Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests.

ABSTRACT: In many parts of the world forest disturbance regimes have intensified recently, and future climatic changes are expected to amplify this development further in the coming decades. These changes are increasingly challenging the main objectives of forest ecosystem management, which are to provide ecosystem services sustainably to society and maintain the biological diversity of forests. Yet a comprehensive understanding of how disturbances affect these primary goals of ecosystem management is still lacking. We conducted a global literature review on the impact of three of the most important disturbance agents (fire, wind, and bark beetles) on 13 different ecosystem services and three indicators of biodiversity in forests of the boreal, cool- and warm-temperate biomes. Our objectives were to

SUBMITTER: Thom D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4898621 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature