Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change : Sustainable Management

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This open access book explores a new conceptual framework for the sustainable management of the boreal forest in the face of climate change. The boreal forest is the second-largest terrestrial biome on Earth and covers a 14 million km2 belt, representing about 25% of the Earth’s forest area. Two-thirds of this forest biome is managed and supplies 37% of global wood production. These forests also provide a range of natural resources and ecosystem services essential to humanity. However, climate change is altering species distributions, natural disturbance regimes, and forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Although sustainable management is the main goal across the boreal biome, a novel framework is required to adapt forest strategies and practices to climate change.

This collaborative effort draws upon 148 authors in summarizing the sustainable management of these forests and detailing the most recent experimental and observational results collected from across the boreal biome. It presents the state of sustainable management in boreal forests and highlights the critical importance of this biome in a context of global change because of these forests' key role in a range of natural processes, including carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, and the maintaining of biodiversity. This book is an essential read for academics, students, and practitioners involved in boreal forest management. It outlines the challenges facing sustainable boreal forest management within the context of climate change and serves as a basis for establishing new research avenues, identifying future research trends, and developing climate-adapted forest management plans.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

    1. Ecosystem Management of the Boreal Forest in the Era of Global Change

      • Sylvie Gauthier, Timo Kuuluvainen, S. Ellen Macdonald, Ekaterina Shorohova, Anatoly Shvidenko, Annie-Claude Bélisle et al.
      Pages 3-4

  1. Natural Disturbances

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

    2. Millennial-Scale Disturbance History of the Boreal Zone

      • Tuomas Aakala, Cécile C. Remy, Dominique Arseneault, Hubert Morin, Martin P. Girardin, Fabio Gennaretti et al.
      Pages 53-87

    3. Natural Disturbances from the Perspective of Forest Ecosystem-Based Management

      • Ekaterina Shorohova, Tuomas Aakala, Sylvie Gauthier, Daniel Kneeshaw, Matti Koivula, Jean-Claude Ruel et al.
      Pages 89-121

    4. Selected Examples of Interactions Between Natural Disturbances

      • Jean-Claude Ruel, Beat Wermelinger, Sylvie Gauthier, Philip J. Burton, Kaysandra Waldron, Ekaterina Shorohova
      Pages 123-141

  2. Biodiversity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143

    2. Living Trees and Biodiversity

      • Aino Hämäläinen, Kadri Runnel, Grzegorz Mikusiński, Dmitry Himelbrant, Nicole J. Fenton, Piret Lõhmus
      Pages 145-166

    3. Deadwood Biodiversity

      • Therese Löfroth, Tone Birkemoe, Ekaterina Shorohova, Mats Dynesius, Nicole J. Fenton, Pierre Drapeau et al.
      Pages 167-189

    4. Ecological Classification in Forest Ecosystem Management: Links Between Current Practices and Future Climate Change in a Québec Case Study

      • Pierre Grondin, Marie-Hélène Brice, Yan Boulanger, Claude Morneau, Pierre-Luc Couillard, Pierre J. H. Richard et al.
      Pages 219-246

  3. Response of Functional Traits

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

    2. A Circumpolar Perspective on the Contribution of Trees to the Boreal Forest Carbon Balance

      • Christoforos Pappas, Flurin Babst, Simone Fatichi, Stefan Klesse, Athanasios Paschalis, Richard L. Peters
      Pages 271-294

    3. Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Tree-Ring Growth in Cold Climates

      • Vladimir V. Shishov, Alberto Arzac, Margarita I. Popkova, Bao Yang, Minhui He, Eugene A. Vaganov
      Pages 295-321

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