Modeling the effects of climate change and management on the dead wood dynamics in boreal forest plantations

What is it about?

In the present research I examined the joint effects of climate change and management on the dead wood dynamics of the main tree species of the Finnish boreal forests via a forest ecosystem simulator. I predicted that in boreal forests, climate change will speed up tree growth and accumulation ending up in a higher stock of dead wood available as habitat for forest-dwelling species, but the accumulation processes will be much smaller in the working landscape than in set-asides.

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Why is it important?

This paper was Indexed by the CLIM-FO – Climate Change & Forestry (Electronic Journal and Newsletter May 2014 edited by FAO, Forestry Department, Forest and Climate Change Team)