Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: understanding and perspectives from forest research

0426481 - ÚVGZ 2014 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Cudlín, Pavel - Seják, J. - Pokorný, J. - Albrechtová, J. - Bastian, O. - Marek, Michal V.
Forest ecosystem services under climate change and air pollution.
Climate Change, Air Pollution and Global Challenges: understanding and perspectives from forest research. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2013 - (Matyssek, R.; Clarke, N.; CudlÍn, P.; Mikkelsen, T.; Tuovinen, J.; Wieser, G.; Paoletti, E.), s. 521-546. Developments in environmental science, 13. ISBN 978-0-08-098349-3
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) ED1.1.00/02.0073; GA MŠMT(CZ) EE2.4.31.0056
Institutional support: RVO:67179843
Keywords : Adaptive governance * Climate regulation * Forest ecosystem services * Gas exchange * Multi-stakeholder collaboration * Ozone * Sustainable forest management * Transpiration
Subject RIV: EH - Ecology, Behaviour

Forests provide many supporting, regulating and cultural services. Extensive environmental changes have resulted in a substantial loss or degradation of forest ecosystem services (ES). Unclear interactions of climate-change phenomena make it difficult to estimate forest ES. Research on interactive effects of climate change and air pollution has become a central issue in forest science during the past decade. Climate change in interaction with air pollution brings novel combinations of severity and timing of multiple stresses, which may significantly affect many forest ES. The aims of the present chapter are to identify basic concepts of evaluating ES with a focus on forest ES, to provide physiological and ecological bases for their evaluation, and to discuss the interactive effects of climate change and air pollution on forest ES based on selected tree physiological functions. Climate regulation mediated by deforestation-induced changes in the hydrological cycle is discussed. Adaptive governance and communication to the public promotes sustainable forest-multi-stakeholder collaboration. A case study is presented evaluating selected ES in a forest-agricultural landscape in the Czech Republic on the basis of monitored energy, water and material flows estimation. From this study, it is apparent that future research must include multi-factorial anthropogenic and natural interactions of climatic changes and air pollution in conjunction with sustainable forest ES provisions. Sustainable forest management is an essential tool for reducing the vulnerability of forests to environmental change.
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