The Adaptation of Forest Trees under 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: 15 January 2025 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The adaptation of forests to ongoing climate change is essential to ensure the long-term vitality of these ecosystems. This vitality is central to fulfilling the goals of society; climate change mitigation ensures that carbon storage is maintained in biomass, soil, and wood products, and biodiversity maintenance and enhancement ensure the health of the living environment for numerous species. There are gaps in our knowledge on the adaptation of forests to meteorological extremes (which are predicted to become more common in future), as well as their adaptation to various direct and indirect interacting effects of climate change. Measures to enhance adaptation and the perception of such measures among forest managers and society at large need to be enacted to ensure the vitality of this ecosystem in future.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Direct and carry-over effects of weather extremes on growth, vitality, and wood traits;
- Adaptive forest management from plot to landscape scales;
- Genetic determination of traits essential to adaptation (from clone to provenance level);
- Effect of single and multi-layer tree species mixtures on traits essential to adaptation;
- Enhancement of forest resistance against and/or resilience to effects of climate change;
- Measures to enhance adaptation as part of biodiversity maintenance strategies;
- Social perception of forest adaptation, maladaptation, and measures to enhance
Dr. Āris Jansons
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- meteorological extremes
- drought stress
- resilience
- resistance
- tolerance
- population variability
- species shift
- climate-smart forestry
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