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Forests and global change: what can genetics contribute to the major forest management and policy challenges of the twenty-first century?
- Source :
- Regional Environmental Change, Regional Environmental Change, 2023, 16 (4), pp.927-939. ⟨10.1007/s10113-015-0843-9⟩, Regional Environmental Change, Springer Verlag, 2016, 16 (4), pp.927-939. ⟨10.1007/s10113-015-0843-9⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2015.
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Abstract
- International audience; The conservation and sustainable use of forests in the twenty-first century pose huge challenges for forest management and policy. Society demands that forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services, from timber products, raw materials and renewable energy to sociocultural amenities and habitats for nature conservation. Innovative management and policy approaches need to be developed to meet these often-conflicting demands in a context of environmental change of uncertain magnitude and scale. Genetic diversity is a key component of resilience and adaptability. Overall, forest tree populations are genetically very diverse, conferring them an enormous potential for genetic adaptation via the processes of gene flow and natural selection. Here, we review the main challenges facing our forests in the coming century and focus on how recent progress in genetics can contribute to the development of appropriate practical actions that forest managers and policy makers can adopt to promote forest resilience to climate change. Emerging knowledge will inform and clarify current controversies relating to the choice of appropriate genetic resources for planting, the effect of silvicultural systems and stand tending on adaptive potential and the best ways to harness genetic diversity in breeding and conservation programs. Gaps in our knowledge remain, and we identify where additional information is needed (e.g., the adaptive value of peripheral populations or the genetic determinism of key adaptive traits) and the types of studies that are required to provide this key understanding.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Environmental change
[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes
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Forest management
Climate change
Context (language use)
adaptation
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Adaptability
Ecosystem services
assisted migration
Resilience (network)
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2. Zero hunger
Genetics
Global and Planetary Change
business.industry
Environmental resource management
genetic diversity
15. Life on land
[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society
sustainable forestry
climate change
gene conservation
13. Climate action
Sustainability
Business
010606 plant biology & botany
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Details
- ISSN :
- 1436378X and 14363798
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Regional Environmental Change
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....adae138bdba36ddec984fb7ea81ed467