Landscape ecology · Biodiversity conservation · Fire dynamics · Decision support

Ecosystem Resilience
Cooperative

Research on landscape resilience and biodiversity vulnerability to disturbances and ongoing climate change. Developing spatial decision support tools to explore ecosystem status and change, and prioritize restoration and protection across western US forests and watersheds.

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Background

About

The Ecosystem Resilience Cooperative represents a group of ecological researchers whose research is joined by the common goal of evaluating social and ecological resilience across large landscapes using quantitative methods and how climate change may impact resilient properties over time.

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Ecosystem Resilience Cooperative

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Lab updates & announcements

Advancing forest and watershed resilience science.

Field & lab

Photos

From the landscapes, field sites, and lab.

Field notes & research updates

From the lab

Notes on ongoing research, methods, and observations from the field and the data.

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Research update

Climate analogs and the future of western conifers

May 2025

How Mahalanobis distance modeling reveals where today's forests may be headed — and what that means for management.

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Methods

Phylogenetic distance as an ecological vulnerability metric

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Exploring Aitchison distance and UniFrac as measures of compositional shift in analog vegetation communities.

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Field notes

Bottom-up refugia: where topography buffers climate

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Evidence from soil and terrain variables that local factors can partially offset regional climate pressure on conifer communities.

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Tools & code

Building the PROMOTE framework: from concept to pipeline

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A walkthrough of the Resist-Accept-Direct framework operationalized at landscape scale using R and ClimateNA.

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Decision support tools

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Spatially explicit decision support for forest and watershed management. Spin the globe and click a location to explore.

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Web tools

Bring your own data

General-purpose tools that run entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed.

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Raster & tabular

Fuzzy membership designer

Updated: August 2026

Calibrate a strength-of-evidence ramp against your data's own distribution, then export the function and the transformed layer as GeoTIFF or ESRI ASCII.

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Paired rasters

PROMOTE strategy scorer

Updated: August 2026

Score current- and future-condition evidence against the four PROMOTE corners — Protect, Adapt, Transform, Monitor — and export the strategy surfaces, management opportunity, and summary tables.

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