Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

Andreas Sommerfeld; Cornelius Senf; Brian Buma; Anthony W. D’Amato; Tiphaine Després; Ignacio Díaz-Hormazábal; Shawn Fraver; Lee E. Frelich; Álvaro G. Gutiérrez; Sarah J. Hart; Brian J. Harvey; Hong S. He; Tomáš Hlásny; Andrés Holz; Thomas Kitzberger; Dominik Kulakowski; David Lindenmayer; Akira S. Mori; Jörg Müller; Juan Paritsis; George L.W. Perry; Scott L. Stephens; Miroslav Svoboda; Monica G. Turner; Thomas T. Veblen; Rupert Seidl

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Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome

Andreas Sommerfeld^*, Cornelius Senf, Brian Buma, Anthony W. D’Amato, Tiphaine Després, Ignacio Díaz-Hormazábal, Shawn Fraver, Lee E. Frelich, Álvaro G. Gutiérrez, Sarah J. Hart, Brian J. Harvey, Hong S. He, Tomáš Hlásny, Andrés Holz, Thomas Kitzberger, Dominik Kulakowski, David Lindenmayer, Akira S. Mori, Jörg Müller, Juan ParitsisGeorge L.W. Perry, Scott L. Stephens, Miroslav Svoboda, Monica G. Turner, Thomas T. Veblen, Rupert Seidl

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Increasing evidence indicates that forest disturbances are changing in response to global change, yet local variability in disturbance remains high. We quantified this considerable variability and analyzed whether recent disturbance episodes around the globe were consistently driven by climate, and if human influence modulates patterns of forest disturbance. We combined remote sensing data on recent (2001–2014) disturbances with in-depth local information for 50 protected landscapes and their surroundings across the temperate biome. Disturbance patterns are highly variable, and shaped by variation in disturbance agents and traits of prevailing tree species. However, high disturbance activity is consistently linked to warmer and drier than average conditions across the globe. Disturbances in protected areas are smaller and more complex in shape compared to their surroundings affected by human land use. This signal disappears in areas with high recent natural disturbance activity, underlining the potential of climate-mediated disturbance to transform forest landscapes.

Original language	English
Article number	4355
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06788-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2018

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Sommerfeld, A., Senf, C., Buma, B., D’Amato, A. W., Després, T., Díaz-Hormazábal, I., Fraver, S., Frelich, L. E., Gutiérrez, Á. G., Hart, S. J., Harvey, B. J., He, H. S., Hlásny, T., Holz, A., Kitzberger, T., Kulakowski, D., Lindenmayer, D., Mori, A. S., Müller, J., ... Seidl, R. (2018). Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 4355. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06788-9

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