Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?

ABSTRACT: Recent studies projecting future climate change impacts on forests mainly consider either the effects of climate change on productivity or on disturbances. However, productivity and disturbances are intrinsically linked because 1) disturbances directly affect forest productivity (e.g. via a reduction in leaf area, growing stock or resource-use efficiency), and 2) disturbance susceptibility is often coupled to a certain development phase of the forest with productivity determining the time a forest is in this specific phase of susceptibility. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of forest productivity changes in different forest regions in Europe under climate change, and partition these changes into effects induced by climate change alone and by climate change and disturba

SUBMITTER: Reyer CPO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5572643 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature