Multicentury perspectives on forest dynamics and climatic change in Canada

全球气候变化是对生态系统的重大威胁。 了解气候多变性和气候变化对生态系统进程的影响，有助于提供减轻气候变化对经济和生态的不利影响的工具。 同样，了解生态系统如何应对气候变化应有助于深入了解构成社区的过程。 概括地说，拟议研究的目的是评估环境变异和变化如何影响森林结构和组成。 具体而言，我的目标是回答以下三个研究问题：

Global climatic change represents an important threat to ecosystems. Understanding the effects of climatic variability and change on ecosystem processes could help provide tools for mitigating the adverse economic and ecological effects of climatic change. Similarly, understanding how ecosystems respond to climatic change should provide insights into the processes that structure communities. Broadly stated, the purpose of the proposed research is to assess how environmental variability and change have affected forest structure and composition. Specifically, I aim to answer the three following research questions: