Climate Change – Impacts and Effects on Vegetation

Background:

This 2011 symposium featured research on the projected impacts of climatic changes on vegetation, with an emphasis on practical assessment and management. The videos from the symposium represent a synthesis of recent thinking on the topic of climatic change. Presentation topics range from methods for predicting tree range shifts under future climates to the connection between climate change and forest disturbances.

Climate Change – Impacts and Effects on Vegetation was part of the 2011 US- International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) Annual Symposium in Portland, OR (http://www.usiale.org). The theme of the 2011 Symposium was Sustainability in Dynamic Landscapes. For more information on IALE, please see the website: http://www.landscape-ecology.org/

Unknown unknowns: the emergence of unexpected interactions between climate change and forest health.

Steve McNulty, US Forest Service- Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

Integrating phenology into cross-scale risk assessments of climate change.

Steven Norman, US Forest Service- Southern Research Station, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

Catching up with the climatologists: developing ensembles of ecological impacts models to look at climate change opportunities and challenges.

Dominique Bachelet, University of Idaho/US Forest Service

Interactions between climate, insect outbreaks, and forests.

Jeffrey Hicke, University of Idaho/US Forest Service

Providing forest managers predictions of vegetation dynamics that account for climate change.

Nicholas Crookston, US Forest Service-Rocky Mountain research Station

A multi-phase approach to assessing potential changes in Eastern US tree distributions.

Louis Iverson, US Forest Service-Northern Research Station

Contemporary forest Inventories as an indicator of future tree range shifts.

Heather Lintz, Oregon Climate Change Research Institute

Determining shifts in climate regimes using earth system model projections.

Forrest Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Global tree range shifts under forecasts from two alternative GCMs using two future scenarios.

William Hargrove, US Forest Service - Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

Anticipating climate-change induced biome shifts for military installations.

James Westervelt, US Army Corps of Engineers. Presentation given by William Hargrove, USDA Forest Service, EFETAC

Adapt, move or die: spatially explicit assessment of climate change genetic degradation risk in forest trees.

Kevin Potter, North Carolina State University

Predicting recent outbreaks of insect and disease attacks on native tree species in response to climate.

Richard Waring, Oregon State University