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Technical Oversight Team (TOT)
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Technical Oversight Team (TOT)
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Information about the SE FireMap's TOT. Approved via a formal request to the candidates’ agencies and/or organizations, the TOT will follow this project through all phases of development, serving as an advisory group providing technical review and input. The TOT is comprised of subject matter experts from across partnerships and includes contractors with specific skill sets not otherwise available. The TOT’s role will be advisory to NRCS and the Endowment
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Technical Training Workshop-The Stream Simulation Design Approach for Providing Aquatic Organism Passage at Road-Stream Crossings
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This 4.5-day workshop will present the USDA Forest Service’s stream simulation method, an ecosystem-based approach for designing and constructing a channel through a road-stream crossing structure that reestablishes physical and ecological continuity along the stream corridor.
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Ted Takeaways: Podcast 1 - Empathy & Building Inclusive Teams
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The first of two short podcasts with Mr. Ted Coopwood III, DEI practitioner and conservation leader. Podcast I focuses on how to 1) better understand the experiences of diverse colleagues and 2) build inclusive and diverse teams.
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Ted Takeaways: Podcast 2 - Working with Diverse Communities
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The second of two short podcasts with Mr. Ted Coopwood III, DEI practitioner and conservation leader. Podcast II focuses on how to better work with diverse communities in the field.
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Tedla Fernando 1969 New Habitats.pdf
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Tedla Fernando 1970.pdf
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Teitelbaum_et_al-2015-Ecology_Letters.pdf
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Temperature and precipitation controls over leaf- and ecosystem-level CO2 flux along a woody plant encroachment gradient
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Conversion of grasslands to woodlands may alter the sensitivity of CO2 exchange of individual plants and entire ecosystems to air temperature and precipitation. We combined leaf-level gas exchange and ecosystem-level eddy covariance measurements to quantify the effects of plant temperature sensitivity and ecosystem temperature responses within a grassland and mesquite woodland across seasonal precipitation periods. In so doing, we were able to estimate the role of moisture availability on ecosystem temperature sensitivity under large-scale vegetative shifts. Optimum temperatures (Topt) for net photosynthetic assimilation (A) and net ecosystem productivity (NEP) were estimated from a function fitted to A and NEP plotted against air temperature. The convexities of these tem- perature responses were quantified by the range of temperatures over which a leaf or an ecosystem assimilated 50% of maximum NEP (Ω50). Under dry pre- and postmonsoon conditions, leaf-level Ω50 in C3 shrubs were two-to-three times that of C4 grasses, but under moist monsoon conditions, leaf-level Ω50 was similar between growth forms. At the ecosystems-scale, grassland NEP was more sensitive to precipitation, as evidenced by a 104% increase in maxi- mum NEP at monsoon onset, compared to a 57% increase in the woodland. Also, woodland NEP was greater across all temperatures experienced by both ecosystems in all seasons. By maintaining physiological function across a wider temperature range during water-limited periods, woody plants assimilated larger amounts of carbon. This higher carbon-assimilation capacity may have significant implications for ecosystem responses to projected climate change scenarios of higher temperatures and more variable precipitation, particularly as semiarid regions experi- ence conversions from C4 grasses to C3 shrubs. As regional carbon models, CLM 4.0, are now able to incorporate functional type and photosynthetic pathway differences, this work highlights the need for a better integration of the interactive effects of growth form/functional type and photosynthetic pathway on water resource acquisition and temperature sensitivity.
Keywords: eddy covariance, mesquite (Prosopis velutina), net ecosystem exchange, photosynthesis, respiration, temperature optima, vegetative change, woody plant encroachment
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Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution, and conservation
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Temperature controls the rate of fundamental biochemical processes
and thereby regulates organismal attributes including development
rate and survival. The increase in metabolic rate with
temperature explains substantial among-species variation in lifehistory
traits, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes.
Temperature can also cause variability in metabolic rate within
species. Here, we compare the effect of temperature on a key
component of marine life cycles among a geographically and
taxonomically diverse group of marine fish and invertebrates.
Although innumerable lab studies document the negative effect of
temperature on larval development time, little is known about the
generality versus taxon-dependence of this relationship. We
present a unified, parameterized model for the temperature dependence
of larval development in marine animals. Because the
duration of the larval period is known to influence larval dispersal
distance and survival, changes in ocean temperature could have
a direct and predictable influence on population connectivity,
community structure, and regional-to-global scale patterns of
biodiversity.
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