Chaparral growth-ring analysis as an indicator of stand biomass development

Recent publication in International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Uyeda Kellie A., Stow Douglas A., O’Leary John F., Tague Christina, Riggan Philip J. (2016) Chaparral growth-ring analysis as an indicator of stand biomass development. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25, 1086-1092. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/WF16080

Vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming

New publication in Plos One from Tague Team Lab member Ryan Bart with Naomi Tague and Max Moritz. The RHESSys model was used to examine the effects of tree-to-shrub type conversion, in combination with climate change, on streamflow in two lower montane forest watersheds in the Sierra Nevada.

Read the paper: Bart RR, Tague CL, Moritz MA (2016) Effect of Tree-to-Shrub Type Conversion in Lower Montane Forests of the Sierra Nevada (USA) on Streamflow. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0161805. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161805

Interview in AZO Cleantech

Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change

Naomi Tague was a collaborator with others on a new publication in Nature Climate Change that reviews how climate change alters key processes in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems related to nitrogen cycling and availability, and the response of ecosystems to nitrogen addition in terms of carbon cycling, acidification and biodiversity.

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T. L. Greaver, C. M. Clark, J. E. Compton, D. Vallano, A. F. Talhelm, C. P. Weaver, L. E. Band, J. S. Baron, E. A. Davidson, C. L. Tague, E. Felker-Quinn, J. A. Lynch, J. D. Herrick, L. Liu, C. L. Goodale, K. J. Novak and R. A. Haeuber (2016) Key ecological responses to nitrogen are altered by climate change, Nature Climate Change vol. 6,DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3088

Tague Team Lab members at CZO meeting

Tague Team Lab members Naomi Tague, Chris Heckman, and Janet Choate attended the 2016 SSCZO (Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory) team meeting this week at UC Merced. Ongoing work from our lab was represented:

Naomi Tague: presentation on Eco-Hydrology and the CZO

Chris Heckman: poster ‘Does transpiration increase with warming? The effect of soil water storage on plant water use in a snow dominated climate’

Janet Choate: poster ‘Seeing the water in the trees: Challenges in estimating the impact of fuel treatments and fire on hydrology’

Ryan Bart: (unable to attend meeting but poster was presented) ‘An integrated model for identifying linkages between the management of fuel treatments, fire and ecosystem services’

How fine scale topography influences streamflow..

Kyongho Son and others publish a paper in WATERS that shows how fine scale topography influences streamflow – and other ecosystem functions such as forest productivity – Accounting for fine scale topography (5m-10m) in hydrologic models alters estimates of how climate variability influences estimates of productivity – by accounting for the role played by micro-refugia

http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/8/8/321/html

 

Lab members at CUAHSI

Tague Team Lab members Dr. Naomi Tague and PhD student Chris Heckman, as well as former lab member Kyongho Son (now a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Research Foundation of The City University of New York) are attending the CUAHSI Biennial Colloquia on Water Science at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia this week. The theme for the 2016 meeting is “Finding Your Place in Big Data: Using Observations to Understand Hydrologic Processes for Predicting a Changing World”.

Tague presents: Seeing the water in the trees: Challenges in estimating the impact of fuel treatments and fire on hydrology

Heckman presents: How climate change could affect the spatial pattern of transpiration due to uncertainty in plant accessible soil water storage, in a Mediterranean environment

Son presents: The relationship of dissolved organic carbon to catchment characteristics in the Neversink River Basin, New York