Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change

0564116 - ÚVGZ 2023 RIV CH eng M - Monography Chapter
Cienciala, Emil
Climate-Smart Forestry Case Study: Czech Republic.
Forest Bioeconomy and Climate Change. Vol. 10. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022 - (Hetemäki, L.; Kangas, J.; Peltola, H.), s. 173-182. Managing Forest Ecosystems, 42. ISBN 978-3-030-99205-7
Research Infrastructure: CzeCOS III - 90123
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : adaptation * mitigation * ecosystem carbon balance * drought * bark beetle
OECD category: Forestry
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-99206-4

Forestry in the Czech Republic is facing a historically unprecedented, mostly drought-induced decline in spruce-dominated stands, accompanied by an extensive bark beetle infestation that has spread across most of the country. As a result, the share of sanitary felling has dramatically increased, driving the total harvest to record-high levels in recent years. As a result, current forest management in the country practically resembles a crisis management dealing dominantly with unplanned disturbances. The Czech case clearly shows the essential, non-separable linkage between forest adaptation and mitigation––a simple recognition that, without adaptation, there is no mitigation. It also demonstrates the importance of tailoring the general climate-smart forestry approach to regional circumstances. The current priorities of Czech forestry must be to halt forest decline, restore the lost vegetation cover on clearcut soils, and intensify adaptive management in order to create resilient forest ecosystems than can cope better with changing climate and extreme climate events.
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