Analysis reveals potential rangeland impacts if Williamson Act eliminated

Suppression of annual bromes impacts rangeland: Animal responses

Presence of annual bromes (Bromus spp.), introduced annual weedy grasses, can alter seasonal patterns of forage production and quality and require management changes for efficient use of infested rangelands. We determined biological impacts of the presence of brome by comparing livestock performance on brome infested rangeland to similar sites on which brome had been suppressed by autumn applic...

Network analysis reveals strongly localized impacts of El Niño.

Climatic conditions influence the culture and economy of societies and the performance of economies. Specifically, El Niño as an extreme climate event is known to have notable effects on health, agriculture, industry, and conflict. Here, we construct directed and weighted climate networks based on near-surface air temperature to investigate the global impacts of El Niño and La Niña. We find tha...

Rangeland Productivity and Improvement Potential in Highlands of Balochistan, Pakistan

Duke University Dissertation (Williamson)

Neuroimmune Signaling in the Hippocampus: Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience by Lauren Leshen Williamson Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Duke University Date: _______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Staci D. Bilbo, Supervisor ___________________________ Christina L. Williams ___________________________ Henry Yin ___________________________ Cagla Eroglu _____________...

Potential Impacts of Climate

A gap-typed forest dynamic model KOPIDE was used to assess the dynamic responses of a mixed broadleaved-Korean pine forest stand to climate change in northeastem China. The GFDL climate change scenario was applied to derive the changes in environmental variables, such as 10 ~ based DEGD and PET~P, which were used to implement the model. The simulation result suggests that the climate change wou...