Silviculture under Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change has drastic impacts on the growth, mortality, and distributions of forests. Maintaining the provision of a range of forest ecosystem services requires that strategies for adapting forests to climate change be developed. However, despite a wealth of theoretical guidelines, there are very limited examples of actual applications and success stories that depict how “Silviculture under Climate Change” might be undertaken. Silviculture represents a viable method to maintain, restore, or conserve particular forest species, types, and ecosystems, enhancing forest resilience to the negative impacts of climate change and climate-enhanced extreme events, or taking advantage of positive effects (e.g., faster growth in boreal regions). In this Special Issue, we solicit research that is focused on silvicultural interventions that respond to or anticipate climate change by seeking to regenerate desirable species, establish more resilient ones (including those that generate ‘novel ecosystems’), reduce competition on established trees, maintain or promote mixtures, reduce mortality of high value forests and species, reduce the severity of climate-caused extreme events or restore the forest after their impacts, and mitigate the loss of forest ecosystem services or promote services that are newly achievable. We will entertain results from experimental, monitoring, and modeling approaches (only validated ones) from all forest ecosystems worldwide, and encourage contributions with demonstrated results for this Special Issue that would be of use to furthering the art, science, and the practice of silviculture.

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• Climate Change
• Experimental Silviculture
• Regeneration Treatments
• Intermediate Treatments
• Enrichment Planting
• Resilience
• Adaptation
• Assisted Migration
• Extreme Events
• Ecosystem Services