Effects of Climate Change on Forests

An Evidence-Based Primer for Sustainable Management of Temperate and Mediterranean Forests

1st Edition - November 30, 2024
Imprint: Elsevier
Author: Fabrizio D'Aprile
Language: English
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Effects of Climate Change on Forests: An Evidence-Based Primer for Sustainable Management of Temperate and Mediterranean Forests presents concepts, case studies and the application of theories about forest management under climate change. It provides invaluable insight to how forest planning and management tie into the ecological functioning and resilience of the forest, and does so by utilizing a concept weakly implemented in traditional forest planning: namely, by following the variability in growth, and other processes, over time. This shift in focus better incorporates the services provided by forests, and allows for better adaptation planning to help temperate forests not only survive but thrive in the face of climate change. Real-world case studies demonstrate how to effectively manage temperate forests under climate change, using the results of evidence-based research.

Title of Book
Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Basic features of climate change
1.2 Causes and scenarios
1.3 Warming of the earth
1.4 Precipitation
1.5 Heatwaves
1.6 Expected effects
Part I. Research evidence
Chapter 2. Effects of climate change on forests
2.1 Vulnerability of forest ecosystems to climate change
2.2 Expected impacts
2.3 Sensitivity to climate change in temperate forests
2.4 Changes in forest cover
2.5 Forest resilience
2.6 Biodiversity in forest resilience
2.7 Susceptibility of forests to disturbances
2.7.1 Forests growing under dry and wet conditions
2.7.2 Summer and winter stress
2.7.3 Drought and tree mortality
2.7.4 Forest fires
2.8 Forest health
2.8.1 Indicators of tree vitality
2.8.2 Climate and plant eco-physiological interactions that drive forest mortality
2.8.3 Trends in tree mortality
2.8.4 Integrated effects of air pollution and climate change on forests
2.8.5 Concluding remarks
Chapter 3. Adaptation, mitigation, and migration in tree populations
3.1 Climate change and population dynamics
3.2 Responses in the dynamics of populations
3.2.1 Different scales of phenological observations
3.2.2 Major topics and future directions of forest phenology research
3.3 Local species rarefaction and extinction
3.4 Migration
3.4.1 The role of gene transfer in the adaptation of forest trees to climate change
3.4.2 Adaptive significance of functional traits
3.4.3 Reflections on forest management
Chapter 4. Forest growth under climate change
4.1 Climate drivers of productivity in temperate and Mediterranean forests
4.2 Assessing climate change effects on long-term forest development
4.3 Responses of temperate forests
4.4 Wood production and climate
4.5 Expected forest responses in different climatic regions
4.5.1 Continental Europe
4.5.2 The Mediterranean region
4.5.3 Black Sea region
4.5.4 Mountainous regions
Chapter 5. Climate variability and tree growth
5.1 Climate variability and forest growth
5.2 Estimates of the impacts of climate change on tree growth and populations
5.3 Tree growth and carbon sequestration
5.4 Rate of carbon accumulation and tree size
5.5 Climate change and tree-growth relationships
5.6 Tree rings as a proxy for climate variability
5.7 Growing season changes and not-stationary trends of growth
5.8 Synchronization of tree-ring growth
5.9 The ‘tree-ring divergence’ problem
Chapter 6. The adaptive capacity of forests
6.1 Social and economic adaptive capacity to climate change
6.2 Monitoring of forest conditions under climate change
6.2.1 Disentangling impacts on forests
6.2.2 The factors underlying monitoring
6.3 Biodiversity management under climate change
6.3.1 Phenotyping adapted tree species
6.3.2 Conifers
6.3.3 Broadleaved tree species
Part II. Evidence-based planning models
Chapter 7. Adapting forestry to climate change: Challenges
7.1 Vulnerability assessment
7.1.1 Integrating climate change vulnerability assessments from species distribution models
7.2 Capacity building
7.3 Implementing adaptation
7.4 Persistence through phenotypic adaptation
7.5 Adaptation at the local scale
Chapter 8. The impact of forest management on forests under climate change
8.1 Overview of traditional concepts and criteria
8.2 Sustainable forest management and climate change
8.3 The role of forestry
8.3.1 Reducing emissions
8.3.2 Increasing the forest area
8.3.3 Maintaining and increasing carbon stock
8.3.4 Quantifying the effects of harvesting on carbon fluxes and stocks
8.3.5 Forest biodiversity conservation and restoration
8.3.6 Forest production
8.4 Methodological challenges for forest management
8.4.1 Low predictability of forest responses
8.4.2 Systemic approach for adaptive forest management in a changing climate
Chapter 9. Forest management approaches and monitoring
9.1 Forest management measures
9.1.1 Tree species diversity and structural heterogeneity
9.1.2 Silvicultural actions to enhance regeneration
9.1.3 Growth and resilience in coppice forests
9.2 Managing forest genetic resources
9.3 Wildfire management under a changing climate
Chapter 10. Approaches for adaptation in forest management
10.1 Strategies for adaptive resource management and conservation planning
10.2 Thinning and drought
10.3 Eﬀects of thinning on growth and tree water use efficiency
10.4 Management of stand density to reduce water use in drought-risk environments
10.5 Self-thinning: A tool to predict stand density?
10.6 The “self-thinning” law
10.7 Concluding remarks
Chapter 11. Adapting forest planning and management to climate change: The variable “time”
11.1 Adapting forest management to climate variability: Some criteria for practical purposes
11.2 Development of sustainability planning and management models
11.2.1 The landscape planning level
11.2.2 The forest unit level planning
11.2.3 Linear programming
11.2.4 “Close-to-nature” forestry
11.3 The “ecological norm”
11.3.1 Criteria of the “ecological forest unit”
11.3.2 The analytical planning scheme
11.3.3 The models of the “ecological norm”
11.3.4 The “ecological norm”: Concluding remarks
11.4 Time as a key factor in climate change and tree growth
11.4.1 Nonstationary relationships between climate variability and tree growth
11.4.2 Tree ring growth and periodicity
11.4.3 The climate variable thresholds: A preliminary case
11.4.4 Inputs of the thresholds
11.4.5 Concluding remarks
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