H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

REINFORCE · Integrated landscape management for resilient mountain forests under global changes

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-06-14 → 2023-11-06
Финансиране от ЕС: 183 473 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Планинските гори се анализират чрез модели и мрежова теория, за да се определи къде точно да се намеси човек при природни бедствия или промяна на климата. Това помага за създаването на по-устойчиви гори и по-добро планиране на управлението им в регионален мащаб.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Integrated landscape management for resilient mountain forests under global changes

Forests are key components of modern landscapes, providing essential ecosystem services to humans and sustaining biodiversity. However, forests are projected to undergo dramatic compositional and structural shifts prompted by global changes, such as intensifying natural disturbance regimes, land use and climate change. This uncertainty makes planning for forest management exceptionally difficult. Forest management needs to be urgently upscaled to an integrated landscape level considering future uncertainty coming not only from climate change but from increasing natural disturbances and ensuring that individual decisions are harmonized within a territorial approach. Combining the use of advanced models of forest dynamics with methods based on functional traits and network theory (i.e., the functional network approach) allow to determine where to intervene more efficiently in stands within the landscape to maximize ecological resilience to global changes. The MSCA-IF project REINFORCE aimed at developing novel, multi-scale and integrated forest management strategies with the goal of building more resilient mountain forest ecosystems to global changes. In particular, REINFORCE pursued three research objectives: 1) Assessing – to evaluate future forest landscapes scenarios under uncertain global changes using an advanced model of forest dynamics. 2) Planning – design and test novel forest management plans to foster resilience to uncertain global changes using the functional complex network approach. 3) Reinforcing – propose integrated forest landscape management plans at regional level engaging stakeholders in ranking management alternatives. The project delivered several conclusive outcomes that provided a step forward towards: 1) the application of models of forest dynamics in the Alpine region, 2) the assessment of future forest development under global change stressors, 3) the validation of the functional network approach in forest management and the quantification of ecological resilience in forested landscapes.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Forests are key components of modern landscapes, providing essential ecosystem services to humans and sustaining biodiversity. As they mitigate global warming, forest ecosystems are essential elements for meeting the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement and an increase of their future resilience through sustainable management practices is one of the main priorities of the EU policy. Forests are projected to undergo dramatic compositional and structural shifts prompted by global changes, such as intensifying natural disturbance regimes, land use and climate change. This uncertainty makes planning for forest management exceptionally difficult. To date, studies have mainly focused on adapting forest management to climate warming but new interdisciplinary approaches for understanding and implementing tailored adaptation actions are needed to increase forest resilience to a large set of uncertainties. The overall aim of REINFORCE is to develop multi-scale and integrated forest management strategies to enhance resilience to global changes in European mountain forest landscapes. The project will consist in assessing future forest landscape dynamics in multiple case study regions in the Alps using advanced simulation modelling tools, followed by developing resilience-based forest management plans. This will be accomplished with a novel and innovative approach combining dynamic landscape modelling, functional diversity and network analysis. This approach allows to determine where to intervene more efficiently in stands within the landscape to maximize the resilience of the forests to sudden disturbances and climate change. Mixing multiple expertise and methods, REINFORCE will ultimately contribute in filling the gap between science and local decision-makers by incorporating stakeholder community in building effective and integrated forested landscape management to cope with climate and global changes.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

ACCADEMIA EUROPEA DI BOLZANO · BolzanoКоординаторИталия