MCP Terrestrial (Land Based) Natural Systems Resources
(updated 3/15/2021)
Videos
Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops – #2 Forests. Video (14:10)
Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops – #3 Permafrost. Video (10:55)
Forest Scientist Paul Hessburg TED Talk on Megafires (2017)
General
Plant Species and Climate Profile Predictions
OCCRI 2019 Fourth Oregon Climate Assessment Report
Information related to Key Questions
Key Question 1 -How do organisms respond to variations in environmental climatic conditions (temperature & precipitation) and how might projected trends influence them?
Latest Census Finds More American Pika Populations Disappear As Climate Warms
Key Question 2 -How do biological communities (natural systems) respond to variations in environmental climatic conditions (temperature & precipitation) and how might projected trends influence them?
Key Question 3 – What are the critical interactions between forests and climate?
Is this the end of forests as we’ve known them? (March 10, 2021) by by Alastair Gee, Guardian News
A Restoration Framework for Federal Forests in the Pacific Northwest
Oregon Climate Assessment Report December 2010
Plant Species and Climate Profile Predictions
GISS Institute on Climate and Planets
A synthesis of current knowledge on forests and carbon storage in the United States
Data set: Above ground forest biomass for Oregon
U.S. Forest Carbon and Climate Change Controversies and Win-Win Policy Approaches
Carbon feedback from forest soils to accelerate global warming
Key Question 4 -What is carbon sequestration and how does it vary among natural systems?
GISS Institute on Climate and Plants
Plant Species and Climate Profile Predictions (2020) USDA Forest Service
Key Question 5 – What are the national and regional trends and projections for wildfire and why is this important?
Climate Change Set the Conditions for Oregon Fires. Did it Stoke the Flames, Too?
National Interagency Fire Center
Rising Temps, Shrinking Snowpack Fuel Western Wildfires
Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity
National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee
X-ray technology reveals California’s forests are in for a radical transformation
We won’t stop California’s wildfires if we don’t talk about climate change
Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice. (2014) Stein, B.A., P. Glick, N. Edelson, and A. Staudt (eds.). National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C
