DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.07.037
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85015670203
论文题名: A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems
作者: Kulakowski D. ; Seidl R. ; Holeksa J. ; Kuuluvainen T. ; Nagel T.A. ; Panayotov M. ; Svoboda M. ; Thorn S. ; Vacchiano G. ; Whitlock C. ; Wohlgemuth T. ; Bebi P.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2017
卷: 388 起始页码: 120
结束页码: 131
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Disturbance regimes
; Range of variability
; Resilience
; Socioecological systems
; Temperate forests
; Wilderness
Scopus关键词: Biodiversity
; Biogeochemistry
; Climate change
; Dynamics
; Ecology
; Ecosystems
; Land use
; Landforms
; Disturbance regime
; Range of variability
; Resilience
; Socio-ecological systems
; Temperate forests
; Wilderness
; Forestry
; adaptive management
; climate change
; conservation management
; ecosystem dynamics
; ecosystem resilience
; environmental disturbance
; episodic event
; forest ecosystem
; forest management
; heterogeneity
; land use
; montane forest
; mountain region
; protected area
; temperate forest
; wilderness area
; Europe
; Hexapoda
英文摘要: Mountain forests are among the most important ecosystems in Europe as they support numerous ecological, hydrological, climatic, social, and economic functions. They are unique relatively natural ecosystems consisting of long-lived species in an otherwise densely populated human landscape. Despite this, centuries of intensive forest management in many of these forests have eclipsed evidence of natural processes, especially the role of disturbances in long-term forest dynamics. Recent trends of land abandonment and establishment of protected forests have coincided with a growing interest in managing forests in more natural states. At the same time, the importance of past disturbances highlighted in an emerging body of literature, and recent increasing disturbances due to climate change are challenging long-held views of dynamics in these ecosystems. Here, we synthesize aspects of this Special Issue on the ecology of mountain forest ecosystems in Europe in the context of broader discussions in the field, to present a new perspective on these ecosystems and their natural disturbance regimes. Most mountain forests in Europe, for which long-term data are available, show a strong and long-term effect of not only human land use but also of natural disturbances that vary by orders of magnitude in size and frequency. Although these disturbances may kill many trees, the forests themselves have not been threatened. The relative importance of natural disturbances, land use, and climate change for ecosystem dynamics varies across space and time. Across the continent, changing climate and land use are altering forest cover, forest structure, tree demography, and natural disturbances, including fires, insect outbreaks, avalanches, and wind disturbances. Projected continued increases in forest area and biomass along with continued warming are likely to further promote forest disturbances. Episodic disturbances may foster ecosystem adaptation to the effects of ongoing and future climatic change. Increasing disturbances, along with trends of less intense land use, will promote further increases in coarse woody debris, with cascading positive effects on biodiversity, edaphic conditions, biogeochemical cycles, and increased heterogeneity across a range of spatial scales. Together, this may translate to disturbance-mediated resilience of forest landscapes and increased biodiversity, as long as climate and disturbance regimes remain within the tolerance of relevant species. Understanding ecological variability, even imperfectly, is integral to anticipating vulnerabilities and promoting ecological resilience, especially under growing uncertainty. Allowing some forests to be shaped by natural processes may be congruent with multiple goals of forest management, even in densely settled and developed countries. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/64511
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作者单位: Graduate School of Geography, Clark UniversityMA, United States; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland; Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria; Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Plant Ecology and Environment Protection, Umultowska 89, Poznań, Poland; Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Dendrology Department, University of Forestry, Sofia, Bulgaria; Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstraße 5, Rauhenebrach, Germany; Università degli Studi di Torino, DISAFA, Largo Braccini 2, 10095 Grugliasco (TO), Italy; Montana Institute on Ecosystems, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States; Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Recommended Citation:
Kulakowski D.,Seidl R.,Holeksa J.,et al. A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2017-01-01,388