A system's vulnerability is a function of its potential impacts and its adaptive capacity. Judging the potential impacts of climate change on a forest type or management topic will require you to consider two things:
1. Exposure = the character, magnitude, and rate of changes that the system will experience.
2. Sensitivity = the degree to which the system is likely to be affected by or responsive to those changes.
You identified several potential climate change impacts to your property and forest types in Step 2.1. Now you need to think collectively about impacts and decide whether they will tend to support or disrupt the health and function of this system.
As you make your own impacts assessment, remember to think specifically about your particular farm or project area.