Science Pick Archive

Changing Treeline cover

NOROCK scientist Dan Fagre co-authors a recently published book on a variety of climatic, geomorphologic, and edaphic controls over the woody vegetation in Glacier National Park. Some of this research may serve as a guideline to coming changes in other montane regions of the world.

Butler, D.R., G.P. Malanson, S.J. Walsh, and D.B. Fagre (eds). The Changing Alpine Treeline of Glacier National Park, Montana, USA. Elsevier, The Netherlands. 200pp.

ISBN: 978-0-444-53364-7


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NOROCK scientist Robert Gresswell co-authors a recently published chapter on identifying small - to large-scale impacts of tributaries in a new book about river science. Early research on impacts of tributaries on rivers focused on geology and water dynamics. New research described in this book shows that these areas are also critical nodes that can affect living organisms and habitat. The authors identify approaches, provide examples, and explain how to see patterns through ecological variability. Topics presented include sampling, data collection, analytical tools, and future developments and challenges.

Torgersen, C.E., Gresswell, R.E., Bateman, D.S., Burnett, K.M., 2008, Spatial identification of tributary impacts in river networks In Rice, S., Roy, A., Rhoads, B., eds., River Confluences, Tributaries and the Fluvial Network: West Sussex, UK, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., p. 159-181. Catalog No: 1680

 
   
Noninvasive Sampling book cover

Newly published from Island Press Publishers is a comprehensive guide for wildlife researchers who want to use "noninvasive" research techniques coupled with cutting-edge laboratory and statistical methods to sample carnivore populations.  The book features NOROCK scientist Katherine Kendall. Kendall and co-author (K.S. McKelvey) contributed Hair Collection, a chapter providing an overview of hair snagging methods used to collect hair from carnivores such as bears, cougars, wolves, and wolverines.

 

ISBN-10: 1597261203; ISBN-13: 978-1597261203

   
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USGS professional paper featuring research from four NOROCK scientists: geologist Kenneth Pierce, ecologist Don Despain, and wildlife biologists Chuck Schwartz and Shannon Podruzny. This volume builds on a 130-year foundation of extensive, broadly based field studies in the geologically dynamic terrain of the Greater Yellowstone Area.

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Ecosystem Trends cover Newly published from Nova Science Publishers and featuring NOROCK scientist Dan Fagre. Fagre and co-authors (A. Prato and B. Keane) contributed Assessing and managing wildfire risks on the wildland-urban interface, a chapter examining the management of wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Authors discuss models that can simulate how future climate and land use changes might influence wildfire risk and how stakeholder's can respond to these risks in the future.

ISBN: 978-1-60456-183-8