P086: Drought Stress and Bark Beetle Outbreaks in the Future Forest: Extending an Existing Model to Inform Climate Change Adaptation

Evaluates how climate change and associated drought induced stress will affect forest productivity and mortality as well as alter susceptibility to bark beetle outbreaks across the forested landscape of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Furthermore, it evaluate the effectiveness of forest treatment options for mitigating mortality from drought stress and bark beetles. This research will be an extension of our current SNPLMA funded project (P049) which is assessing the impacts of climate change and forest treatment options on wildfire and above and below ground forest carbon dynamics.