Progress 04/11/06 to 04/11/11
Outputs
OUTPUTS: This project has been terminated. This research of this particular problem will continue in RMRS Project 4157-1
Impacts
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Publications
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Progress 10/01/06 to 09/30/07
Outputs
Progress was made in two important areas: (1) extending the capability of natural resource planners to analyze tradeoffs among competing resource users as related to issues of sustainability, decision support, fire suppression and fuels management, timber harvest scheduling, and mill supply and forest product markets; and (2) improving our understanding of key factors affecting the distribution and abundance of wildlife in grassland ecosystems. With respect to the former, a major synthesis of systems analysis approaches in forestry was published and represented the 10th symposium on this topic that has occurred since 1975. A total of 42 papers that described, evaluated, and applied a diverse set of management science methods to complex resource management problems comprise the symposium volume. With respect to the latter, our scientists focused on taxa that inhabit grassland ecosystems. Over the past 30 years, biodiversity on grasslands has undergone substantial declines
in many areas of the United States. Progress over the past year focused on documenting the factors most important to explaining why grassland bird diversity varies from place to place, and in understanding habitat selection in a focal reptile species (collard lizard). Such research is needed for a more complete understanding of the effects of human-induced landscape change, including the loss of open space and resource extraction, on managed forest and grassland ecosystems.
Impacts
Natural resource managers and conservation scientists require methods that permit the assessment of resource response to alternative land management activities. The research produced this past year is expected to: (1) improve our ability to consider the inevitable tradeoffs among competing stakeholder groups in multi-resource planning, and (2) further our understanding of key ecological and land management factors that affect biodiversity in managed landscapes. Such research is critical to ensuring that the needs and wants of a diverse public can be considered simultaneously, and that resource management does not unduly impact biodiversity.
Publications
- Zachariassen, J.; Zeller, K.; Nikolov, N.; Snook, J.; Fajardo, M.; Teixeira, L. 2007. Gridded wind speed and direction fields for use by the FARSITE fire spread model. In: Proceedings of the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Nov 13-17, 2006. San Diego, CA.
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Progress 10/01/05 to 09/30/06
Outputs
Progress was made in two important areas: (1) extending the capability of natural resource planners to analyze tradeoffs among competing resource users as related to issues of sustainability, decision support, fire suppression and fuels management, timber harvest scheduling, and mill supply and forest product markets; and (2) improving our understanding of key factors affecting the distribution and abundance of wildlife in grassland ecosystems. With respect to the former, a major synthesis of systems analysis approaches in forestry was published and represented the 10th symposium on this topic that has occurred since 1975. A total of 42 papers that described, evaluated, and applied a diverse set of management science methods to complex resource management problems comprise the symposium volume. With respect to the latter, our scientists focused on taxa that inhabit grassland ecosystems. Over the past 30 years, biodiversity on grasslands has undergone substantial
declines in many areas of the United States. Progress over the past year focused on documenting the factors most important to explaining why grassland bird diversity varies from place to place, and in understanding habitat selection in a focal reptile species (collard lizard). Such research is needed for a more complete understanding of the effects of human-induced landscape change, including the loss of open space and resource extraction, on managed forest and grassland ecosystems.
Impacts
Natural resource managers and conservation scientists require methods that permit the assessment of resource response to alternative land management activities. The research produced this past year is expected to: (1) improve our ability to consider the inevitable tradeoffs among competing stakeholder groups in multi-resource planning, and (2) further our understanding of key ecological and land management factors that affect biodiversity in managed landscapes. Such research is critical to ensuring that the needs and wants of a diverse public can be considered simultaneously, and that resource management does not unduly impact biodiversity.
Publications
- Nikolov, N.; Teixeira, L.; Snook, J.; Zeller, K.; Fajardo, M. 2006. Forecasting of fire weather and smoke using vegetation-atmosphere interactions. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO: Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program 2003-1, Tasks 1 and 3; Project Number: 03-1-3-02. 31 p.
- Nikolov, N. and Zeller, K. 2006. Efficient retrieval of vegetation leaf area index and canopy clumping factor from satellite data to support pollutant deposition assessments. Environmental Pollution 141: 539-549.
- Snook, J.; Greene, E.; Nikolov, N.; Fajardo, M.; Zeller, K. 2005. High resolution weather products for avalanche programs in the Western United States. The Avalanche Review 23 (3): 6-7.
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