Sentences with phrase «forests responded to changes»

The researchers were hoping to find how forests responded to changes in temperatures and precipitation, including other environmental stresses, such as forest fires.

Over time, Richardson hopes the resulting trove of color data will help scientists understand — and better predict — how ecosystems like the Harvard Forest respond to changes in the climate.

Not exact matches

However, he added, exposing forest managers to the connection between changes in climate and the threats to forests gives them ammunition to respond appropriately in their forests.

Monitoring a forest in New Hampshire provides clues to how important trees, such as maples, respond to changed conditions due to global warming

The model is not meant to be a tool to limit hiking, but it might help the Forest Service respond to changes in traffic patterns without having to be out in the field verifying the impacts.

The answers to these questions will refine our ability to understand how forests respond to global change.»

Their findings could help scientists understand how tropical forests will respond to global climate change.

«With the potential negative effects of climate change, one key question we are trying to answer in the study of tropical ecology is how a tropical forest responds during a long - term drought,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

The co-authors were «amazed» at this anatomy of the giant sequoia leaf that «indicates an ability to respond to local environmental signals» and furthers inquiry into the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.

«This is a species that has been logged historically and still is, so it certainly is important in terms of thinking about not only how our ecosystems are responding to changes in climate, but also in changes of the economics of forest management, as well,» Restaino said.

This study offers a way forward for doing just that with better measurements, as shown by the new insights it is already giving us into how forests respond to sunlight and to the changing of the seasons.»

New research by the University of Montana and its partner institutions gives insight into how forests globally will respond to long - term climate change.

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara are studying how riparian forests respond to climate change that manifests as hotter and drier conditions over time.

Several guidebooks exist for developing adaptation options on forested lands; these include Responding to Climate Change on National Forests (Peterson et al. 2011), Climate Change in Forests of the Future (Millar et al. 2007), and Forest Adaptation Resources (Swanston et al. 2016).

The role of forest genetic resources in responding to biotic and abiotic factors in the context of anthropogenic climate change.

«Carbon respiration of microorganisms and plants may respond differently to future climate changes, which is why it's important to explore how each behaves in forests,» said Dr. Ben Bond - Lamberty, a scientist at the Joint Global Research Institute.

Much is known regarding how forest ecosystems will respond to climate change, even amid the uncertainties.

«Translating these signals can lead to a quantitative understanding of how forest ecosystems respond to climate stress and climate change.»

In addition, the event explored how Professor Maathai's type of community - based advocacy can help African communities respond to the challenges of the 21st century, including natural resource management, land rights and women's rights, forest conservation and climate change.

The Project will involve augmenting forest monitoring to better track how climate is changing and how forests are responding.

Understanding how the tropical forest responds to big droughts and heat waves help us to evaluate the strength of carbon - climate feedback in ESMs, allowing us to better understand and predict climate change over coming decades.

This article was first published by Responding to Climate Change as part of a week of forest stories.

Carbon sinks (ecosystems which absorb CO2, like oceans and forests) respond to climate change in two different ways.

This survey was conducted to facilitate the development of guidelines to assist forest managers to effectively respond to climate change challenges and opportunities.

Finally, it indicates a number of gaps in enabling conditions (related to knowledge, institutional setting and culture) that hamper forest managers from responding effectively to climate change and its impacts.

This technical document presents the results of a survey through which forest stakeholders provided their views and perceptions on factors that influence the ability of forest managers to respond to climate change.

This module focuese on climate change adaptation and mitigation, aiming to assist forest managers in assessing and responding to climate - change challenges and opportunities.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

Lehtonen I, Kämäräinen M, Gregow H, Venäläinen A & Peltola H, 2016: Heavy snow loads in Finnish forests respond regionally asymmetrically to projected climate change.

«One quarter of CO2 emissions are going to terrestrial ecosystems, but the details of those processes and how they will respond to a changing climate are inadequately understood, particularly for tropical forests,» Chambers said.

Although a large, global body of literature on climate change and forest dynamics has been developed during the last five decades (3, 6, 9, 11 ⇓ ⇓ — 14), much of this literature provides insights on how trees respond to climate change without sufficient consideration of competition and other factors (43).

The lack of such an effort today undermines efforts to detect and respond to ecological changes in tropical systems, both forest and non-forest.

However wild some of them may look, experts say, forests from the deepest Amazon to the remotest reaches of Siberia are now responding to human influences, including the rising level of carbon dioxide in the air, increasing heat and changing rainfall patterns.

2 in Future of Forests: Responding to Global Changes, Future Forests — Responding to Global Changes.

The Arctic - Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) will study how forests, permafrost and other ecosystems are responding to rising temperatures in the Arctic, where climate change is unfolding faster than anywhere else on the planet.

DOE cancelled an ongoing project researching how tropical forests will respond to climate change.

Without studying the principles of highly - organized functioning of ecological communities, including their genetically encoded ability to respond to environmental perturbations in a non-random compensatory way, the perspectives drawn from global circulation models with respect to the climatic effects of land cover change (e.g., statements like cutting all boreal forests will ease global warming) will continue to lack any resemblance to reality.

But Hansen's calculations show that we don't need a computer to know how temperature will respond to a given change in the greenhouse — or a change in dustiness, or forest cover, or the amount of ice on the Arctic Ocean.