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Title: Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

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  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  2. US Geological Survey, Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Inst., Front Royal, VA (United States); Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst. (Panama)
  4. Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (United States)
  5. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Joint Global Change Research Inst.
  6. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  7. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States)
  8. Boston Univ., MA (United States)
  9. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf (Switzerland)
  10. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  11. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  12. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL (United States)
  13. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  14. Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)
  15. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
  16. Univ. of Birmingham (United Kingdom)
  17. Univ. of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, (Austria); Technical Univ. of Munich (Germany)
  18. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  19. Columbia Univ., New York, NY (United States)
  20. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  21. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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Forest dynamics arise from the interplay of environmental drivers and disturbances with the demographic processes of recruitment, growth, and mortality, subsequently driving biomass and species composition. However, forest disturbances and subsequent recovery are shifting with global changes in climate and land use, altering these dynamics. Changes in environmental drivers, land use, and disturbance regimes are forcing forests toward younger, shorter stands. Rising carbon dioxide, acclimation, adaptation, and migration can influence these impacts. Recent developments in Earth system models support increasingly realistic simulations of vegetation dynamics. In parallel, emerging remote sensing datasets promise qualitatively new and more abundant data on the underlying processes and consequences for vegetation structure. When combined, these advances hold promise for improving the scientific understanding of changes in vegetation demographics and disturbances.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; McIntire-Stennis; USGS; Joint Fire Science Program; Vilas Trust; sDiv; Synthesis Centre of iDiv; European Research Council (ERC); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830; LFR-18-542511; 758873; AC05-00OR22725; 89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1639166
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1649093; OSTI ID: 1657138
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-144291; LA-UR-20-23882
Journal Information:
Science, Vol. 368, Issue 6494; Conference: Disturbance and Vegetation Dynamics in Earth System Models Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD (United States), 15-16 Mar 2018; ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher:
AAASCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 480 works
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