Robbie is a research scientist with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions» Forest Carbon Management project focusing on the impacts of environmental change on forest productivity in British Columbia. (pacificclimate.org)
a) Improved fire models and projections directly related to Montana's forests; b) Long - term monitoring of forest insect and pathogen response to recent climate changes and improved projections of future likely impacts; c) Better understanding of disturbance effects on microclimates and refugia and implications for forest productivity, mortality, and adaptation. (montanaclimate.org)
Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth. (sciencedaily.com)