Biological conservation and environmental management are increasingly focussing on the
preservation and restoration of ecosystem services (ie the benefits that humans receive from …

Spruce beetle outbreaks have been reported in the Rocky Mountains of western North
America since the late 1800s. In their classic paper, Spruce Beetle in the Rockies, Schmid …

Paleoenvironmental reconstructions are important for understanding the influence of long-
term climate variability on ecosystems and landscape disturbance dynamics. In this paper …

Micropaleontological assemblages from two lakes located on the Aquarius Plateau in
southern Utah were investigated to evaluate changes in vegetation, fire disturbance, and …

The recent continental-scale outbreak of native bark beetles in western North America is
unprecedented at least since Euro-American settlement. Observational and modeling …

Understanding how arid western North American environments have responded to past
climatic conditions can help predict how they respond to anthropogenic climate change …

Abstract Background In Western North America, increasing wildfire and outbreaks of native
bark beetles have been mediated by warming climate conditions. Bioclimatic models …

Holocene sediments at Emerald Lake in central Utah (3090 m asl) document the
paleohydroclimatic history of the western Upper Colorado River headwater region. Multi …

Paleoecological reconstructions using lake sediments provide important information about
ecological dynamics and forest disturbance processes that occurred prior to the historic …

Recent outbreaks of native bark beetles are unprecedented during the historical period. The
aim of this manuscript is to develop a proxy-based methodology to infer past bark beetle …