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New Book Featuring Center Research Aims to "Link People and Nature"
Urban-rural interfaces, the area where human developments and natural areas meet, can be difficult to define and challenging to manage. Scientists, natural resource managers, planners, and decision makers can gain insight into the unique characteristics of these places in a new book, “Urban-Rural Interfaces: Linking People and Nature.” A chapter co-authored by Eastern Threat Center hydrologist Ge Sun examines how population growth and urban development affect water quality and quantity.
Eastern Threat Center Featured in National Woodlands Magazine
The Fall 2012 issue of National Woodlands magazine features the Eastern Threat Center in a cover story about Center tools and technology that can help forest landowners evaluate and respond to forest threats, including wildland fire, insects and disease, invasive plants, and climate change. National Woodlands is published by the National Woodland Owners Association to promote the wise use of America’s forest resources.
Carbon In, Carbon Out: How Tree Harvests Affect Carbon Balance in a Planted Forest
Compared to natural forests, harvests on planted forests equate to frequent ecosystem disturbances. To determine how harvests affect the long-term carbon balance of a planted forest, Eastern Threat Center researchers and cooperating scientists from North Carolina State University (NCSU) developed a 25-year carbon budget (which describes the amounts of carbon entering and leaving an ecosystem) for a typical planted forest—a commercial loblolly pine plantation in North Carolina. Results were recently published in the journal Global Change Biology.
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