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A major goal of speciation research is identifying loci that underpin barriers to gene flow. Population genomics takes a ‘bottom‐up’ approach, scanning the genome for molecular signatures of processes that drive or maintain divergence. However, interpreting the ‘genomic landscape’ of speciation is complicated, because genome scans conflate multiple processes, most of which are not informative about gene flow. However, studying...
Detection and Quantification of Coarse Woody Debris in Natural Forest Stands Using Airborne LiDARNARA Subscribed
Coarse woody debris (CWD) is a meaningful contributor to forest carbon cycles, wildlife habitat, and biodiversity and can influence wildfire behavior. Using airborne laser scanning (ALS), we map CWD across a range of natural forest stand types in north-central British Columbia, Canada, providing forest managers with spatially detailed information on the presence and volume of ground-level woody biomass. We describe a novel met...
An ecoregion assessment of projected tree species vulnerabilities in western North America through the 21st centuryNARA Subscribed
Forest ecosystems across western North America will likely see shifts in both tree species dominance and composition over the rest of this century in response to climate change. Our objective in this study was to identify which ecological regions might expect the greatest changes to occur. We used the process‐based growth model 3‐ PG , to provide estimates of tree species responses to changes in environmental conditions and to...
Aim To investigate the relationships between bird species richness derived from the North American Breeding Bird Survey and estimates of the average, minimum, and the seasonal variation in canopy light absorbance (the fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation, fPAR) derived from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Location Continental USA. Methods We describe and apply a ‘dynamic habita...
Summary With improvements in mapping regional distributions of vegetation using satellite‐derived information, there is an increasing interest in the assessment of current limitations on forest growth and in making projections of how productivity may be altered in response to changing climatic conditions and management policies. We utilised a simplified physiologically based process model (3‐PG) across a 54 000 km 2 mountainou...