Climate Change and United States Forests

Peterson David L., James M. Vose, Toral Patel-Weynand

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English

Springer
17 September 2016

Environmental economics; Forestry & related industries; Global warming; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Series: Advances in Global Change Research

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.

Edited by: Peterson David L., James M. Vose, Toral Patel-Weynand
Imprint: Springer
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Volume: 57
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 4.511kg
ISBN: 9789402402728
ISBN 10: 9402402721
Series: Advances in Global Change Research
Pages: 261
Publication Date: 17 September 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Part I Seeking the Climate Change Signal Chapter 1 Recent Changes in Climate and Forest Ecosystems Chapter 2 Projected Changes in Future Climate Part II Effects of Climatic Variability and Change Chapter 3 Forest Processes Chapter 4 Disturbance Regimes and Stressors Chapter 5 Climate Change and Forest Values Chapter 6 Regional Highlights of Climate Change Part III Responding to Climate Change Chapter 7 Managing Carbon Chapter 8 Adapting to Climate Change Chapter 9 Risk Assessment Part IV Scientific Issues and Priorities Chapter 10 Research and Assessment in the 21st Century Index

Reviews for Climate Change and United States Forests

From the book reviews: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2014 This edited volume, which explores the impacts of climate change on US forests, consists of ten chapters, each written by a capable team of specialists. ... The work synthesizes an impressive amount of research, and will serve well as a go-to resource, with extensive reference lists to direct interested readers back to the relevant primary literature. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; two-year technical program students. (A. Richardson, Choice, Vol. 51 (11), August, 2014)