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dc.contributor.advisorJaakola, Laura
dc.contributor.advisorAntón Fernández, Clara
dc.contributor.authorAndersson, Carl-Michael Heimo
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-06T21:58:43Z
dc.date.available2021-07-06T21:58:43Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-20
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of the thesis is to support the initial stage of the Climate Smart Forestry Norway (CSFN) undertaken by a consortium between NMBU, NIBIO, LUKE (Finland), and Wageningen University & Research, which is a five-year project aimed to assess how Norway’s forests are best managed in order to adapt to climate change. As part of the CSFN project a framework for quantifying probability and effects of natural disturbance linked to forest structure and climate change will be developed. Before quantifying probabilities of the main natural disturbances, a literature review on these main disturbance agents is set to begin in 2020, which is going to be supported by this Master project. Extensive damages to Norwegian spruce in Europe after massive outbreaks preceded by windstorms have moved scientists and foresters from trying to control the Eurasian spruce bark beetle to attempt to decipher the reasons behind epidemic populations. Previous literature has uncovered the physiological thresholds behind massive spruce bark beetle outbreaks. But changes in temperature averages, precipitation and human land use throughout Europe have called for different management strategies in the light of the strong coupling of climatic factors and spruce monoculture implementation to spruce bark beetle propagation, by means of direct and indirect effects. The strong interaction of windthrow, acute drought and spruce bark beetle outbreaks resulting in epidemic populations has been synthesized in this review and some of the proposed beetle control tools and landscape-forest stand management strategies from recent frameworks and reviews, such as Climate Smart Forestry, are introduced as a potential management solution to dampen the adverse consequences of climate-driven insect disturbances in boreal forests.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/21788
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDBIO-3950
dc.subjectNatural disturbance agenten_US
dc.subjectWindthrowen_US
dc.subjectClimate Smart Forestryen_US
dc.subjectBoreal foresten_US
dc.subjectDisturbance regimeen_US
dc.subjectNorway spruce Picea abies (L.) Karsten_US
dc.subjectEurasian spruce bark beetle Ips typographusen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Agriculture and fishery disciplines: 900::Agriculture disciplines: 910::Forestry: 915en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Landbruks- og Fiskerifag: 900::Landbruksfag: 910::Skogbruk: 915en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Ecology: 488en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480::Økologi: 488en_US
dc.titleCan spruce forest stands be adapted to climate-driven natural disturbances? The consequential effects of two key disturbance agents and their management in spruce dominated stands under climate change – A reviewen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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