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Reptiles inhabiting shrub-steppe ecosystems of the Intermountain West have adapted to harsh, unpredictable desert conditions, yet recent changes in disturbance regimes may put species at risk. In southwest Idaho, cheatgrass ( Bromus tectorum ) has altered the fire regime resulti…

Habitat management efforts for the New England cottontail, a species of conservation concern, are primarily focused on creating and maintaining dense understory vegetation. Native shrublands and forest types on Cape Cod provide large expanses of potential habitat for New England…

Forest transitions and state shifts are abundant in paleoecological records but understanding their drivers requires investigating potential vegetation stresses and disturbances such as climate change and wildfire. To reconstruct the timing and spatial distribution of forest sta…

Most streams in the southwestern United States do not flow all year, and given their delicate balance of sediment and water flow, they are sensitive to climate change. At the turn of the 20th century, many streams in the Southwest rapidly incised into their floodplains, forming …

The study area centers around a 6 million acre protected area in upstate New York known as the Adirondack State Park. Spatial data are gathered and manipulated, then input into the ArcGIS Pro suitability modeler tool to construct several wildfire ignition risk models, as well as…