What
does every land manager and educator need to know about climate
variability/change and its impacts on Southwestern forest ecosystems? |
The
above question was asked of leading scientists and educators
at a workshop held in February 2005 at Sedona attended by over
seventy land managers and stakeholders |
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University of Arizona Cooperative Extension (UACE) developed an
innovative approach used at the workshop to explore the concerns
of natural resource managers by fostering dialogue and collaboration
between managers (end-users of scientific knowledge), extension
agents and specialists (interpreters and disseminators of scientific
knowledge), and leading scientists (producers of scientific knowledge).
Participants engaged in lively discussion and contributed ideas.
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- Changing
Landscapes, New Challenges
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- Recent large-scale
landscape changes triggered by multi-year to multi-decade
climatic fluctuations challenge forest managers in new ways.
These disturbances alter the environmental balance and reset
the ecological clock over hundreds of thousands of acres.
Ecological responses to these large-scale disturbances will
likely dictate the face of the land for the next century or
more.
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Additional
information is also available on these topics:
insects,
fire, and urban/human regarding spatial scale, recruitment and
survivorship, invasive plants, and information on precipitation
and temperature. |
| "Forest
managers need climate variablility and change information that
is understandable, practical and applicable for planning and decision
making." |
