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Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change

Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems ((MAFE,volume 34))

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The recent rates of climate changes are unprecedented given past climate change evidence. Variations in gas concentrations within the Earth’s atmosphere cause changes in the climate, and these atmospheric gases are impacted by human activities as well as by natural disturbances . Since human activities alter atmospheric gases concentrations, there is a perception that humans must alter land use practices to reduce the rates of climate changes and alleviate any resulting negative social, economic, and environmental impacts. In this book global change and forestry activities interaction are addressed by four different point of views including a general overview of the problem and the capacity of forests to cope with climate change, a description of the role of monitoring and modeling approaches to estimate carbon stocks and stock changes the climate change impacts on forest health and a presentation of several approaches to economic analysis of different management scenarios. Finnally, a range of case studies on climate change impacts and mitigation activities in different ecosystems across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas is presented.

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  1. ETS de Ingenierías Agrarias - Universidad de Valladolid & iuFOR - Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute, Universidad de Valladolid - INIA, Palencia, Spain

    Felipe Bravo

  2. Austrian Research Centre for Forests (BFW), A-1131, Vienna, Austria

    Robert Jandl

  3. Forest Resources Management Department, University of British Columbia, 2045-2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Valerie LeMay

  4. Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany

    Klaus von Gadow

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Bravo, F., Jandl, R., LeMay, V., von Gadow, K. (2017). Introduction. In: Bravo, F., LeMay, V., Jandl, R. (eds) Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 34. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28250-3_1

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