{"id":6595,"date":"2025-12-03T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:52:27","slug":"adapting-forests-to-climate-change-an-experiment-to-promote-different-tree-species-in-mixed-scots-pine-forests-pinus-sylvestris-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/2025\/12\/03\/adapting-forests-to-climate-change-an-experiment-to-promote-different-tree-species-in-mixed-scots-pine-forests-pinus-sylvestris-l\/","title":{"rendered":"Adapting forests to climate change: an experiment to promote different tree species in mixed Scots pine forests (Pinus sylvestris L.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/d1bxh8uas1mnw7.cloudfront.net\/assets\/embed.js'><\/script><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-03_Busca-S.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6597 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-03_Busca-S-222x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-03_Busca-S-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-03_Busca-S-640x864.png 640w, https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/12\/25-12-03_Busca-S.png 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Key message\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We have applied various silvicultural treatments to enhance the adaptation of Scots pine\u00a0(<i>Pinus sylvestris<\/i>\u00a0L.) mixed forests to climate change in Montesquiu Castle Park (Catalonia, NE Spain). Some treatments have shown positive effects, such as increased growth, reduced defoliation, and greater resistance of Scots pine to drought. However, other treatments may lead to a shift in vegetation from pine-dominated to oak-dominated forests. Future extreme droughts could increase pine mortality, potentially accelerating this shift. These findings are significant for forest management aimed at adapting these species to climate change in their southern distribution range: forest thinning could improve Scots pine\u2019s ability to cope with stress, while pine removal may promote the growth of pubescent oak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nForest management; Forest adaptation; Climate change; Scots pine (<i>Pinus sylvestris<\/i>); Pubescent oak (<i>Quercus pubescens<\/i>); Vegetation shift; Thinning<\/p>\n<div class='altmetric-embed' data-badge-type='donut' data-doi='10.1186\/s13595-025-01287-6'  style='float: right; ' ><\/div>\n<p><strong>Publication<\/strong><br \/>\nBusc\u00e0, S., Pascual, D., Pla, E.\u00a0<i>et al.<\/i>\u00a0Adapting forests to climate change: an experiment to promote different tree species in mixed Scots pine forests (<i>Pinus sylvestris<\/i>\u00a0L.).\u00a0<i>Annals of Forest Science<\/i>\u00a082, 21 (2025). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01287-6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s13595-025-01287-6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Data availability<\/strong><br \/>\nThe data generated during this experiment are freely available following this link:\u00a0 Retana, Javier; Busc\u00e0, Sara; Pascual, Diana; Pla, Eduard. 2025, \u201cMontesquiu forest inventory data&#8221;,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34810\/data2056\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.34810\/data2056<\/a>, CORA.\u00a0Repositori de Dades de Recerca.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Handling editor<\/strong><br \/>\nAndreas Bolte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key message\u00a0 We have applied various silvicultural treatments to enhance the adaptation of Scots pine\u00a0(Pinus sylvestris\u00a0L.) mixed forests to climate change in Montesquiu Castle Park (Catalonia, NE Spain). Some treatments have shown positive effects, such as increased growth, reduced defoliation, and greater resistance of Scots pine to drought. However, other treatments may lead to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,109,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-type","category-non-classe","category-open-access","category-research-paper","cat-14-id","cat-1-id","cat-109-id","cat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6602,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions\/6602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ist.blogs.inrae.fr\/afs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}