Forest health and global change
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Humans rely on healthy forests to supply energy, building materials, and food and to provide services such as storing carbon, hosting biodiversity, and regulating climate. Defining forest health integrates utilitarian and ecosystem measures of forest condition and function, implemented across a range of spatial scales. Although native forests are adapted to some level of disturbance, all forests now face novel stresses in the form of climate change, air pollution, and invasive pests. Detecting how intensification of these stresses will affect the trajectory of forests is a major scientific challenge that requires developing systems to assess the health of global forests. It is particularly critical to identify thresholds for rapid forest decline, because it can take many decades for forests to restore the services that they provide.
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Optimizing forest management strategies such as selection of suitable tree species, rotation length, and fertilization regimes are effective ways to increase forest C sequestration.
“for C sequestration in forest ecosystems, optimizing forest management strategies such as selection of suitable tree species, rotation length, and fertilization regimes are effective ways to increase the amount of forest C sequestration.177, 178, 179”
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- Authors
- Trumbore, S., Brando, P., & Hartmann, H.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Woodwell Climate Research Center (US)
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Trumbore, S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2015-08-21
- Volume
- 349
- Issue
- 6250
- Pages
- 814-818
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1902238321
- Cited by
- 1,042
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 5.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- NSF (DEB-1146206)
- Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Forest Management and Policy
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Keywords
- forest health, global change, climate change, air pollution, invasive pest, forest decline, ecological thresholds, forest carbon storage, biodiversity, forest services, forest restoration, forest condition assessment
- MeSH terms
- Environmental Monitoring, Humans, Stress, Physiological, Trees, Environmental Restoration and Remediation, Forests
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