Adapting to climate change : a short course for land managers /

An interactive program containing video lectures, interactive quizzes, literature citations, and links to further information about climate and implications of climate change for management of national forests and grasslands.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Portland, Or.), Climate Change Resource Center (U.S.)
Other Authors:	Furniss, Michael J., Millar, Constance I.
Format:	Government Document Software eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Portland, OR : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, [2009]
Series:	General technical report PNW ; 789.
Subjects:	Climatic changes. Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects. Forest management. Forest ecology. Land use.
Online Access:	http://www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/hjar/index_st.html

Table of Contents:

Climate Variability and Projections. Natural climate variability / Connie Millar
A changing climate in the west / Philip Mote
Downscaled models / Ronald P. Neilson
The impacts of climate change on water in the Northwest / Nate Mantua.
Ecological Responses to Climate Variability. Observed ecological changes / Linda Joyce
Climate and stress interactions in Western forest ecosystems / David L. Peterson
What is the role of forests in the U.S. Carbon balance? / Michael G. Ryan
Vulnerability of tropical forests of the Asian Pacific to global climate change / J Boone Kauffman.
Management responses to climate variability. U.S. Forest Service Large-scale natural resource assessments and climate change / Linda A. Joyce
Strategies for public land management for adaptation to climate change / Jill Baron
Managing for climate and climate impacts / Connie Millar
A line officer's perspective / Scott Fitzwilliams
Adaptation case studies: Olympic and Tahoe National Forests / David L. Peterson
The Alder Springs Project / Mark Nechodom
Climate change and western fishes / Pete Bisson.