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Future Forests

Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change

  • 1 Edición - 24 de octubre de 2023
  • Última edición
  • Editor: Steven G. McNulty
  • Idioma: Inglés

Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change provides background on forests as natural and social systems, the current distribution and dynamics based on major… Leer más

Descripción

Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change provides background on forests as natural and social systems, the current distribution and dynamics based on major biomes that set the stage for their role of forests in global systems, the nature of climate change organized by biomes, and detailed descriptions of mitigation and adaptation strategies. This book forms presents a foundational summary of the feedback between the effect of climate change on forests and the converse effects of forests on climate, leading to conclusions on how forest management needs to be dictated by climate change.

The book will be ideal for readers in the fields of climate change science, forest science and conservation biology, helping them develop a thorough understanding on the broad perspective of climate change on forests, the response of forests to these changes, and other climate-forest interaction potentials.

Puntos claves

  • Organizes information on climate change and the effect of/on forests at a general level before presenting biome-related specifics
  • Discusses the differences among major biomes (tropical, boreal, temperate) and the systems in which forest management (and hence potential mitigation and adaptation) occurs
  • Goes beyond simply describing problems, elaborating on potential solutions that can be implemented for climate change mitigation

De interès para

Researchers and practitioners in climate change science, forest science, and conservation biology
Non-governmental environmental organizations, ecologists and biologists

Índice

1. Introduction

2. Climate Change and Variability Overview

3. Forests then and now: managing for ecosystem benefits, services to humans, and healthy forests across scales

4. Nutrient limitation in global forests: Current status and future trends

5. Mitigation potential of forests: challenges to carbon accrual in the ecosystem

6. Climate change and forest hydrology in future forests

7. Forest Disturbances

8. Understanding climate change dynamics of tree species: implications for future forests

9. Temperate Forests

10. Climate change and tropical forests

11. Boreal forests

12. Climate change and urban forests

13. Forests as social-ecological systems

14. Unknown tipping-points: a method for anticipating future forest disturbance risk

Detalles del producto

  • Edición: 1
  • Última edición
  • Publicado: 25 de octubre de 2023
  • Idioma: Inglés

Sobre el editor

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Steven G. McNulty

Steven G. McNulty a USDA Forest Service senior scientist, and the Director of the USDA Southeast Climate Hub located in Research Triangle Park, NC. He has a Ph.D. In Natural Resources and has spent over 30 years researching environmental stress impacts and adaptive management options for forests, agriculture, and rangelands. Dr. McNulty has co-authored over 250 publications on climate change impacts and ecosystem adaptation strategies. He has served as a US Congressional Fellow, Climate Change Chair of the North American Forestry Commission, Expert on IUFRO and FAO Assessments. Dr. McNulty is the recipient of US Forest Service Distinguished Scientist Award. He is currently the principal investigator for the Updated Silvics of North America Project (USNAP).
Afiliaciones y experiencia
Director, Southeast Regional Climate Hub, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Durham, NC, United States

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