This study was conducted to explore measures taken by private forest owners in a region of southern Sweden to adapt forestry to climate change and the motivations behind these measures. Additionally, measures undertaken were compared with policy goals of the Swedish Forest Agency. Data were gathered through a questionnaire and interviews. The most ...
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
En intervjustudie om skäl till beslut om klimatanpassning genomfördes med nio enskilda privata skogsägare i Kronobergs län och till Kronoberg angränsande län. En av de nio skogsägare sade sig inte ha gjort några klimatanpassningar och sade sig inte ha något svar på varför. Åtta av nio skogsägare sa att de klimatanpassat på något sätt. De vanligaste...
The increasing demand for innovative forest management strategies to adapt to and mitigate climate change, and benefit forest production, so called Climate-Smart Forestry, calls for a tool to monitor and evaluate their implementation and their effect on forest development over time. The Pan-European set of criteria and indicators for sustainable fo...
Published in Global change biology
Climate change induces multiple abiotic and biotic risks to forests and forestry. Risks in different spatial and temporal scales must be considered to ensure preconditions for sustainable multifunctional management of forests for different ecosystem services. For this purpose, the present review article summarizes the most recent findings on major ...
Bear damage to western larch trees on intensively managed public and private forest lands of the Intermountain West continues to be a problem for forest managers. Bark stripping and subsequent cambium feeding by bears commences upon den emergence in the spring, when foraging options are most restrictive. Various damage reduction methods are often c...
Bear damage to western larch trees on intensively managed public and private forest lands of the Intermountain West continues to be a problem for forest managers. Bark stripping and subsequent cambium feeding by bears commences upon den emergence in the spring, when foraging options are most restrictive. Various damage reduction methods are often c...
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Partial cutting has been recommended as an alternative harvesting method to ensure the sustainable management of boreal forests. The success of this approach is closely linked to the survival of residual trees as additional losses through mortality could affect post-cutting timber production at harvest. To better quantify post-cutting mortality in ...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Changing climate is increasing the amount and intensity of forest stress agents, such as drought, pest insects, and pathogens. Leaf water content, measured here in terms of equivalent water thickness (EWT), is an early indicator of tree stress that provides timely information about the health status of forests. Multispectral terrestrial laser scann...
Damage due to wind-storms and droughts is increasing in many temperate forests, yet little is known about the long-term roles of these key climatic factors in forest dynamics and in the carbon budget. The objective of this study was to estimate individual and coupled effects of droughts and wind-storms on adult tree mortality across a 31-year perio...
