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TWENTY-FIVE YEAR RETROSPECTIVE ON THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE ON VERMONT'S FORESTS: A STATE CLIMATOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE
Dr. Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux
UVM – Geography
VT State Climatologist
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1. Climate is a system
http://research.noaa.gov/sites/oar/EasyDNNNews/10430/620300c1768EDNmainearth_system_interactions.jpg
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Ground-level ozone
• reduces plant growth & vigor
• reduces seed production
• increases susceptibility to insects & disease
• cumulative effect over growing season
• Black cherry, white ash, yellow poplar
Ozone Injury to White Ash Photo by Gretchen Smith R. Poirot – VT ANR/ Air Quality
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2. Moisture – precipitation & more
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Seasonal/monthly precipitation vs. annual
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Droughts are cyclical & vary in severity
Rutland County 4/17/08NWS/BTV
Photos: L-A. Dupigny-Giroux
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Concurrent stressors in 2006Photos: L-A. Dupigny-Giroux
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TS Irene – moisture disturbance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71fsL-0r_4
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3. Disturbance effects are not equal
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Ice storms
• timing• Nov, Dec 1800s• February 1961• January 1998• October 2010
• duration• amount
• species
Photos: L-A. Dupigny-Giroux
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Downburst animation
Courtesy: NWS/BTV
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Downburst damage
Courtesy: NWS/BTV
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4. Importance of temperature
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Timing & variable of interest
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Temperature stress on trees
• Summer • heat waves (drought)
• can be beneficial after cool wet summer (August 1996, 2007)
• frost (phenology)
• Winter• extreme cold• record warmth• freezing of soils – influence on cold tolerance
(Paul Schaberg, USFS)
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Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreations
• “Late spring frost injury to hardwoods is widespread.
• Over 200,000 acres of damage have been observed during aerial surveys, with the heaviest damage to sugar maple.
• Christmas tree growers are reporting heavy frost damage to balsam fir, the worst in many years if not ever.”
June 2010
http://www.vtfpr.org/protection/documents/VTFPR_May2010FrostDamageUpdate.pdf
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Backward spring 2010
• low temperatures in January – June
• land-locked stations colder• winter freeze/thaw cycles –
predictor• snow, freezing rain – April to
June• summer killing frosts• summer drought• NW flow
Photos: L-A. Dupigny-Giroux
Dupigny-Giroux, L-A.. and Mock, C.J. (co-editors) (2009) Historical climate variability and impacts in North America, Springer Publishers.
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5. Looking ahead…
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Simulated difference in the mean annual length of the freeze-free season
National Climate Assessment, 2013
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Effect of changing growing seasons 1982-2011
• warming + longer growing season
• changes in land carbon cycle
• could be tempered by• forest fires• pest infestations• summer droughts
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/10mar_greenhouseshift/
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Take home messages
• spatial and temporal variability important• regional and continental scale processes affect us
• nonlinear system (atmosphere, pests, carbon) • need to factor in topography
• vegetation can be affected in every season by temperature & moisture extremes
• impacts can be species-specific• flexibility in planting and species selection