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Managing forest genetic resources as a strategy to adapt forests to climate change: perceptions of European forest owners and managers

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Title Managing forest genetic resources as a strategy to adapt forests to climate change: perceptions of European forest owners and managers
 
Creator Vinceti, Barbara
Manica, Mattia
Lauridsen, Nina Olsen
Verkerk, Pieter Johannes
Lindner, Marcus
Fady, Bruno
 
Subject forest genetic resources
recursos genéticos forestales
forest management
ordenación forestal
climate change
cambio climatico
adaptation
adaptación
 
Description Managing genetic diversity is of key importance in fostering resilience of forest ecosystems to climate change. We carried out a survey reaching over 200 forest owners and managers from 15 European countries to understand their perceptions of the main threats to forest ecosystems, their knowledge of forest genetic resources (FGR) and their attitude toward actively managing these resources to strengthen the resilience of forest ecosystems to climate change. Respondents perceived pests and diseases to be the top-ranking threats to forests, followed by windstorms and drought, with differences across countries. They stated to be aware of the potential offered by managing FGR and indicated that they paid attention to origin and quality in their choice of planting material. Generally, respondents showed a positive attitude in using forest reproductive material foreign to the planting site, to better match the projected future climate conditions, introducing either a new native tree species or a new non-local genotype of a species already planted (keeping the same species but changing the source of planting material). However, forest reproductive material from local sources was largely preferred over non-local material (both genetically improved and not improved). Forest managers and owners may need to be exposed to more evidence of the potential benefits deriving from active adaptation and mitigation management of FGR before implementing adaptive measures. Also, more efforts should be invested in understanding perceptions and motivations of European forest owners and managers, in order to better tailor advice on optimal measures to counteract the detrimental effects of climate change.
 
Date 2020-12
2020-12-17T22:07:11Z
2020-12-17T22:07:11Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Vinceti, B.; Manica, M.; Lauridsen, N.; Verkerk, P.J.; Lindner, M.; Fady, B. (2020) Managing forest genetic resources as a strategy to adapt forests to climate change: perceptions of European forest owners and managers. European Journal of Forest Research 139, pp. 1107–1119 ISSN: 1612-4669
1612-4669
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110555
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-020-01311-6
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 1107-1119
application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source European Journal of Forest Research