Pacific Southwest Research Station

Brochures

• Climate Change and Pacific Island Water Resources, Year 1 Initiative Overview and Progress (2010) 2.5 MB
• Climate Change and Pacific Island Water Resources, Year 2 Initiative Overview and Progress (2011) 1.5 MB

Reports

• Mapping New Terrain: Climate Change and the American West 4.7 MB
  CIRMOUNT Committee, July 2006
• PSW Science Perspectives: Climate Change 1MB
• PSW Science Perspectives: High Sierra Ecosystems 1.5MB
• PSW Science Perspectives: Managing Wildland Fires 5.2 MB
• PSW Science Perspectives: Restoring Forest Health 2.5MB

Research Publications

• Joyce, L.A., G.M. Blate, J.S. Littell, S.G. McNulty, C.I. Millar, S.C. Moser, R.P. Neilson, K. O'Halloran, D.L. Peterson. 2008. Adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources: National Forests. Chapter 3 in Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources. Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4, U.S. Climate Change Science Program. 126 pgs.
  Link to entire report. 873 pages.
• Millar, C.I., N.L. Stephenson, and S.L. Stephens. 2007. Climate Change and Forests of the Future: Managing in the Face of Uncertainty. Ecological Applications 17(8): pp 2145-2151. Shorter versions: CIRMOUNT Newsletter Mountain Views 2(1): 5-10 and Climate Change Resource Center Issue Paper 1-5.
• Millar, C.I., J.C. King, R.D. Westfall, H.A. Alden, and D.L. Delany. 2006. Late Holocene forest dynamics, volcanism, and climate change at Whitewing Mountain and San Joaquin Ridge, Mono County, Sierra Nevada, CA, USA. Quaternary Research 66 (2006): 273-287.
• Millar, C.I., R. Neilson, D. Batchelet, R. Drapek, and J. Lenihan. 2006. Climate change at multiple scales. Chapter 3 in Salwasser, H. and M. Cloughesy (eds). Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change. Oregon Forest Resources Institute Publication.
• Millar, C.I. and L.B. Brubaker. 2006. Climate change and paleoecology: New contexts for restoration ecology. Chapter 15 in M. Palmer, D. Falk, and J. Zedler (eds) Restoration Science. Island Press. pp315-340.
• Millar, C.I., L.J. Graumlich, D.L. Delany, R.D. Westfall, and J.K. King. 2004. Response of subalpine conifers in the Sierra Nevada, California, U.S.A., to 20th-century warming and decadal climate variability. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 36(2):181-200.
• Millar, C.I. 2004. Climate change as an ecosystem architect: Implications to rare plant ecology, conservation, and management. In Brooks, M. (ed). Proceedings of the Conference on Rare Plants, Ecology, and Conservation, 9-13 Feb 2002, Arcata, California. California Native Plant Society. Pgs. 139-157.
• Westfall, RD and Millar, CI. 2004. Genetic Consequences of Forest Population Dynamics Influenced by Historic Climatic Variability in the Western USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 197: 157-168.

The Conference and Workshops page has available PDF versions of most presentations from recent PSW sponsored/coordinated events.