Designs of (changes in) protection measures against extreme climate in forestry

Abstract

Extreme climate in forestry is exemplified in Box III.4.8. The largest effects of future climatic variability or change on northwest forests in the USA are likely to arise from changes in fire frequency and fire severity. The past two decades demonstrated increasing burned areas in Canada, the western United States and Russia, because of both climatic conditions and other factors such as fuel conditions, ignition sources, land use change and variations in fire protection (Westerling et al. 2006; Gillet et al. 2004). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.