Dr Vachel A. Carter

The legacy lost when Forest Service offices shut down After 117 years of operation, the U.S. Forest Service’s Southwest Regional Office in Albuquerque is closing by order of the secretary of agriculture. Since 1908, this office has directed the

Our op-ed in the Santa Fe New Mexican today highlights the potential losses from closure of the nine US Forest Service Regional Offices, namely local leadership knowledge and capacity, experienced people, and priceless documentary records: www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

New paper: The role of fire on Earth
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Fire affects all major components of the Earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, anthroposphere, & biosphere. Fire is an intrinsic factor on our planet.

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A 1940 Western Apache (Ndee) farm site with two wickiups in a ponderosa pine forest. CREDIT: Lee Russell/Library of Congress

Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Piñon pine may be more adaptable to drought than once thought, LANL research team finds Research from Los Alamos National Laboratory indicates that stress-free piñon might be able to better face drought.

Thanks Santa Fe New Mexican for discussing our latest research about increased water availability and stomata closure points

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Thanks KRQE for discussing our latest research about water availability impacts on stomatal closure points (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

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Thanks KUNM for discussing our latest research about water availability influences on stomatal closure points (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

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These findings are consistent with documented differences in the use of abscisic acid to control stomata in iso- and aniso-hydric species on short timescales, illustrating that the local environment plays a large role in determining SCP.

We show that short-term increases in water availability decreased stomatal closure points in isohydric piñon pine, making it more anisohydric, while short-term rehydration had no effect on SCP in anisohydric juniper.

My coauthors and I explored how increasing water availability affects stomatal closure points in classically isohydric piñon pine and anisohydric one-seed or Utah juniper at various spatial- (i.e., from branch, to tree, to ecosystem) and temporal- (i.e., hours to decades) scales.

Increased water availability at various timescales has different effects on stomatal closure point in isohydric piñon pine and anisohydric juniper - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Increased water availability at various timescales has different effects on stomatal closure point in isohydric piñon pine and anisohydric juniper

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Increased water availability at various timescales has different effects on stomatal closure point in isohydric piñon pine and anisohydric juniper

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Detecting ecological signatures of long-term human activity across an elevational gradient in the Šumava Mountains, Central Europe

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“A late glacial paleoenvironmental and climate record from the Sierra de Juarez, Baja California” explores how changes in the amount and seasonality of moisture affected ciénega complexes and fire over the past 45,000 years

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