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Within the time frame of the longevity of tree species, climate change will change faster than the ability of natural tree migration. Migration lags may result in reduced productivity and reduced diversity in forests under current management and climate change. We evaluated the efficacy of planting climate-suitable tree species (CSP), those tree species with current or historic distributions immediately south of a focal landscape, to maintain or increase aboveground biomass, productivity, and species and functional diversity. We modeled forest change with the LANDIS-II forest simulation model for 100 years (2000–2100) at a 2-ha cell resolution and five-year time steps within two landscapes in the Great Lakes region...
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OGC WMS Service;
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2011,
2012,
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2013,
Conservation NGOs,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers,
Great Lakes,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives,
Private land owners,
Publication,
Regional & county planners,
Report,
State agencies,
Tribes,
Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Vulnerability Assessment,
climate change,
completed,
connectivity,
environment,
environment,
forests,
upper midwest, Fewer tags
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This data set represents initial forest communities developed for Isle Royale National Park. LANDIS-II requires an input data layer that contains the ages of each species cohort present within each cell of the landscape. To develop this layer, we matched the composition of forest inventory plots to a map of forest types, and randomly imputed U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Inventory plots within each matching forest type
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Isle Royale National Park,
Lake Superior,
Michigan,
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cohort,
forest ecosystems,
forest resources,
forests,
mathematical modeling,
simulation,
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Within the time frame of the longevity of tree species, climate change will change faster than the ability of natural tree migration. Migration lags may result in reduced productivity and reduced diversity in forests under current management and climate change. We evaluated the efficacy of planting climate-suitable tree species (CSP), those tree species with current or historic distributions immediately south of a focal landscape, to maintain or increase aboveground biomass, productivity, and species and functional diversity. We modeled forest change with the LANDIS-II forest simulation model for 100 years (2000–2100) at a 2-ha cell resolution and five-year time steps within two landscapes in the Great Lakes region...
Categories: Data,
Publication;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2011,
2011,
2012,
2012,
2013, All tags...
2013,
Conservation NGOs,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers,
Great Lakes,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives,
Private land owners,
Publication,
Regional & county planners,
Report,
State agencies,
Tribes,
Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Vulnerability Assessment,
climate change,
completed,
connectivity,
environment,
environment,
forests,
upper midwest, Fewer tags
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Researchers assessed how an expansion of forest reserves and climate-adaptive management may improve ecological connectivity and resilience under different climate scenarios. Resilience is measured as the capacity for these systems to maintain extant forest communities and aboveground live biomass. Forest landscape change was simulated via a spatially explicit forest ecosystem model, LANDIS-II. Simulations covered areas in northern Minnesota and northern lower Michigan that represent northern Great Lakes forest types. Restoring and maintaining ecological connectivity is one of the primary climate change adaptation strategies available to land managers, in addition to silvicultural practices. This study is...
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Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2011,
2011,
2012,
2012,
2013, All tags...
2013,
Conservation NGOs,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers,
Great Lakes,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives,
Private land owners,
Project,
Regional & county planners,
Report,
State agencies,
Tribes,
Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Vulnerability Assessment,
climate change,
completed,
connectivity,
environment,
environment,
forests,
upper midwest, Fewer tags
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Climate change is expected to drastically change the environmental conditions which forests depend. Lags in tree species movements will likely be outpaced by a more rapidly changing climate. This may result in species extirpation, a change in forest structure, and a decline in resistance and resilience (i.e., the ability to persist and recover from external perturbations, respectively). In the northern Great Lakes region of North America, an ecotone exists along the boreal-temperate transition zone where large changes in species composition exist across a climate gradient. Increasing temperatures are observed in the more southern landscapes. As climate change is expected to substantially affect mid-continental landscapes,...
Categories: Data;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2011,
2011,
2012,
2012,
2013, All tags...
2013,
Conservation NGOs,
Document,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers,
Great Lakes,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives,
Private land owners,
Regional & county planners,
Report,
State agencies,
Tribes,
Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Vulnerability Assessment,
climate change,
completed,
connectivity,
environment,
forests,
upper midwest, Fewer tags
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