Do We Have Sufficient Knowledge-Based Data about the Resilience and Adaption Capacity of Forest Adaptation to Climate Change?
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2019) | Viewed by 2590
Special Issue Editor
Interests: forest ecology; climate change adaptation; plant biodiversity; forest ecosystem functions; mycorrhizal symbiosis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will summarize the current state of knowledge on the relationship between forest ecosystem functioning (e.g., maintenance of water regime and forest microclimate), forest stand naturalness, and biodiversity status as a background for forest management adaptation to climate change. Naturalness can be considered the distance to climax forest vegetation and/or similarity with natural successive processes from a present state. The contributions of this Special Issue will improve our understanding of (i) natural processes in forest ecosystems (e.g., natural selection during natural succession), (ii) natural disturbance history, (iii) differences between ecosystem processes during the grow stage and the mature stage (effect on soil, water, and air conditions), and iv) the sustainability of forest management relative to the forest ecosystem naturalness. Other important information will concern experiences with development and the application of the indicators of natural processes (succession) and their maintenance, forest biodiversity status (genetic, specific, ecosystem, and landscape levels) and sustainable forest management. The authors of this Special Issue will try to answer questions such as what quantitative and structural parameters of forest management (above all wood harvesting) are sustainable for the maintenance of forest ecosystem functioning (to maintain genetic pools; energetic-material fluxes, including soil nutrient level, water regime, and forest microclimate; and the incremental risks of natural forest disturbance, including resilience processes in disturbed forests). This Special Issue will bring new data enabling the comparison of primary (with an emphasis on improving soil properties) and secondary forest succession (the similarities between clear cutting and natural disturbance). The findings will be exemplified by case studies from different forest ecosystems in Europe.
Dr. Pavel Cudlín
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- forest ecosystem naturalness
- ecosystem functioning
- forest adaptation
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