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Ecosystem Resilience
Collaborative

Quantifying landscape resilience to disturbances and ongoing climate change. Spatial decision support tools for prioritizing ecological restoration and protection across western US forests and watersheds.

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Background

About

The Ecosystem Resilience Collaborative 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 Collaborative

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Lab updates & announcements

Advancing forest and watershed resilience science.

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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