2007
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0701424104
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Climate change impacts on forestry

Abstract: Changing temperature and precipitation pattern and increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 are likely to drive significant modifications in natural and modified forests. Our review is focused on recent publications that discuss the changes in commercial forestry, excluding the ecosystem functions of forests and nontimber forest products. We concentrate on potential direct and indirect impacts of climate change on forest industry, the projections of future trends in commercial forestry, the possible role … Show more

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“…According to existing literature, these risks will be intensified by climate change and natural disasters. As stated by Pawson et al [87] and Kirilenko and Sedjo [88], increased frequency and unpredictability of natural disasters (e.g., typhoons, storms, floods, droughts, forest fires, plant diseases and insect pests) are expected to represent a great threat to productivity that will present wide regional variations, and climate change is deemed to result in higher costs of forestry operations, logistics and insurance services, as also found in our study. Other vulnerabilities might include changes in wood quality, forest fires and pest outbreaks.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
“…According to existing literature, these risks will be intensified by climate change and natural disasters. As stated by Pawson et al [87] and Kirilenko and Sedjo [88], increased frequency and unpredictability of natural disasters (e.g., typhoons, storms, floods, droughts, forest fires, plant diseases and insect pests) are expected to represent a great threat to productivity that will present wide regional variations, and climate change is deemed to result in higher costs of forestry operations, logistics and insurance services, as also found in our study. Other vulnerabilities might include changes in wood quality, forest fires and pest outbreaks.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
“…Water shortage in forest ecosystems is not only the most likely cause of inter-annual changes in primary productivity, but may also compromise tree health and survival Van Mantgem et al, 2009). If forest ecosystems become affected by climatic shifts, their services and economic values may be at risk (Kirilenko and Sedjo, 2007;Schröter et al, 2005) with regard to wildlife (such as mast production), timber (because of degraded value or lower sustainable yields), and recreation (including visual attractiveness).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is probably one of the most challenging aspects of forestry under the new reality of climate change, since so much of our understanding of forest ecology, growth and dynamics is based on past experiences (Puettmann et al 2009). Forest management, is entering an era of unprecedented uncertainty as a result of climate change (Kirilenko and Sedjo 2007). An uncertain future can be best addressed with approaches that offer institutional flexibility, and that include risk-taking, an ability to reassess conditions frequently, and a facility to change direction as conditions require (Hobbs et al 2006).…”
Section: Implications For Forest Managementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The resulting alterations in temperature and precipitation patterns will have a direct impact on both natural and modified forests (Kirilenko and Sedjo 2007) and are expected to produce large shifts in vegetation distributions at unprecedented rates (Allen and Breshears 1998). These climatic changes could result in improved forest productivity (Aber et al 2001); however, increases in the frequency and intensity of wildfires, severe wind-throw events and outbreaks of insects and pathogens, may be more important than any positive influences of warmer temperatures and elevated CO 2 (Kirilenko and Sedjo 2007). Climate changerelated forest vegetation shifts will be facilitated, if not driven, by wildfires and other natural disturbance agents including insect and disease outbreaks .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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