The Himalaya is the most impressive example on earth of an active collisional orogen. It combines rapid crustal shortening and thickening, intense denudation driven by the monsoon climate, and frequent very large earthquakes along an incomparably long and high mountain arc. It has therefore been the focus of a variety of investigations that have addressed various aspects of mountain building on...

We examined 4-year growth of 15-year-old damaged and undamaged Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menzesii) after integrating temporary population reductions of mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) with thinning in a pre-commercial hand-planted plantation in western Washington. Five treatment combinations were considered: (1) trapping mountain beavers in an unthinned area, (2) trapping before thinning to 65...

Mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, is the most significant mortality agent in pine forests of western North America. Silvicultural treatments that reduce the number of susceptible host trees, alter age and size class distributions, and diversify species composition are considered viable, long-term options for reducing stand susceptibility to mountain pine beetle-caused tree ...

Abstract The geological record following the c. 2.3 billion years old Great Oxidation Event includes evidence for anomalously high burial of organic carbon and emergence widespread mountain building. Both orogeny occurred globally over period 2.1 to 1.8 ago. Prolific cyanobacteria were preserved as peak black shale sedimentation abundant graphite. In numerous orogens, exceptionally carbonaceous...

At the largest time and space scales, the pace of erosion and chemical weathering is determined by tectonic uplift rates. Deviations from equilibrium arise from the transient response of landscape denudation to climatic and tectonic perturbations. We posit that the constraint of mass balance, however, makes it unlikely that such disequilibrium persists at the global scale over millions of years...