Seminar - Insights into Forest Adaptation from the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change Network

Location

Engineering Teaching & Learning Complex (ETLC) E1-003 University of Alberta
Edmonton AB
Canada

Event Date and Time
November 7th, 2024 at 3:00pm MST to November 7th, 2024 at 4:30pm MST

Registration is NOT necessary for the lecture. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Please join virtually with the webinar link if you cannot attend in person. 
Passcode: 435472

 

Presenter - Dr. Linda Nagel, currently Professor and Dean of the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University.

Global climate change is impacting forest ecosystems worldwide, with land managers tasked to develop management strategies that incorporate climate uncertainty, ecosystem vulnerability, and ongoing impacts so that forests are better able to adapt to constantly shifting climate conditions and ecosystem responses. The field of silviculture is poised to take on this challenge as it is fundamentally grounded in adaptability to various drivers of change. In 2009, the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) Network emerged to address a critical need for experimentally robust and professionally credible examples of on-the-ground climate-adaptive management strategies. The ASCC Network utilizes a resistance-resilience-transition framework that incorporates locally specific desired future conditions, develops adaptation tactics applicable at operational scales, and is applicable across different forest types. The Network is fostering collaborative science-management partnerships, ultimately leading to direct actionable science delivery and implementation of climate-informed adaptive management for the benefit of society and the environment