CNH-L: Assessing the Potential for Climate Change and Forest Insects to Drive Land-use Regime Shifts
- HF-ID: HF2015-25
- Category: Research Files
- Creator: Thompson, J.R., Borsuk, M., Kittredge, D.B., Jr., Lindsay, M., Orwig, D.A.
- Date: September 1, 2016 to June 21, 2022
- Location: New England
- Media: Paper
- Contents:
- NSF Proposal No. 1617075. Harvard Fund No. 131716. Annual project reports: 2016-2017; 2017-2018, 2019-2020, 2020-2021. 1 File Folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
- Keywords: climate change, ecosystems, insects, land use
- Abstract:
- NSF Grant Proposal with collaborators from University of Massachusetts and Dartmouth; NSF recommendation for funding.
- Research objective is to understand: 1. whether and how climate change and insect infestations are shifting land-use regimes in New England by altering human decision-making, 2. how these changes to land-owner decision making may affect regional forest ecosystems and the provisioning of select ecosystem services, and 3. how subsequent changes to forest ecosystems, in turn, affect landowners. The study focuses on the behavior of family forest owners (FFO) who control the majority of the forest land in the Connecticut River Valley Study Area.
- Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 16, drawer 2
- Access: Active