Managing climate change impacts to enhance the resilience and sustainability of Fennoscandian forests

Ambio

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 528-533

  Chapin III, F Stuart ^a   Danell, Kjell ^b   Elmqvist, Thomas ^c   Folke, Carl ^c,d   Fresco, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT CORRIDOR; INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MIGRATION; PEST OUTBREAK; PREDICTION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; WARMING;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SWEDEN; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SWEDEN; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FENNOSCANDIA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 37349065088     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2007)36[528:MCCITE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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48. An initial draft of this paper was prepared for a workshop on Future Forests organized by Skogforsk. We thank Sune Linder and Göran Stahl for constructively critical reviews of the manuscript, the Beijer Institute for their hospitality and support to FSC, and the financial support for the Bonanza Creek LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) program (funded jointly by National Science Foundation grant DEB-0423442 and US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station grant PNW01-JV11261952-231).
49. First submitted 6 February 2007. Accepted for publication 4 June 2007.