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<div>"Our review is focused on recent publications that discuss
the changes in commercial forestry, excluding the ecosystem functions
of forests and nontimber forest products."</div>
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<div><font face="Arial">"The response of forestry to global
warming is likely to be multifaceted. On some sites, species more
appropriate to the climate will replace the earlier species that is
(sic) no longer suited to the climate. Also, planted forests can be
relocated to more regions with more suitable climates. In general, we
would expect planting and associated forestry operations to tend more
toward higher latitudes, especially from some tropical sites, should
they warm substantially. Plantations would likely shift toward more
subtropical regions from tropical ones. In the United States, we might
expect to see planted forest moving northward, with more spilling over
into Canada. In Latin America forest plantations may shift toward
southern Brazil and Argentina. In some cases the same sites will be
used but the choice of species will change to those more suitable to
the new climate."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Andrei P. Kirilenko and Roger A. Sedjo.
Climate change impacts on forestry. PNAS © 2007 by The
National Academy of Sciences of the USA.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Full report here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/50/19697.full</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"We
demonstrate that wildfire area burned (WFAB) in the American West was
controlled by climate during the 20th century
(1916-2003). .... Despite the possible
influence of fire suppression, exclusion, and fuel treatment, WFAB is
still substantially controlled by climate. "</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">Jeremy S. Littell
et al. Climate and wildfire area burned in western U.S. ecoprovinces,
1916-2003. Ecological Applications, 19(4), 2009, pp.
1003-1021</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">"Tree
mortality in relatively undisturbed old-growth forests across the West
has risen even when not triggered by wildfires or insect
infestations."</font></div>
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"Drought and heat-induced tree mortality is accelerating in many
forest biomes as a consequence of a warming climate, resulting in a
threat to global forests unlike any in recorded history (1-12)."<br>
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" Š. we conclude with high certainty that
today's forests are going to be subject to continued increases in
mortality rates that will result in substantial reorganization of
their structure and carbon storage."<br>
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Nathan G. McDowell and Craig D. Allen. Darcy's law predicts widespread
forest mortality under climate warming.<br>
<i>Nature Climate Change.</i> Published online 18 MAY
2015</font></div>
<div><font face="Geneva" size="-1" color="#000000">DOI:
10.1038/NCLIMATE2641</font><br>
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