Stand-scale climate change impacts on forests over large areas: transient responses and projection uncertainties.

ABSTRACT: The increasing impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems have triggered multiple model-based impact assessments for the future, which typically focused either on a small number of stand-scale case studies or on large scale analyses (i.e., continental to global). Therefore, substantial uncertainty remains regarding the local impacts over large areas (i.e., regions to countries), which is particularly problematic for forest management. We provide a comprehensive, high-resolution assessment of the climate change sensitivity of managed Swiss forests (~10,000 km² ), which cover a wide range of environmental conditions. We used a dynamic vegetation model to project the development of typical forest stands derived from a stratification of the Third National Forest Inventory until

SUBMITTER: Huber N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8243936 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature