The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station is a place-based, globally connected, ecological research group that studies ecosystem and wildlife dynamics, working with land managers, community leaders, and Tribes to deliver solutions that foster the linked health of human and natural systems.
For over three decades, we have focused on shifting research needs from forest watershed health to wildlife diseases. Recent and ongoing changes in New Mexico ecosystems, in response to interactions among climate change, changing land use, fire and insect outbreaks, and the spread of wildlife diseases, may be a harbinger of future landscape responses elsewhere. Therefore, we contribute to scientific progress and informed management strategies locally and globally.
Our partnerships and co-location with land managers and universities provide us with opportunities to deliver our research through high-quality, science-based conversations. We work with our diverse partners to develop strategies and provide scientific expertise with the goal of adaptively sustaining or restoring vital ecosystem functions.
FIRE
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
WILDLIFE
TREE RINGS
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
PEOPLE
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Western Mountain Initiative: Southern Rocky Mountains
Ecology of Insect-eating Bats
Bat Fatalities at Wind Turbines—Investigating the Causes and Consequences
Surveillance for the Presence of White-Nose Syndrome in the Bat Community at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico
Assessing Impacts to Ecosystems from Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon Region
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Below are multimedia items associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes
Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015
Spatio-temporal variability of human-fire interactions on the Navajo Nation
Surface fire to Crown Fire: Fire history in the Taos Valley watersheds, New Mexico, USA
Limits to ponderosa pine regeneration following large high-severity forest fires in the United States Southwest
burnr: Fire history analysis and graphics in R
Advancing dendrochronological studies of fire in the United States
Long-term persistence and fire resilience of oak shrubfields in dry conifer forests of northern New Mexico
Drought, multi-seasonal climate, and wildfire in northern New Mexico
Pruning high-value Douglas-fir can reduce dwarf mistletoe severity and increase longevity in central Oregon
Historical dominance of low-severity fire in dry and wet mixed-conifer forest habitats of the endangered terrestrial Jemez Mountains salamander (Plethodon neomexicanus)
Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise
Below are news stories associated with this project.
Below are partners associated with this project.
The New Mexico Landscapes Field Station is a place-based, globally connected, ecological research group that studies ecosystem and wildlife dynamics, working with land managers, community leaders, and Tribes to deliver solutions that foster the linked health of human and natural systems.
For over three decades, we have focused on shifting research needs from forest watershed health to wildlife diseases. Recent and ongoing changes in New Mexico ecosystems, in response to interactions among climate change, changing land use, fire and insect outbreaks, and the spread of wildlife diseases, may be a harbinger of future landscape responses elsewhere. Therefore, we contribute to scientific progress and informed management strategies locally and globally.
Our partnerships and co-location with land managers and universities provide us with opportunities to deliver our research through high-quality, science-based conversations. We work with our diverse partners to develop strategies and provide scientific expertise with the goal of adaptively sustaining or restoring vital ecosystem functions.
FIRE
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS
WILDLIFE
TREE RINGS
INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
PEOPLE
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Western Mountain Initiative: Southern Rocky Mountains
Ecology of Insect-eating Bats
Bat Fatalities at Wind Turbines—Investigating the Causes and Consequences
Surveillance for the Presence of White-Nose Syndrome in the Bat Community at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico
Assessing Impacts to Ecosystems from Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon Region
Seeing the Forest and the Trees
Below are multimedia items associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.
Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes
Climate relationships with increasing wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015
Spatio-temporal variability of human-fire interactions on the Navajo Nation
Surface fire to Crown Fire: Fire history in the Taos Valley watersheds, New Mexico, USA
Limits to ponderosa pine regeneration following large high-severity forest fires in the United States Southwest
burnr: Fire history analysis and graphics in R
Advancing dendrochronological studies of fire in the United States
Long-term persistence and fire resilience of oak shrubfields in dry conifer forests of northern New Mexico
Drought, multi-seasonal climate, and wildfire in northern New Mexico
Pruning high-value Douglas-fir can reduce dwarf mistletoe severity and increase longevity in central Oregon
Historical dominance of low-severity fire in dry and wet mixed-conifer forest habitats of the endangered terrestrial Jemez Mountains salamander (Plethodon neomexicanus)
Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise
Below are news stories associated with this project.
Below are partners associated with this project.