9 results on '"Cattau, M."'
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2. ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT: Get the science right when paying for natureʼs services
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Naeem, S., Ingram, J. C., Varga, A., Agardy, T., Barten, P., Bennett, G., Bloomgarden, E., Bremer, L. L., Burkill, P., Cattau, M., Ching, C., Colby, M., Cook, D. C., Costanza, R., DeClerck, F., Freund, C., Gartner, T., Goldman-Benner, R., Gunderson, J., Jarrett, D., Kinzig, A. P., Kiss, A., Koontz, A., Kumar, P., Lasky, J. R., Masozera, M., Meyers, D., Milano, F., Naughton-Treves, L., Nichols, E., Olander, L., Olmsted, P., Perge, E., Perrings, C., Polasky, S., Potent, J., Prager, C., Quétier, F., Redford, K., Saterson, K., Thoumi, G., Vargas, M. T., Vickerman, S., Weisser, W., Wilkie, D., and Wunder, S.
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- 2015
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3. Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers
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McLauchlan, K.K., Higuera, P.E., Miesel, J., Rogers, B.M., Schweitzer, J., Shuman, J.K., Tepley, A.J., Varner, J.M., Veblen, T.T., Adalsteinsson, S.A., Balch, J.K., Baker, P., Batllori, E., Bigio, E., Brando, P., Cattau, M., Chipman, M.L., Coen, J., Crandall, R., Daniels, L., Enright, N., Gross, W.S., Harvey, B.J., Hatten, J.A., Hermann, S., Hewitt, R.E., Kobziar, L.N., Landesmann, J.B., Loranty, M.M., Maezumi, S.Y., Mearns, L., Moritz, M., Myers, J.A., Pausas, J.G., Pellegrini, A.F.A., Platt, W.J., Roozeboom, J., Safford, H., Santos, F., Scheller, R.M., Sherriff, R.L., Smith, K.G., Smith, M.D., Watts, A.C., Durigan, G., McLauchlan, K.K., Higuera, P.E., Miesel, J., Rogers, B.M., Schweitzer, J., Shuman, J.K., Tepley, A.J., Varner, J.M., Veblen, T.T., Adalsteinsson, S.A., Balch, J.K., Baker, P., Batllori, E., Bigio, E., Brando, P., Cattau, M., Chipman, M.L., Coen, J., Crandall, R., Daniels, L., Enright, N., Gross, W.S., Harvey, B.J., Hatten, J.A., Hermann, S., Hewitt, R.E., Kobziar, L.N., Landesmann, J.B., Loranty, M.M., Maezumi, S.Y., Mearns, L., Moritz, M., Myers, J.A., Pausas, J.G., Pellegrini, A.F.A., Platt, W.J., Roozeboom, J., Safford, H., Santos, F., Scheller, R.M., Sherriff, R.L., Smith, K.G., Smith, M.D., Watts, A.C., and Durigan, G.
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Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits, population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. It also presents a rapidly growing societal challenge, due to both increasingly destructive wildfires and fire exclusion in fire‐dependent ecosystems. As an ecological process, fire integrates complex feedbacks among biological, social and geophysical processes, requiring coordination across several fields and scales of study. Here, we describe the diversity of ways in which fire operates as a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process on Earth. We explore research priorities in six categories of fire ecology: (a) characteristics of fire regimes, (b) changing fire regimes, (c) fire effects on above‐ground ecology, (d) fire effects on below‐ground ecology, (e) fire behaviour and (f) fire ecology modelling. We identify three emergent themes: the need to study fire across temporal scales, to assess the mechanisms underlying a variety of ecological feedbacks involving fire and to improve representation of fire in a range of modelling contexts. Synthesis : As fire regimes and our relationships with fire continue to change, prioritizing these research areas will facilitate understanding of the ecological causes and consequences of future fires and rethinking fire management alternatives.
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- 2020
4. Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers
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Durigan, G, McLauchlan, KK, Higuera, PE, Miesel, J, Rogers, BM, Schweitzer, J, Shuman, JK, Tepley, AJ, Varner, JM, Veblen, TT, Adalsteinsson, SA, Balch, JK, Baker, P, Batllori, E, Bigio, E, Brando, P, Cattau, M, Chipman, ML, Coen, J, Crandall, R, Daniels, L, Enright, N, Gross, WS, Harvey, BJ, Hatten, JA, Hermann, S, Hewitt, RE, Kobziar, LN, Landesmann, JB, Loranty, MM, Maezumi, SY, Mearns, L, Moritz, M, Myers, JA, Pausas, JG, Pellegrini, AFA, Platt, WJ, Roozeboom, J, Safford, H, Santos, F, Scheller, RM, Sherriff, RL, Smith, KG, Smith, MD, Watts, AC, Durigan, G, McLauchlan, KK, Higuera, PE, Miesel, J, Rogers, BM, Schweitzer, J, Shuman, JK, Tepley, AJ, Varner, JM, Veblen, TT, Adalsteinsson, SA, Balch, JK, Baker, P, Batllori, E, Bigio, E, Brando, P, Cattau, M, Chipman, ML, Coen, J, Crandall, R, Daniels, L, Enright, N, Gross, WS, Harvey, BJ, Hatten, JA, Hermann, S, Hewitt, RE, Kobziar, LN, Landesmann, JB, Loranty, MM, Maezumi, SY, Mearns, L, Moritz, M, Myers, JA, Pausas, JG, Pellegrini, AFA, Platt, WJ, Roozeboom, J, Safford, H, Santos, F, Scheller, RM, Sherriff, RL, Smith, KG, Smith, MD, and Watts, AC
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Fire is a powerful ecological and evolutionary force that regulates organismal traits, population sizes, species interactions, community composition, carbon and nutrient cycling and ecosystem function. It also presents a rapidly growing societal challenge, due to both increasingly destructive wildfires and fire exclusion in fire‐dependent ecosystems. As an ecological process, fire integrates complex feedbacks among biological, social and geophysical processes, requiring coordination across several fields and scales of study. Here, we describe the diversity of ways in which fire operates as a fundamental ecological and evolutionary process on Earth. We explore research priorities in six categories of fire ecology: (a) characteristics of fire regimes, (b) changing fire regimes, (c) fire effects on above‐ground ecology, (d) fire effects on below‐ground ecology, (e) fire behaviour and (f) fire ecology modelling. We identify three emergent themes: the need to study fire across temporal scales, to assess the mechanisms underlying a variety of ecological feedbacks involving fire and to improve representation of fire in a range of modelling contexts. Synthesis: As fire regimes and our relationships with fire continue to change, prioritizing these research areas will facilitate understanding of the ecological causes and consequences of future fires and rethinking fire management alternatives.
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- 2020
5. Get the science right when paying for nature's services
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Naeem, Shahid, Ingram, J C, Varga, A, Agardy, T, Barten, P, Bennett, G, Bloomgarden, E, Bremer, L L, Burkill, P, Cattau, M, Costanza, Robert, Naeem, Shahid, Ingram, J C, Varga, A, Agardy, T, Barten, P, Bennett, G, Bloomgarden, E, Bremer, L L, Burkill, P, Cattau, M, and Costanza, Robert
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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) mechanisms leverage economic and social incentives to shape how people influence natural processes and achieve conservation and sustainability goals. Beneficiaries of nature's goods and services pay owners or stewards of ecosystems that produce those services, with payments contingent on service provision. Integrating scientific knowledge and methods into PES is critical. Yet many projects are based on weak scientific foundations, and effectiveness is rarely evaluated with the rigor necessary for scaling up and understanding the importance of these approaches as policy instruments and conservation tools. Part of the problem is the lack of simple, yet rigorous, scientific principles and guidelines to accommodate PES design and guide research and analyses that foster evaluations of effectiveness. As scientists and practitioners from government, nongovernment, academic, and finance institutions, we propose a set of such guidelines and principles
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- 2015
6. Get the science right when paying for nature's services
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Naeem, S., primary, Ingram, J. C., additional, Varga, A., additional, Agardy, T., additional, Barten, P., additional, Bennett, G., additional, Bloomgarden, E., additional, Bremer, L. L., additional, Burkill, P., additional, Cattau, M., additional, Ching, C., additional, Colby, M., additional, Cook, D. C., additional, Costanza, R., additional, DeClerck, F., additional, Freund, C., additional, Gartner, T., additional, Goldman-Benner, R., additional, Gunderson, J., additional, Jarrett, D., additional, Kinzig, A. P., additional, Kiss, A., additional, Koontz, A., additional, Kumar, P., additional, Lasky, J. R., additional, Masozera, M., additional, Meyers, D., additional, Milano, F., additional, Naughton-Treves, L., additional, Nichols, E., additional, Olander, L., additional, Olmsted, P., additional, Perge, E., additional, Perrings, C., additional, Polasky, S., additional, Potent, J., additional, Prager, C., additional, Quétier, F., additional, Redford, K., additional, Saterson, K., additional, Thoumi, G., additional, Vargas, M. T., additional, Vickerman, S., additional, Weisser, W., additional, Wilkie, D., additional, and Wunder, S., additional
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- 2015
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7. Social vulnerability of the people exposed to wildfires in U.S. West Coast states.
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Modaresi Rad A, Abatzoglou JT, Fleishman E, Mockrin MH, Radeloff VC, Pourmohamad Y, Cattau M, Johnson JM, Higuera P, Nauslar NJ, and Sadegh M
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- Humans, Social Vulnerability, Washington, Vulnerable Populations, Wildfires, Fires
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Understanding of the vulnerability of populations exposed to wildfires is limited. We used an index from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess the social vulnerability of populations exposed to wildfire from 2000-2021 in California, Oregon, and Washington, which accounted for 90% of exposures in the western United States. The number of people exposed to fire from 2000-2010 to 2011-2021 increased substantially, with the largest increase, nearly 250%, for people with high social vulnerability. In Oregon and Washington, a higher percentage of exposed people were highly vulnerable (>40%) than in California (~8%). Increased social vulnerability of populations in burned areas was the primary contributor to increased exposure of the highly vulnerable in California, whereas encroachment of wildfires on vulnerable populations was the primary contributor in Oregon and Washington. Our results emphasize the importance of integrating the vulnerability of at-risk populations in wildfire mitigation and adaptation plans.
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- 2023
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8. Risky Development: Increasing Exposure to Natural Hazards in the United States.
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Iglesias V, Braswell AE, Rossi MW, Joseph MB, McShane C, Cattau M, Koontz MJ, McGlinchy J, Nagy RC, Balch J, Leyk S, and Travis WR
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Losses from natural hazards are escalating dramatically, with more properties and critical infrastructure affected each year. Although the magnitude, intensity, and/or frequency of certain hazards has increased, development contributes to this unsustainable trend, as disasters emerge when natural disturbances meet vulnerable assets and populations. To diagnose development patterns leading to increased exposure in the conterminous United States (CONUS), we identified earthquake, flood, hurricane, tornado, and wildfire hazard hotspots, and overlaid them with land use information from the Historical Settlement Data Compilation data set. Our results show that 57% of structures (homes, schools, hospitals, office buildings, etc.) are located in hazard hotspots, which represent only a third of CONUS area, and ∼1.5 million buildings lie in hotspots for two or more hazards. These critical levels of exposure are the legacy of decades of sustained growth and point to our inability, lack of knowledge, or unwillingness to limit development in hazardous zones. Development in these areas is still growing more rapidly than the baseline rates for the nation, portending larger future losses even if the effects of climate change are not considered., (© 2021. The Authors. Earth's Future published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union.)
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- 2021
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9. Tracking rates of postfire conifer regeneration vs. deciduous vegetation recovery across the western United States.
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Vanderhoof MK, Hawbaker TJ, Ku A, Merriam K, Berryman E, and Cattau M
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- Forests, Seasons, Temperature, United States, Tracheophyta
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Postfire shifts in vegetation composition will have broad ecological impacts. However, information characterizing postfire recovery patterns and their drivers are lacking over large spatial extents. In this analysis, we used Landsat imagery collected when snow cover (SCS) was present, in combination with growing season (GS) imagery, to distinguish evergreen vegetation from deciduous vegetation. We sought to (1) characterize patterns in the rate of postfire, dual-season Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) across the region, (2) relate remotely sensed patterns to field-measured patterns of re-vegetation, and (3) identify seasonally specific drivers of postfire rates of NDVI recovery. Rates of postfire NDVI recovery were calculated for both the GS and SCS for more than 12,500 burned points across the western United States. Points were partitioned into faster and slower rates of NDVI recovery using thresholds derived from field plot data (n = 230) and their associated rates of NDVI recovery. We found plots with conifer saplings had significantly higher SCS NDVI recovery rates relative to plots without conifer saplings, while plots with ≥50% grass/forbs/shrubs cover had significantly higher GS NDVI recovery rates relative to plots with <50%. GS rates of NDVI recovery were best predicted by burn severity and anomalies in postfire maximum temperature. SCS NDVI recovery rates were best explained by aridity and growing degree days. This study is the most extensive effort, to date, to track postfire forest recovery across the western United States. Isolating patterns and drivers of evergreen recovery from deciduous recovery will enable improved characterization of forest ecological condition across large spatial scales., (© 2020 by the Ecological Society of America.)
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- 2021
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