Role of experimental forests and ranges in understanding and adapting to climate change / Kayla Pierce, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pierce, Kayla, editor.

Series:

Climate change and its causes, effects, and prediction series.

Climate Change and its Causes, Effects, and Prediction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Experimental forests.

Experimental rangelands.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (111 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than a century, Experimental Forests and Ranges (EFRs) have provided critical science on the ecosystems and management activities of the National Forest System. Forest Service EFRs play a unique and important role both within the agency as well as in the broader field of land management. The goal of EFRs is to generate knowledge that benefits both public land managers and private land owners. This goal is achieved through research projects on pressing natural resource topics such as hydrology, fire dynamics, range management, erosion, climate change, silviculture, and forest regenerat

Contents:

""ROLE OF EXPERIMENTAL FORESTS AND RANGES IN UNDERSTANDING AND ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""ROLE OF EXPERIMENTAL FORESTS AND RANGES IN UNDERSTANDING AND ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""Chapter 1: EXPERIMENTAL FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: VIEWS OF LONG-TERM EMPLOYEES ON ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENTAL FORESTS AND RANGES IN UNDERSTANDING AND ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""EXECUTIVE SUMMARY""; ""PROJECT GOALS""; ""RESEARCH QUESTIONS""

""USDA FOREST SERVICE EXPERIMENTAL FORESTS AND RANGES""""PROJECT RESULTS""; ""UNDERSTANDING THE UNIQUE STRENGTHS OF EFRS""; ""THE SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT""; ""THE ECOLOGICAL CONTEXT""; ""EFRS AND CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH""; ""IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""APPENDIX A: EXPERIMENTAL FORESTS AND RANGES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION""; ""APPENDIX B: ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATIOIN EFR DATA NETWORK""; ""APPENDIX C: INTERVIEW GUIDE""; ""APPENDIX D: INTERVIEW PARTICIPANTS""; ""Chapter 2: CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE: KEY POINTS""; ""SUMMARY""

""BROAD SCIENTIFIC AGREEMENT ON MANY ASPECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE""""DEALING WITH UNCERTAINTIES""; ""ISSUES FOR CONGRESS""; ""PROJECTIONS OF FUTURE HUMAN-INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE""; ""SELECTED, RELATED CRS REPORTS""; ""INDEX""; ""Blank Page""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 14, 2014).

ISBN:

1-63463-757-7

OCLC:

898475427