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EFFECTS OF CO2 AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON FOREST TREES
Citation:
EFFECTS OF CO2 AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON FOREST TREES. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-93/146 (NTIS PB93222339), 1993.
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created the Global Climate Research Program (GCRP) to provide integrated research on all aspects of the trace gases and climate change. n important focus of the GCRP at the EPA's Environmental Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon is to understand how CO2 and climate change will affect vegetation in North America, and to provide information to policy makers who make decisions about forest resources. nswers are needed for these key policy issues: What are the effects of elevated CO2 and climate change on the growth and productivity of forest trees? ill elevated CO2 and climate change alter the carbon sequestration potential of forest trees? hat is the magnitude of elevated CO2 and climate change impacts on forest trees and will the impacts be widely distributed? Existing data are not adequate to provide defensible scientific answers to the above policy issues, at either the level of an individual tree or a forest stand. hus, ERL-C has begun the study called "Effects of CO2 and Climate Change on Forest Trees" to help determine how trees are influenced by elevated CO2 and climate change. he focus will be on Douglas fir, a key Pacific Northwest forest species, which is ecologically important and adapted to the current local climate conditions.