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Managing Forests for Multiple Ecosystem Services Under Changing Climate
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Managing Forests for Multiple Ecosystem Services Under Changing Climate

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 March 2025 | Viewed by 2203

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Shuirong Wu

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Research Institute of Forestry Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, China
Interests: valuation of and payment for forest ecosystem services; carbon market and trading; forest carbon mangement; multi-purpose forest management; International climate governance
Prof. Dr. Manfred J. Lexer

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Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna 1180, Austria
Interests: quantitative analysis of multi-functional forest management strategies; forest management under climate change; development and application of ecosystem models
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Dr. Xufeng Zhang

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School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Interests: resources and environmental economics; forest biomass for bioenergy; carbon market; forest management modeling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Forests are one of the planet’s critical ecosystems. Forest ecosystems provide a multitude of goods such as timber and biomass, mushroom and berries, medicinal herbs and ecosystem services such as water purification, recreation, carbon sequestration and habitats for flora and fauna. Forests also harbor a large share of the planet´s biodiversity. Multipurpose forest management is aiming at the provision of a portfolio of goods and services depending on the demand and interests of landowners and other stakeholders. Moreover, forests are included in international treaties on biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation and thus have to meet the requirements of national governments. Forests also play a key role in providing raw material for a circular bioeconmy. Which portfolios of goods and services are feasible and efficient depends on trade-offs among ecosystem services. Climate change is and will continue to affect forest ecosystems and thus the provisioning of ecosystem services. Climate change impacts and related adaptation needs will shift trade-off relationships among demanded ecosystem services and will thus impose major challenges for forest management.     

For the proposed Special Issue, we invite contributions on the following topics as pertaining to forest ecosystems worldwide:

  • Potentials and limitations of current management approaches to provide multiple ecosystem services
  • Impact of climate-change-related emerging ecological, socio-economic and political issues on ecosystem service valuation
  • Impact of multipurpose management concepts on the integrity of ecological structures and functions in forests, and how these are linked to specific ecosystem services
  • Case studies of management options for multiple services in private, community-owned and state-owned forests
  • Climate change impacts on ecosystem service provisioning in multipurpose forests
  • Disturbance regimes and implications for ecosystem services
  • Decision support tools for multipurpose forest management
  • Governance approaches to secure multiple ecosystem service provisioning
  • Ecosystem services for circular bioeconomy

Prof. Dr. Shuirong Wu
Prof. Dr. Manfred J. Lexer
Dr. Xufeng Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • multipurpose forest management
  • ecosystem services provision and valuation
  • trade-offs and synergies
  • payment for ecosystem services (PES)
  • climate change impacts
  • disturbances
  • forest resilience
  • forest planning
  • forest governance
  • bioeconomy

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Quantifying Ecosystem Services to Maximize Co-Benefits under Market-Based Conservation Solutions in the Edisto River Basin, South Carolina
by Lucas Clay, Marzieh Motallebi and Thomas L. O’Halloran
Forests 2024, 15(10), 1796; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15101796 - 12 Oct 2024
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As climate change intensifies, the need to conserve ecosystem services and our natural resources increases. Nature-based solutions projects that focus on sequestering carbon can also have significant impacts on the ecosystem services in the project area. Herein, we describe a method to quantify [...] Read more.
As climate change intensifies, the need to conserve ecosystem services and our natural resources increases. Nature-based solutions projects that focus on sequestering carbon can also have significant impacts on the ecosystem services in the project area. Herein, we describe a method to quantify ecosystem services via the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (Version 3.14) model. We use those quantitative methods to show where carbon projects and other restoration projects could increase certain ecosystem services through best practices. Using the Edisto River Basin in South Carolina as a study site, we developed a spatial additionality model that shows where water retention, carbon, and sediment retention can be improved. InVEST modeling showed high levels of sediment export and water yield, with 0.12 tons/acre of sediment exported and 256.3 cm/acre of water yielded downstream on average. The model indicates that over 70,000 acres comprised of parcels greater than 20 contiguous acres could implement management to increase ecosystem service provisioning. This model output shows spatially where best management practices can be implemented to achieve positive outcomes and where carbon projects could be implemented to derive additional co-benefits. Furthermore, it can be used as a tool for measurement and verification as data is updated. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Managing Forests for Multiple Ecosystem Services Under Changing Climate)
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Historical Pollution Exposure Impacts on PM2.5 Dry Deposition and Physiological Responses in Urban Trees
by Ruiyu Liu, Manli Wang, Shuyu Chen, Jing Zhang, Xiaoai Jin, Yuan Ren and Jian Chen
Forests 2024, 15(9), 1614; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15091614 - 13 Sep 2024
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Urban trees are known for their ability to settle fine particulate matter (PM2.5), yet the effects of historical pollution exposure on their dust-retention capacity and stress memory remain underexplored. Therefore, we selected Euonymus japonicus Thunb. var. aurea-marginatus Hort. and Photinia × [...] Read more.
Urban trees are known for their ability to settle fine particulate matter (PM2.5), yet the effects of historical pollution exposure on their dust-retention capacity and stress memory remain underexplored. Therefore, we selected Euonymus japonicus Thunb. var. aurea-marginatus Hort. and Photinia × fraseri Dress, which are two common urban greening tree species in the Yangtze River Delta, a highly urbanized region in China facing severe air pollution challenges, characterized by dense urban forests, and we employed an aerosol generator to perform controlled experiments aiming to simulate PM2.5 pollution exposure in a sealed chamber. The experiments encompassed a first pollution treatment period P1 (15 days), a recovery period R (15 days), and a second pollution treatment period P2 (15 days). The study investigates the historical impacts of pollution exposure by simulating controlled environmental conditions and assessing the morphological and physiological changes in trees. The main results are as follows: Vd of Euonymus japonicus Thunb. var. aurea-marginatus Hort. significantly decreased on the 10th day during P2 compared with that on the same day during P1, whereas Vd of Photinia × fraseri Dress significantly decreased on the 15th day. Compared with those during P1, the specific leaf area of both plants significantly decreased, the specific leaf weight significantly increased, the wax layer significantly thickened, the stomata decreased, and the content of photosynthetic pigments remained stable during P2. Furthermore, the air pollution tolerance index (APTI) generally increased during both P1 and P2. This study contributes to international knowledge by examining stress memory in urban trees and underscores the role of stress memory in enhancing plant resistance to periodic particulate pollution, offering insights into the adaptive mechanisms that can be applied globally, not just regionally. Full article
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Impact of Land Use Change on Water-Related Ecosystem Services under Multiple Ecological Restoration Scenarios in the Ganjiang River Basin, China
by Yiming Wang, Zengxin Zhang and Xi Chen
Forests 2024, 15(7), 1225; https://doi.org/10.3390/f15071225 - 15 Jul 2024
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Ecological restoration programs (ERPs) can lead to dramatic land use change, thereby affecting ecosystem services and their interaction. Determining the optimal ERPs is a crucial issue for ecological restoration in ecologically fragile regions. This study analyzed the impacts of land use change on [...] Read more.
Ecological restoration programs (ERPs) can lead to dramatic land use change, thereby affecting ecosystem services and their interaction. Determining the optimal ERPs is a crucial issue for ecological restoration in ecologically fragile regions. This study analyzed the impacts of land use change on four water-related ecosystem services (WESs), namely water yield, soil retention, water purification, and food production in the Ganjiang River basin, China during the past two decades. Then, trade-off and synergy between WESs were detected based on correlation analysis. Finally, to quantify the effect of ERPs on WESs, we comprehensively considered the types and intensity of ERPs and designed four categories of scenarios: returning farmland to forest (RFF) scenarios; planting forest (PF) scenarios; riparian forestland buffer (RFB) scenarios; and riparian grassland buffer (RGB) scenarios. Each category contains five scenarios of different intensities. The results showed that water yield, soil retention, and food production increased while water purification decreased from 2000 to 2020. The deterioration of water quality was mainly due to transitions from forestland to farmland and built-up land. Trade-offs only occurred between regulating services and provisioning services. Among all ecological restoration scenarios, only the RFF scenarios can significantly improve soil retention and water purification at the same time, although food production will decrease. Considering food security, returning farmland with a slope greater than 10 degrees to forestland was the optimal scenario in the study area. This study highlighted that both the type and intensity of ERPs should be considered in ecological restoration. This study can contribute to ecological restoration in the Ganjiang River basin and other subtropical mountainous regions. Full article
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