Forest Resilience and Resistance to Climate Change
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Meteorology and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (3 March 2023) | Viewed by 7473
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diversity; forest ecology; functional divesrity; plant community; tree growth
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Interests: forest ecology; global change; drought resilience; forest decline; dendroecology; ecological stoichiometry; intraspecific variability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Projected increases in global temperatures, and associated rises in evaporative demand, can result in the occurrence of more severe extreme climate events such as droughts and heat waves. Tree growth in many regions will be impaired, thus compromising the carbon sink capacity of forests along with other valuable ecosystem services around the world. Improving our knowledge of the resistance and resilience capacity of forests against climate change is thus fundamental to advance in our understanding of how forests will face a warmer and potentially drier climate.
This Special Issue aims to give an overview of the most recent advances in the investigation of the impacts of climate change on tree growth and forest productivity. We welcome contributions showing, from different perspectives and across disciplines, how forests respond to extreme events such as droughts, heat waves, and floods across biomes. We are particularly interested in contributions on advances in the biotic and abiotic factors that modulate the resistance and resilience capacity of forests to climate change.
Our aim is to advance in the following questions:
- How can forest resistance and resilience to climate change be estimated?
- How do forest resistance and resilience vary across regions?
- Which factors modulate forest resistance and resilience at different scales?
Dr. Antonio Gazol
Dr. Ester González-de-Andrés
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- canopy activity
- defoliation
- dendrochronology
- drought
- heat wave
- resilience
- satellite imagery
- tree growth
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