Landscape Vulnerability and Resilience to Climate Change and Land Use Change
Published
Principal Investigator(s):
The central US grasslands can serve as a test-bed that will allow us to build on a legacy of past LTER research while testing basic ecological theory that can facilitate the identification of mechanisms explaining differences in the sensitivity of ecosystems to climate change.
Results and understanding from this study should be valuable for making and testing predictions in other biomes with respect to the nature and pace of ecological response to climate change.
Products:
Publication:
1)Thompson, J. R.; Wiek, A.; Swanson, F. J.; Carpenter, S. R.; Fresco, N.; Hollingsworth, T.; Spies, T. A.; and Foster, D. R. “Scenario Studies as a Synthetic and Integrative Research Activity for Long-Term Ecological Research.” BioScience Vol. 62 No. 4, April 2012.
Proposal:
2)“Future Scenarios of Forest Change in the United States”. Macrosystem NSF.
