The Importance of Scale in Vulnerability Assessment

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Ron Neilson, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR

About This Presentation

Running time: 24 minutes and 42 seconds

This is part of a collection. See more from Adapting to Climate Change in National Forests.

Topics covered:

• MAPSS Group
• Global Average Temperature
• Species Are On the Move
• Structure and Function are Changing
• Kenai Dieback
• Generalized Management Goals
• Past and Future Global Temperature
• Assessment Design
• Vegetation and Fire Dynamics
• MAPSS Simulated Vegetation Distribution
• Simulated vs. Observed Fire
• Simulated Historical Vegetation
• New Simulated Vegetation Type
• Global Ecology and Biogeography
• Lynx Conservation Project
• MC1 Simulated Biomass Burn
• Hadley Model
• Number of Scenarios Changing Veg. Type
• Precipitation
• Flat and Complex Terrain
• Scenarios in Agreement
• Percent Change - Decrease
• Percent Change - Increase
• Scale Down
• More Agreement
• Scenarios that Decrease
• Scenarios that Increase
• Changing Veg Type
• Precipitation
• Pacific Decadal Oscillation
• Yearly Change in Leaf Mass
• Even Aged Management
• Structure Management
• Implications Create Resilience
• Acknowledgements

Production by: Michael Furniss and Jeffrey Guntle, Communications and Applications, PNW and PSW Research Stations

Video by: Ben Nieves, Oregon Street Studios