The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes
Abstract Human impacts on Earth’s ecosystems have greatly intensified in the last decades. This is reflected in unexpected disturbance events, as well as new and increasing socio-economic demands, all of which are affecting the resilience of forest ecosystems worldwide and the provision of important...
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| author | Christian Messier Jürgen Bauhus Frederik Doyon Fanny Maure Rita Sousa-Silva Philippe Nolet Marco Mina Núria Aquilué Marie-Josée Fortin Klaus Puettmann |
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| description | Abstract Human impacts on Earth’s ecosystems have greatly intensified in the last decades. This is reflected in unexpected disturbance events, as well as new and increasing socio-economic demands, all of which are affecting the resilience of forest ecosystems worldwide and the provision of important ecosystem services. This Anthropocene era is forcing us to reconsider past and current forest management and silvicultural practices, and search for new ones that are more flexible and better at dealing with the increasing uncertainty brought about by these accelerating and cumulative global changes. Here, we briefly review the focus and limitations of past and current forest management and silvicultural practices mainly as developed in Europe and North America. We then discuss some recent promising concepts, such as managing forests as complex adaptive systems, and approaches based on resilience, functional diversity, assisted migration and multi-species plantations, to propose a novel approach to integrate the functionality of species-traits into a functional complex network approach as a flexible and multi-scale way to manage forests for the Anthropocene. This approach takes into consideration the high level of uncertainty associated with future environmental and societal changes. It relies on the quantification and dynamic monitoring of functional diversity and complex network indices to manage forests as a functional complex network. Using this novel approach, the most efficient forest management and silvicultural practices can be determined, as well as where, at what scale, and at what intensity landscape-scale resistance, resilience and adaptive capacity of forests to global changes can be improved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be1e3d8ffbb14285a74b573c252e6a202023-01-03T05:54:51ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Forest Ecosystems2197-56202019-04-016111610.1186/s40663-019-0166-2The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changesChristian Messier0Jürgen Bauhus1Frederik Doyon2Fanny Maure3Rita Sousa-Silva4Philippe Nolet5Marco Mina6Núria Aquilué7Marie-Josée Fortin8Klaus Puettmann9Département des sciences naturelles and Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée (ISFORT), Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)Chair of Silviculture, Institute of Forest Sciences, University of FreiburgDépartement des sciences naturelles and Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée (ISFORT), Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)Centre d’étude de la forêt, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)Département des sciences naturelles and Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée (ISFORT), Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)Département des sciences naturelles and Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée (ISFORT), Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)Centre d’étude de la forêt, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)Centre d’étude de la forêt, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of TorontoDepartment of Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State UniversityAbstract Human impacts on Earth’s ecosystems have greatly intensified in the last decades. This is reflected in unexpected disturbance events, as well as new and increasing socio-economic demands, all of which are affecting the resilience of forest ecosystems worldwide and the provision of important ecosystem services. This Anthropocene era is forcing us to reconsider past and current forest management and silvicultural practices, and search for new ones that are more flexible and better at dealing with the increasing uncertainty brought about by these accelerating and cumulative global changes. Here, we briefly review the focus and limitations of past and current forest management and silvicultural practices mainly as developed in Europe and North America. We then discuss some recent promising concepts, such as managing forests as complex adaptive systems, and approaches based on resilience, functional diversity, assisted migration and multi-species plantations, to propose a novel approach to integrate the functionality of species-traits into a functional complex network approach as a flexible and multi-scale way to manage forests for the Anthropocene. This approach takes into consideration the high level of uncertainty associated with future environmental and societal changes. It relies on the quantification and dynamic monitoring of functional diversity and complex network indices to manage forests as a functional complex network. Using this novel approach, the most efficient forest management and silvicultural practices can be determined, as well as where, at what scale, and at what intensity landscape-scale resistance, resilience and adaptive capacity of forests to global changes can be improved.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40663-019-0166-2 |
| spellingShingle | Christian Messier Jürgen Bauhus Frederik Doyon Fanny Maure Rita Sousa-Silva Philippe Nolet Marco Mina Núria Aquilué Marie-Josée Fortin Klaus Puettmann The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes Forest Ecosystems |
| title | The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes |
| title_full | The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes |
| title_fullStr | The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes |
| title_full_unstemmed | The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes |
| title_short | The functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes |
| title_sort | functional complex network approach to foster forest resilience to global changes |
| url | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40663-019-0166-2 |
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