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CHRISTOPHER R. DOLANC 

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My collaborators: 

  • Solomon Dobrowski, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forest Management, University of Montana

  • Hugh Safford, Regional Ecologist, Southwest Region, USDA Forest Service

  • Mark Schwartz, Professor, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis

  • Jim Thorne, Research Scientist, Information Center for the Environment, University of California, Davis

  • Bob Westfall, Statistician, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service

  • Michael Barbour, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis

  • Carolyn Hunsaker, Research Ecologist, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service

 

Outside Interests:

 

Other Stuff:

 

A presentation on my dissertation research that I gave to the Yosemite Forum in June 2012.

This video, "Mapping Change in Sierra Nevada Forests", is produced by Jim Thorne, describing a broad research effort that uses historical vegetation maps and plots to quantify change across the landscape of the Sierra Nevada since the 1930s. My dissertation research resampled this historical data set (the Vegetation Type Mapping Project; VTM) in the subalpine zone, and is part of the effort outlined in this film.

Photos:

These are taken from my subalpine research sites and show the diversity of high-elevation forest/woodland vegetation in the Sierra Nevada. Click on any image to see an enlarged version.

Open jeffrey pine forest on steep slope

Mixed-subalpine forest with w. white pine, red fir, mountain hemlock and lodgepole pine

Dense lodgepole pine stand on mesic site

Stunted, open woodland on granite dome

Wind-shaped whitebark pine near treeline

Krummholz whitebark pine at treeline

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