Melissa S. Lucash

TL;DR: In this paper, the root processes of interest to both field ecologists and modelers including root classification, production, turnover, biomass, resource uptake, and depth distribution are reviewed.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that major forest ecosystem shifts should be expected when climate change disrupts key stabilizing feedbacks that maintain the dominance of long-lived, slowly regenerating trees.

TL;DR: The effects of elevated CO2 on net photosynthetic rates in Douglas fir are largely independent of temperature, and seasonal shifts in the photosynthesis temperature optimum reduced temperature effects on the relative response to elevatedCO2.

TL;DR: Evaluated long-term, landscape-scale trade-offs among carbon (C) storage, timber yield, and old forest habitat given projected climate change and shifts in forest management policy across 2.1 million hectares of forests in the Oregon Coast Range suggest climate change is likely to increase forest productivity and total ecosystem C storage over the next century as warmer winter temperatures allow greater forest productivity in cooler months.

TL;DR: The results suggest that needle [N] may regulate photosynthetic responses of Douglas-fir to climate change and may be altered by climate change, and effects of elevated [CO 2 ] on photosynthesis may be similar across growth temperatures.