Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests
University of Utah · University of California, Santa Barbara · +17 more institutions
Abstract
Forests have considerable potential to help mitigate human-caused climate change and provide society with many cobenefits. However, climate-driven risks may fundamentally compromise forest carbon sinks in the 21st century. Here, we synthesize the current understanding of climate-driven risks to forest stability from fire, drought, biotic agents, and other disturbances. We review how efforts to use forests as natural climate solutions presently consider and could more fully embrace current scientific knowledge to account for these climate-driven risks. Recent advances in vegetation physiology, disturbance ecology, mechanistic vegetation modeling, large-scale ecological observation networks, and remote sensing…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 39.03
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 130
Authors
16Topics & keywords
- Climate change
- Environmental science
- Environmental resource management
- Climatology
- Ecology
- Geology
- Biology
- Climate action