REINFORCE

REINFORCE: Integrated landscape management for resilient mountain forests under global changes

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REINFORCE

European Commision Horizon 2020

Forests are key components of modern landscapes, providing essential ecosystem services to humans and sustaining biodiversity. As they mitigate global warming, forest ecosystems are essential elements for meeting the objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement and an increase of their future resilience through sustainable management practices is one of the main priorities of the EU policy. Forests are projected to undergo dramatic compositional and structural shifts prompted by global changes, such as intensifying natural disturbance regimes, land use and climate change. This uncertainty makes planning for forest management exceptionally difficult. To date, studies have mainly focused on adapting forest management to climate warming but new interdisciplinary approaches for understanding and implementing tailored  adaptation actions are needed to increase forest resilience to a large set of uncertainties. The overall aim of REINFORCE is to develop multi-scale and integrated forest management strategies to enhance resilience to global changes in European mountain forest landscapes. The project will consist in assessing future forest landscape dynamics in multiple case study regions in the Alps using advanced simulation modelling tools, followed by developing resilience-based forest management plans. This will be accomplished with a novel and innovative approach combining dynamic landscape modelling, functional diversity and network analysis. This approach allows to determine where to intervene more efficiently in stands within the landscape to maximize the resilience of the forests to sudden disturbances and climate change. Mixing multiple expertise and methods, REINFORCE will ultimately contribute in filling the gap between science and local decision-makers by incorporating stakeholder community in building effective and integrated forested landscape management to cope with climate and global changes.

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Measurements in different forest types in South Tyrol, including in study areas of the REINFORCE project.© Eurac Research - Marco Mina
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Publications
Forest management scenarios drive future dynamics of Mediterranean planted pine forests under climate change
Suárez-Muñoz M, Bonet-García F, Navarro-Cerrillo R, Herrero J, Mina M (2023)
Journal article
Landscape Ecology

More information: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10980-023-01678-y

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01678-y

Contrasting impacts of climate change on protection forests of the Italian Alps
Hillebrand L, Marzini S, Crespi A, Hiltner U, Mina M (2023)
Journal article
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

More information: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2023.12402 ...

https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1240235

A trait-based approach to both forestry and timber building can synchronize forest harvest and resilience
Osborne P, Aquilué N, Mina M, Moe K, Jemtrud M, Messier C (2023)
Journal article
PNAS Nexus

More information: https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/8/pgad254/72491 ...

https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad254

Forest modelling, biodiversity & More - Eurac’s Alpine Environment research in South Tyrol
Mina M (2023)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Research Unit Alpine Environment and Natural Hazards | Davos | 31.5.2023 - 31.5.2023

Simulating landscape scale treeline dynamics under climate and land use change to support forest management strategies
Marzini S, Tasser E, Wellstein C, Albrich K, Rammer W, Mina M (2023)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: ECEM 2023 | Leipzig | 4.9.2023 - 8.9.2023

Simulating biotic disturbances with forest landscape models: comparing different approaches in different forest ecosystems
Mina M (2023)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: ECEM 2023 | Leipzig | 4.9.2023 - 8.9.2023

Modelling forest landscapes as functional complex networks for resilience to global change
Mina M (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Seminar for LANDIS Quebec-Hub Group | Quebec | 7.4.2022 - 7.4.2022

Forest landscapes as a functional complex networks: managing for the unexpected
Mina M (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Mountain Ecosystem Research group SLF Davos | Davos | 21.3.2022 - 21.3.2022

Managing forests as functional networks: preparing our landscapes for the unexpected
Mina M (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: XIII Congresso Nazionale SISEF | Orvieto | 31.5.2022 - 31.5.2022

Managing for the unexpected: building resilient forest landscapes to global change
Mina M (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: ESA Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting | Montreal | 15.8.2022 - 15.8.2022

Managing for the unexpected: building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change
Mina M, Messier C, Duveneck MJ, Fortin MJ, Aquilué N (2022)
Journal article
Global Change Biology

More information: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16197

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16197

Characterizing and modelling forest structure and development in South Tyrol: methods and first results
Mina M, Paniccia C, Marzini S, Hillebrand L, Rigo F, Tappeiner U, Hilpold A (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: 12. Zoologische und botanische Forschung in Südtirol | Bozen | 15.9.2022 - 16.9.2022

Modelling forest dynamics under global change - multi-scale approaches to aid management decisions
Mina M (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: Chair of Forest Ecology | Zurich | 11.11.2022 - 11.11.2022

Simulating landscape-scale treeline dynamics under climate and land-use change to support forest management strategies
Marzini S, Mina M, Tasser E, Wellstein C (2022)
Presentation/Speech

Conference: International Mountain Conference IMC#22 | Innsbruck | 11.9.2022 - 15.9.2022

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Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol

Biodiversity Monitoring South Tyrol

Duration: - Funding: Internal funding EURAC (Project)

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