Forest health and global change
University of California, Irvine · Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Humans rely on healthy forests to supply energy, building materials, and food and to provide services such as storing carbon, hosting biodiversity, and regulating climate. Defining forest health integrates utilitarian and ecosystem measures of forest condition and function, implemented across a range of spatial scales. Although native forests are adapted to some level of disturbance, all forests now face novel stresses in the form of climate change, air pollution, and invasive pests. Detecting how intensification of these stresses will affect the trajectory of forests is a major scientific challenge that requires developing systems to assess the health of global forests. It is particularly critical to identify…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 49.62
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- 100%
- References
- 48
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3Topics & keywords
- Climate change
- Biodiversity
- Ecosystem services
- Environmental resource management
- Forest health
- Forest ecology
- Disturbance (geology)
- Ecosystem