Ecological and
Landscape Impacts of Recent Climate Change in the Rocky Mountains
Instructor: Thomas T.
Veblen
Office hours: Th 3:20
-4:00 or by appointment (email: Veblen@Colorado.edu)
Readings
(difficult to find readings posted here – the remaining can be found through CU
library):
Jan.
22: Concepts
and Methods for Ecosystem-Based Management
Hildebrand
et al. 2005. The
myths of restoration ecology.
Veblen.
2003. Key
issues in fire regime research for fuels management and ecological restoration.
Additional
Notes: Ecosystem
management and HRV Methods
Jan. 29: The
Rocky Mountains: Climate Change-Past, Present, Future
Diaz
et al. 2007. Disappearing “alpine tundra” Koppen climatic type in the
western United States.
Hoerling
and Eisheid. 2008. Attribution of Colorado Climate Variations and Change.
Hoerling
and Eischeid. 2007. Past Peak water in the Southwest.
Kerr.
2004. A few good climate shifters.
Pielke
et al. 2005. Drought 2002 in Colorado – An unprecedented drought or a
routine drought?
Saunders
et al. 2003. Hotter and Drier – The West’s Changed Climate. Also available
at http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/west/contents.asp
Note: McCabe et al.
2008 has been removed from the reading list.
Feb. 5: Climate
Impacts: Wildfire
Gavin
et al. 2007. Forest fire and climate change in western North America:
insights from sediment charcoal records.
Schoennagel
et al. 2004. The Interaction of Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky
Mountain Forests.
Sherriff
and Veblen. 2008. Variability in fire-climate relationships in ponderosa
pine forests in the Colorado Front Range.
Westerling
et al. 2006. Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest
Wildfire Activity.
Feb.16: Bark Beetle Outbreaks and Other Forest
Insect Pests
Fettig
et al. 2006 The effects of mechanical fuel reduction treatments on the
activity of bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) infesting ponderosa pine.
Jenkins
et al. 2008. Bark beetles, fuels, fires and implications for forest
management in the Intermountain west.
Logan
et al. 2003. Assessing the impacts of global warming on forest pest
dynamics.
McHugh
et al. 2006. Insect and Fire Interactions on Fire Behavior.
Raffa
et al. 2008. Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to
Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions.
Simard
et al. 2008. Annotated Bibliography for Forest Managers on Fire-Bark-Beetle
Interactions.
Feb. 19-26: Climate Impacts: Tree Mortality and
Implications for Carbon Release/Storage
Policy
Responses: Mitigation and Adaptation
NOTE: other
citiations
Allen
2007. Interactions across spatial scales among forest dieback, fire, and
erosion in northern New Mexico landscapes.
Breshears
et al. 2005. Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type
drought.
Kurz
et al. 2008. Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate
change.
Running.
2008. Ecosystem Disturbance, Carbon, and Climate.