Plantation Forestry, Tree Breeding, and Novel Tools to Support the Sustainable Management of Boreal Forests

Abstract

Successful stand regeneration is one of the keystone elements of sustainable forest management. It ensures that ecosystems submitted to stand-replacing disturbances return to a forested state so that they can maintain the provision of wood fiber, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. This chapter describes how plantation forestry, including tree breeding, and novel tools, such as genomic selection, can support the sustainable management of boreal forests in the face of climate change by, among other benefits, reducing management pressure on natural forests and favoring ecosystem restoration.

Published in

Advances in Global Change Research
2023, number: 74, pages: 383-401
Title: Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change : Sustainable Management
Publisher: Springer

SLU Authors

• Hjelm, Karin

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

SLU Forest Damage Center

UKÄ Subject classification

Forest Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15988-6_14
• ISBN: 978-3-031-15987-9
• eISBN: 978-3-031-15988-6

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/129030