In many parts of Europe, close-to-nature silviculture (CNS) has been widely advocated as
being the best approach for managing forests to cope with future climate change. In this …

Climatic warming may lead to increased or decreased future forest productivity. However,
more frequent heat waves, droughts and storms and accompanying pathogen attacks are …

Biogeographical and ecological theory suggests that species distributions should be driven
to higher altitudes and latitudes as global temperatures rise. Such changes occur as growth …

The Random Forests multiple-regression tree was used to model climate profiles of 25 biotic
communities of the western United States and nine of their constituent species. Analyses of …

Like all other plants, trees are vulnerable to attack by a multitude of pests and pathogens.
Current control measures for many of these diseases are limited and relatively ineffective …

Developing adaptation measures in forestry is an urgent task because the forests
regenerated today will have to cope with climate conditions that may drastically change …

The effect of extreme climate events on ecosystems is an important driver of biotic responses
to climate change. For forests, extreme drought has been linked to negative effects such as …

Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of droughts and
heatwaves in Europe, leading to effects on forest growth and major forest dieback events …

The classification of species as eithernative'oralien'is one of the organizing principles of
conservation, but the validity of this dualism has increasingly been questioned, sparking …

With a predicted rise in average global surface temperature at an unprecedented rate, as
well as changes in precipitation and disturbance regimes, climate change will bring forth …