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Volume 8
Journal of Environmental & Analytical Toxicology
Environment and Health Congress 2018
July 11-12, 2018
July 11-12, 2018 Sydney, Australia
World Congress on
Environmental Toxicology and Health
Measuring forest resilience and exploring tipping point behavior
Chuixiang Yi, George Hendrey, Peipei Xu, Guangwei Mu and Wei Fang
Queens College-City University of New York, USA
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orests provide an important ecological service by partially balancing the global carbon budget, sequestering about one
quarter of anthropogenic emissions (2.4 GT C per year). However, several forest biomes are subject to increasing stress
and tree mortality due to invasive pests, drought and fire and these appear to be exacerbated by climate change. A question
arising for forest managers and policy makers is how to anticipate and deal with the acceleration of forest stress and mortality
with on-going warming climate. To provide a baseline to which anticipated changes may be compared. We will attempt to
answer the following questions: (1) how can we quantify and measure forest resilience to climate related stresses? (2) what
trends or patterns in climate are indicative of sufficient stress as to push forests past a key control to forest tipping point leading
to a change in the type of ecosystem? and (3) can we define such tipping point behaviors of forests? We have explored these
questions by using tree-ring data, remote sensing images, eddy flux tower data and nonlinear stability theory. Here we report
some initial results along with the pilot-studies.
Biography
Chuixiang Yi has served as an Associate Professor at Beijing Normal University, China. He has accumulated 10 years of Post-doctoral research experiences in
the USA across many campuses, including UC, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Colorado. He is presently an
Associate Professor at Queens College, City University of New York. He is a Micrometeorologist and Theoretical Modeler studying how climate change affects the
carbon cycle and ultimately how these changes to the carbon cycle may alter our environment and further alter our climate in the future.
cyi@qc.cuny.eduChuixiang Yi et al., J Environ Anal Toxicol 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0525-C1-011