Global Change Projects (2004-2008)

The following are Global Change Research projects that are from the second cycle (2004-2008) of the program:

• Effect of Climate Change on Population Trajectories and Trophic Interactions in a High Elevation Riparian Ecosystem - (Principal Investigator: Thomas E. Martin, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research)
  
  
• Interactions of Climate Change and Other Environmental Factors on Invasive Plant Infestation in the Arid West - (Principal Investigators: Jonathan M. Friedman, FORT; Belnap, SBSC)
  
  
• Forest Dieback and Carbon Relations of Coastal Forests of the Southeast under Changing Climate: Interactive Effects of Drought Severity, Hurricanes, Sea-level Rise and Coastal Management - (Principal Investigator: Thomas W. Doyle, Ph. D., NWRC)
  
  
• Response of Western Mountain Ecosystems to Climatic Variability and Change - (Principal Investigators: Jill S. Baron, FORT; Daniel B. Fagre, NRMSC; Craig Allen, FORT)
  
  
• Extrinsic and Intrinsic Factors Affecting the Resilience of Corals to Climate Change, and Their Use in Designing Marine Reserves - (Principal Investigator: Charles Birkeland, Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit; Virginia Garrison, FISC)
  
  
• Polar Bear Survival in a Vanishing Sea Ice Environment - (Principal Investigator: Steve Amstrup, ASC)
  
  
• Functional Linkages Between Climate, Anthropogenic Factors and the Epipelagic Community of the North Pacific Ocean - (Principal Investigator: Nielsen, ASC)
  
  
• Predicting the Persistence of Coastal Wetlands Under Global Change - (Principal Investigators: Glenn R. Guntenspergen, PWRC and McKee, NWRC)
  
  
• Impact of DOI Activities on Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Natural And Restored Wetlands In The Prairie Pothole Region And The Lower Mississippi River Valley - (Principal Investigators: Stephen P. Faulkner & Ned H. Euliss NWRC & NPWRC)
  
  
• Spatial And Temporal Effects Of Climate Change On Great Lake Wetlands - (Principal Investigator: Dr. Douglas A. Wilcox, GLSC)
  
  
• Sensitivity of Pacific Island Tropical Mountain Cloud Forests to Climate Change - (Principal Investigator: David Foote, PIERC)
  
  
• Consequences of Altered Precipitation for Carbon Sequestration and Biogeochemical Cycling in Temperate Forests - (Principal Investigator: Steven Perakis, FRESC)

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