Climate change adaptation and mitigation options a guide for natural resource managers in southern forest ecosystems

Abstract

The rapid pace of climate change and its direct and indirect effects on forest ecosystems present a pressing need for better scientific understanding and the development of new science-management partnerships. Understanding the effects of stressors and disturbances (including climatic variability), and developing and testing science-based management options to deal with them, have been core research tasks for researchers in the southern United States for decades. Climate change adds a new dimension to this task because it can directly impact forest ecosystems over large spatial scales and interact with other stressors and disturbances to create stress complexes that may have an even greater impact than any single stressor. In addition, the large spatial scale and complex interactions that occur with climate change make traditional experimental approaches and direct application of existing scientific studies difficult. Despite these challenges, climate change science is progressing rapidly, and new insights from recent syntheses, models, experiments, and observations provide enough information to begin taking action now.

Titles contained within Climate change adaptation and mitigation options a guide for natural resource managers in southern forest ecosystems

• Introduction to climate change adaptation and mitigation management options
• Framing the future in the Southern United States climate, land use, and forest conditions
• A conceptual framework for adaptive forest management under climate change
• Water stress and social vulnerability in the southern United States, 2010-2040
• Future wildfire trends, impacts, and mitigation options in the Southern United States
• Climate-induced changes in vulnerability to biological threats in the southern United States
• Adapting silviculture to a changing climate in the southern United States
• Productivity and carbon sequestration of forests in the southern United States
• Managing forest water quantity and quality under climate change
• Climate-induced migration of native tree populations and consequences for forest composition
• Climate change and wildlife in the southern United States: potential effects and management options
• Climate change and outdoor recreation participation in the Southern United States
• Summary of findings, management options, and interactions

Citation

Vose, James M.; Klepzig, Kier D. 2014. Climate change adaptation and mitigation options a guide for natural resource managers in southern forest ecosystems. CRC Press - Taylor and Francis Group. 494 p.