Concepts

Accounting framework that tracks carbon inputs, transformations, and outputs in environmental systems to quantify net carbon fluxes

The network of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem

Geographic classification system used to reduce complexity and simplify presentation of continental-scale results

Future climate scenarios based on different greenhouse gas emission pathways, specifically RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios

Describes consistent and strong correlations among plant functional traits reflecting the ecological tradeoffs and constraints of plants around resource use

The ability of a system to change but maintain its basic attributes; a resilient forest stand subjected to disturbance will return to conditions similar to those present prior to the disturbance but m...

Approach using organism functional traits to understand ecological patterns and predict responses to environmental change

Underground ecosystem components crucial for sustaining ecosystem function but often remain unseen