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IMPACT OF GLOBAL CHANGE OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: FRAMEWORKS FOR EVALUATING AGROECOSYSTEM AND FOREST ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS
Citation:
Olszyk, D., D. Bachelet, M. Johnson, B. McVeety, P. Rygiewicz, AND D. Tingey. IMPACT OF GLOBAL CHANGE OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: FRAMEWORKS FOR EVALUATING AGROECOSYSTEM AND FOREST ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/A-93/243.
Description:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Global Climate Research Program (GCRP) is determining the effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems. his paper describes a general ecological risk assessment model as well as specific conceptual models for urrent EPA research projects which are generating data relevant to future global climate change risk assessments. hese projects on the irrigated rice agroecosystem and Douglas fir forest ecosystem include experimental research on effects of CO2 and temperature on kev components of the ecosystems. he experimental results are designed to support plant and ecosystem modeling in a geographic information system context which will ultimately be used to interpret the risks to those systems on a landscape (regional) scale.