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Scott Saleska

Professor, Environmental Science | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Global Change - GIDP | Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Collaboration(56)

Sanlyn Buxner
Cynthia Thomson
Salim Hariri
Willem van Leeuwen
Andrew Carnie

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Grants(31)

Collaborative Research: RAPID: A Perfect Storm: Will the Double-Impact of 2023-24 El Nino Drought and Forest Degradation Induce a Local Tipping-Point Onset in Eastern Amazon?
Active·2024·$103.8K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
climate, ecology, natural disasters, rainforest, sustainability
Gatekeepers of Arctic Carbon Loss: Landscape-Scale Metabolites-to-Ecosystems Profiling to Mechanistically Map Climate Feedbacks
Active·2022·$166.6K / $500.4K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
arctic carbon, metabolites, ecosystems, climate feedbacks, landscape-scale profiling
Collaborative Research: Cascade "Ecohydromics" in the Amazonian Headwater System
Active·2022·$286.1K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
ecohydromics, amazonian, collaborative research, cascade, headwater system
Collaborative Research: GCR: Growing a New Science of Landscape Terraformation: The Convergence of Rock, Fluids, and Life to form Complex Ecosystems Across Scales
Active·2021·$115.7K / $1.2M·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
landscape terraformation, ecosystem formation, collaborative research, complex ecosystems, rock and fluid interactions
Trees as Conduits for Connecting Belowground Microbial Processes to Aboveground CH4 Emissions at the Terrestrial-Aquatic Interface
Active·2021·$330.5K / $1.1M·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
trees, microbial processes, ch4 emissions, terrestrial-aquatic interface, belowground

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Publications(172)

Recent

Population ecology and potential biogeochemical impacts of ssDNA and dsDNA soil viruses along a permafrost thaw gradient

2023

population ecology, biogeochemical impacts, soil viruses, permafrost thaw, ecology

Reconciling discrepancies in measurements of vulnerability to xylem embolism with the pneumatic method A comment on Chen et al. 2021) ‘Quantifying vulnerability to embolism in tropical trees and lianas using five methods: can discrepancies be explained by xylem structural traits?’

2023

xylem embolism, xylem vulnerability, measurement discrepancies, xylem structural traits, pneumatic method

Contrasting Carbon Cycle Responses to Dry 2015 El Niño) and Wet 2008 La Niña) Extreme Events at an Amazon Tropical Forest

2023

carbon cycle, el niño, amazon forest, extreme events, la niña

Asymmetric response of Amazon forest water and energy fluxes to wet and dry hydrological extremes reveals onset of a local drought-induced tipping point

2023

amazon forest, water fluxes, energy fluxes, hydrological extremes, drought-induced tipping point

Diverse anthropogenic disturbances shift Amazon forests along a structural spectrum

2023

amazon forests, anthropogenic disturbances, ecosystem dynamics, biodiversity conservation, forest fragmentation

Tree hydrological niche acclimation through ontogeny in a seasonal Amazon forest

2023

tree physiology, hydrological dynamics, forest ecology, amazon rainforest, ontogeny

Monitoring leaf phenology in moist tropical forests by applying a superpixel-based deelearning method to time-series images of tree canopies

2022

phenology, forest ecology, remote sensing, machine learning, tropical ecology

Permafrost thaw driven changes in hydrology and vegetation cover increase trace gas emissions and climate forcing in Stordalen Mire from 1970 to 2014

2022

permafrost thaw, hydrology, vegetation cover, trace gas emissions, climate forcing

How transpiration by forests and other vegetation determines alternate moisture regimes

2022

transpiration, vegetation, moisture regimes, forests, ecosystems

The role of ecosystem transpiration in creating alternate moisture regimes by influencing atmospheric moisture convergence

2022

ecosystem transpiration, moisture regimes, atmospheric moisture convergence, ecosystem role, climate dynamics