Impact of Natural Hazards on Forest Ecosystems and Their Surrounding Landscape under Climate Change

Vido, Jaroslav; Nalevanková, Paulína

doi:10.3390/w13070979

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“…Concerning the climate change variables analyzed, methane and CO 2 emissions, it should be noted that model 3, unlike other studies such as [30], shows a positive and significant relationship between the change since 1990 of emissions in methane levels in the countries analyzed and in CO 2 emissions with life satisfaction. These results on climate change variables also differ from the reviewed literature [53][54][55][56][57], although they would be in line with the works of [25,28] that reflect the positive relationship between fossil energy consumption, CO 2 increase, and human well-being. Although, other studies such as [31] argue that subjective well-being is not related to energy consumption.…”

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“…Heat waves will also increase in intensity and duration, and mortality rates will increase, directly related to cardiovascular or respiratory diseases [55,56]. Because of climate change, environmental changes will imply that the subjective well-being of people will vary, as it will be responsible for alterations in ecosystems and variations in water levels, in terms of both scarcity and excess, causing changes in the ecosystem [57].…”

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The Effect of Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and the European Green Deal Tools on Life Satisfaction

2021

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Environmental issues, sustainability, and climate change have become the targets of many policies from international and governmental organizations including the EU’s European Green Deal action plan. This plan provides tools to address them—which include support for the circular economy, implementation of energy and environmental taxes, and investment in environmental protection—with the aim of favoring the well-being of EU citizens. In this context, this study analyses the impact of several parameters (environmental matters, global warming, circular economy, energy and environmental taxes, and expenditure and investment on the environment) on life satisfaction, or subjective well-being, and their effects on 33 European countries. For this purpose, four econometric models were carried out using data collected from the World Values Survey (WVS), the European Values Study (EVS), and the World Bank and Eurostat, reflecting subjective citizen satisfaction data. The findings present a highly significant inverse relationship between life satisfaction variables and both environmental problems and energy taxes. Additionally, there is a highly significant positive relationship between circular economy, environmental tax, and environmental protection expenditure parameters and life satisfaction variables, as well as, to a lesser degree of significance, with noise pollution from neighbours.

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The Effect of Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and the European Green Deal Tools on Life Satisfaction

2021

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“…The observed differences in blue and green water fluxes emphasize the need for considering spatially discretised mitigation objectives in the DMC and comparable lowland landscapes (Smith et al, 2021). It is crucial to further assess such water dynamics and related effects on forest ecosystems under a changing climate (Vido & Nalevanková, 2021). It is also important to further investigate how spatial and temporal patterns of green water use in droughts impact blue water provision (Freire‐González et al, 2017) from more soil/vegetation units over subsequent growing seasons.…”

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Modelling ecohydrological feedbacks in forest and grassland plots under a prolonged drought anomaly in Central Europe 2018–2020

Kleine

Tetzlaff

Smith

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Recent studies have highlighted the importance of understanding ecohydrological drought feedbacks to secure water resources under a changing climate and increasing anthropogenic impacts. In this study, we monitored and modelled feedbacks in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum to the European drought summer 2018 and the following 2 years. The physically based, isotope-aided model EcH 2 O-iso was applied to generic vegetation plots (forest and grassland) in the lowland, groundwaterdominated research catchment Demnitzer Millcreek (NE Germany; 66 km 2 ). We included, inter alia, soil water isotope data in the model calibration and quantified changing "blue" (groundwater recharge) and "green" (evapotranspiration) water fluxes and ages under each land use as the drought progressed. Novel plant xylem isotope data were excluded from calibration but were compared with simulated root uptake signatures in model validation. Results indicated inter-site differences in the dynamics of soil water storage and fluxes with contrasting water age both during the drought and the subsequent 2 years. Forest vegetation consistently showed a greater moisture stress, more rapid recovery and higher variability in root water uptake depths from a generally younger soil water storage. In contrast, the grassland site, which had more water-retentive soils, showed higher and older soil water storage and groundwater recharge fluxes. The damped storage and flux dynamics under grassland led to a slower return to younger water ages at depth. Such evidencebased and quantitative differences in ecohydrological feedbacks to drought stress in contrasting soil-vegetation units provide important insights into Critical Zone water cycling. This can help inform future progress in the monitoring, modelling and development of climate mitigation strategies in drought-sensitive lowlands.

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“…One of the main drawbacks of this study and other ecological niche modelling studies in general is that large-scale weather events and other natural hazards in forests are not taken into account, although they can have a strong impact on forest ecosystems (Vido and Nalevanková 2021). With the intensification and/or increasing frequency of extreme weather events as one of the consequences of global warming (Taccoen et al 2019;Masson-Delmotte et al 2021), their increasing influence on forest adaptation to climate change is also expected.…”

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Predicting the potential ecological niche distribution of Slovenian forests under climate change using MaxEnt modelling

Gregorčič,

Rozman,

Repe

2023

AGS

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The aim of the article is to assess the potential impacts of climate change on Slovenian forests in the period 2080–2100 based on two climate scenarios: SSP1-2.6 (optimistic) and SSP5-8.5 (pessimistic) using the MaxEnt software. Slovenian forests are divided at the ecological community level into thirteen forest vegetation types. Analyses of changes in ecological niche areas, distances of vectors between centroids of present areas and future ecological niches, and general spatial changes are carried out. In addition, changes in the altitudinal zones of forest vegetation types were investigated. The results indicate significant changes for Thermophilous beech forests and Thermophilous hop-hornbeam, sessile oak, downy oak, Scots pine and black pine forests. The potential changes in the altitudinal zones of forest vegetation types indicate a clear trend of forest vegetation types moving to higher altitudinal zones.

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Impact of Natural Hazards on Forest Ecosystems and Their Surrounding Landscape under Climate Change

Abstract: In the last decades, the increasing frequency of natural hazards has impacted forest ecosystems and their surroundings [...]

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

The Effect of Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and the European Green Deal Tools on Life Satisfaction

The Effect of Environmental Degradation, Climate Change, and the European Green Deal Tools on Life Satisfaction

Modelling ecohydrological feedbacks in forest and grassland plots under a prolonged drought anomaly in Central Europe 2018–2020

Predicting the potential ecological niche distribution of Slovenian forests under climate change using MaxEnt modelling

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