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Severe Wind And Fire Regimes In Northern Forests: Historic Variability At The Regional Scale, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, David J. Mladenoff
Severe Wind And Fire Regimes In Northern Forests: Historic Variability At The Regional Scale, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, David J. Mladenoff
Lisa A. Schulte Moore
Within the northern Great Lakes region, mesoscale (10s to 100s of km2) forest patterning is driven by disturbance dynamics. Using original Public Land Survey (PLS) records in northern Wisconsin, USA, we study spatial patterns of wind and fire disturbances during the pre-Euroamerican settlement period (ca. 1850). Our goals were: (1) to determine how effectively wind and fire disturbance can be econstructed from the PLS, (2) to assess the roles of wind and fire in shaping vegetation patterns, (3) to evaluate landscape to regional controls of wind and fire regimes, and (4) to assess the potential for interactions between these disturbances. …
Seventy Years Of Forest Change In The Northern Great Lakes Region, Usa, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, Thomas R. Crow, Dave Cleland
Seventy Years Of Forest Change In The Northern Great Lakes Region, Usa, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, Thomas R. Crow, Dave Cleland
Lisa A. Schulte Moore
The rates and magnitudes of forest change have important social and economic implications. We address facets of change associated with 20th century recovery of the U.S. Lake States (Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota) forests from the Great Cutover, and discuss ecological and socioeconomic implications for future forest resources.
Narrowing Historical Uncertainty: Probabilistic Classification Of Ambiguously Identified Tree Species In Historical Forest Survey Data, David J. Mladenoff, Sally E. Dahir, Eric V. Nordheim, Lisa A. Schulte, Glenn G. Guntenspergen
Narrowing Historical Uncertainty: Probabilistic Classification Of Ambiguously Identified Tree Species In Historical Forest Survey Data, David J. Mladenoff, Sally E. Dahir, Eric V. Nordheim, Lisa A. Schulte, Glenn G. Guntenspergen
Lisa A. Schulte Moore
Historical data have increasingly become appreciated for insight into the past conditions of ecosystems. Uses of such data include assessing the extent of ecosystem change; deriving ecological baselines for management, restoration, and modeling; and assessing the importance of past conditions on the composition and function of current systems. One historical data set of this type is the Public Land Survey (PLS) of the United States General Land Office, which contains data on multiple tree species, sizes, and distances recorded at each survey point, located at half-mile (0.8-km) intervals on a 1-mi (1.6 km) grid. This survey method was begun in …
Presettlement Vegetation Of The Lower Chippewa River Valley, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, William J. Barnes
Presettlement Vegetation Of The Lower Chippewa River Valley, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, William J. Barnes
Lisa A. Schulte Moore
The lower Chippewa River of west-central Wisconsin is the portion that flows southwest from the city of Eau Claire to the Mississippi River at Nelson. The river has a gentle gradient of about 0.8 m/km and highly erodible banks of sand and gravel. The river valley occurs between 35 m to 70 m below the surrounding upland, is between 1 and 5 km wide, and was formed primarily by glacial meltwaters. The floodplain is defined by annual high water levels and is generally below the 25 year flood recurrence interval, which on this part of the Chippewa River is >5m …