Enhancing Forest Productivity, Value, and Health through Silviculture in a Changing World

编号 010032002

推送时间 20211206

研究领域 森林生态 

年份 2021 

类型 期刊 

语种 英语

标题 Enhancing Forest Productivity, Value, and Health through Silviculture in a Changing World

来源期刊 forest

期 第320期

发表时间 20211110

关键词 Broadleaved forests;  biomass;  plantation productivity;  wild timber stocks; 

摘要 Global change is inducing important stresses to forests worldwide [1,2]. For example, increases in the frequency and intensity of drought events and invasions by new exotic invasive plants and insects have started to modify forest dynamics, including regeneration, recruitment, and growth, with significant effects on the provision of ecosystem services [3]. Meanwhile, the world population is exerting growing pressure on forest ecosystems as a source of materials supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy, e.g., [4]. Silviculture, which enables controlling the establishment, growth, composition, and quality of forest vegetation to achieve management objectives [5], offers the opportunity to create and maintain forest ecosystems that can meet these challenges [6]. There is a vibrant need to conduct and disseminate silviculture research that provides the knowledge required to favor the resistance, resilience, or transition of forest ecosystems in the face of climate change [7,8].
This Special Issue of Forests focuses on the role of silviculture to enhance forest productivity, value, and health in the context of global change. It comprises nine papers describing studies conducted in the temperate deciduous and coniferous forests from the United States, Canada, and Sweden. This collection contains studies investigating various functions of silviculture (regeneration, stand tending, and harvesting) or their combinations, looking at how traditional or new treatments can help increase growth or adapt forests to climate change, and deciphering interactions between silviculture and climate, site characteristics, genetics, and biotic pressures.

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