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We study the influences of natural disturbances and
climate change on the composition and structure of forests, at several
scales in space and time, through the use of interdisciplinary
approaches. We use lake sediments to reconstruct past climate events and their effects on
ecosystems. We also use records of tree growth (tree rings)
and spatial analyses to address processes operating more recently.
See an interactive map of our study sites.
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News
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Just out: Gavin D.G., and Hu F.S. (2013) Northwestern North America. In: Elias S.A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, Vol. 4 pp. 124-132. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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New paper on the dynamic character of forests of the western Olympic Peninsula is now in press in Ecological Monographs.
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Oregon's Orphan Redwood paper is now out in Northwest Science.
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Paper by Jenn Marlon in Nature Geosciences is one of the editors' ten
favourite papers in their web focus that celebrates the fifth anniversary of the journal!
Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia.
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International Biogeography Society
Biennial Meeting, January 10-12, Miami FL, was a grand success! See program and highlights at the IBS website. |
| Two workshop reports published from the August PAGES workshop:
Climate Refugia: Joint Inference from Fossils, Genetics and Models.
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Lab members present at the Ecological Society of America meeting in Portland, August 2012:
- Dave Fisher: Postglacial dynamics of Olympic Peninsula forests: Comparing predictions and observations.
- Dan Gavin and Linda Brubaker: Postglacial climate and fire-mediated forest diversity on the western Olympic Peninsula, Washington.
- Erin Herring: Climate and vegetation in a putative Pleistocene refugium in northern Idaho inferred from sediment records.
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Aquila Flower wins an NSF DDRI and a grant from the Mazamas to conduct paleo-ecosystem ecology using isotopic records from tree rings.
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Jenn Kusler presents her MS thesis, May 2012:
A 7500-Year Paleolimnological Record of Environmental Change and Salmon Abundance In The Oregon Coast Range.
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