Future Forests

Steven G. McNulty a USDA Forest Service senior scientist, and the Director of the USDA Southeast Climate Hub located in Research Triangle Park, NC. He has a Ph.D. In Natural Resources and has spent over 30 years researching environmental stress impacts and adaptive management options for forests, agriculture, and rangelands. Dr. McNulty has co-authored over 250 publications on climate change impacts and ecosystem adaptation strategies. He has served as a US Congressional Fellow, Climate Change Chair of the North American Forestry Commission, Expert on IUFRO and FAO Assessments. Dr. McNulty is the recipient of US Forest Service Distinguished Scientist Award. He is currently the principal investigator for the Updated Silvics of North America Project (USNAP).

1. Introduction
2. Climate Change and Variability Overview
3. Forests then and now: managing for ecosystem benefits, services to humans, and healthy forests across scales
4. Nutrient limitation in global forests: Current status and future trends
5. Mitigation potential of forests: challenges to carbon accrual in the ecosystem
6. Climate change and forest hydrology in future forests
7. Forest Disturbances
8. Understanding climate change dynamics of tree species: implications for future forests
9. Temperate Forests
10. Climate change and tropical forests
11. Boreal forests
12. Climate change and urban forests
13. Forests as social-ecological systems
14. Unknown tipping-points: a method for anticipating future forest disturbance risk