Effects of Climate Change on Ecological Disturbance in the Northern Rockies

摘要: Disturbances alter ecosystem, community, or population structures and change elements of the biological and/or physical environment. Climate changes can timing, magnitude, frequency, duration disturbance events, as well interactions disturbances on a landscape, climate may already be affecting events regimes. Interactions among regimes, such co-occurrence in space time bark beetle outbreaks wildfires, result highly visible, rapidly occurring, persistent landscape composition structure. Understanding how altered patterns multiple might novel emergent behaviors is critical for addressing impacts designing land management strategies that are appropriate future climates. This chapter describes ecology important regimes Northern Rockies region, potential shifts these consequence observed projected change. We summarize five types present sensitive to changing climate—wildfires, beetles, white pine blister rust (Cronartium ribicola), other forest diseases, nonnative plant invasions—and provide information help managers anticipate how, when, where, why characteristics