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Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate: Adapatation Recommendations
Released in April 2013, the 25x'25 Adaptation Work Group's "Agriculture and Forestry in a Changing Climate: Adaptation Recommendations" presents a variety of pathways for building and strengthening resilience to climate change in our nation's agriculture and forestry system in the areas of research, production systems and practices, risk management, decision tools, and outreach. Rather than being offered as a definitive set of adaptation recommendations, the report is intended as the beginning of a national dialogue on the steps needed to prepare for an uncertain future.
USDA-Funded Research Leads to Initial Draft of the Loblolly Pine Genome
Researchers at the University of California-Davis, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), today released the initial draft genome sequence of the loblolly pine, an important conifer species that is used as a feedstock for biofuels and can aid in climate change mitigation. The announcement was made at the 2013 Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California.
Improved Loblolly Pines Better for the Environment, Study Finds
NC State Newsroom, April 17, 2012
Creating Better Pine Forest Management for a Changing Climate
IFAS Research Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
Future forests may soak up more carbon dioxide than previously believed, helping to buffer climate change
North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas than researchers had previously anticipated. As a result, they could help slow the pace of human-caused climate warming more than most scientists had thought, a University of Michigan ecologist Donald Zak and his colleagues have concluded. University of Michigan Press Release, October 13, 2011
Loblolly Legacy PDF document
PINEMAP is featured in the Fall 2011 issue of the University of Florida Office of Research Explore magazine: Loblolly Legacy By Tom Nordlie Universities and growers are helping the South's most abundant pine species adapt to climate change.
SAF Members Selected for EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel
Society of American Foresters, October 4, 2011. Bob Abt, PINEMAP Co-PI, named member of EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Biogenic Carbon Emissions Panel.
USDA Funds Climate Change Research for $60 Million
Huffington Post, March 21, 2011
$20 million federal grant has hidden benefit for UF-led pine group, two other funded projects.
University of Florida, IFAS News, February 21, 2011
UF-led consortium garners $20 million grant to improve pine forest management.
University of Florida, IFAS News, February 19, 2011
NIFA Announces Grant to Study the Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural and Forest Production.
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, February 18, 2011
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