In many parts of Europe, close-to-nature silviculture (CNS) has been widely advocated as
being the best approach for managing forests to cope with future climate change. In this …

Climatic warming may lead to increased or decreased future forest productivity. However,
more frequent heat waves, droughts and storms and accompanying pathogen attacks are …

A major challenge for foresters in the future will be issues related to global change. Global
change expresses itself in a variety of ways, depending on regional vegetation and climate …

More frequent and intensive droughts are projected to affect the vitality of major European
tree species. Therefore, it is important to search for alternative, more drought-tolerant …

We compared results derived using three different approaches to assess the suitability of
common tree species on the Franconian Plateau in southern Germany under projected …

1. Climate extremes are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude as a
consequence of global warming. 2. Managed permanent grasslands cover a large surface in …

The two storms Vivian (1990) and Lothar (1999) left an area of roughly 9000 ha of fully
damaged protection forests in Swiss mountain regions. Given this huge dimension …

Climate warming and a rise in evaporative demand expose forests to increasing stress,
challenging silvicultural planning in many temperate forest regions. As some major timber …

Various approaches have been developed to achieve sustainability in forestry, under
changing social needs and, consequently, changing definitions of sustainability. This has …

2 Method Information underlying the analysis was collected within the COST Action FP0703
Expected Climate cHange impacts and Options for European Silviculture (ECHOES), in …