Forests and extreme weather events: Solutions for risk resilient management in a changing climate

  • Smith, Benjamin (Researcher)
  • Lindeskog, Mats (Researcher)
  • Rammig, Anja (Researcher)
  • Sycheva, Ekaterina (Researcher)
  • Knoke, Thomas (Researcher)
  • Paul, Carol (Researcher)
  • Chreptun, Claudia (Researcher)
  • Ficko, Andrej (Researcher)
  • Fidej, Gal (Researcher)
  • Karmann, Marion (Researcher)
  • Borkowski, Piotr (Researcher)
  • Martire, Salvatore (Researcher)

Project: Research

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Description

Climate change and in particular extreme weather events require the development of risk-resilient forest management strategies across Europe. In the proposed project, we investigate the interactions between extreme weather (heat waves, drought, storm), subsequent forest susceptibility to fire and pathogens, market developments, forest management and related uncertainties to determine on how current forest management strategies should be adapted to sustain risk-resilient multifunctional forest landscapes in the future. In close collaboration with stakeholders, we develop a model-based strategy for identifying and operationalizing risk resilient forest management regimes. We evaluate the risk of extreme events-induced forest damage and impacts on forest ecosystem services for the most important European forest types. We derive alternative climate change-robust management strategies by means of advanced coupled modelling approaches.
AcronymFOREXCLIM
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date2019/09/012021/03/21

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