Fuel layer specific pollutant emission factors for fire prone forest ecosystems of the western U.S. and Canada by Shawn P. Urbanski, Russell W. Long, Hannah Halliday, Emily N. Lincoln, Andrew Habel, Matthew S. Landis

“…Our study addresses this need with laboratory experiments measuring EFs for carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), ethyne (C2H2), formaldehyde (H2CO), formic acid (CH2O2), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and total reduced sulfur (TRS) for the burning of individual fuel components from three forest ecosystems which account for a large share of wildfire burned area and emissions in the western United States and Canada - Douglas fir, ponderosa pine, and black spruce/jack pine.…”
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Do Vegetation Fuel Reduction Treatments Alter Forest Fire Severity and Carbon Stability in California Forests? by Kristofer L. Daum, Winslow D. Hansen, Jacob Gellman, Andrew J. Plantinga, Charles Jones, Anna T. Trugman

“…Abstract Forest fire frequency, extent, and severity have rapidly increased in recent decades across the western United States (US) due to climate change and suppression‐oriented wildfire management. …”
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Using conspecific broadcast for Willow Flycatcher restoration by Lynn N. Schofield, Helen L. Loffland, Rodney B. Siegel, Chris J. Stermer, Heather A. Mathewson

“…Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) populations have been in decline across the western United States for decades. California populations are especially vulnerable with fewer than 500 pairs remaining in the state. …”
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Rangeland Productivity Partitioned to Sub-Pixel Plant Functional Types by Nathaniel P. Robinson, Matthew O. Jones, Alvaro Moreno, Tyler A. Erickson, David E. Naugle, Brady W. Allred

“…We demonstrated the results of these methods on a set of representative rangeland sites across the western United States. Partitioning rangeland productivity to sub-pixel PFTs revealed new dynamics and insights to aid the sustainable management of rangelands.…”
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Current and future distribution of Eucalyptus globulus under changing climate in Ethiopia: implications for forest management by Gemechis B. Mosisa, Nega Tassie, Motuma Adula

“…It has naturalized non-native ranges in other parts of Australia, Europe, Africa, and the western United States. This study is the first of its kind in Ethiopia to model and map the spatiotemporal distribution of the species using species distribution models (SDMs). …”
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CRISPR-mediated knockout of cardinal and cinnabar eye pigmentation genes in the western tarnished plant bug by Chan C. Heu, Roni J. Gross, Kevin P. Le, Dannialle M. LeRoy, Baochan Fan, J. Joe Hull, Colin S. Brent, Jeffrey A. Fabrick

“…Abstract The western tarnished plant bug, Lygus hesperus, is a key hemipteran pest of numerous agricultural, horticultural, and industrial crops in the western United States and Mexico. A lack of genetic tools in L. hesperus hinders progress in functional genomics and in developing innovative pest control methods such as gene drive. …”
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Fire weather drives daily area burned and observations of fire behavior in mountain pine beetle affected landscapes by S J Hart, D L Preston

“…In the western United States, mountain pine beetles (MPBs) have caused tree mortality across 7% of the forested area over the past three decades, leading to concerns of increased fire activity in MPB-affected landscapes. …”
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Retrieval of Live Fuel Moisture Content Based on Multi-Source Remote Sensing Data and Ensemble Deep Learning Model by Jiangjian Xie, Tao Qi, Wanjun Hu, Huaguo Huang, Beibei Chen, Junguo Zhang

“…Measured LFMC data, MODIS, Landsat-8, Sentinel-1 remote sensing data and auxiliary data such as canopy height and land cover of the forest-fire-prone areas in the Western United States, were selected for our study, and the retrieval results of different models with different groups of remote sensing data were compared. …”
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Recurrent die-offs of adult coho salmon returning to spawn in Puget Sound lowland urban streams. by Nathaniel L Scholz, Mark S Myers, Sarah G McCarthy, Jana S Labenia, Jenifer K McIntyre, Gina M Ylitalo, Linda D Rhodes, Cathy A Laetz, Carla M Stehr, Barbara L French, Bill McMillan, Dean Wilson, Laura Reed, Katherine D Lynch, Steve Damm, Jay W Davis, Tracy K Collier

“…Stormwater may therefore place important constraints on efforts to conserve and recover coho populations in urban and urbanizing watersheds throughout the western United States.…”
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Combining resilience and resistance with threat‐based approaches for prioritizing management actions in sagebrush ecosystems by Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, John B. Bradford, Kevin E. Doherty, Michele R. Crist, Daniel R. Schlaepfer, Alexandra K. Urza, Karen C. Short

“…Abstract The sagebrush biome is a dryland region in the western United States experiencing rapid transformations to novel ecological states. …”
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Spatial analysis of plague in California: niche modeling predictions of the current distribution and potential response to climate change by Tucker James R, Fritz Curtis L, Salkeld Daniel J, Holt Ashley C, Gong Peng

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Plague, caused by the bacterium <it>Yersinia pestis</it>, is a public and wildlife health concern in California and the western United States. This study explores the spatial characteristics of positive plague samples in California and tests Maxent, a machine-learning method that can be used to develop niche-based models from presence-only data, for mapping the potential distribution of plague foci. …”
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The threat of wildfire is unique to cannabis among agricultural sectors in California by Christopher Dillis, Van Butsic, Diana Moanga, Phoebe Parker‐Shames, Ariani Wartenberg, Theodore E. Grantham

“…Abstract At the intersection of climate change and rural development, wildfire has emerged as a threat to agriculture in the Western United States. This nexus is particularly problematic for the rapidly developing cannabis industry in California, which includes farms located outside of traditional agricultural zones and within landscapes potentially more prone to wildfire. …”
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Potential of Faba Bean (Vicia faba L.) for Dual-purpose Vegetable Production and Cover Cropping by Kyle Brasier, Jacob Knecht, Rebecca Munster, Hope Coulter, Amanda Potter, Elizabeth Enke, Aaron Fox, Elizabeth Mosqueda, Hossein Zakeri

“…Cover cropping has been strongly promoted, but few growers have realized the benefits of this practice due to challenges linked to economic returns and whole-system management. In the western United States, winter legumes including faba bean have the potential to add economic value while offering soil health benefits compared with fallow fields. …”
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Evaluating Predictive Models of Tree Foliar Moisture Content for Application to Multispectral UAS Data: A Laboratory Study by Lauren E. Lad, Wade T. Tinkham, Aaron M. Sparks, Alistair M. S. Smith

“…The climatic regions of the western United States are particularly at risk from increasing drought, fire, and pest interactions. …”
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Mammalian resistance to megafire in western U.S. woodland savannas by Kendall L. Calhoun, Benjamin R. Goldstein, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Alex McInturff, Leonel Solorio, Justin S. Brashares

“…Abstract Increasingly frequent megafires are dramatically altering landscapes and critical habitats around the world. Across the western United States, megafires have become an almost annual occurrence, but the implication of these fires for the conservation of native wildlife remains relatively unknown. …”
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Coccidioidomycosis in Northern Arizona: an Investigation of the Host, Pathogen, and Environment Using a Disease Triangle Approach by Heather L. Mead, Daniel R. Kollath, Marcus de Melo Teixeira, Chandler C. Roe, Carmel Plude, Nivedita Nandurkar, Chelsea Donohoo, Brettania L. W. O'Connor, Joel Terriquez, Paul Keim, Bridget M. Barker

“…Given recent climate modeling of the disease that predicts that cases will continue to increase throughout the region, and the evidence presented in this report, we propose that disease awareness outreach to clinicians throughout the western United States is crucial for improving patient outcomes, and further environmental sampling across the western U.S. is warranted. …”
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Temporal and elevation trends in rainfall erosivity on a 149 km2 watershed in a semi-arid region of the American Southwest by Mark A. Nearing, Carl L. Unkrich, Dave C. Goodrich, Mary H. Nichols, Tim O. Keefer

“…This is particularly true in mountainous regions such as are found over much of the western United States. The objective of this study was to identify temporal and elevation trends in rainfall erosivity on a 149 km2 (58 miles2) watershed in a semi-arid region of southeastern Arizona. …”
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Genomic Sequence Data of Bacterial Isolates from Pistachio Trees and Other Woody Plants in California Are Inconsistent with the Role of Rhodococcus as the Causative Agent of Pistac... by Brendan K. Riely, Mohamed T. Nouri, Kashif Riaz, Muhammad Rizwan Tufail, Yunpeng Gai, Noelia Carrasquilla, Amna Fayyaz, Peter L. Chang, Johan H. J. Leveau, Douglas R. Cook, Florent P. Trouillas

“…Pistachio bushy top syndrome (PBTS) is a serious problem for pistachio growers in the western United States, but the cause of this disorder remains controversial. …”
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Osteology of Galeamopus pabsti sp. nov. (Sauropoda: Diplodocidae), with implications for neurocentral closure timing, and the cervico-dorsal transition in diplodocids by Emanuel Tschopp, Octávio Mateus

“…The highest diversity is known from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western United States: a recent review recognized 12 valid, named species, and possibly three additional, yet unnamed ones. …”
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Site Factors Related to Dry Farm Vegetable Productivity and Quality in the Willamette Valley of Oregon by Matthew Davis, Alexandra Stone, Andy Gallagher, Amy Garrett

“…Dry farming is garnering interest in the western United States because it allows farmers to produce crops despite a lack of access to irrigation or water rights or to eliminate the infrastructure, labor, and energy costs of irrigation systems. …”
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