
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
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 2 4 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 1 3 3 - 4
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Request a sales quoteEffects 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.
- Outlines innovative practices to evaluate and assess forest management plans
- Provides guidelines and criteria to help forest planning, forest sustainability, and forest management adapt to climate change
- Assists the reader to develop comprehensive forest management plans, complete with sylvicultural interventions, which account for the uncertainties of climate change
Researchers and practitioners in the areas of forestry, natural resource management, environmental science, biological sciences, ecology, public and private forest planners, consultants and managers, conservationists, those involved in the carbon exchange market, climatologists, regional planners
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 30, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 302
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128150245
- eBook ISBN: 9780128151334
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Fabrizio D'Aprile
Fabrizio D’Aprile is registered as an expert for project evaluation by the European Commission, directly involved as an expert in Horizon 2020 for project evaluation, and a peer reviewer with international scientific journals. He has significantly contributed to the development of the guidelines for management of the Italian forests under climate change.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, Arezzo, ItalyRead Effects of Climate Change on Forests on ScienceDirect