Monitoring resistance and resilience using carbon trajectories: Analysis of forest management-disturbance interactions.

ABSTRACT: A changing climate is altering ecosystem carbon dynamics with consequences for natural systems and human economies, but there are few tools available for land managers to meaningfully incorporate carbon trajectories into planning efforts. To address uncertainties wrought by rapidly changing conditions, many practitioners adopt resistance and resilience as ecosystem management goals, but these concepts have proven difficult to monitor across landscapes. Here, we address the growing need to understand and plan for ecosystem carbon with concepts of resistance and resilience. Using time series of carbon fixation (n = 103), we evaluate forest management treatments and their relative impacts on resistance and resilience in the context of an expansive and severe natural disturbance. Using subalpi

SUBMITTER: Davis TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10077906 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature