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RMRS-GTR-59: The impact of climate change on America's forests:
a technical document supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA
Assessment
Joyce, Linda A.; Birdsey, Richard, technical editors. 2000. The impact of climate change on America's forests: a technical document supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA Assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-59. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 133 p.
This report documents trends and impacts of climate change on America's forests as required by the Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. Recent research on the impact of climate and elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on plant productivity is synthesized. Modeling analyses explore the potential impact of climate changes on forests, wood products, and carbon in the United States.
Keywords: forest productivity, vegetation change, carbon sequestration, mitigation, forest sector, timber inventory, soil carbon, carbon accounting, afforestation, deforestation
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Contents
PDF File Size: 40 KChapter 1: Overview: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Forests
Linda A. Joyce, Richard Birdsey
PDF File Size: 360 KChapter 2: Biome Redistribution Under Climate Change
Dominique Bachelet, Ronald P. Neilson
PDF File Size: 1.2 MBChapter 3: Ecosystem Productivity and the Impact of Climate Change
Linda A. Joyce, Martha Nungesser
PDF File Size: 2 MBChapter 4: Modeling Climate Change Impacts on the Forest Sector
John R. Mills, Ralph Alig, Richard W. Haynes, Darius M. Adams
PDF File Size: 350 KChapter 5: Carbon Sequestration in Wood and Paper Products
Kenneth E. Skog, Geraldine A. Nicholson
PDF File Size: 300 KChapter 6: Soil Carbon Accounting and Assumptions for Forestry and Forest-Related Land Use Change
Linda S. Heath, James E. Smith
PDF File Size: 330 KChapter 7: Considerations for Interpreting Probabilistic Estimates of Uncertainty of Forest Carbon
James E. Smith, Linda S. Heath
PDF File Size: 305 KChapter 8 : Migration Activities in the Forest Sector to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Sinks of Greenhouse Gases
Richard Birdsey, Ralph Alig, Darius Adams
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Title: RMRS-GTR-59:
The impact of climate change on America's forests: a technical
document supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA Assessment
Publish Date: November 6, 2000
Last Update: June
16, 2009