Special Issue "Synergies and Trade-Offs between Nature Conservation and Climate Mitigation in European Beech Forests"
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2023 | Viewed by 1575
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest ecology; nitrogen and carbon cycling; biodiversity; forest understory vegetation; air pollution impacts in forests; long-term ecosystem research; LTER; ecological modelling
Interests: forestry; soil; soil carbon
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: European beech forests; old-growth forest; ecosystem services
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With its EU Green Deal, the European Commission provides a strategy to face two of the most critical challenges of our time—the climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis. Since forests sequester a significant share of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel burning and preserve diverse forest habitats for a multitude of species, they are considered to play a significant role in reaching the targets of the strategy. However, is it actually possible to truly integrate climate and biodiversity objectives in forests—and if so, how? With this Special Issue, we provide the floor to reconcile scientific and stakeholder controversies in order to put different views into a state-of-the-art scientific perspective. We focus on European beech (dominant and mixed) forests. Because beech is widespread, it has been replaced by other species such as the Norway spruce in many regions, and as it is affected by drought, it is currently being promoted as an adaptation to climatic changes. In addition, beech forests include priority habitats and species according to the EU’s Flora, Fauna, and Habitats Directive. We aim to include studies addressing the entire breadth of the challenges: beech forest sensitivity as well as adaptation to climate change, beech forests as GHG sinks, beech wood technology and marketing, beech forest conservation and biodiversity studies and specifically integrated management for climate mitigation and biodiversity.
Dr. Thomas Dirnböck
Dr. Robert Jandl
Dr. Hanns Kirchmeir
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- European beech
- Fagus sylvatica
- climate mitigation
- greenhouse gas
- forest biodiversity
- forest nature conservation
- forest management
- forest adaptation
- beech wood
