Climate Change

USDA Regional Climate Hubs for Risk Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change

Northeast Hub

Northern Forests Sub Hub

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Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science

Disturbance Science Topics

• Invasive Species
• Research to Support National Fire and Fuels Strategy 
• Climate Change and Events 
• Air, Water, Soils Pollution 
• Forest Fragmentation and Land Use Change 
• Market-induced Change to Forests 
• Monitoring and Assessment of Forest Health
• Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Viability

Modeling

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Northern Research Station scientists are deeply involved in research to understand the processes and extent of global climate change and their probable/possible effects on forest ecosystems. What processes in forest ecosystems are sensitive to physical and chemical changes in the atmosphere? How will future physical and chemical climate changes influence the structure, function, and productivity of forest and related ecosystems, and to what extent will forest ecosystems change in response to atmospheric changes? What are the implications for forest management and how must forest management activities be altered to sustain forest productivity, health, and diversity?

Northern Research Station scientists are deeply involved in research to understand the processes and extent of global climate change and their probable/possible effects on forest ecosystems. What processes in forest ecosystems are sensitive to physical and chemical changes in the atmosphere? How will future physical and chemical climate changes influence the structure, function, and productivity of forest and related ecosystems, and to what extent will forest ecosystems change in response to atmospheric changes? What are the implications for forest management and how must forest management activities be altered to sustain forest productivity, health, and diversity?

• Impacts
• Adaptation
• Carbon
• Modeling
• Tools
• Related Research

Impacts on Ecosystems

 

• Spruce-Peatland Response Under Climate and Environmental Change (SPRUCE) Experiment 
• Climate Change and Yellow-Cedar Decline
• Cumulative Effects of Succession, Management, and Disturbance on Forest Landscapes
• The Delaware River Basin: Collaborative Environmental Research and Monitoring 
• Foliar Biochemical Indicators of Environmental Change and their Relationship with Site Productivity
• Greenhouse Gas Impacts on Forest Microclimates
• Aspen FACE Experiment
• Northern Forest Ecosystem Experiment Aspen Regeneration and Carbon Cycling
• Monitoring and Understanding Forest/Atmosphere Carbon Dioxide Exchange: the NRS Flux Tower Network
• Tracing the Movement of an Invasive Insect Using Stable Isotopes 
• Effects of Global Atmospheric Change on Forest Insects
• Mid-Atlantic Forests and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• Predicting Global Change Effects on Forest Biomass and Composition in South-Central Siberia
• Red Leaf Color as an Indicator of Environmental Stress
• Chequamegon Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (CHEAS)

For further details log on website :
https://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/disturbance/climate_change/