Climate Change and Air Pollution Effects on Forest Ecosystems

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research and information: general; aerial laser scanning; air pollution; basal area; biodiversity; calibration; climate change; climate change effects; current annual increment; diagnostic assessment; drought response; ecological indicators; ecosystem restoration; ecosystem services; forest biomass; forest ecosystem; forest growth; forests; gas exchange; hydrological model; increment cores; LANDIS-II; mountain forests; n/a; natural capital; Norway spruce; percentage volume increment; photosynthesis; PnET; policy making; production; radial growth; radial growth series; reference information; restoration plan; Romanian temperate forests; sensitivity analysis; silver fir; small forested watershed; socio-economic system; Southern Carpathian forest management; Southern Carpathians; species abundance; species composition; SWAT; temperate forests; terrestrial laser scanning; tree diameter; tree form-height; validation; valuing ecosystem services; virgin forests; wood characteristics
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036526669; 9783036526676; books978-3-0365-2667-6
• Access: Open Access

Both climate change and air pollution have large negative impacts on physiological processes and functions at the individual tree level and on whole forest ecosystems. The objective of climate change and air quality monitoring is to make decisions, based on scientific knowledge, regarding how to best manage and improve the current state of the environment. Our ability to take urgent measures to combat climate change and its impact on forest ecosystems and conserve forest biodiversity depends upon our knowledge of the latest scientific results on the status of forest ecosystems. Unfortunately, there are a lot of gaps in our knowledge of the detection and monitoring of their effects on forest ecosystems. This book presents relevant results from scientific research in the fields of climate change, air pollution, forest conservation, protection and monitoring that can contribute to a better science-policy interaction and to the elaboration of specific strategies, in accordance with the areas of forest sciences from IUFRO RG 8.04.00 - Impacts of air pollution and climate change on forest ecosystems.