James H. Thorne

TL;DR: A suite of species distribution models are evaluated for their utility as predictors of suitable habitat and as tools for new population discovery of six rare plant species that have both narrow geographical ranges and specialized habitat requirements.

TL;DR: The interacting negative effects of human-induced changes on both the climate and habitat available to butterfly species in California reveal the decline of ruderal, disturbance-associated species, and indicates that the traditional focus of conservation efforts should be broadened to include entire faunas when estimating and predicting the effects of pervasive stressors.

TL;DR: The assumption that species ranges can be equally well portrayed in SDMs operating on base data of different grid sizes is tested by comparing SDM performance statistics and area selected by four SDMs run at seven grid sizes, for nine species of contrasting range size.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the utility of a Basin Characterization Model for California (CA-BCM) to integrate high-resolution data on physical watershed characteristics with historical or projected climate data to predict watershed specific hydrologic responses to changes in key climatic drivers across variable landscape conditions.

TL;DR: Forest composition in California in the last century has shifted toward increased dominance by oaks relative to pines, a pattern consistent with warming and increased water stress, and also with paleohistoric shifts in vegetation in California over the last 150,000 y.