Appendix 2: Risk-based framework and risk case studies. Risk case study: a framework for assessing climate change risks to forest carbon stocks

Abstract

Forest ecosystems have the ability to reduce the effects of climate change through the sequestration of carbon (C) (Pan et al. 2011) as well as contribute to net emissions through disturbance events such as wildfires and widespread tree mortality (Kurz et al. 2008). A conceptual framework for assessing climate-change risks to forest ecosystem C stocks facilitates efficient allocation of efforts to monitor and mitigate climate-change effects, and the U.S. National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGHGI) of forest C stocks (Heath et al. 2011) may be used as a basis for development of a climate change risk framework for forest C stocks.

Parent Publication

• Effects of climatic variability and change on forest ecosystems: a comprehensive science synthesis for the U.S

Citation

Woodall, Christopher W.; Domke, Grant M. 2012. Appendix 2: Risk-based framework and risk case studies. Risk case study: a framework for assessing climate change risks to forest carbon stocks. In: Vose, James M.; Peterson, David L.; Patel-Weynand, Toral, eds. Effects of climatic variability and change on forest ecosystems: a comprehensive science synthesis for the U.S. forest sector. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-870. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 246-248.