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Responding to ecological transformation in Capitol Reef National Park, Utah—Employee perspectives from pilot interviews from the Cross-Park Resist-Assist-Direct Project

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Great Sand Dunes Colorado

Public Land Manager Decision-Making Under Ecological Transformation

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A meadow of green grass and shrubs and yellow, orange, and purple wildflowers bordered by pine trees

Managing Ecological Transformation to Enhance Carbon Storage and Biodiversity

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Drought as an emergent driver of ecological transformation in the twenty-first century

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Management foundations for navigating ecological transformation by resisting, accepting, or directing social-ecological change

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Responding to ecological transformation: Mental models, external constraints, and manager decision-making

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An integrative ecological drought framework to span plant stress to ecosystem transformation

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Fire in Lolo National Forest, Montana

Drought and Disturbances as Drivers of Long-Term Ecological Transformation and Risk

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Pinyon-juniper and sagebrush on Juniper Mountain, NV

Mapping the Risk of Ecological Transformation Across Pinyon Woodlands and the U.S. West

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Navigating ecological transformation: Resist-accept-direct as a path to a new resource management paradigm

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A science agenda to inform natural resource management decisions in an era of ecological transformation

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Where can managers effectively resist climate-driven ecological transformation in pinyon-juniper woodlands of the US Southwest?

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Responding to ecosystem transformation: Resist, accept, or direct?

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Absaroka Range

Adaptation Strategies in the Face of Climate-Driven Ecological Transformation: Case Studies from Arctic Alaska and the U.S. Great Plains

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Two story brick building with tall windows covered in white perforated vinyl to protect bird collisions from glass.

Before and after of EESC Gabrielson building windows bird-friendly transformation

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A brave new world: Managing for biodiversity conservation under ecosystem transformation

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From Refugia to Resilience: Wildfires, Changing Climate, and Landscape Transformation in the Southwestern U.S.

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Image: Burning Wetlands

Understanding Prescribed Fire Management in the Context of Climate Change and Landscape Transformation

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Mangroves on the outside of a playa within Florida Bay

Coastal Wetland Vulnerability to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise: Understanding Ecological Thresholds and Ecosystem Transformations

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Resist, accept, and direct responses to biological invasions: A social–ecological perspective

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Patterns of primary production and ecological drought in Yellowstone

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Annual grass invasion is transforming the sagebrush biome’s songbird communities

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Climatic and Ecological Scenarios to Guide Development of a Spatial Resist-Accept-Direct Portfolio at Nāpuʻu, Hawaiʻi

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Looking at Glen Canyon Dam from the Colorado River

Amazon Dams Network: Advancing Integrative Research and Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems Transformed by Hydroelectric Dams

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Lake Overholser in drought conditions, 2011

State of the Science Synthesis on Transformational Drought: Understanding Drought’s Potential to Transform Ecosystems Across the Country

Presentations and Events
Title slide for audio described version of EMA Friday's Findings webinar: One Health, One Environment

One Health, One Environment: Environmental chemistry’s integrative approaches in advancing the One Health Paradigm (AD)
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Managing for RADical ecosystem change: Applying the Resist-Accept-Direct (RAD) framework

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Experiences of experts in managing and researching chronic wasting disease obtained through 2023 semi-structured interviews

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Triangle diagram outlining RAD framework, with Resist, Accept, and Direct on each side of the triangle

The RAD Framework
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The RAD (Resist-Accept-Direct) Climate Adaptation Framework
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