About this Research Topic
Authors are invited to submit original research articles and review papers on the following topics related to conservation and restoration strategies, but are not limited to these:
- What features, plant functional traits, thresholds and meaningful indicator sets should be included in field studies, SDM and monitoring and surveillance to assess the completeness of species diversity, habitat structures and functions?
- Risk reduction in large, contiguous, biomass-rich forest areas with high productivity at the landscape level means choosing between active intervention management and the greatest possible wilderness without any infrastructure - when to aim for what?
- Ecosystem restoration: unregulated regeneration and succession trajectories after disturbance or deliberately manipulated succession development in terms of `assisted colonization´?
- Which basic data must be further taken into account for research and evidence-based decisions in the future?
- Which current data deficits pose the greatest obstacles to research on ecological change and need to be addressed with high priority?
- Which partners and expertise must be further involved in decision-making in order to achieve the goals?
Keywords: climate impact, restoration, vulnerability, forest management, biodiversity conservation, forest fires
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