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Increased Central European forest mortality explained by higher harvest rates driven by enhanced productivity

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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 17, 期 11, 页码 -

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IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac9635

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tree mortality; harvest; forest management; climate; CO2 fertilisation; European forest

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  1. European Research Council under the European Union [758873]
  2. Marie SklodowskaCurie grant [895158]
  3. European Research Council (ERC) [758873] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
  4. Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [895158] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)

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This study explores the factors driving changes in tree mortality rates in Central Europe, including climate drivers, management, and age structure. The findings suggest that forest productivity and management play a significant role in impacting regional-scale patterns of tree mortality. The study also emphasizes the challenge of comparing tree mortality trends from different observation types.
Increasing tree growth and mortality rates in Europe are still poorly understood and have been attributed to a variety of drivers. This study explored the role of climate drivers, management and age structure in driving changes in tree mortality rates in six Central European countries from 1985 to 2010, using the process-based vegetation model LPJ-GUESS. Simulations show a strong positive trend in canopy mortality rates in Central Europe, consistent with satellite observations. This trend was explained by an assumed increase in managed thinning in response to a modelled increase in forest productivity caused by climate change and rising atmospheric CO2 concentration. Simulated rates of canopy mortality were highly sensitive to the minimum tree size threshold applied for inclusion in the rate calculation, agreeing with satellite observations that are likely to only capture the loss of relatively large trees. The calculated trends in mortality rate also differed substantially depending on the metric used (i.e. carbon, stem or canopy mortality), highlighting the challenge of comparing tree mortality trends from different observation types. We conclude that changes in forest productivity and management in combination can profoundly affect regional-scale patterns of tree mortality. Our findings underscore the fact that increasing forest mortality can occur without reductions in forest growth when mediated by management responses to increasing productivity.

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