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Climate Change and United States Forests (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Climate Change and United States Forests (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 57
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This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of
climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United
States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the
2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate
Assessment, the book serves as a framework for managing U.S. forest
resources in the context of climate change. The authors focus on
topics having the greatest potential to alter the structure and
function of forest ecosystems, and therefore ecosystem services, by
the end of the 21st century. Part I provides an environmental
context for assessing the effects of climate change on forest
resources, summarizing changes in environmental stressors, followed
by state-of-science projections for future climatic conditions
relevant to forest ecosystems. Part II offers a wide-ranging
assessment of vulnerability of forest ecosystems and ecosystem
services to climate change. The authors anticipate that altered
disturbance regimes and stressors will have the biggest effects on
forest ecosystems, causing long-term changes in forest conditions.
Part III outlines responses to climate change, summarizing current
status and trends in forest carbon, effects of carbon management,
and carbon mitigation strategies. Adaptation strategies and a
proposed framework for risk assessment, including case studies,
provide a structured approach for projecting and responding to
future changes in resource conditions and ecosystem services. Part
IV describes how sustainable forest management, which guides
activities on most public and private lands in the United States,
can provide an overarching structure for mitigating and adapting to
climate change.
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