Prior research focused on the Boundary Waters Canoe Area: The role of fire, competition, and colonization. Our research developed new techniques for analyzing forecasting uncertainty and the mechanisms of landscape change.
People: Robert Scheller, Chonggang Xu (LANL), others
Links: GitHub Repository of Inputs
Publications:
Xu, C., G.Z. Gertner, and R.M. Scheller. 2012. Importance of colonization and competition in forest landscape response to climatic change. Climatic Change 110: 53-83.
Xu, C., G.Z. Gertner, B. Güneralp, R.M. Scheller. 2010. Elasticity and loop analysis: tools for understanding forest landscape response to climatic change in spatial dynamic models. Landscape Ecology 25: 855-871.
Xu, C., G.Z. Gertner, and R.M. Scheller. 2009. Uncertainty in forest landscape response to global climate change. Global Change Biology 15: 116-131.
Xu, C., G.Z. Gertner, and R.M. Scheller. 2007. Potential effects of interaction between CO2 and temperature on Boundary Water Canoe Area’s forest landscape response to global warming. Global Change Biology 13: 1469-1483.
Scheller, R.M., D.J. Mladenoff, T.R. Crow., and T.A. Sickley. 2005. Simulating the effects of fire reintroduction versus continued fire absence on forest composition and landscape structure in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Northern Minnesota, USA. Ecosystems 8: 396-411.