Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
Featured Product
LANDIS II
LANDIS is a forest landscape model designed to simulate forest growth, competition, seed dispersal succession, and disturbances (including fire, wind, harvesting, insects, global change), across large (>1 million ha) landscapes.
International Recognition
Agroforestry phytoremediation
buffer systems in the Great Lakes Basin, USA research recognized in August 2021 issue of the newsletter of the UN-FAO International Commission on Poplars and Other Fast-Growing Trees Sustaining People and the Environment
![[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
- Cooke, Barry J.; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Robert, Louis-Etienne 2022. The Forest Tent Caterpillar in Minnesota: Detectability, Impact, and Cycling Dynamics. Forests
- Kolka, Randall K.; Haight, Robert G.; Chun, Chan Lan; Berens, Matthew J.; Rogers, Elizabeth R.; Vinhal, Ryan A.; Zalesny, Ronald S.; Nislow, Keith H.; Perry, Charles H.; Connolly, Stephanie J. 2022. Mercury sulfur initiative: suggested program of research for the Upper Great Lakes States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-206. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 28p.
- Comer, Patrick J.; Hak, Jon C.; McIntyre, Patrick 2022. Addressing Climate Change Vulnerability in the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems—Results Demonstrated for a Cross-Section of Major Vegetation-Based Ecosystem Types in the United States. Land
- Gustafson, Eric J.; Miranda, Brian R.; Dreaden, Tyler J.; Pinchot, Cornelia C.; Jacobs, Douglass F. 2022. Beyond blight: Phytophthora root rot under climate change limits populations of reintroduced American chestnut. Ecosphere
- Garcia, Matthew ; Sturtevant, Brian R.; Saint-Amant, Rémi ; Charney, Joseph J.; Delisle, Johanne ; Boulanger, Yan ; Townsend, Philip A.; Régnière, Jacques 2022. Modeling weather-driven long-distance dispersal of spruce budworm moths (Choristoneura fumiferana). Part 1: Model description. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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 |