ENVS 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Invasive Species, Bioenergy

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 001
• Professor: Amy L Seidl

Document Summary

The biggest cluster that are affected by climate change is oceans, forests is right after that. Natural disasters & climate change: intensity increases, frequency increase, distribution. Unpack interactions between forests & climate change, wat we can do about it and what has been done about it. 4-s & climate change: forests directly effects climate change & its effects via, sinks, sequestration, sources, deforestation and wildfire, conversion to agriculture and livestock agriculture, substitutes, alternative to fossil fuels, subtle effects, rainfall, albedo. Forests as source: deforestation is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, forest growth provides one of the biggest carbo sinks. Buffering capacity: to respond to climate change. Forest ecosystems responding to climate change: physiological, acclimation, genetic. Simple soil carbon-climate feedback loop: efflux of co2 from soil is almost entirely from root respiration and microbial. Changing carbon uptake: after mid-century, us forests are expected to shift to a net course rather than a net sink.