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Amy E. Hessl
Researcher at West Virginia University
Publications - 75
Citations - 3168
Amy E. Hessl is an academic researcher from West Virginia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fire regime & Climate change. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 68 publications receiving 2790 citations. Previous affiliations of Amy E. Hessl include University of Arizona & University of Wyoming.
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Drought and pacific decadal oscillation linked to fire occurrence in the inland pacific northwest
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between fire occurrence and interannual to decadal climatic var- iability (Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI), El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and the Pacific Decadal Oscillations (PDO)) and explained how land use changes in the 20th century affected these relationships.
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Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia
TL;DR: A 1,112-y tree-ring record of moisture shows that in opposition to conventional wisdom, the climate during the rise of the 13th-century Mongol Empire was a period of persistent moisture, unprecedented in the last 1,000 y.
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Complexity, land-use modeling, and the human dimension: Fundamental challenges for mapping unknown outcome spaces
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the sources of complexity in land-use systems, moving from the human decision level to human interactions to effects over space, time and scale, is presented.
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The effects of elk on aspen in the winter range in Rocky Mountain National Park
TL;DR: The decline of aspen is a concern when management is focused on the ecosystem scale rather than simply the scale of wildlife and their primary forage resources.
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The Legacy of Episodic Climatic Events in Shaping Temperate, Broadleaf Forests
Neil Pederson,James M. Dyer,Ryan W. McEwan,Amy E. Hessl,Cary J. Mock,David A. Orwig,Harald E. Rieder,Benjamin I. Cook +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 76 tree-ring collections spanning approx. 840 000 sq km and 5327 tree recruitment dates spanning approx 1.4 million sq km across the humid eastern United States.