Vulnerability assessment to climate change of three ecosystem-based forest management projects in Quebec

GoffHéloïse, Le; BergeronYves,

doi:10.5558/tfc2014-040

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“…The benefits of adaptation in forest management include the potential to reduce impacts to both traditional forest management values and objectives as well as to a host of new societal and communityrelated impacts including water regulation and quality, soil erosion, public safety issues (e.g., reducing wildfire risk), and impacts on aquatic and terrestrial habitats. A variety of adaptations in forest management have been suggested (Spittlehouse 2005;Millar et al 2007;Ogden and Innes 2007a;Seppälä et al 2009;Williamson et al 2009;Johnston et al 2009;Johnston et al 2010;Peterson et al 2011;Gauthier et al 2014;Le Goff and Bergeron 2014;Peterson et al 2014). In general these findings suggest a requirement for a comprehensive and multifaceted approach to adaptation in forest management.…”

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Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management

Williamson

Nelson

2017

Can. J. For. Res.

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Forests are sensitive to the effects of climate change and play a significant role in carbon cycles. This duality has important implications for forest management in terms of requirements for enhanced and integrated adaptation and mitigation interventions. Two ideal conceptual level changes could provide the means for implementation. First, the incorporation of climate change considerations into definitions of sustainable forest management (SFM) would provide mandates for enhanced approaches. Second, the mainstreaming of enhanced SFM would facilitate implementation. There are, however, factors that may impede implementation. Identifying and evaluating these factors informs our understanding of requirements for adaptation and mitigation mainstreaming. This study reviews, organizes, and interprets the literature for the purposes of identifying and evaluating potential impediments. Harmonization barriers pertain to differences between adaptation and mitigation in pre-existing frames and beliefs. Enabling barriers are psychological and institutional in nature. Implementation barriers include capacity deficits (e.g., funding limits, science and knowledge deficits regarding benefits, trade-offs, and synergies between adaptation and mitigation) and governance issues. Barriers are interrelated, dynamic, and subjective. Addressing barriers requires a holistic approach that recognizes the complex and dynamic nature of forest management policy change processes.

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Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management

Williamson

Nelson

2017

Can. J. For. Res.

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“…More information is needed to develop sustainable forest management strategies in the context of a changing climate (e.g. Le Goff & Bergeron, 2014).…”

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Stand‐level drivers most important in determining boreal forest response to climate change

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Forest ecosystems contain several climate‐sensitive drivers that respond differentially to changes in climate and climate variability. For example, growth and regeneration processes are “stand‐scale” drivers, while natural disturbances operate at “landscape scale”. The relative contributions of these different scale drivers of change in ecosystems create great uncertainty when simulating potential responses of a forest to changes in climate. Here, we assess those contributions, along with harvesting effects, on biomass (both total and of individual species) in the southern boreal forest of Canada under three climate scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5). Projections were performed for three future 30‐year time periods, in four study regions located on an east–west transect, using a forest landscape model (LANDIS‐II), parameterized using a forest patch model (PICUS). Projected future impacts were assessed for each driver of change, and found to vary greatly among regions, species, future period and forcing scenarios. Fire, and stand‐scale climate‐induced impacts, had the strongest effects on forest vegetation, as well as on total and species’ biomass under most RCP scenarios, but the largest impacts occurred mostly after 2050, particularly with the RCP 8.5 scenario. The relative importance and trends in species‐specific impacts varied, both spatially and according to the different RCP scenarios. Western regions were generally more sensitive to stand‐scale climate‐induced changes, whereas eastern regions were more sensitive to changes in fire regime. Our study also highlights the importance of considering the prevalence of species‐level functional traits when assessing the sensitivity of forest landscapes to a given driver of change in the context of increasing anthropogenic climate forcing. Synthesis. Increases in fire activity, and direct impacts of climate change on forest growth and regeneration, will be the most important drivers of future changes in southern boreal forest landscapes.

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“…After 2010, numerous studies shifted their focus from the general overview of forest degradation and climate change impacts on forest products and services to geospatial and machine learning-based forest vulnerability analyses [26,33,36,62,69,[88][89][90][91][92][93]. Social vulnerability [55], inherent vulnerability [30], wildfire/forest fire [65], remote sensing [33], sustainable forest management [79,80], adaptation [81,82], plant pathogens [83,84], forest fires [66], forest carbon [80,85] and forest modelling [86,87] were found consistently in the literature during 2011-2019. The overall analysis highlighted the most frequently used keywords as climate change (85), adaptation (25), vulnerability (16), forest fire (13), forest fragmentation (12), forest management (12), drought (11), sustainable forest management (9) and adaptive capacity (8).…”

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Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Review for Future Research Framework

Roshani

Sahana

Kumar

et al. 2022

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Climate change has caused vulnerability not only to the forest ecosystem but also to forest-dependent communities. Therefore, its management is essential to increase forest ecosystem services and reduce vulnerability to climate change using an integrated approach. Although many scientific studies examined climate change impact on forest ecosystems, forest vulnerability assessment, including forest sensitivity, adaptability, sustainability and effective management was found to be scant in the existing literature. Through a systematic review from 1990 to 2019, this paper examined forest vulnerability to climate change and its management practices. In this paper, descriptive, mechanism and thematic analyses were carried out to analyze the state of existing research, in order to understand the concept of vulnerability arising from climate change and forest management issues. The present study proposed a framework for integrated forest assessment and management for addressing such issues in future research. The conversion of forest land into other land uses, forest fragmentation, forest disturbance and the effects of climate change on the forest ecosystem are the existing problems. Forest vulnerability, effective adaptation to forest ecosystems and long-term sustainability are priority areas for future research. This study also calls for undertaking researchers at a local scale to involve communities for the effective management of forest ecosystems.

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Vulnerability assessment to climate change of three ecosystem-based forest management projects in Quebec

Cited by 4 publications

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Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management

Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management

Stand‐level drivers most important in determining boreal forest response to climate change

Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Review for Future Research Framework

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