Future Forests: Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change provides background on forests as natural and social systems, the current distribution and dynamics based on major biomes that set the stage for their role of forests in global systems, the nature of climate change organized by biomes, and detailed descriptions of mitigation and adaptation strategies. This book forms presents a foundational summary of the feedback between the effect of climate change on forests and the converse effects of forests on climate, leading to conclusions on how forest management needs to be dictated by climate change.
The book will be ideal for readers in the fields of climate change science, forest science and conservation biology, helping them develop a thorough understanding on the broad perspective of climate change on forests, the response of forests to these changes, and other climate-forest interaction potentials.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Climate Change and Variability Overview
3. Forests then and now: managing for ecosystem benefits, services to humans, and healthy forests across scales
4. Nutrient limitation in global forests: Current status and future trends
5. Mitigation potential of forests: challenges to carbon accrual in the ecosystem
6. Climate change and forest hydrology in future forests
7. Forest Disturbances
8. Understanding climate change dynamics of tree species: implications for future forests
9. Temperate Forests
10. Climate change and tropical forests
11. Boreal forests
12. Climate change and urban forests
13. Forests as social-ecological systems
14. Unknown tipping-points: a method for anticipating future forest disturbance risk
