Beschreibung:
Outlines innovative tools to evaluate and assess forest management plans Provides guidelines and criteria for forest planning, sustainability and management techniques for adapting to climate change Helps the reader develop comprehensive forest management plans-- complete with sylvicultural interventions--which account for uncertainties in climate change Ties directly into A for Climate project from the EU Commission as part of Horizon 2020
1. Introduction2. Effects of climate change on temperate forests3. Stressors, resilience, and growth in temperate forests under climate change4. Adaptation and mitigation5. Dendroclimatology: Trends in climate variability and trends in forest growth6. Forest planning and management: An overview on traditional concepts and criteria7. Using climate variability in forest planning and management