The role of unmanaged forests is discussed controversially in the context of climate change.
One of the key questions is, whether they can contribute to the mitigation of climate change …

Forest management, including setting aside non-intervention forests, is currently debated as
a measure to efficiently mitigate climate change. Temperate, old-growth forests are rare and …

Forests can contribute to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon when
management intensity is reduced. However, there is high uncertainty regarding biomass …

Planting new forests has received scientific and political attention as a measure to mitigate
climate change. Large, new forests have been planted in places like China and Ethiopia …

Forest management practices might act as nature-based methods to remove CO 2 from the
atmosphere and slow anthropogenic climate change and thus support an EU forest-based …

Background Unmanaged or old-growth forests are of paramount importance for carbon
sequestration and thus for the mitigation of climate change among further implications, eg …

We simulated Austrian forests under different sustainable management scenarios. A
reference scenario was compared to scenarios focusing on the provision of bioenergy …

Gaps in knowledge of current and past forest ecosystem research in the temperate zone of
Europe are discussed and research priorities are defined. Since the last Ice Age the forest …

Background Forests occur across diverse biomes, each of which shows a specific
composition of plant communities associated with the particular climate regimes. Predicted …

Forests mitigate climate change by storing carbon and reducing emissions via substitution
effects of wood products. Additionally, they provide many other important ecosystem …