Biodiversity
Where will novel ecosystems in the United States exist in the future?

Novel ecosystems, ecosystems with strong human influence are an important new challenge for ecology. Will these ecosystems increase in number in the future? Where?
Future land use changes and their potential impact on the Nation’s areas of biodiversity significance

Sebastián Martinuzzi investigates how future land use changes in the United States could impact the Nation’s areas of biodiversity significance, with help from economic-based scenarios
Conservation conflicts: Housing growth in conservation priority areas in Wisconsin

Sarah Carter uses projections of future housing development to identify those sites requiring immediate conservation attention in order to successfully conserve Wisconsin’s biodiversity.

Vegetation structure and bird populations across the US

Can you predict biodiversity abundance without fieldwork, sitting at your desk? Patrick Culbert can. Using satellite images and data from Breeding Bird Survey, Patrick estimates abundance of bird species across United States.

Housing development is eroding the value of protected lands

Locations in and around natural areas are especially appealing for housing development. Unfortunately, this development may have undesirable consequences.

How are birds breeding in New England affected by the weather?

Do we know how climate change and extreme weather conditions affect wildlife in particular bird populations?
The extinction of the Caucasian bison to the creation of a new subspecies

The Caucasian subspecies of the European bison almost went extinct. Today a few herds roam again in the Caucasus Mountains, Russia, and we are modeling habitat for future reintroductions.
Monitoring forest disturbance and re-growth from dense time series of satellite imagery stacks in the Carpathians.

The availability of multitemporal, dense time series of Landsat imagery opens new possibilities for tracking forest dynamics in areas of complex landcover in Europe