Climate change and European forests
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 08:02
in Earth & Climate
A recent study in the Journal of Environmental Management carried out by researchers at the European Forest Institute and their partners in the FP7 funded MOTIVE project (Models for Adaptive Forest Management) discusses how forest managers and decision makers can cope with climate uncertainties. The authors review general trends in climate, with particular emphasis on biologically meaningful parameters such as continuous dry days and changes in climate extremes and forest disturbance patterns. They also compare observed changes with those predicted by climate change studies and examine the reasons for discrepancies where they exist. The sources of uncertainty along a 'cascade of uncertainty' are also discussed.