Suitability of close-to-nature silviculture for adapting temperate European forests to climate change
By P. Brang, P. Spathelf, J. Larsen, Jürgen Bauhus, Andrej Boncčìna, C. Chauvin, L. Drössler, Carlos García-Güemes, C. Heiri, G. Kerr and 6 more. 2014
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In many parts of Europe, close-to-nature silviculture (CNS) has been widely advocated as being the best approach for managing forests to cope with future climate change. In this review, we identify and evaluate six principles for enhancing the adaptive capacity of European temperate forests in a changing climate: (1) increase tree species richness, (2) increase structural diversity, (3) maintain and increase genetic variation within tree species, (4) increase resistance of individual trees to biotic and abiotic stress, (5) replace high-risk stands and (6) keep average growing stocks low. We use these principles to examine how three CNS systems (single-tree selection, group selection and shelterwood) serve adaptation strategies. Many attributes of CNS can increase the adaptive capacity of European temperate forests to a changing climate. CNS promotes structural diversity and tree resistance to stressors, and growing stocks can be kept at low levels. However, some deficiencies exist in relation to the adaptation principles of increasing tree species richness, maintaining and increasing genetic variation, and replacing high-risk stands. To address these shortcomings, CNS should make increased use of a range of regeneration methods, in order to promote light-demanding tree species, non-native species and non-local provenances.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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- Ecology and silviculture of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.): a review (2017, background): “ples have been elaborated to cope with a warming climate (Brang et al. 2014): increase species diversity; increase structural diversity; maintain and increase genetic variation”
- Multiple factors modulate tree growth complementarity in Central European mixed forests (2018, background): “Enhancing species diversity and promoting mixed forests has been increasingly proposed as a strategic approach for managing and conserving forests under climate change (Ammer, 2017; Brang et al., 2014; Keenan, 2015).”
- Where have all the beetles gone? Long‐term study reveals carabid species decline in a nature reserve in Northern Germany (2019, background): “As changes in forest management practices in Central Europe have put a better focus on preserving the ecological functions over the last decades (Brang et al., 2014), we expected similar results for our study area, which is located in an ancient woodland and protected as nature reserve for almost a…”