Resilience mechanisms for risk adapted forest management under climate change
Abstract
Climate change will increase risks for the provision of forest products and services. Enhancing forest resilience thus becomes a key objective for adapting forests to climate change. To achieve this objective, researchers, policy-makers and managers must UNDERSTAND the mechanisms underlying forest resilience to climate change, and how they are influenced by forest management; ASSESS management options and their implications for ecosystem services in different European regions and under different environmental conditions; and ENHANCE the science-policy-practice interface to ensure that research results are informative for management and policy decisions. Building on prior and on-going EU projects, REFORCE addresses these problems by: - developing recommendations for operational forest resilience measures in multifunctional forestry - mapping the resilience of forest productivity to climatic events across Europe and North-East Canada with remote sensing at a variety of scales, and identifying gradients of resilience within and between regions - analysing ecological mechanisms of forest resilience that can be influenced by management on short- (e.g. thinning and drought resistance) and long (demographic processes) time scales, with mechanistic and empirical models informed by monitoring data - evaluating approaches to managing resilience, including the risk reduction potential of coordinated risk management in multi-owner landscapes using mechanistic forest models and economic analyses - fostering the implementation of resilience management by co-developing management alternatives with local stakeholders in different regions and by developing strategies for efficient communication between scientists and decision makers. As a result, REFORCE will develop and evaluate regionally-adapted, climate-resilient and risk-aware management regimes for multifunctional forestry.
Resilience Risk Climate change adaptation Sustainable forest management Ecological simulation
Publikationen
Harnessing landscape heterogeneity for managing future disturbance risks in forest ecosystems
Autoren: Seidl, R; Albrich, K; Thom, D; Rammer, W Jahr: 2018
Journal articles
Trade-offs between temporal stability and level of forest ecosystem services provisioning under climate change
Autoren: Albrich, K; Rammer, W; Thom, D; Seidl, R Jahr: 2018
Journal articles
Modelling the multi-scaled nature of pest outbreaks
Autoren: Wildemeersch, M; Franklin, O; Seidl, R; Rogelj, J; Moorthy, I; Thurner, S Jahr: 2019
Journal articles
Norway spruce at the trailing edge: the effect of landscape configuration and composition on climate resilience
Autoren: Honkaniemi, J; Rammer, W; Seidl, R Jahr: 2020
Journal articles
Project staff
Rupert Seidl
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Rupert Seidl
rupert.seidl@boku.ac.at
BOKU Project Leader
15.12.2016 - 14.08.2020
BOKU partners
External partners
Catholic University of Leuven (du)
none
partner
Irstea
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coordinator
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
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partner
University of Sherbrooke
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partner
Slovenian Forestry Institute
none
partner
University of Vigo
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partner
Universität Regensburg
none
partner
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
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partner