NCEAS Working Groups
Risk assessment for climate change and forest pathogens in western North America
Project Description
NCEAS, the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC), and the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station are collaborating to develop a risk assessment for climate change and forest pathogens in western North America. This project will bring together individuals with expertise in forest pathology, quantitative modeling, and climate science. Ultimately, we anticipate that the project will yield two products: (1) a manuscript, suitable for submission to a peer-reviewed journal, on design and output of models describing relationships between climate change and forest pathogens in western North America, and (2) a risk assessment for forest pathogens in Western North America under a changing climate.
Principal Investigator(s)
Erica Fleishman, Susan Frankel
Project Dates
Start: July 1, 2008
End: December 31, 2009
completed