Managing for the unexpected: Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change.

ABSTRACT: Natural disturbances exacerbated by novel climate regimes are increasing worldwide, threatening the ability of forest ecosystems to mitigate global warming through carbon sequestration and to provide other key ecosystem services. One way to cope with unknown disturbance events is to promote the ecological resilience of the forest by increasing both functional trait and structural diversity and by fostering functional connectivity of the landscape to ensure a rapid and efficient self-reorganization of the system. We investigated how expected and unexpected variations in climate and biotic disturbances affect ecological resilience and carbon storage in a forested region in southeastern Canada. Using a process-based forest landscape model (LANDIS-II), we simulated ecosystem responses to clima

SUBMITTER: Mina M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541346 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature