The anthropogenic imprint on temperate and boreal forest demography and carbon turnover.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The sweeping transformation of the biosphere by humans over the last millennia leaves only limited windows into its natural state. Much of the forests that dominated temperate and southern boreal regions have been lost and those that remain typically bear a strong imprint of forestry activities and past land-use change, which have changed forest age structure and composition. Here, we ask how would the dynamics, structure and function of temperate and boreal forests differ in the absence of forestry and the legacies of land-use change?

Location

Global.

Time period

2001-2014, integrating over the legacy of disturbance events from 1875 to 2014.

Major taxa studied

Trees.

Methods

We constructed an empirical model of natural disturbance probability as a f

SUBMITTER: Pugh TAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952773 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature