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Climate change may cause severe loss in the economic value of European forest land
Marc Hanewinkel,Dominik A. Cullmann,Mart-Jan Schelhaas,Gert-Jan Nabuurs,Niklaus E. Zimmermann +4 more
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This paper showed that under forecasted changes in temperature and precipitation, there could be a decline of economically valuable species, which would lead to a loss in the value of European forest land.Abstract:
European forests are threatened by climate change with impacts on the distribution of tree species. Previous discussions on the consequences of biome shifts have concentrated only on ecological issues; however, research now shows that under forecasted changes in temperature and precipitation there could be a decline of economically valuable species, which would lead to a loss in the value of European forest land.read more
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The challenge of the Mediterranean climate to plant hydraulics: Responses and adaptations
TL;DR: In this paper, current knowledge about drought resistance mechanisms as well as about processes leading to decline and death of woody plants under extreme climatic conditions is revised and directions for future research are suggested.
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Observational evidence for cloud cover enhancement over western European forests
Adriaan J. Teuling,Christopher M. Taylor,Jan Fokke Meirink,Lieke A. Melsen,Diego G. Miralles,Chiel C. van Heerwaarden,Robert Vautard,Annemiek Stegehuis,Gert-Jan Nabuurs,Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano +9 more
TL;DR: Observational evidence is provided for a strong increase in cloud cover over large forest regions in western Europe based on analysis of 10 years of 15 min resolution data from geostationary satellites and it is shown that widespread windthrow by cyclone Klaus in the Landes forest led to a significant decrease in local cloud cover in subsequent years.
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Mixed-Species Forests
TL;DR: Pretzsch et al. as discussed by the authors show that most forests are naturally mixed and species diverse, but the degree of species richness varies considerably and declines from tropical to temperate and boreal regions, and the compositional and structural diversity of man-made or secondary forests is in most cases substantially lower than in the original, unmanaged native forest.
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EU-Forest, a high-resolution tree occurrence dataset for Europe.
TL;DR: A dataset that integrates and extends by almost one order of magnitude the publicly available information on European tree species distribution is presented, which can potentially benefit several disciplines, including forestry, biodiversity conservation, palaeoecology, plant ecology, the bioeconomy, and pest management.
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Considerations for restoring temperate forests of tomorrow: forest restoration, assisted migration, and bioengineering
TL;DR: This work discusses three considerations, functional restoration, assisted migration, and bioengineering, which are currently being debated in the literature and have the potential to be applied independently or concurrently across a variety of scales.
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