Forest adaptation and restoration under global change
Key message
Along with the preservation of intact forest landscapes, forest adaptation and restoration are needed to prevent the continued global loss of ecosystem services and biodiversity, so that forest landscapes can meet the ecological, economic, and societal challenges due to global change.
Annals of Forest Science launched a Topical Collection on “Forest Adaptation and Restoration under Global Change” in 2018. In this topical collection, we present nine papers covering a wide spectrum of topics, with three articles illustrating the scope, contexts, concepts, and challenges of forest adaptation and restoration in general, on a transcontinental or global scale (Spathelf et al. 2018, Stanturf et al. 2019, Jandl et al. 2019). Another six papers discuss aspects of adaptation and restoration in different regions of the world (Europe: Chakraborty et al. 2019, Paul et al. 2019, Jandl et al. 2018; Asia: Hai et al. 2020, and Australia: Harper et al. 2019). Most of these papers result from collaborations in the global networks on Forest adaptation and restoration under global change, and the following one on Transforming forest landscapes for future climate and human well-being. Both networks were constituted as a Task Force (TF) within the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), an entity formed by 15,000 scientists of 650 participating organisations in 120 countries worldwide (IUFRO 2022).
Keywords
Forest landscapes, Forest adaptation, Forest restoration, IUFRO
Publication
Bolte, A., Mansourian, S., Madsen, P. et al. Forest adaptation and restoration under global change. Annals of Forest Science 80, 7 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13595-022-01172-6
Topical Collection
This article is part of the Topical Collection “Forest adaptation and restoration under global change“
