Book chapter
Conclusions and perspectives
Technical University of Munich1
Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute2
Czech Academy of Sciences3
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark4
Ecosystems Programme, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark5
Finnish Meteorological Institute6
Austrian Federal Office and Research Centre for Forests7
Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics8
Conclusions from the individual chapters are integrated into a synopsis, covering achievements and perspectives, and linking challenges for natural and social sciences, provisioning ecosystem services (ESs) under environmental change. The required research and policy making are facilitated by novel understanding of ecosystem functioning and internal factorial interactions with the atmosphere.
A basis is provided through methodological progress for establishing forest research ‘supersites’ within global research networks, possessing capacities for creating generic mechanistic knowledge of ecological relevance. On such grounds, provisioning versus regulating ESs must accommodate diversification in the joint production of agricultural and forestry goods, backed by integrative bioeconomic land-use modelling.
Advancement requires forest ecosystem-level unification of air pollution and climate change research while strengthening communication between experimentalists, monitoring experts, modellers, policy makers and stakeholders towards tool development for reliable risk assessment. A critical and appreciative view of forest functions and services is demanded in relation to the (post-)Kyoto debate..
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Elsevier |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 591-607 |
Series: | Developments in Environmental Science |
Journal subtitle: | Understanding and Perspectives From Forest Research |
ISBN: | 0080983421 , 0080983499 , 1306154278 , 9780080983424 , 9780080983493 and 9781306154277 |
ISSN: | 14748177 |
Types: | Book chapter |
DOI: | 10.1016/B978-0-08-098349-3.00027-X |
ORCIDs: | Mikkelsen, Teis Nørgaard |