Vulnerability of Northern Forests and Forestry: The Disturbing Influence of Climate Change
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Focusing primarily on boreal forest ecosystems, this talk examines the role of stand-replacing disturbances in a changing climate and poses the hypotheses that: 1) Present and near-term future carbon budgets at the forest scale are constrained by the historical and present disturbance regime; 2) Changes in these regimes due to global change has a larger near-term impact on boreal forest carbon stocks than the direct influence of climate change itself; and 3) Our ability to manage forest ecosystem carbon stocks is heavily dependent on our ability to influence the disturbance regime.
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