Editorial: Impacts of global change on protective forests in mountain areas

Lausanne

2024

3 S.

Sonderdruck

40005057

Collectively, the five papers comprising this Research Topic offer a broad exploration of the manifold challenges of ongoing global change and adaptations needed for sustaining protective functions and effects of forests in mountain areas. The collection presents advancements in understanding the impacts of global change on the protective service of mountain forests, spanning from local to regional scales. Some papers in this Research Topic employed modeling or data-based approaches, while others conducted literature reviews. Each of the five papers identified knowledge gaps and outlined future research directions. Together, these papers highlight the need to address these gaps through integrated multi-scale (local to regional studies), multi-temporal (short- to long-term monitoring and predictions), and multi-method (field observations to model applications) approaches.