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Jiang, Rauscher, Ringler, Lawrence, Williams, Allen, Steiner, Cai, McDowell
Rapid and broad-scale forest mortality associated with recent droughts, rising temperature, and insect outbreaks has been observed over western North America (NA). Climate models project additional future warming and increasing drought and water…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Matonis
Climate change is not only causing temperatures to rise, it is also altering the amount and type of precipitation that falls across the western United States. Research shows a trend of increasingly dry “dry years,” meaning droughts are becoming more…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Logan
From the text ... 'Decades of intense fire suppression have created thickets of trees and brush where the natural fire regime of more frequent, low intensity fires once nurtured a park-like forest of well-spaced trees and grass. Meanwhile, climate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Cole
From the text ... 'The ability of remaining trees to survive in a warmer, drier climate is projected to improve with this logging, which will reduce competition for water. The Forest Service estimates about half the ponderosas in local forests are…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Keywood, Kanakidou, Stohl, Dentener, Grassi, Meyer, Torseth, Edwards, Thompson, Lohmann, Burrows
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Rissman, Bihari, Hamilton, Locke, Lowenstein, Motew, Price, Smail
Conservation organizations rely on conservation easements for diverse purposes, including protection of species and natural communities, working forests, and open space. This research investigated how perpetual conservation easements incorporated…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Peel, Haeuber, Garcia, Russell, Neas
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are important components of ambient and indoor air pollution and are emitted from a range of combustion sources, including on-road mobile sources, electric power generators, and non-road mobile sources. While anthropogenic…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Michelotti, Whicker, Eisele, Breshears, Kirchner
Dose assessments typically consider environmental systems as static through time, but environmental disturbances such as drought and fire are normal, albeit infrequent, events that can impact dose-influential attributes of many environmental systems…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Margolis, Swetnam
Understanding relationships between variability in historical fire occurrence and ocean-atmosphere oscillations provides opportunities for fire forecasting and projecting changes in fire regimes under climate change scenarios. We analysed tree-ring…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Le Page, Hurtt, Thomson, Bond-Lamberty, Patel, Wise, Calvin, Kyle, Clarke, Edmonds, Janetos
The present and future concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide depends on both anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks of carbon. Most proposed climate mitigation strategies rely on a progressive transition to carbon-efficient technologies…
Year: 2013
Type: Document