Short-term Visitor
I propose a short-term visitor’s stint at NESCENT from February 21, 2010 to May 17, 2010 [corrected] for the purpose of completing four chapters of Domesticating Forest Carbon, a book under contract to Springer-Verlag. Managing forests for carbon sequestration translates into managing living photosynthetic infrastructure, not only log harvest. As such, forest carbon is an attractive notion but it is also fraught with concern over how forests will adapt to climate change while sequestering CO2. This question is being explored using two themes: a) viewing population structure on evolutionary, ecological and historical time scales and b) taking the entire diplohaplontic life cycle, not only the adult sporophyte, into account for climate change response. The result will be a more comprehensive and up-to-date view of forest adaptation as it relates to the managing forest carbon.
Evolutionary Dynamics of Forests under climate change
| PI(s): | Claire Williams (Forest History Society) |
| Start Date: | 22-Feb-2010 |
| End Date: | 17-May-2010 |
| Keywords: | climate change, life histories, population genetics, management of natural populations |
I propose a short-term visitor’s stint at NESCENT from February 21, 2010 to May 17, 2010 [corrected] for the purpose of completing four chapters of Domesticating Forest Carbon, a book under contract to Springer-Verlag. Managing forests for carbon sequestration translates into managing living photosynthetic infrastructure, not only log harvest. As such, forest carbon is an attractive notion but it is also fraught with concern over how forests will adapt to climate change while sequestering CO2. This question is being explored using two themes: a) viewing population structure on evolutionary, ecological and historical time scales and b) taking the entire diplohaplontic life cycle, not only the adult sporophyte, into account for climate change response. The result will be a more comprehensive and up-to-date view of forest adaptation as it relates to the managing forest carbon. Related products
Publications- Evolutionary dynamics of forests under climate change Williams, C. G. 2011. Evolutionary dynamics of forests under climate change. Springer.
- A history of persistence-Â and decline- for Southern Hemisphere conifer, Fitzroya cupressoides Williams, C.G. 2011. A history of persistence- and decline- for Southern Hemisphere conifer, Fitzroya cupressoides. Forest History Today 16 (1-2): 37-41.
- Marking live conifer pollen for long-distance dispersal experiments Claire G. Williams and Patrick Aderkas. 2011. Marking live conifer pollen for long-distance dispersal experiments, Oecologia, volume 165, issue 1, pp. 249-254
- Williams, C.G., V. Martinez and C. Magni. 2011. Inferring past climate change response for Fitzroya cupressoides. Japanese Journal of Historical Botany 19 (1-2): 101-107.
- Of forests and time in the culture of possession Williams, C.G. 2010. Of forests and time in the culture of possession. International Forestry Review 12(4): 407-417.
- Long-distance pine pollen still germinates after meso-scale dispersal Williams, C.G. (2010). Long-distance pine pollen still germinates after meso-scale dispersal. American Journal of Botany 97(5): 1-11.
- North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill NC Invited Public Lecture
- University of Parma, Department of Environmental Sciences
- NESCent Seminar April 21, 2010
- NESCent Professional Development (BBL): April 28 2010 Collaborative seminar presentation with Jory Weintraub,Ph.D. NESCent Associate Director
