Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

Seidl, R., Spies, T. A., Peterson, D. L., Stephens, S. L., Hicke, J. A. (2016), REVIEW: Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53: 120–129. doi: 10.1111/13

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Literature

Publication

Seidl, R., Spies, T. A., Peterson, D. L., Stephens, S. L., Hicke, J. A. (2016), REVIEW: Searching for resilience: addressing the impacts of changing disturbance regimes on forest ecosystem services. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53: 120–129. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12511

Year Published

2016

Description

A new publication from the Journal of Applied Ecology offers an evaluative report on the issue of maintaining forest ecosystem services as natural disturbance regimes shift due to climate change. The authors looked to cultivating resilience as a way of strengthening forest disturbance management. In this report, the authors define and highlight the importance of resilience in the context of management, and discuss how resilience can be fostered for forest ecosystem services in changing disturbance regimes. The authors first examine how changes in natural disturbance regimes will impact ecosystem services, and present an approach towards resilience as an operational application. Ecosystem recovery in relation to the "range of variability" concept was found to be the most useful disturbance ecology method for measuring ecosystem resilience. The article then discussed pathways and principles for applying resilience, and discussed future research that must be done in order to further our understanding of resilience cultivation under changing disturbance regimes.

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National

Website

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12511/abstract

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
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