Forest Ecology and Management for Climate Sustainability and Anthropogenic Environmental Threats
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
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Interests: the retention properties of mineral and organic soils in terms of their protection; water repellence and the sorption of organic and mineral soils; the spatial variability of selected soil properties; biotic and abiotic risk factors in soil protection; forest fires, soil contamination with crude oil and soil CO2 emissions; the analysis of changes in ecosystem services as a tool for environmental management
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Dear Colleagues,
The combined risks of human activity and climate change have great potential to alter forest ecosystem dynamics by impairing the balance of carbon and water, and the ecosystem services it underpins, and becoming the basis for climate change adaptation. The most sustainable freshwater resources, characterized by the highest quality, originate from forest ecosystems. This, however, relies on planted trees and established woodlands and forests being sustainably managed and replanted when felled or lost to fire, storms, or pests and disease. Studies examining the indirect impact of changing forest ecosystem functions and services are needed to more fully investigate these problems. An understanding of how ecosystems respond to threats is deemed essential for sustainably managing forests and can assist decision-making as well as lowering the barriers for the involvement of new actors.
The water is a key factor for biodiversity, richness, and durability of forest ecosystems. Water determines the maintenance of ecosystem services at a certain level. These, in turn, shape the ecosystem balance in the regional and global system, and the above should be analyzed in the context of civilization threats.
Regardless of the magnitude of future warming, forest management at different scales (from the pedon to the basin scale) highlighted that mitigation measures should be continually adapted to remain resilient to climate change and disaster risk reduction strategies developed.
This Special Issue compiles high-quality research works and review papers pointing to early warning indicators and presenting strategies and management and that support the mitigation of civilization threats in the sustainable use of forest ecosystem services and their application, especially in regards to water resources at different scales Theoretical, methodological and case study papers are welcome.
Dr. Edyta Hewelke
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecosystem services
- ecological indicators of sustainability
- soil and water management
- forest fire
- education on suitability
- water quality
- reforestation
- local
- regional
- global anthropogenic pressure
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