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Disturbance and sustainability in forests of the western United States / Tara M. Barrett and Guy C. Robertson, editors.

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Format:
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Government document
Contributor:
Barrett, Tara M., editor.
Robertson, Guy C., editor.
Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.), issuing body.
Series:
General technical report PNW ; 992.
General technical report PNW ; 992
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Forest fires--West (U.S.).
Forest fires.
Forests and forestry--Climatic factors--West (U.S.).
Forests and forestry.
Forest resilience--Climatic factors--West (U.S.).
Forest resilience.
Sustainable forestry--West (U.S.).
Sustainable forestry.
Forest resilience--Climatic factors.
Forests and forestry--Climatic factors.
West United States.
Genre:
technical reports.
Technical reports
Technical reports.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Place of Publication:
Portland, OR : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, March 2021.
Summary:
"This report assesses recent forest disturbance in the Western United States and discusses implications for sustainability. Individual chapters focus on fire, drought, insects, disease, invasive plants, and socioeconomic impacts. Disturbance data came from a variety of sources, including the Forest Inventory and Analysis program, Forest Health Protection, and the National Interagency Fire Center. Disturbance trends with the potential to affect forest sustainability include alterations in fire regimes, periods of drought in some parts of the region, and increases in invasive plants, insects, and disease. Climate affects most disturbance processes, particularly drought, fire, and biotic disturbances, and climate change is expected to continue to affect disturbance processes in various ways and degrees."
Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction / Guy C. Robertson
Chapter 2: Summary of Disturbances and Sustainability / Tara M. Barrett, Christopher J. Fettig, Susan J. Frankel, Andrew N. Gray, I. Blakey Lockman, David W. Peterson, Guy C. Robertson, and José J. Sánchez
Chapter 3: Overview of Recent Forest Disturbances in the Western United States / Tara M. Barrett and A. Lexine Long
Chapter 4: Fire Disturbances / David W. Peterson and Tara M. Barrett
Chapter 5: Drought / A. Lexine Long
Chapter 6: Insects / Christopher J. Fettig, Robert A. Progar, Jeanine Paschke, and Frank J. Sapio
Chapter 7: Diseases and Abiotic Damage Agents / Susan J. Frankel and I. Blakey Lockman
Chapter 8: Invasive Plants / Andrew N. Gray, Kathryn C. Baer, and Christopher Witt
Chapter 9: Economic Value of Ecosystem Service Losses Resulting From Disturbances in Western U.S. Forests / José J. Sánchez, Lorie Srivastava, Raymundo Marcos-Martinez, and Dominique Bachelet.
Notes:
"March 2021."
Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource, PDF version; title from title page (USFS, viewed June 30, 2020).
Other Format:
Print version: Disturbance and sustainability in forests of the western United States
OCLC:
1245592504

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