Climate change seriously impacts forest ecosystems. In order to maintain a healthy and sustainable forest cover, adaptation strategies should be implemented. This article proposes to deepen our understanding of the decision-making process of private forest owners in terms of adaptation decisions...

Adaptation is a major stake of forest management in the climate change context The genetic diversity of forest trees confers them a huge - yet not boundless - adaptive potential Taking evolutionary mechanisms into account in adaptive forest management practices will reinforce the capacity of...

Integrative forest management approaches, aiming to combine the provision of multiple forest ecosystem services in the same forest area, are popular forest management concepts in Europe. Their understanding and application varies, however, across the continent. This paper looks at one dimension of...

Irregular silviculture is a relevant management option in the forests of the Massif Central. At the initiative of CAPE Occitanie, and thanks to the support of the Pro Silva association and the Cévennes National Park, a seminar entitled "Irregular forestry: multiple assets for the forests of the...

In this paper, we examine a particular case of land use pattern: forest management activities facing an uncertainty related to spatial information signals received. We investigate the combination of two well-known theoretical approaches, the Blackwell theorem and entropy analysis, in providing a...

The adaptive capacity of forests and foresters to overcome the adverse effects of climate change remains highly uncertain despite intense research efforts. While foresters are often invited "not to put all their eggs in one basket," adaptation strategies to climate change mostly depend on...

This special issue contains 6 papers on the following topics: (1) the 2019 forest health year in metropolitan France; (2) Massif Central foresters united around "continuous" silviculture; (3) CNPF PHOTOFOR, a unique photographic database on the forest; (4) a new variety of hybrid larch soon...

Aim of study: Adaptation of silviculture in planted forest may help to mitigate damage due to biotic and abiotic hazards. However, compromises have to be found because it is not possible to minimize the risk from all hazards through application of a single forest management approach. The objective...

This issue of the NFB Technical Referees is dedicated to the presentation of an October 2016 seminar that brought together various RTM service personnel, territorial agencies and mountain work agencies in Ubaye, on the theme of silviculture with the aim of protection against natural hazards in...

Forests play an important role in many different cycles (carbon sink, biodiversity, timber) and, consequently, in regulating the global climate system. Moreover, forests are the source of a wide range of goods and services to human societies and, as a result, the decisions made by forest owners...