Thomas T. Veblen

TL;DR: Empirical support is provided for the coexistence of ecologically similar species by means of different life history strategies in the Colorado Front Range.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that ecological management goals that incorporate successional diversity created by fire may support characteristic biodiversity, whereas current attempts to “restore” forests to open, low-severity fire conditions may not align with historical reference conditions in most ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of western North America.

TL;DR: Veblen and Lorenz as mentioned in this paper focused on change in structure and composition of vegetation, specifically forest cover, in the Colorado Front Range and provided geographers with insights into the evolution of the present-day landscape of the Front Range.

TL;DR: It is found that spruce beetle outbreaks appear to be predicted best by interannual to multidecadal variability in drought, not by temperature alone, which may imply that spume beetle outbreaks are triggered by decreases in host tree defenses, which are hypothesized to occur with drought stress.

TL;DR: It is shown that disturbance patterns across the temperate biome vary with agents and tree traits, yet large disturbances are consistently linked to warmer and drier than average conditions.