Can Managing Mixed Stands Mitigate Severe Environmental Change Impacts on Forests?
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 April 2024) | Viewed by 286
Special Issue Editor
Interests: climate-smart forestry; adaptive silviculture; regeneration methods; natural and artificial regeneration; intermediate treatments; silvicultural prescription; mixed forest performance; conversion methods; mixed-species forest growth models; inter-and intra-specific relationships; old-growth forests
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests are the key component of life in the world and play an irreplaceable role in many global and local environmental, social and economic processes. Currently, we are experiencing numerous severe environmental impacts on forests that are mostly related to climate change. One of the main challenges is to sustain the integrity of forest ecosystems and ensure that all needed and expected ecosystem goods and services are delivered by forests. In light of the threats to forests, it is necessary to undertake any possible measures that could be applied to maintain forests in a good condition.
Among many other solutions, shaping and maintaining mixed-species forests (MSF) appears to be justified in many cases and can be rationalized based on science. The launched Special Issue plans to provide an overview of the most recent advances in the field of mixed-species forest management and how it can help to mitigate the impacts of environmental change on forests. This Special Issue is aimed at providing selected contributors with advances in renewal, tending operations, harvesting methods and any other management activities applied in a mixed-species forest concerning the occurrence and prediction of environmental changes.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- mixed-species forest performance
- productivity and stability of MSF
- influence of environmental changes on growth characteristics of MSF
- resistance, resilience and recovery of MSF
- a modified or new concept of silvicultural intervention in MSF
- growth models of MSF
- policy and governance of MSF
Prof. Dr. Maciej Pach
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- climate change
- adaptive forest management
- silviculture prescriptions
- growth models
- resistance
- resilience
- governance
