| Abstract: | Complex natural resource issues require understanding a web of interactions among ecosystem components that are (1) interdisciplinary, encompassing physical, chemical, and biological processes; (2) spatially complex, involving movements of animals, water, and airborne materials across a range of landscapes and jurisdictions; and (3) temporally complex, occurring over days, weeks, or years, sometimes involving response lags to alteration or exhibiting large natural variation. Scientists in the Ecosystem Dynamics Branch of the U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center, investigate a diversity of these complex natural resource questions at the landscape and systems levels. This Fact Sheet describes the work of the Ecosystems Dynamics Branch, which is focused on energy and land use, climate change and long-term integrated assessments, herbivore-ecosystem interactions, fire and post-fire restoration, and environmental flows and river restoration. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 97365 |
| Citation Author: | Wilson, J.; Melcher, C.; Bowen, Z. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Fort Collins Science Center |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Fact Sheet |
| Citation Series Code: | FS |
| Citation Series Number: | 2008-3100 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Fort Collins Science Center Ecosystem Dynamics Branch; 2009; FS; 2008-3100; Wilson, J.; Melcher, C.; Bowen, Z. |
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| Text: | Fort Collins Science Center Ecosystem Dynamics Branch; 2009; FS; 2008-3100; Wilson, J.; Melcher, C.; Bowen, Z. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/fs_2008_3100.jpg |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3100/ |
| Date Other: | Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00 -0500 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
