Assisted tree migration can preserve the European forest carbon sink under climate change
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F24%3A100428" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/24:100428 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02080-5" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02080-5</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02080-5" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41558-024-02080-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Assisted tree migration can preserve the European forest carbon sink under climate change
Original language description
Climate change threatens the role of European forests as a long-term carbon sink. Assisted migration aims to increase the resilience of forest tree populations to climate change, using species-specific climatic limits and local adaptations through transferring seed provenances. We modelled assisted migration scenarios for seven main European tree species and analysed the effects of species and seed provenance selection, accounting for environmental and genetic variations, on the annual above-ground carbon sink of regrowing juvenile forests. To increase forest resilience, coniferous trees need to be replaced by deciduous species over large parts of their distribution. If local seed provenances are used, this would result in a decrease of the current carbon sink (40 TgC yr-1) by 34-41% by 2061-2080. However, if seed provenances adapted to future climates are used, current sinks could be maintained or even increased to 48-60 TgC yr-1. Assisted migration is the artificial movement of species and populations to increase forest resilience. Here the authors model how targeted assisted migration can preserve or enhance the European forest carbon sink under future climate scenarios.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
40100 - Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature Climate Change
ISSN
1758-6798
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8.0
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
001276021900002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85199543431