title:
Thresholds of climate change in ecosystems Final report, Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.2 U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
contributor:
United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.; United States. Forest Service.; United States. Dept. of Energy.; Geological Survey (U.S.); National Science Foundation (U.S.); Climate Change Science Program (U.S.). Subcommittee on Global Climate Change Research.
publisher:
U.S. Climate Change Science Program
date:
Record modified: 2011-09-08
date:
Record created: 2009-02-19
date:
2009
description:
Extent: xiii, 157 p. : ill., maps, digital, PDF file
description:
"January 2009."; Lead authors: Daniel B. Fagre, Colleen W. Charles; authors: Craig D. Allen, Charles Birkeland, F. Stuart Chapin, III, Peter M. Groffman, Glenn R. Guntenspergen, Alan K. Knapp, A. David McGuire, Patrick J. Mulholland, Debra P.C. Peters, Daniel D. Roby, George Sugihara (p. v).; Lead agency: U.S. Geological Survey; contributing agencies: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-153).; Title from PDF title page (viewed on Feb. 19, 2009). Mode of access: World Wide Web.; System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.; This report provides an overview of what is known about ecological thresholds and where they are likely to occur. It also identifies those areas where research is most needed to improve knowledge and understand the uncertainties regarding them. The report suggests a suite of potential actions that land and resource managers could use to improve the likelihood of success for the resources they manage, even under conditions of incomplete understanding of what drives thresholds of change and when changes will occur. The focus of this report is on North American ecosystem threshold changes and what they mean for human society.
subject:
Ecosystem management--Forecasting
subject:
Climatic changes--Environmental aspects--Forecasting
subject:
Biotic communities--Environmental aspects--Forecasting
relation:
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-2/default.php
relation:
OCLC No.: 299039011
type:
application/pdf
type:
Text
type:
PDF-1.6
source:
http://www.climatescience.gov/Library/sap/sap4-2/final-report/; http://downloads.climatescience.gov/sap/sap4-2/sap4-2-final-report-all.pdf
language:
eng
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identifier:
sap4-2-final-report-all
