Ontario's forests and forestry in a changing climate

On- strategies organized according to the need to understand climate site land use planning and management techniques must be change, mitigate the impacts of rapid climate change, and help designed to protect the ecological and social pieces, patterns, Ontarians adapt to climate change: and processes. [...] The complex interactions of trees with insects and disease makes it difficult to project the timing and extent of effects of climate change on these disturbances. [...] My thanks are also extended to the helpful staff of the Technology Transfer department of the Ontario Forest Research Institute, including: Abby Obenchain who provided numerous helpful suggestions in her review of style and grammar that greatly improved the readability of the manuscript; Trudy Vaittinen for desktop publishing, Sarah Mislan who verified references, and Lisa Buse for managing the pu [...] In addition to changes in climate, at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will more than double by mid-century and triple by the end of the century from a pre-industrial level of about 280 ppm. [...] Numbers on maps refer to temperatures (oC) in the case of 1971-2000 and increase in temperature (oC warming) in the case of 2071-2100.