Assessing the resilience of Norway spruce forests through a model-based reanalysis of thinning trials.

ABSTRACT: As a result of a rapidly changing climate the resilience of forests is an increasingly important property for ecosystem management. Recent efforts have improved the theoretical understanding of resilience, yet its operational quantification remains challenging. Furthermore, there is growing awareness that resilience is not only a means to addressing the consequences of climate change but is also affected by it, necessitating a better understanding of the climate sensitivity of resilience. Quantifying current and future resilience is thus an important step towards mainstreaming resilience thinking into ecosystem management. Here, we present a novel approach for quantifying forest resilience from thinning trials, and assess the climate sensitivity of resilience using process-based ecosystem

SUBMITTER: Seidl R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5572630 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature