Climate Change and Forest Adaptation in Plantation
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Meteorology and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 1827
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forest ecosystems; eco-hydrology; forest landscape restoration; climate change and forest resilience; multifunctional forest management
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Interests: climate change; carbon cycle; ecological modeling; forest ecology and management
Interests: subtropical forests; forest plantation management; C and N cycling; mycorrhizal associations; land use
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Being an essential component of the world’s forest resources, planted forests alleviate the stresses placed on natural forests by timber production and play a significant role in forest landscape restoration, environmental amelioration and carbon capture to combat climate change. In comparison to natural forests, despite remarkable increases in plantation area, most plantations are monocultures with less tree species diversity, and higher vulnerability to pests, diseases and invasive species. In addition, the frequent short rotations with a continuous cropping regime applied in plantations have caused soil degradation and productivity decline in the long run, and consequently, a potential reduction in forest carbon sequestration capacity, a high risk of forest fires and poor ecological stability. As a result, planted forests, and in particular monocultures, are relatively more susceptible to climate warming, precipitation changes, extreme weather events such as severe droughts and heatwaves, and other negative impacts caused by climate change. The ecosystem resilience and multifunctionality of planted forests in the context of climate change, for the purpose of making well-informed and well-prepared forest management decisions against such a climatic backdrop, have received much attention throughout the world. Therefore, there is a need to improve the understanding of the underlying ecology of forest resilience to climate change, in order to develop appropriate management options for planted forests to adapt climate change. This Special Issue focuses on the specific research area of climate change and forest adaptation in plantations, and invites contributions on advances in our understanding of the impacts of climate change on plantations, and on possible solutions to enhance their resilience and adaptation to climate change.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Case studies of global/regional climate change mitigation and adaptation in plantations;
- Tree species diversity and resilience in plantations attributed to climate change;
- Case studies of site-appropriate and climate-smart forest management approaches and practices in plantations;
- Mechanisms of the underlying ecology of forest resilience to climate change;
- Detected changes in plantations beyond the current knowledge;
- Scenario projection about the future of planted forest management using both known impacts and detected but unknown changes.
Prof. Dr. Shirong Liu
Prof. Dr. Changhui Peng
Prof. Dr. Wenhua Xiang
Prof. Dr. Hui Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plantations/planted forests
- ecosystem services
- climate change impacts
- forest resilience and adaptation
- climate-smart forestry
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