A trait-based approach to both forestry and timber building can synchronize forest harvest and resilience.

ABSTRACT: Along with forest managers, builders are key change agents of forest ecosystems' structure and composition through the specification and use of wood products. New forest management approaches are being advocated to increase the resilience and adaptability of forests to climate change and other natural disturbances. Such approaches call for a diversification of our forests based on species' functional traits that will dramatically change the harvested species composition, volume, and output of our forested landscapes. This calls for the wood-building industry to adapt its ways of operating. Accordingly, we expand the evaluation of the ecological resilience of forest ecosystems based on functional diversification to include a trait-based approach to building with wood. This trait-based plant

SUBMITTER: Osborne P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465084 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature