Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests Export

@article{citeulike:2891450, abstract = {The world's forests influence climate through physical, chemical, and biological processes that affect planetary energetics, the hydrologic cycle, and atmospheric composition. These complex and nonlinear forest-atmosphere interactions can dampen or amplify anthropogenic climate change. Tropical, temperate, and boreal reforestation and afforestation attenuate global warming through carbon sequestration. Biogeophysical feedbacks can enhance or diminish this negative climate forcing. Tropical forests mitigate warming through evaporative cooling, but the low albedo of boreal forests is a positive climate forcing. The evaporative effect of temperate forests is unclear. The net climate forcing from these and other processes is not known. Forests are under tremendous pressure from global change. Interdisciplinary science that integrates knowledge of the many interacting climate services of forests with the impacts of global change is necessary to identify and understand as yet unexplored feedbacks in the Earth system and the potential of forests to mitigate climate change. 10.1126/science.1155121}, author = {Bonan, Gordon B.}, citeulike-article-id = {2891450}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1155121}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5882/1444.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5882/1444.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5882/1444}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18556546}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18556546}, day = {13}, doi = {10.1126/science.1155121}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {climate\_change, feedback, forest, impact}, month = {June}, number = {5882}, pages = {1444--1449}, posted-at = {2009-11-06 11:03:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1155121}, volume = {320}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2891450 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2891450 N2 - The world's forests influence climate through physical, chemical, and biological processes that affect planetary energetics, the hydrologic cycle, and atmospheric composition. These complex and nonlinear forest-atmosphere interactions can dampen or amplify anthropogenic climate change. Tropical, temperate, and boreal reforestation and afforestation attenuate global warming through carbon sequestration. Biogeophysical feedbacks can enhance or diminish this negative climate forcing. Tropical forests mitigate warming through evaporative cooling, but the low albedo of boreal forests is a positive climate forcing. The evaporative effect of temperate forests is unclear. The net climate forcing from these and other processes is not known. Forests are under tremendous pressure from global change. Interdisciplinary science that integrates knowledge of the many interacting climate services of forests with the impacts of global change is necessary to identify and understand as yet unexplored feedbacks in the Earth system and the potential of forests to mitigate climate change. 10.1126/science.1155121 IS - 5882 JF - Science EP - 1449 TI - Forests and Climate Change: Forcings, Feedbacks, and the Climate Benefits of Forests VL - 320 SP - 1444 KW - climate_change KW - feedback KW - forest KW - impact AU - Bonan, Gordon PY - 2008/06/13/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1155121 ER -