DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States

Abstract

Forest carbon sequestration via forest preservation can be a viable climate change mitigation strategy. Here, we identify forests in the western conterminous United States with high potential carbon sequestration and low vulnerability to future drought and fire, as simulated using the Community Land Model and two high carbon emission scenario (RCP 8.5) climate models. High-productivity, low-vulnerability forests have the potential to sequester up to 5,450 Tg CO2 equivalent (1,485 Tg C) by 2099, which is up to 20% of the global mitigation potential previously identified for all temperate and boreal forests, or up to ~6 yr of current regional fossil fuel emissions. Additionally, these forests currently have high above- and belowground carbon density, high tree species richness, and a high proportion of critical habitat for endangered vertebrate species, indicating a strong potential to support biodiversity into the future and promote ecosystem resilience to climate change. We stress that some forest lands have low carbon sequestration potential but high biodiversity, underscoring the need to consider multiple criteria when designing a land preservation portfolio. Our work demonstrates how process models and ecological criteria can be used to prioritize landscape preservation for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and preserving biodiversity in a rapidly changingmore » climate.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]
  1. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States). Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society
  2. EcoSpatial Services L.L.C., Flagstaff Arizona (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDA
OSTI Identifier:
1623528
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012194; 2013-67003-20652; 2014-67003-22065; 2014-35100-22066
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Ecological Applications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 30; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1051-0761
Publisher:
Ecological Society of America
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; environmental sciences & ecology; biodiversity; carbon sequestration; climate change; Community Land Model (CLM); forest; mitigation; process modeling; western United States

Citation Formats

Buotte, Polly C., Law, Beverly E., Ripple, William J., and Berner, Logan T. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1002/eap.2039.
Buotte, Polly C., Law, Beverly E., Ripple, William J., & Berner, Logan T. Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2039
Buotte, Polly C., Law, Beverly E., Ripple, William J., and Berner, Logan T. Wed . "Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2039. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1623528.
@article{osti_1623528,
title = {Carbon sequestration and biodiversity co-benefits of preserving forests in the western United States},
author = {Buotte, Polly C. and Law, Beverly E. and Ripple, William J. and Berner, Logan T.},
abstractNote = {Forest carbon sequestration via forest preservation can be a viable climate change mitigation strategy. Here, we identify forests in the western conterminous United States with high potential carbon sequestration and low vulnerability to future drought and fire, as simulated using the Community Land Model and two high carbon emission scenario (RCP 8.5) climate models. High-productivity, low-vulnerability forests have the potential to sequester up to 5,450 Tg CO2 equivalent (1,485 Tg C) by 2099, which is up to 20% of the global mitigation potential previously identified for all temperate and boreal forests, or up to ~6 yr of current regional fossil fuel emissions. Additionally, these forests currently have high above- and belowground carbon density, high tree species richness, and a high proportion of critical habitat for endangered vertebrate species, indicating a strong potential to support biodiversity into the future and promote ecosystem resilience to climate change. We stress that some forest lands have low carbon sequestration potential but high biodiversity, underscoring the need to consider multiple criteria when designing a land preservation portfolio. Our work demonstrates how process models and ecological criteria can be used to prioritize landscape preservation for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and preserving biodiversity in a rapidly changing climate.},
doi = {10.1002/eap.2039},
journal = {Ecological Applications},
number = 2,
volume = 30,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 04 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Wed Dec 04 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 46 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Age structure and disturbance legacy of North American forests
journal, January 2011


Tree mortality based fire severity classification for forest inventories: A Pacific Northwest national forests example
journal, January 2016


Imputing forest carbon stock estimates from inventory plots to a nationally continuous coverage
journal, January 2013

  • Wilson, Barry Tyler; Woodall, Christopher W.; Griffith, Douglas M.
  • Carbon Balance and Management, Vol. 8, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1186/1750-0680-8-1

Long-term response of forest productivity to climate change is mostly driven by change in tree species composition
journal, April 2018


Vegetation response to a short interval between high-severity wildfires in a mixed-evergreen forest
journal, January 2009


Decline of forest interior conditions in the conterminous United States
journal, September 2012

  • Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 2, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/srep00653

US protected lands mismatch biodiversity priorities
journal, April 2015

  • Jenkins, Clinton N.; Van Houtan, Kyle S.; Pimm, Stuart L.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, Issue 16
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418034112

High-Biomass Forests of the Pacific Northwest: Who Manages Them and How Much is Protected?
journal, June 2014

  • Krankina, Olga N.; DellaSala, Dominick A.; Leonard, Jessica
  • Environmental Management, Vol. 54, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0283-1

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback
journal, April 2015

  • Schuur, E. A. G.; McGuire, A. D.; Schädel, C.
  • Nature, Vol. 520, Issue 7546
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature14338

Recent and future climate suitability for whitebark pine mortality from mountain pine beetles varies across the western US
journal, September 2017


Global Carbon Budget 2018
journal, January 2018

  • Le Quéré, Corinne; Andrew, Robbie M.; Friedlingstein, Pierre
  • Earth System Science Data, Vol. 10, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.5194/essd-10-2141-2018

Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
journal, February 2016

  • Chan, Kai M. A.; Balvanera, Patricia; Benessaiah, Karina
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 113, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525002113

Safeguarding reforestation efforts against changes in climate and disturbance regimes
journal, September 2018


Age structure and disturbance legacy of North American forests
journal, January 2010


Shifts in Arctic vegetation and associated feedbacks under climate change
journal, March 2013

  • Pearson, Richard G.; Phillips, Steven J.; Loranty, Michael M.
  • Nature Climate Change, Vol. 3, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1858

Drought-induced shift of a forest-woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation
journal, December 1998

  • Allen, C. D.; Breshears, D. D.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 95, Issue 25
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.25.14839

Water limitations to carbon exchange in old-growth and young ponderosa pine stands
journal, February 2002


Soil fertility limits carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems in a CO2-enriched atmosphere
journal, May 2001

  • Oren, Ram; Ellsworth, David S.; Johnsen, Kurt H.
  • Nature, Vol. 411, Issue 6836
  • DOI: 10.1038/35078064

Climate Change Refugia for Biodiversity in the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion
journal, January 2012

  • Olson, David; DellaSala, Dominick A.; Noss, Reed F.
  • Natural Areas Journal, Vol. 32, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.3375/043.032.0108

Near‐future forest vulnerability to drought and fire varies across the western United States
journal, November 2018

  • Buotte, Polly C.; Levis, Samuel; Law, Beverly E.
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 25, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14490

Evaluation and improvement of the Community Land Model (CLM4) in Oregon forests
journal, January 2013


Development of gridded surface meteorological data for ecological applications and modelling
journal, December 2011

  • Abatzoglou, John T.
  • International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 33, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/joc.3413

Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests
journal, March 2018

  • Law, Beverly E.; Hudiburg, Tara W.; Berner, Logan T.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1720064115

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C
journal, June 2016

  • Rogelj, Joeri; den Elzen, Michel; Höhne, Niklas
  • Nature, Vol. 534, Issue 7609
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature18307

Global and regional fluxes of carbon from land use and land cover change 1850-2015: Carbon Emissions From Land Use
journal, March 2017

  • Houghton, R. A.; Nassikas, Alexander A.
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 31, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1002/2016GB005546

Increase in forest water-use efficiency as atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations rise
journal, July 2013

  • Keenan, Trevor F.; Hollinger, David Y.; Bohrer, Gil
  • Nature, Vol. 499, Issue 7458
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature12291

A Project for Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity
journal, June 2007


[Planetary health-transformative education regarding the climate and sustainability crises for health professionals].
text, January 2021

  • Wabnitz, Katharina-Jaqueline; Galle, Sophia; Hegge, Louise
  • Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
  • DOI: 10.17863/cam.68398

Intact Forests in the United States: Proforestation Mitigates Climate Change and Serves the Greatest Good
journal, June 2019

  • Moomaw, William R.; Masino, Susan A.; Faison, Edward K.
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Vol. 2
  • DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2019.00027

Bet-hedging dry-forest resilience to climate-change threats in the western USA based on historical forest structure
journal, January 2015


Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation
journal, June 2008


Spatiotemporal patterns of observed bark beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the western United States
journal, October 2012

  • Meddens, Arjan J. H.; Hicke, Jeffrey A.; Ferguson, Charles A.
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 22, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1890/11-1785.1

Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks
journal, October 2007

  • Canadell, J. G.; Le Quere, C.; Raupach, M. R.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 104, Issue 47
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0702737104

The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems
journal, February 2018


Policy Options for the World's Primary Forests in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Policy options for world's primary forests
journal, August 2014

  • Mackey, Brendan; DellaSala, Dominick A.; Kormos, Cyril
  • Conservation Letters, Vol. 8, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1111/conl.12120

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests
journal, February 2010

  • Allen, Craig D.; Macalady, Alison K.; Chenchouni, Haroun
  • Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 259, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.09.001

Cheap carbon and biodiversity co-benefits from forest regeneration in a hotspot of endemism
journal, April 2014

  • Gilroy, James J.; Woodcock, Paul; Edwards, Felicity A.
  • Nature Climate Change, Vol. 4, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2200

Re-evaluation of forest biomass carbon stocks and lessons from the world's most carbon-dense forests
journal, June 2009

  • Keith, Heather; Mackey, Brendan G.; Lindenmayer, David B.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, Issue 28
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901970106

Natural climate solutions
journal, October 2017

  • Griscom, Bronson W.; Adams, Justin; Ellis, Peter W.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, Issue 44
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1710465114

The Positive Carbon Stocks-Biodiversity Relationship in Forests: Co-Occurrence and Drivers Across Five SubClimates
journal, October 2018

  • Lecina-Diaz, Judit; Alvarez, Albert; Regos, Adrián
  • The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, Vol. 99, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1002/bes2.1424

Local temperature response to land cover and management change driven by non-radiative processes
journal, March 2017

  • Bright, Ryan M.; Davin, Edouard; O’Halloran, Thomas
  • Nature Climate Change, Vol. 7, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3250

A global assessment of current and future biodiversity vulnerability to habitat loss–climate change interactions
journal, January 2016


Roadless areas and clean water
journal, May 2011

  • DellaSala, D. A.; Karr, J. R.; Olson, D. M.
  • Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, Vol. 66, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.2489/jswc.66.3.78A

Empirical Analyses of Plant‐Climate Relationships for the Western United States
journal, November 2006

  • Rehfeldt, Gerald E.; Crookston, Nicholas L.; Warwell, Marcus V.
  • International Journal of Plant Sciences, Vol. 167, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1086/507711

Carbon dynamics of Oregon and Northern California forests and potential land-based carbon storage
journal, January 2009

  • Hudiburg, Tara; Law, Beverly; Turner, David P.
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 19, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1890/07-2006.1

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance
journal, August 2015


The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica
journal, May 2021


Effect of increasing CO 2 on the terrestrial carbon cycle
journal, December 2014

  • Schimel, David; Stephens, Britton B.; Fisher, Joshua B.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 112, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1407302112

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
journal, August 2018

  • Steffen, Will; Rockström, Johan; Richardson, Katherine
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 33
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1810141115

Plant traits, productivity, biomass and soil properties from forest sites in the Pacific Northwest, 1999–2014
journal, January 2016


Mammal Diversity Will Take Millions Of Years To Recover From The Current Biodiversity Crisis
text, January 2018


Mammal Diversity Will Take Millions Of Years To Recover From The Current Biodiversity Crisis
text, January 2018


Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition
journal, October 2018


Large divergence of satellite and Earth system model estimates of global terrestrial CO2 fertilization
journal, December 2015

  • Kolby Smith, W.; Reed, Sasha C.; Cleveland, Cory C.
  • Nature Climate Change, Vol. 6, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2879

Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change
journal, August 2018

  • Nolan, Connor; Overpeck, Jonathan T.; Allen, Judy R. M.
  • Science, Vol. 361, Issue 6405
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5360

Mammal diversity will take millions of years to recover from the current biodiversity crisis
journal, October 2018

  • Davis, Matt; Faurby, Søren; Svenning, Jens-Christian
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 44
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1804906115

CO2 enhancement of forest productivity constrained by limited nitrogen availability
journal, October 2010

  • Norby, R. J.; Warren, J. M.; Iversen, C. M.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, Issue 45
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006463107

Multi-scale predictions of massive conifer mortality due to chronic temperature rise
journal, December 2015

  • McDowell, N. G.; Williams, A. P.; Xu, C.
  • Nature Climate Change, Vol. 6, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2873

An improved method of constructing a database of monthly climate observations and associated high-resolution grids
journal, January 2005

  • Mitchell, Timothy D.; Jones, Philip D.
  • International Journal of Climatology, Vol. 25, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1002/joc.1181

Managing Forests for Water in the Anthropocene—The Best Kept Secret Services of Forest Ecosystems
journal, March 2016

  • Creed, Irena; Weber, Marian; Accatino, Francesco
  • Forests, Vol. 7, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.3390/f7030060

The challenge to keep global warming below 2 °C
journal, December 2012

  • Peters, Glen P.; Andrew, Robbie M.; Boden, Tom
  • Nature Climate Change, Vol. 3, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1783

Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere
journal, June 2012

  • Barnosky, Anthony D.; Hadly, Elizabeth A.; Bascompte, Jordi
  • Nature, Vol. 486, Issue 7401
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature11018

Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production
journal, October 2011

  • Hudiburg, Tara W.; Law, Beverly E.; Wirth, Christian
  • Nature Climate Change, Vol. 1, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1264

Projected distributions of novel and disappearing climates by 2100 AD
journal, March 2007

  • Williams, J. W.; Jackson, S. T.; Kutzbach, J. E.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 104, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0606292104

Multiple measurements constrain estimates of net carbon exchange by a Eucalyptus forest
journal, March 2009


Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people
journal, October 2018


Parameterization and Sensitivity Analysis of the BIOME–BGC Terrestrial Ecosystem Model: Net Primary Production Controls
journal, January 2000


Tree mortality from fires, bark beetles, and timber harvest during a hot and dry decade in the western United States (2003–2012)
journal, June 2017

  • Berner, Logan T.; Law, Beverly E.; Meddens, Arjan J. H.
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6f94

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California
journal, July 2018

  • Dass, Pawlok; Houlton, Benjamin Z.; Wang, Yingping
  • Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 13, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aacb39

The positive carbon stocks-biodiversity relationship in forests: co-occurrence and drivers across five subclimates
journal, June 2018

  • Lecina-Diaz, Judit; Alvarez, Albert; Regos, Adrián
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 28, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1002/eap.1749

Bold nature retention targets are essential for the global environment agenda
journal, June 2018

  • Maron, Martine; Simmonds, Jeremy S.; Watson, James E. M.
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution, Vol. 2, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0595-2

Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide emissions
journal, January 2009

  • Solomon, Susan; Plattner, Gian-Kasper; Knutti, Reto
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812721106

Global Carbon Budget 2018
text, January 2018

  • Le Quéré, Corinne; Andrew, Robbie M.; Friedlingstein, Pierre
  • Copernicus Publications
  • DOI: 10.7892/boris.141541

Multifunctionality and biodiversity: Ecosystem services in temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, USA
journal, January 2014


Water availability limits tree productivity, carbon stocks, and carbon residence time in mature forests across the western US
journal, January 2017

  • Berner, Logan T.; Law, Beverly E.; Hudiburg, Tara W.
  • Biogeosciences, Vol. 14, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-365-2017

Efficacy of tree defense physiology varies with bark beetle population density: a basis for positive feedback in eruptive species
journal, June 2011

  • Boone, Celia K.; Aukema, Brian H.; Bohlmann, Jörg
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 41, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1139/x11-041

Driving forces of global wildfires over the past millennium and the forthcoming century
journal, October 2010

  • Pechony, O.; Shindell, D. T.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 107, Issue 45
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003669107

Ecosystem management and land conservation can substantially contribute to California’s climate mitigation goals
journal, November 2017

  • Cameron, D. Richard; Marvin, David C.; Remucal, Jonathan M.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, Issue 48
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707811114

Trade‐offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate forests
journal, November 2018

  • Sabatini, Francesco Maria; de Andrade, Rafael Barreto; Paillet, Yoan
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 25, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14503

Impacts of climate change from 2000 to 2050 on wildfire activity and carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in the western United States
journal, January 2009

  • Spracklen, D. V.; Mickley, L. J.; Logan, J. A.
  • Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 114, Issue D20
  • DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010966

Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition
journal, December 2019


Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects
journal, September 2010

  • Bentz, Barbara J.; Régnière, Jacques; Fettig, Christopher J.
  • BioScience, Vol. 60, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.8.6

Opinion: Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment
text, January 2016

  • A., Chan, Kai M.; Patricia, Balvanera,; Karina, Benessaiah,
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • DOI: 10.5167/uzh-209030

Ecosystem management and land conservation can substantially contribute to California’s climate mitigation goals
text, January 2017


Trade-offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate forests
text, January 2019


The positive carbon stocks-biodiversity relationship in forests: co-occurrence and drivers across five subclimates
journal, June 2018

  • Lecina-Diaz, Judit; Alvarez, Albert; Regos, Adrián
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 28, Issue 6
  • DOI: 10.1002/eap.1749

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback
journal, April 2015

  • Schuur, E. A. G.; McGuire, A. D.; Schädel, C.
  • Nature, Vol. 520, Issue 7546
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature14338

Paris Agreement climate proposals need a boost to keep warming well below 2 °C
journal, June 2016

  • Rogelj, Joeri; den Elzen, Michel; Höhne, Niklas
  • Nature, Vol. 534, Issue 7609
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature18307

Protecting intact forests requires holistic approaches
journal, April 2018


In situ immune response and mechanisms of cell damage in central nervous system of fatal cases microcephaly by Zika virus
journal, January 2018

  • Azevedo, Raimunda S. S.; de Sousa, Jorge R.; Araujo, Marialva T. F.
  • Scientific Reports, Vol. 8, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17765-5

Ecosystem management and land conservation can substantially contribute to California’s climate mitigation goals
journal, November 2017

  • Cameron, D. Richard; Marvin, David C.; Remucal, Jonathan M.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, Issue 48
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707811114

Natural climate solutions
journal, October 2017

  • Griscom, Bronson W.; Adams, Justin; Ellis, Peter W.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, Issue 44
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1710465114

Land use strategies to mitigate climate change in carbon dense temperate forests
journal, March 2018

  • Law, Beverly E.; Hudiburg, Tara W.; Berner, Logan T.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1720064115

Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
journal, August 2018

  • Steffen, Will; Rockström, Johan; Richardson, Katherine
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 115, Issue 33
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1810141115

Water limitations to carbon exchange in old-growth and young ponderosa pine stands
journal, February 2002


Near‐future forest vulnerability to drought and fire varies across the western United States
journal, November 2018

  • Buotte, Polly C.; Levis, Samuel; Law, Beverly E.
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 25, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14490

Trade‐offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate forests
journal, November 2018

  • Sabatini, Francesco Maria; de Andrade, Rafael Barreto; Paillet, Yoan
  • Global Change Biology, Vol. 25, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14503

Managing Forests for Climate Change Mitigation
journal, June 2008


Tempering threats to temperate forests
journal, November 2015


Past and future global transformation of terrestrial ecosystems under climate change
journal, August 2018

  • Nolan, Connor; Overpeck, Jonathan T.; Allen, Judy R. M.
  • Science, Vol. 361, Issue 6405
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5360

Working governance for working land.
journalarticle, January 2018

  • Brockington, Dan; Adams, William M.; Agarwal, Bina
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • DOI: 10.17863/cam.34856

Carbon dynamics of Oregon and Northern California forests and potential land-based carbon storage
journal, January 2009

  • Hudiburg, Tara; Law, Beverly; Turner, David P.
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 19, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1890/07-2006.1

Spatiotemporal patterns of observed bark beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the western United States
journal, October 2012

  • Meddens, Arjan J. H.; Hicke, Jeffrey A.; Ferguson, Charles A.
  • Ecological Applications, Vol. 22, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1890/11-1785.1

Water availability limits tree productivity, carbon stocks, and carbon residence time in mature forests across the western US
journal, January 2017

  • Berner, Logan T.; Law, Beverly E.; Hudiburg, Tara W.
  • Biogeosciences, Vol. 14, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-365-2017

Global Carbon Budget 2018
journal, January 2018

  • Le Quéré, Corinne; Andrew, Robbie M.; Friedlingstein, Pierre
  • Earth System Science Data, Vol. 10, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.5194/essd-10-2141-2018

Grasslands may be more reliable carbon sinks than forests in California
audiovisual, January 2018

  • Dass, Pawlok; Houlton, Benjamin Z.; Wang, Yingping
  • Institute of Physics (IOP)
  • DOI: 10.5446/39361