Severe and frequent extreme weather events undermine economic adaptation gains of tree-species diversification.

ABSTRACT: Forests and their provision of ecosystem services are endangered by climate change. Tree-species diversification has been identified as a key adaptation strategy to balance economic risks and returns in forest stands. Yet, whether this synergy between ecology and economics persists under large-scale extreme weather events remains unanswered. Our model accounts for both, small-scale disturbances in individual stands and extreme weather events that cause spatio-temporally correlated disturbances in a large number of neighboring stands. It economically optimizes stand-type allocations in a large forest enterprise with multiple planning units. Novel components are: spatially explicit site heterogeneity and a comparison of economic diversification strategies under local and regionally coordinat

SUBMITTER: Fuchs JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10810831 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature