A tree-centered approach to assess impacts of extreme climatic events on forests
| Autor: | Ute Sass-Klaassen, Patrick Fonti, Paolo Cherubini, Jozica Gricar, Elisabeth M. R. Robert, Kathy Steppe, Achim Braeuning |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Opinion structure-function relationships Long-term monitoring media_common.quotation_subject Sustainable forest management Intra-annual resolution Climate change Plant Science lcsh:Plant culture Vitality 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Future forests Goods and services Forest ecology ddc:550 lcsh:SB1-1110 Bosecologie en Bosbeheer Mechanistic understanding Temporal scales resilience media_common Resilience business.industry Environmental resource management long-term monitoring Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät 15. Life on land PE&RC mechanistic understanding Forest Ecology and Forest Management future forests tree 030104 developmental biology Climate change mitigation Geography climate change intra-annual resolution 13. Climate action Psychological resilience Structure-function relationships business Tree 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Recercat: Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya) Frontiers in Plant Science 7 (2016) Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya instname Frontiers in Plant Science Frontiers in Plant Science, 7 Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol 7 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 1664-462X |
| Popis: | A major task of our society is to manage forests in a way that their resources are preserved to meet future generation needs (Forest Europe et al., 2015). Current scenarios of climate change effects are making this task extremely challenging (Kirilenko and Sedjo, 2007). Climate shifts will impact forest vitality and affect goods and services forests provide, including carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation (IPCC, 2014). To guide sustainable forest management, forest researchers are asked to provide concrete answers about forest resilience in response to expected climatic trends, and extreme climatic events (Lindner et al., 2014). This is not an easy task, because responses of trees and forest ecosystems to environmental conditions are often non-linear and moreover vary on spatial and temporal scales (Smith, 2011; Anderegg et al., 2012; Reichstein et al., 2013). For instance, although drought is one of the most frequent and widespread climatic extremes affecting forests worldwide (e.g., Allen et al., 2010), the assessment of its impact on future forests is currently under intense debate. Mechanisms behind tree growth and mortality are complex (McDowell et al., 2008, 2011; Fatichi et al., 2014; Anderegg et al., 2015; Meir et al., 2015). Besides strength or frequency of external factors, such as extreme events, also the tree's ability to resist and recover is relevant, which, in turn, is largely determined by intrinsic factors such as the tree's life stage, life history, and genetic characteristics. In this paper, we advocate for a tree-centered approach. By providing an improved mechanistic understanding of physiological and growth responses of trees growing under various conditions we can define the tree's capacity to respond to external stress factors. This concept can valuably contribute to the debate on how to shape future forests toward resilient forest ecosystems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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