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The Climate Is Changing—What’s a Silviculturist To Do?
Climate change is here. In southern forests, it takes the form of novel disturbances – different frequency and severity of drought, fire, wind storms, insect outbreaks, even ice storms – or a combination of these stressors.
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- Planning for an uncertain future: Restoration to mitigate water scarcity and sustain carbon sequestration
Brantley, Steven T.; Vose, James M.; Wear, David N.; Band, Larry - Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches
Costanza, Jennifer K.; Faber-Langendoen, Don; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N. - Nonstationary hydrologic behavior in forested watersheds is mediated by climate-induced changes in growing season length and subsequent vegetation growth
Hwang, Taehee ; Martin, Katherine L.; Vose, James M.; Wear, David ; Miles, Brian ; Kim, Yuri ; Band, Lawrence E. - Forest land use responses to wood product markets
Kim, Taek Joo; Wear, David N.; Coulston, John ; Li, Ruhong - Total C and N Pools and fluxes vary with time, soil temperature, and moisture along an elevation, precipitation, and vegetation gradient in southern Appalachian Forests
Knoepp, Jennifer D.; See, Craig R.; Vose, James M.; Miniat, Chelcy F.; Clark, James S.