Forest disturbances change psychological ownership among traditional private forest owners in North Rhine Westphalia

Forest Policy and Economics, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 172, P. 103422 - 103422

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

Language: Английский

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Enhancing Resilience of Boreal Forests Through Management Under Global Change: a Review

Current Landscape Ecology Reports, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 8(3), P. 103 - 118

Published: April 19, 2023

Abstract Purpose of Review Boreal forests provide a wide range ecosystem services that are important to society. The boreal biome is experiencing the highest rates warming on planet and increasing demand for forest products. Here, we review how changes in climate its associated extreme events (e.g., windstorms) putting at risk capacity these continue providing services. We further analyze role management increase resilience combined effects change events. Recent Findings Enhancing recently gained lot interest from theoretical perspective. Yet, it remains unclear translate knowledge into practice operationalize maintain functions under changing global conditions. identify summarize main approaches (natural disturbance emulation, landscape functional zoning, complex network, climate-smart forestry) can promote resilience. Summary concept sciences, may put risk, alleviate or such risks. found increased temperatures having negative impacts forests. Then, discuss could enhance multifunctionality (simultaneous provision high levels multiple species habitats). Finally, complementary strengths individual report challenges implement them practice.

Language: Английский

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Resilience and vulnerability: distinct concepts to address global change in forests

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 39(8), P. 706 - 715

Published: March 25, 2024

Resilience and vulnerability are important concepts to understand, anticipate, manage global change impacts on forest ecosystems. However, they often used confusingly inconsistently, hampering a synthetic understanding of change, impeding communication with managers policy-makers. Both powerful have complementary strengths, reflecting their different history, methodological approach, components, spatiotemporal focus. assessments address the temporal response disturbance mechanisms driving it. Vulnerability focus spatial patterns exposure susceptibility, explicitly adaptive capacity stakeholder preferences. We suggest applying distinct resilience where provide particular leverage, deduce number lessons learned facilitate next generation assessments.

Language: Английский

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Quantifying the impacts of rewilding on ecosystem resilience to disturbances: A global meta-analysis

Journal of Environmental Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 375, P. 124360 - 124360

Published: Jan. 31, 2025

Rewilding is one approach to restoration that aims at restoring natural self-sustaining ecosystems, allowing processes resume by targeting an increase in trophic complexity, disturbance stochasticity, and dispersal, while minimizing human interventions. These components have also been argued enhance ecosystem resilience, yet this claim has barely specifically addressed. We conducted a meta-analysis explore whether rewilding interventions aimed increasing biodiversity (i.e., complexity), stochasticity or connectivity resilience future abiotic biotic disturbances. integrated two recently developed operational frameworks address scrutinized the outcomes of 42 case studies (305 observations). found that, overall, three abovementioned increased variables related demography, biodiversity, biophysical characteristics regime (70% Yet, result was influenced nature approach, with lower success reported for disturbances (drought fire) social-ecological resilience. While only together showed positive effects, complexity alone contributed less system biodiversity. The most common interventions, such as domestic wild herbivore introductions invasive plant removals, enhanced towards invasions). some particular contexts (social-ecological systems) lack sufficient observations allow clear conclusions. Overall, our results empirically demonstrate predominantly effects on underpinning potential preparing ecosystems uncertain climate change associated acknowledging limitations depending disturbance.

Language: Английский

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Beetles, wind, and fire: Effects of climate change and close-to-nature forestry on disturbance predisposition and ecosystem service trade-offs

Forest Ecology and Management, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 586, P. 122690 - 122690

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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The interacting effect of climate change and herbivory can trigger large‐scale transformations of European temperate forests

Global Change Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 30(2)

Published: Feb. 1, 2024

In many regions of Europe, large wild herbivores alter forest community composition through their foraging preferences, hinder the forest's natural adaptive responses to climate change, and reduce ecosystem resilience. We investigated a widespread European type, mixed dominated by Picea abies, which has recently experienced an unprecedented level disturbance across continent. Using landscape model iLand, we combined effect change herbivory on structure, composition, carbon identified conditions leading transitions 300-year timescale. Eight scenarios, driven Representative Concentration Pathways 4.5 8.5, with three levels regeneration browsing, were tested. found that persistence current browsing pressure impedes changes in sustains presence vulnerable yet less palatable P. abies. These development trajectories tortuous, characterized high intensity. On contrary, reduced initiated transformation towards naturally dominant broadleaved species was associated increased considerably disturbance. The RCP4.5 moderate preserved within its reference range variability, defining actual boundaries remaining combinations led transitions. Under effects excluded, new equilibrium achieved 120 years, whereas stabilization delayed 50-100 years under RCP8.5 higher intensities. conclude forests abies are prone change. However, reducing can set stable predictable trajectory, sustaining lead heightened activity, extended transition times, variability target conditions.

Language: Английский

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Shaping and enhancing resilient forests for a resilient society

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 53(8), P. 1095 - 1108

Published: April 5, 2024

Abstract The world is currently facing uncertainty caused by environmental, social, and economic changes political shocks. Fostering social-ecological resilience enhancing forests’ ability to provide a range of ecosystem services, including carbon sequestration, habitat provision, sustainable livelihoods, key addressing such uncertainty. However, policy makers managers lack clear understanding how operationalise the shaping through combined challenges climate change, biodiversity crisis, in societal demand. Based on scientific literature review, we identified set actions related conservation, disturbance pressure impacts that forest should attend enhance European systems. We conclude forests (1) adopt an operational approach, which lacking, (2) identify address existing future trade-offs while reinforcing win–wins (3) local particularities adaptive management approach.

Language: Английский

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ORF, an operational framework to measure resilience in social–ecological systems: the forest case study

Sustainability Science, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 19(5), P. 1579 - 1593

Published: May 21, 2024

Abstract Resilience is commonly addressed when dealing with the sustainable planning and management of social–ecological systems, but we lack a unified framework for its quantitative assessment application. We present an operational resilience (ORF) based on recognizing relating several elements: system variables (e.g., ecosystem services), disturbances stressors acting at given spatiotemporal scales, reference state, metrics comparing observed to state. These elements fit into rationale aimed identifying predictors suitable be managed co-drivers which describe non-manageable context, reflecting mechanisms involved in resilience. By systematic search presence ORF concepts 453 empirical studies assessing resilience, corroborate that can applied forest systems. This literature survey shows are recognized, although logical narrative them not always explicit, particularly socioeconomic-focused studies. advocate proposed allows standardize terminology frame measure allowing sounder comparisons better-supported recommendations improvement

Language: Английский

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Connecting gender balance, crisis resistance and innovativeness in the forestry sector: Women in leadership and management

Environmental Science & Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 161, P. 103890 - 103890

Published: Sept. 12, 2024

Language: Английский

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Assessing experimental silvicultural treatments enhancing structural complexity in a central European forest – BEAST time‐series analysis based on Sentinel‐1 and Sentinel‐2

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(4), P. 531 - 550

Published: April 3, 2024

Abstract Assessing the dynamics of forest structure complexity is a critical task in times global warming, biodiversity loss and increasing disturbances order to ensure resilience forests. Recent studies on emphasize essential functions deadwood accumulation diversification light conditions for enhancement structural complexity. The implementation an experimental patch‐network managed broad‐leaved forests within Germany enables standardized analysis various aggregated distributed treatments characterized through diverse structures. To monitor enhanced as seasonal trend components, dense time‐series from high spatial resolution imagery Sentinel‐1 (Synthetic‐Aperture Radar, SAR) Sentinel‐2 (multispectral) are analyzed decomposition models (BEAST, Bayesian Estimator Abrupt change, Seasonal change Trend). Based several statistics comprehensive catalog spectral indices, metrics ( n = 84) 903) calculated at patch‐level. Metrics best identifying treatment event assessed by point dates probability scores. Heterogeneity VH NMDI (Normalized Multi‐band Drought Index) capture most accurately, with clear advantages identification treatments. In addition, structures downed or no can be characterized, well more complex standing structures, such snags habitat trees. conclude, complementary sensors have potential assess complexities, thus supporting continuous monitoring habitats functioning over time.

Language: Английский

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