Forests, Forestry and Climate Change

摘要: Temperate and boreal forests represent substantial stocks of carbon as biomass organic matter. Depending on the extent climate change nature future management practices, these may lose, retain or accumulate in decades. We review data impact forest carbon, we lay out some options including longer rotations, lower disturbance, nitrogen fertilization afforestation new land. ask whether gains made possible by such practices will be at expense timber production also examine a range environmental services (nature conservation, watershed protection, public amenity value, bio-fuel production). look forward to period warming, which favours more rapid growth trees northern regions, but predictions from ecosystem models must tempered likelihood that there extremes, droughts, storms outbreaks pests diseases.