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Climate Change
Disturbance Science Topics
![[photo:] Aerial view of green forest with winding river](/disturbance/climate_change/local-resources/images/effects.jpg "Impacts on Ecosystems")
![[photo:] Forest plants.](/disturbance/climate_change/local-resources/images/adaptation.jpg "Adaptation")
![[photo:] Flux tower.](/disturbance/climate_change/local-resources/images/carbon.jpg "The Central Role of Carbon")
![[photo:] Possible Sugar maple range from Climate Change Tree Atlas.](/disturbance/climate_change/local-resources/images/modeling.gif "Modeling")
![[photo:] Land managers learning to use computer tools.](/disturbance/climate_change/local-resources/images/tools_2.jpg "Management Tools")
![[photo:] Sprial notebook, screwdriver, and soil data logger.](/disturbance/climate_change/local-resources/images/related_1.jpg "Related Research")
Northern Research Station scientists are deeply involved in research to understand the processes and extent of global climate change and their probable/possible effects on forest ecosystems. What processes in forest ecosystems are sensitive to physical and chemical changes in the atmosphere? How will future physical and chemical climate changes influence the structure, function, and productivity of forest and related ecosystems, and to what extent will forest ecosystems change in response to atmospheric changes? What are the implications for forest management and how must forest management activities be altered to sustain forest productivity, health, and diversity?
Impacts on Ecosystems
- Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments
- Climate Change and Yellow-Cedar Decline
- Cumulative Effects of Succession, Management, and Disturbance on Forest Landscapes
- The Delaware River Basin: Collaborative Environmental Research and Monitoring
- Foliar Biochemical Indicators of Environmental Change and their Relationship with Site Productivity
- Greenhouse Gas Impacts on Forest Microclimates
- Aspen FACE Experiment
- Northern Forest Ecosystem Experiment Aspen Regeneration and Carbon Cycling
- Monitoring and Understanding Forest/Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchange: the NRS Flux Tower Network
- Tracing the Movement of an Invasive Insect Using Stable Isotopes
- Effects of Global Atmospheric Change on Forest Insects
- Mid-Atlantic Forests and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- Predicting Global Change Effects on Forest Biomass and Composition in South-Central Siberia
- Fall Leaf Colors: What They Tell Us about Tree Health
- Planning Informed by Alternative Future Watershed Ecosystem Services
- Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (CHEAS)
Adaptation
- Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change – Chippewa National Forest
- Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change – Dartmouth College, Second College Grant
- Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change – Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
- The DREAM Project - Desired Regeneration through Assisted Migration
- The Physiology, Genetics, and Distribution of Ponderosa Pine Species Vary with Changes in Elevation and Environmental Conditions
- Conifer Trees in a Warming World
- American Chestnut Restoration
- Adapting Forests to Climate Change
- Enhanced Adaptation to Climate Change of Conifer Species and Provenances in Northern Forest Ecosystems
- Forest Management for an Uncertain Climate Future: Tools and Training
- Landscape Ecological Modeling: Species Habitat Modeling under Future Climates
The Central Role of Carbon
- Database for Landscape-Scale Carbon Monitoring Sites
- Spruce-Peatland Response Under Climate and Environmental Change (SPRUCE) Experiment
- Carbon Implications of Poplar Energy Crops Throughout the Energy Supply Chain
- The Physiology, Genetics, and Distribution of Ponderosa Pine Species Vary with Changes in Elevation and Environmental Conditions
- Greenhouse Gas Impacts on Forest Microclimates
- Impacts of Disturbances and Climate on Carbon Sequestration and Biofuels
- Forest Carbon Models and Budgets
- Integrating Landscape-Scale Forest Measurements with Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Models to Improve Carbon Management Decisions
- Monitoring and Understanding Forest/Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchange: the NRS Flux Tower Network
- Northern Forest Ecosystem Experiment Aspen Regeneration and Carbon Cycling
- Aspen FACE Experiment
- Effects of Global Atmospheric Change on Forest Insects
- Impacts of Land Management on the Climate System
- Estimating fine root biomass with DNA fingerprints
- Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (CHEAS)
- Predicting Global Change Effects on Forest Biomass and Composition in South-Central Siberia
Modeling
- Cumulative Effects of Succession, Management, and Disturbance on Forest Landscapes
- Linking Population, Ecosystem, Landscape, and Climate Models to Evaluate Climate Adaptation Strategies
- Landscape Ecological Modeling: Species Habitat Modeling under Future Climates
- Adapting Forests to Climate Change
- Atmospheric Disturbance Climatology System
- Mid-Atlantic Forests and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- Predicting Global Change Effects on Forest Biomass and Composition in South-Central Siberia
- Impacts of Land Management on the Climate System
- Increasing the reliability of predictions of the landscape effects of climate change
- Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment-Chippewa National Forest
- Scaling Aspen-FACE Results to Landscape Scale
Tools
- Landscape Ecological Modeling: Species Habitat Modeling under Future Climates
- Forest Management for an Uncertain Climate Future: Tools and Training
- Impacts of Disturbances and Climate on Carbon Sequestration and Biofuels
- Forest Carbon Models and Budgets
- Integrating Landscape-scale Forest Measurements with Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Models to Improve Carbon Management Decisions
Last Modified:
May 14, 2021