Landscape Ecology
Sierra Nevada Ecosystems
The Sierra Nevada is a region that is subject to diverse contemporary land management challenges with significant scientific uncertainties surrounding key management issues. Land Managers and policy-makers require dependable scientific information that will lead to sustaining the biological integrity and ecological sustainability goals for multiple ecosystems on Forest Service and other lands in the Sierra Nevada. Our research is expected to improve our understanding of ecological interactions within forest ecosystems and to provide high quality scientific information to manage the diverse array of natural resources in the Sierra. A full complement of descriptive, retrospective, and experimental research is required to achieve these objectives
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Publications
- Malcolm North, Peter Stine, Kevin O'Hara, William Zielinski, Scott Stephens. 2009. An ecosystem management strategy for Sierran mixed-conifer forests
- Malcolm North. 2012. Managing Sierra Nevada forests
- Jonathan W. Long, Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Carl N. Skinner. 2014. Science synthesis to support socioecological resilience in the Sierra Nevada and southern Cascade Range
- Hugh D. Safford, Jens T. Stevens. 2017. Natural range of variation for yellow pine and mixed-conifer forests in the Sierra Nevada, southern Cascades, and Modoc and Inyo National Forests, California, USA
- M. Meyer, Malcolm North. 2019. Natural range of variation of red fir and subalpine forests in the Sierra Nevada Bioregion