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Scott Ferrenberg

Scott Ferrenberg

Lab PI and Associate Director, Montana Forest Conservation Experiment Station

scott.ferrenberg.mso.umt.edu

(575) 646-4003

Titles

  • Lab PI and Associate Director, Montana Forest Conservation Experiment Station

Biography

The Ferrenberg lab has a focus on understanding how organisms respond to global change, particularly climate change and disturbances, and what these responses mean for ecosystem functioning. Their work focuses on forests, grasslands, and shrublands in the U.S. intermountain West & utilize a mix of experimental, observational, and quantitative approaches to characterize and forecast species-level and community-level responses to change.

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Journal Articles

2020

Hoover, D. L., B. Bestelmeyer, N. B. Grimm, T. E. Huxman, S. C. Reed, O. E. Sala, T. R. Seastedt, H. Wilmer and S. Ferrenberg. 2020. Traversing the wasteland: A framework for assessing ecological threats to drylands. BioScience 70(1):35-47. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biz126. (link )

2018

Tucker, C. L., S. Ferrenberg and S. C. Reed. 2018. Climatic sensitivity of dryland soil CO2 fluxes differs dramatically with biological soil crust successional state. Ecosystems 1-18. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-018-0250-4. (link )

2017

Ferrenberg, S., A. M. Faist, A. J. Howell and S. C. Reed. 2017. Biocrusts enhance soil fertility and Bromus tectorum growth, and interact with warming to influence germination. Plant and Soil 429(1-2):77-90. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-017-3525-1. (link )

Ferrenberg, S. and S. C. Reed. 2017. Biocrust ecology: Unifying micro- and macro-scales to confront global change. New Phytologist 216(3):643-646. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14826. (link )

Ferrenberg, S., C. L. Tucker and S. C. Reed. 2017. Biological soil crusts diminutive communities of potential global importance. Frontieres in Ecology and the Environment 15(3):160-167. DOI: 10.1002/fee.1469. (link )

Rutherford, W. A., T. H. Painter, S. Ferrenberg, J. Belnap, G. S. Okin, C. Flagg and S. C. Reed. 2017. Albedo feedbacks to future climate via climate change impacts on dryland biocrusts. Scientific Reports 7:Art. 44188. DOI: 10.1038/srep44188. (link )