Color figures for Vegetation and Biogeochemical Scenarios (Chapter The maps above show projections of relative changes in Under the Canadian model scenario, vegetation carbon losses of up to 20% are projected in some forested areas of the Southeast in response to warming and drying of the region by the 2030s.
Sierran Mixed Conifer Vegetation Historically, burning and logging have caused wide variability in stand structure, understory Forested stands form closed, multilayered canopies with nearly 100 percent overlapping cover (Rundel et al.