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Climate Change Publications

Synthesis and Review Publications

Bentz, B.J., C.D. Allen, M. Ayres, E. Berg, A. Carroll, M. Hansen, J. Hicke, L. Joyce, J. Logan, W. MacFarlane, J. MacMahon, S. Munson, J. Negron, T. Paine, J. Powell, K. Raffa, J. Régnière, M. Reid, W. Romme, S. Seybold, D. Six, D. Tomback, J. Vandygriff, T. Veblen, M. White, J. Witcosky, and D. Wood. In Press. Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Western North America: Causes and Consequences. University of Utah Press.

Bentz, B.J., C. J. Fettig, E. M. Hansen, J. Hicke, J. L. Hayes, R. Kelsey, J. Lundquist, J. Negrón, R. Progar, J. Régnière, S. Seybold, and J. Vandygriff. 2008. Climate Change and Western Bark Beetles: Rapid Threat Assessment. http://www.fs.fed.us/wwetac/projects/PDFs/RTA_Bark_Beetle.pdf.

Chambers, JC. 2008. Climate Change and the Great Basin. General Technical Report. RMRS-GTR-204: In J. C. Chambers, A. Evenden and N. Devoe, compilers. Collaborative management and research in the Great Basin – Examining the issues and developing a framework for moving forward. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Chambers, J. C. and M. Pellant. 2008. Climate Change Impacts on Northwestern and Intermountain US Rangelands. Rangelands 30:29-33.

Cole, D.N., L.Yung, E.S. Zavaleta, G. H. Aplet, F. S. Chapin III, D. M. Graber, E. S. Higgs, R. J. Hobbs, P. B. Landres, C. I.Millar, D. J. Parsons, J. M. Randall, N. L. Stephenson, K. A. Tonnessen, P. S. White, and S. Woodley. Naturalness and beyond: protected area stewardship in an era of global environmental change. The George Wright Forum 25: 36-56.

CCSP, 2008: Preliminary review of adaptation options for climate-sensitive ecosystems and resources. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. [Julius, SH, JM West (eds.), JS Baron, B Griffith, LA Joyce, P Kareiva, BD Keller, MA Palmer, CH Peterson, and JM Scott (Authors)]. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, 873 pp. http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-4/final-report/default.htm.

CCSP, 2008: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. P Backlund, A Janetos, D Schimel, J Hatfield, K Boote, P Fay, L Hahn, C Izaurralde, BA Kimball, T Mader, J Morgan, D Ort, W Polley, A Thomson, D Wolfe, MG Ryan, SR Archer, RA Birdsey, CN Dahm, LS Heath, JA Hicke, DY Hollinger, TE Huxman, GS Okin, R Oren, JT Randerson, WH Schlesinger, D Lettenmaier, D Major, L Poff, S Running, L Hansen, D Inouye, BP Kelly, L Meyerson, B Peterson, R Shaw. US Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, 362 pp. http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-3/final-report/default.htm.

Joyce, LA, Blate, G, Littell, J, McNulty S, Millar, C, Moser S, Neilson R, O'Halloran, K, Peterson DL. 2008. National Forests. IN: Julius, SH, JM West, JS Baron, B Griffith, LA Joyce, P Kareiva, BD Keller, MA Palmer, CH Peterson, and JM Scott (Authors). Preliminary Review of Adaptation options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources. Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA, 3-1 to 3-127 pp. http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-4/final-report/default.htm.

Ryan MG, SR Archer, RA Birdsey, CN Dahm, LS Heath, JA Hicke, DY Hollinger, TE Huxman, GS Okin, R Oren, JT Randerson, WH Schlesinger, 2008. Land Resources. In: The effects of climate change on agriculture, land resources, water resources, and biodiversity. A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research. Washington, DC, USA, 362 pp. http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-3/final-report/default.htm.

Kliejunas, J. T.; Geils, B.; Glaeser, J. M.; Goheen, E. M.; Hennon, P.; Kim, M-S.; Kope, H.; Stone, J.; Sturrock, R. and Frankel, S.J. Climate and Forest Diseases of Western North America: A Literature Review. September 24, 2008. General Technical Report. PSW-GTR-XXX. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany. 36 p. http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/climate_change/forest_disease/Final.Forpathandcc.lit.jk.2008.09.24.pdf.

Insects

Raffa, K.F, B. H. Aukema, B. J. Bentz, A. L. Carroll, J. A. Hicke, M. G. Turner, W. H. Romme. 2008. Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: Dynamics of Biome-wide Bark Beetle Eruptions. BioScience 58(6):501-518.

Brunelle, A., G. Rehfeldt, B. Bentz and S. Munson. 2008. Holocene records of Dendroctonus bark beetles in high elevation pine forests of Idaho and Montana, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 255:836-846.

Clifford, M.J., M.E. Rocca, R. Delph, P.L. Ford, and N.S. Cobb. September 2008. Drought Induced Tree Mortality and Ensuing Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Southwestern Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands. In: Gottfried, Gerald J.; Shaw, John D.; Ford, Paulette L., compilers. 2008. Ecology, management, and restoration of piñon-juniper and ponderosa pine ecosystems: proceedings of the 2005 St. George, Utah and 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico workshops. Proceedings RMRS-P-51. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Pp. 39.

Wildlife and Wildlife Habitats

Wolverine

Pacific Northwest Wildlife Habitat

Bull Trout

Climate, Vegetation and Landscapes

Carbon

Cavaleri MA, Oberbauer SF and MG Ryan. 2008. Foliar and ecosystem respiration in an old-growth tropical rain forest. 2008. Plant Cell & Environment 31: 473-483.

Clark DB, PC Olivas, SF Oberbauer, DA Clark and MG Ryan. 2008. First direct landscape-scale measurement of tropical rain forest Leaf Area Index, a key driver of global primary productivity. Ecology Letters 11: 163-172.

Sherrill KR, MA Lefsky, JB Bradford, and MG Ryan. 2008. Forest Structure Estimation and Pattern Exploration from Discrete Return Lidar in Subalpine Forests of the Central Rockies. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38:2081–2096.

Litton CM, JW Raich and MG Ryan. 2007. Carbon allocation in forest ecosystems (review article). Global Change Biology 13: 2089-2109.

Bradford JB, P Weishampel, M-L Smith, RK Kolka, DY Hollinger, RA Birdsey, S Ollinger and MG Ryan. 2008. Landscape-Scale Carbon Sampling Strategy – Lessons Learned. Pages 227-238 in CM Hoover, editor, Field measurements for forest carbon monitoring: A landscape-scale approach, Springer, New York, NY, USA.

Bradford JB and MG Ryan. 2008. Quantifying soil respiration at landscape-scales. Pages 143-162 in CM Hoover, editor, Field measurements for forest carbon monitoring: A landscape-scale approach, Springer, New York, NY, USA.

Paleoecology of Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Communities

Tausch, R.J., and C.L. Nowak. 2000. Influences of Holocene climate and vegetation changes on present and future community dynamics. J. Arid Land Studies 10S:5-8.

Mensing, S.C., R.G. Elgston Jr., G.L. Raines, R.J. Tausch, and C.L. Nowak. 2000. A GIS model to predict the location of fossil packrat (Neotoma) middens in central Nevada. Great Basin Naturalist 60:111-120.

Nowak, R.S., C.L. Nowak, and R.J. Tausch. 2000 The probability that a fossil absent from a sample is also absent from the paleolandscape. Quaternary Research 54:144-154.

Fire

Heyerdahl, E.K., P. Morgan, and J.P. Riser II. 2008. "Multi-season climate synchronized historical fires in dry forests (1650-1900), northern Rockies, USA" Ecology. 89:705-716.

Morgan, P., E.K. Heyerdahl, and C.E. Gibson. 2008. "Multi-season climate synchronized forest fires throughout the 20th century, northern Rockies, USA" Ecology. 89:717-728.

Keane, R. E., L. Holsinger, R. Parsons, and Gray, Kathy. 2008. Climate change effects on historical range of variability of two large landscapes in western Montana, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 254:274-289.

Ford, P. L. 2008. Effects of 10 years of fire and climate variability on perennial grass cover in shortgrass steppe. In: Multifunctional grasslands in a changing world: proceedings XXI International Grassland Congress and VIII International Rangeland Congress, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, June 23 to July 13, 2008. Guangdong People’s Publishing House. Edited by Organizing Committee of 2008 IGC/IRC Conference. Pp. 75.

Assessments

Condition of Forest and Rangeland Resources (RPA Climate Change)

Bosworth, Dale, Birdsey, Richard, Joyce, Linda, Millar, Constance. 2008. Climate Change and the Nation’s Forests: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Forestry June 2008, pages 214-221.

Joyce, LA. 2007. Climate Change Impacts on Forestry. Chapter 14. In: DM Adams and RW Haynes. Resource and Market Projections for Forest Development: Twenty Five years' Experience with the US RPA Timber Assessment. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer: 451-490.

Joyce, LA. 2008. Forestry, Ecosystems, and Wildlife. IN: Ozzello, Lori (ed.), Citizens’ Guide to Colorado Climate Change. Colorado Foundation for Water Education, Denver, Colorado: pages 36-38

Joyce LA. 2003. Improving the flow of scientific information across the interface of forest science and policy. Forest Policy Econ 5:239-247

Joyce LA, Aber J, McNulty S, Dale V, Hansen A, Irland L, Neilson R, Skog K. 2001. Potential consequences of climate variability and change for the forests of the United States. In: Climate change impacts in the United States: the potential consequences of climate variability and change. National assessment synthesis team. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, Chapter 17

Joyce LA, Birdsey RA (tech eds). 2000. The impact of climate change on America's forests. RMRS-GTR-59. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO Joyce LA, Mills JR, Heath LS, McGuire AD, Haynes RW, Birdsey RA (1995) Forest sector impacts from changes in forest productivity under climate change. J Biogeogr 22:703-713

Joyce LA, Nungesser M. 2000. Ecosystem productivity and the impact of climate change. In: Joyce LA, Birdsey RA (tech eds) The impact of climate change on America's forests. RMRS-GTR-59. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, pp 45-68

Perez-Garcia J, Joyce LA, McGuire AD, Xiao X. 2002. Impacts of climate change on the global forest sector. Climatic Change 53:439-461