlorophyll, followed by a heterotrophic phase with de...