Future Forests

Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2023
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division (Verlag)
978-0-323-90430-8 (ISBN)

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Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change provides background on forests as natural and social systems, the current distribution and dynamics based on major biomes that set the stage for their role of forests in global systems, the nature of climate change organized by biomes, and detailed descriptions of mitigation and adaptation strategies. This book forms presents a foundational summary of the feedback between the effect of climate change on forests and the converse effects of forests on climate, leading to conclusions on how forest management needs to be dictated by climate change.

The book will be ideal for readers in the fields of climate change science, forest science and conservation biology, helping them develop a thorough understanding on the broad perspective of climate change on forests, the response of forests to these changes, and other climate-forest interaction potentials.

Steven G. McNulty a USDA Forest Service senior scientist, and the Director of the USDA Southeast Climate Hub located in Research Triangle Park, NC. He has a Ph.D. In Natural Resources and has spent over 30 years researching environmental stress impacts and adaptive management options for forests, agriculture, and rangelands. Dr. McNulty has co-authored over 250 publications on climate change impacts and ecosystem adaptation strategies. He has served as a US Congressional Fellow, Climate Change Chair of the North American Forestry Commission, Expert on IUFRO and FAO Assessments. Dr. McNulty is the recipient of US Forest Service Distinguished Scientist Award. He is currently the principal investigator for the Updated Silvics of North America Project (USNAP).

1. Introduction
2. Climate Change and Variability Overview
3. Forests then and now: managing for ecosystem benefits, services to humans, and healthy forests across scales
4. Nutrient limitation in global forests: Current status and future trends
5. Mitigation potential of forests: challenges to carbon accrual in the ecosystem
6. Climate change and forest hydrology in future forests
7. Forest Disturbances
8. Understanding climate change dynamics of tree species: implications for future forests
9. Temperate Forests
10. Climate change and tropical forests
11. Boreal forests
12. Climate change and urban forests
13. Forests as social-ecological systems
14. Unknown tipping-points: a method for anticipating future forest disturbance risk

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	150 illustrations (50 in full color); Illustrations
Verlagsort	Philadelphia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 276 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-323-90430-0 / 0323904300
ISBN-13	978-0-323-90430-8 / 9780323904308
Zustand	Neuware