Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Forest Functions
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Hazards and Risk Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2021) | Viewed by 6510
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest ecology; forest management; carbon allocation; ecophysiology
Interests: carbon cycle of forest ecosystems; eddy covariance; sustainable forest management; long-term ecological research; ecophysiology
Interests: stable isotopes; Xylogenesis; dendrochronology; adaptation to climate change
Interests: dendroclimatology; dendroecology; wood formation; xylogenesis; tropical dendrochronology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1950s, global climate change has caused an increase in the frequency, intensity, and scale of extreme weather events (e.g., droughts, flooding, heat waves, windstorm, frost). Such events are recognized among the major drivers of current and future forest dynamics, affecting their productivity and composition. Extreme weather events affect the physiology of trees, with responses that are related both to tolerance and resilience. Nevertheless, these stressful events induce many interconnected effects, which can potentially and profoundly alter the functionality of ecosystems at different spatial and timescales. Globally, drought is recognized as the most widespread factor affecting forest functions and tree mortality. Still, in different areas, forests also have to face other extreme weather events, which can be very stressful and even destructive, with a significant reduction of their climate change mitigation capacity and of other ecosystem services.
Future climate change scenarios forecast an increased frequency of such conditions, calling for a better understanding of forest response to extreme weather events.
With this aim, we invite colleagues to contribute to this Special Issue with studies from several fields, targeting physiological and ecophysiological mechanisms; short-, medium-, and long-term responses of forests, experimental and modeling analyses, and others, in order to promote better knowledge on how forests respond to extreme events with a view to inform adaptation strategies for the preservation, management, and future development of forest ecosystems.
Dr. Ettore D'Andrea
Dr. Giorgio Matteucci
Dr. Negar Rezaie
Prof. Dr. Achim Bräuning
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- extreme climatic events
- disturbances
- carbon sequestration
- biodiversity
- ecosystem services
- forest management
- resilience
- adaptation
- mitigation
- ecophysiological response mechanisms
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