Jacob Fraser

Past NE CASC Fellow
Research Specialist and Ph.D. Student, University of Missouri, Department of Forestry

Consortium Institution: 

University of Missouri Columbia

Education: 

B.S.: Forestry, University of Missouri, 2009.
M.S.: Forestry, University of Missouri, 2012.

Website: 

http://gis.missouri.edu/jacob.html

Research Interests: 

My current research focuses on tree species resilience to several projected climate change scenarios over large spatial and temporal scales. I am using a forest landscape model (LANDIS PRO) coupled with an ecosystem process model (LINKAGES) and downscaled future climate projections to test species responses under various harvest and fire regimes. 

Recent Publications

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Wang, W. J., Thompson F. R., He H. S., Fraser J. S., Dijak W. D., & Jones-Farrand T. (2019).  Climate change and tree harvest interact to affect future tree species distribution changes. (Chen, H., Ed.).Journal of Ecology.
Wang, W. J., He H. S., Thompson F. R., Spetich M. A., & Fraser J. S. (2018).  Effects of species biological traits and environmental heterogeneity on simulated tree species distribution shifts under climate change. Science of The Total Environment. 634, 1214 - 1221.
Butler-Leopold, P. R., Iverson L. R., Thompson F. R., Brandt L. A., Handler S. D., Janowiak M. K., et al. (2018).  Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis.
Wang, W. J., Thompson F. R., He H. S., Fraser J. S., Dijak W. D., & Spetich M. A. (2018).  Population dynamics has greater effects than climate change on tree species distribution in a temperate forest region. Journal of Biogeography. 45(12), 2766 - 2778.