Potential vegetation shifts over Gifford Pinchot National Forest (USA) restoration priority areas

Mar 29, 2010 (Last modified Jul 12, 2010)
Created by Dominique Bachelet
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By overlaying Rogers' projections of vegetation shifts over the Pacific Northwest region of the USA, one can see that 2 out of 3 scenarios will not affect the areas defined as restoration priority. Under the warm and dry Hadley scenario though, drier conditions settle and cause the replacement of maritime type forests by a drier evergreen forest type by the end of our century.
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Dominique Bachelet
climate change scientist with Oregon State University

Dominique received her Master’s degree in 1978 in Lille (France) and her Ph.D. in 1983 from Colorado State University with a thesis focused on biogeochemical cycles in the shortgrass prairie. In 1984 she went to U.C. Riverside as a postdoc simulating nitrogen fixing shrubs in the Sonoran desert then...