Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
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LANDIS-II software is designed to model forest succession, disturbance, and seed dispersal across large landscapes.
![[photo:] Pagami Creek Fire.](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_disturbance.jpg "Landscape Disturbances")
![[photo:] Landscape Scales](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_landscape_scales.jpg "Landscape Scales")
![[photo:] Little brown bat](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_conservation.jpg "Protecting Populations of Conservation or Restoration Concern")
![[photo:] Woody Crop Systems](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_woody-crop-systems.jpg "Woody Crop Systems")
![[photo:] climate Change.](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_climate_change.jpg "Climate Change")
![[photo:] Rhinelander Experimental Forest](/units/iaes/local-resources/images/rotator_rhinelanderef.jpg "Rhinelander Experimental Forest")
As the Institute of Applied Ecosystem Studies (IAES), Northern Research Station scientists are working to better integrate science with landscape-scale restoration and contemporary conservation challenges. We are assisting land managers by describing ecological change at different scales and disturbance gradients, and we develop tools that bridge site-specific experimental results to meet the broader scale information needs of policy makers and resource managers. Our research is guided by five focus areas
Research Focus Areas
- Increase resilience of forest ecosystems to extreme disturbances that alter large-scale spatial patterns
- Maintain forest ecosystem services at landscape scales using decision support tools
- Ensure populations of conservation or restoration concern remain connected in changing landscapes
- Advance renewable energy sources and pollution remediation through short rotation woody crop production systems
- Improve forest management guidelines in changing climate and atmosphere
Recent Publications
- Gustafson, Eric J.; Miranda, Brian R.; Sturtevant, Brian R. 2020. How do forest landscapes respond to elevated CO2 and ozone? Scaling Aspen?FACE plot?scale experimental results. Ecosphere
- Ghezehei, Solomon B.; Wright, Jeff ; Zalesny, Ronald S.; Nichols, Elizabeth Guthrie; Hazel, Dennis W. 2020. Matching site-suitable poplars to rotation length for optimized productivity. Forest Ecology and Management
- Quigley, Kathleen M.; Kolka, Randall ; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Dickinson, Matthew B.; Kern, Christel C.; Donner, Deahn M.; Miesel, Jessica R. 2020. Prescribed burn frequency, vegetation cover, and management legacies influence soil fertility: Implications for restoration of imperiled pine barrens habitat. Forest Ecology and Management
- Gustafson, Eric J.; Kern, Christel C.; Miranda, Brian R.; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Bronson, Dustin R.; Kabrick, John M. 2020. Climate adaptive silviculture strategies: How do they impact growth, yield, diversity and value in forested landscapes?. Forest Ecology and Management
- Riikonen, Johanna ; Kivimaenpaa, Minna ; Ossipov, Vladimir ; Saunier, Amelie ; Marquardt, Paula 2020. Metabolite Composition of Paper Birch Buds after Eleven Growing Seasons of Exposure to Elevated CO2 and O3. Forests
Science Delivery
- 2015 NES Program description
- 2012 NES Program description
- 2011 NES Program description
Recent Scientific Presentations
| Venue Title | Presentation Title | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25th Session of the International Poplar Commission, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Berlin, Germany | Establishment of hybrid poplar for surface mine reclamation in the southern coalfield of West Virginia, USA | Ron Zalesny, etal | 2016 |
| North American Ornithological Conference, Washington, D.C. | Proactive Management of the Kirtland’s Warbler under Changing Environmental and Management Conditions | Donner, Deahn | 2016 |
| Face-to-Face meeting with Chippewa NF; Cass Lake, MN | Using LANDIS-II to guide management under a changing climate: a research-management collaboration on the Chippewa National Forest | Gustafson, Eric; Sturtevant, Brian | 2016 |
| 31st Annual U.S. Landscape Ecology Symposium; Asheville, NC | Using first principles to increase the robustness of forest landscape models for projecting climate change impacts | Gustafson, Eric; Miranda, Brian; Sturtevant, Brian | 2016 |
| 75th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference Annual Meeting; Indianapolis, IN | Population viability analyses to evaluate post-delisting management of the Kirtland’s warbler | Donner, Deahn | 2016 |
| North American Joint Bat Working Group Meeting; St. Louis, MO | Resistance to White-Nose Syndrome in bat populations of the Northern Forest: exploring the critical disease-genotype-microbiome link. | Donner, Deahn; Marquardt, Paula | 2015 |
| 3rd Science in the Northwoods Conference; Boulder Junction, WI | Beaver management in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin | Donner, Deahn | 2015 |
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Last updated on: December 8, 2016