Effects of climate change on forest succession

Abstract

Abstract: Forest regeneration is an important process driven by forest ecological dynamic resources.More and more concern has been given to forest succession issues since the development of forest succession theory during the early twentieth century.Scientific management of forest ecosystem entails the regulations and research models of forest succession.It is of great practical and theoretical significance to restore and reconstruct forest vegetation and to protect natural forest.Disturbances are important factors affecting regeneration structure and ecological processes.They result in temporal and spatial variations of forest ecosystem,and change the efficiencies of resources.In this paper,some concepts about forest succession and disturbances were introduced,and the difficulties of forest succession were proposed.Four classes of models were reviewed:Markov model,GAP model,process-based equilibrium terrestrial biosphere models(BIOME series models),and non-linear model.Subsequently,the effects of climate change on forest succession caused by human activity were discussed.At last,the existing problem and future research directions were proposed.

Key words: Forest succession, Human activity, Climate change

CLC Number:

S718.5

WANG Jijun, PEI Tiefan. Effects of climate change on forest succession[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2004, (10): 1722-1730.

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