Title:
Climate change impacts on the eastern forests: Implications for forest carbon dynamics
Description:
This talk will provide a broad overview of regional climate trends in the eastern US. Providing a brief analysis of projected future changes in temperature, precipitation, and seasonality to understand and assess potential implications of changing and extreme weather patterns on forest dynamics. Lastly, this talk will summarize key vulnerabilities of regional forests to climate change. There will be an expert panel for a discussion following the presentation.
This technical briefing was made possible by funding from Penn Soil Resource Conservation and Development Council under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service..