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Camill, Clark
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson
Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and climate change can alter these natural interactions. When disturbances exceed their natural…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Guthery, Forrester, Nolte, Cohen, Kuvlesky
Populations of scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) and northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have declined in North America coincident with global warming. We speculate on a cause-effect relation between global warming and quail declines. Quail…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Grissino-Mayer, Swetnam
Interannual time-scale associations between fire occurrence and drought indices, the Southern Oscillation, and other synoptic patterns demonstrate that large-scale, long term atmospheric features are precursors to regional fire activity. However,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Loehle
Past simulation studies using a variety of models have generally agreed that climatic warming could have adverse effects on forests, including large-scale diebacks in some regions and drastic range shrinkages of many species. These effects should be…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Neilson, Lenihan, Bachelet
Dynamic general vegetation models (DGVMs) represent a relatively new technology and exist in several different varieties. Two broad classes are process-based and statistical-empirical. This discussion will focus on the first of these. Among process-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Bachelet, Neilson
General warming in the Northern Hemisphere has been recorded since the end of the 1800s following the Little Ice Age. Records of glacier retreat during the last 100 years over the entire globe independently confirmed the recorded trend in global…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Flannigan, Stocks, Wotton
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on forest fires and describes how this, in turn, will impact on the forests of the United States. In addition to reviewing existing studies on climate change and forest fires we have used two…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
McPherson, Weltzin
This review evaluates the effects and importance of disturbance and climate change on plant community dynamics in the United States/Mexico borderlands region. Our primary focus is on knowledge of physiognomic-level change in grasslands and woodlands…
Year: 2000
Type: Document