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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2001
This article examines how eight disturbances influence forest structure, composition, and function, and how climate change may influence the severity, frequency, and magnitude of disturbances to forests. We focus on examples from the United States, although these influences occur worldwide. We also consider options for coping with disturbance under changing climate. This analysis points to specific research needs that should improve the understanding of how climate change affects forest disturbances.
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Citation: Dale, V.H.; Joyce, L.A.; McNulty, S.; Neilson, R.P.; Ayres, M.P.; Flannigan, M.D.; Hanson, P.J.; Irland, L.C.; Lugo, A.E.; Peterson, C.J.; Simberloff, D.; Swanson, F.J.; Stocks, B.J.; Wotton, B.M. 2001. Climate change and forest disturbances. BioScience 51(9):723-734.
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Keywords:
- climate change
- climatology
- distribution
- disturbance severity
- drought
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire frequency
- fire intensity
- fire regimes
- fire size
- fire weather
- forest disturbances
- forest management
- forest management
- general circulation models
- insects
- introduced species
- land management
- landscape ecology
- lightning caused fires
- multiple resource management
- plant diseases
- rate of spread
- seed germination
- storms
- wildfires
- windthrow
Tall Timbers Record Number: 14525 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Journals-B • Abstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
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