Management Strategies to Adapt Alpine Space Forests to Climate Change Risks

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InTech, 2013. — 393 p. — ISBN: 9535111948, 9789535111948In this book authors analyzed transnational case studies dealing with different manifestations of climate change effects, and intended to stimulate the discussion on management strategies to adapt forests in the Alps to climate change risks. The presented results are derived from the INTERREG project Management Strategies to Adapt Alpine Space Forests to Climate Change Risks that was implemented within the framework of the European Territorial Cooperation Alpine Space Programme 2007-2013.Contents: Preface Management Strategies to Adapt Alpine Space Forests to Climate Change Risks - An Introduction to the Manfred Project Developing a Background for Forest Adaptation Strategies in the Alps: A Perspective for Policy Building Future Climate of the European Alps Potential Future Ranges of Tree Species in the Alps Risk Assessment for Biotic Pests Under Prospective Climate Conditions Abiotic Stressors - Fire Hazard Abiotic Stressor: Storms Ozone Fluxes to a Larch Forest Ecosystem at the Timberline in the Italian Alps Assessing Present and Future Ozone Hazards to Natural Forests in the Alpine Area — Comparison of a Wide Scale Mapping Technique with Local Passive Sampler Measurements A New webGIS Platform Dedicated to Forest Extreme Events in the Alps: Aims and Functionalities Drought in Alpine Areas Under Changing Climate Conditions Eco-Engineering and Protection Forests Against Rockfalls and Snow Avalanches Coupling a Forest Growth Model with a Soil Carbon Simulator Provenance Trials in Alpine Range - Review and Perspectives for Applications in Climate Change Description of Case Study Areas for Deriving Management Strategies to Adapt Alpine Space Forests to Climate Change Risks Monitoring Climatic Change Impacts on Protection Forests in Aosta Valley (Italy) and in Drome (France) Using Medium and High Resolution Remote Sensing and Mateloscopes Plots Case Study Carinthia / Slovenia - Productive Forests Affected by Climate Change Case Study: Valle Camonica and the Adamello Park Case study Oberschwaben / Allgau / Vorarlberg / Prattigau - Risk Assessment of Abiotic and Biotic Hazards Managing Alpine Forests in a Changing Climate