Some important parameters to display the effects of climate change on forest: a case study in Cerle planning unit, Antalya, Turkey
Abstract
Climate
change is one of the most detrimental issues of the earth in this century. It
is evident that a change in climate parameters would affect considerably the
entire global ecosystem’s environment. On the other hand, different forest
related parameters such as natural disaster occurrence or land cover change of
forest ecosystems could also help to understand the effects of climate change
besides climate parameters such as temperature, precipitation or relative
humidity. Therefore, in this study, selected parameters describing climate
change were tried to display in a Mediterranean forest planning unit called
“Cerle” located in Antalya. Firstly, trend analysis was carried out using
climate parameters in the selected study area to detect the amount of climate
change. Then, different natural disaster occurrences such as forest fire,
windstorm, insects and pest attack evolution were displayed over a period of 30
to 50 years. Spatiotemporal changes for the same period were also tried to be
demonstrated, based on historical and actual maps to identify the impact of
climate change on the structure and composition of forest ecosystems. In brief,
Mann-Kendall test results showed significant increasing trends in annual mean
temperature and precipitation. Moreover, the natural development of crimean
pine as a result of land use change analysis, as well as the increasing
frequency of wildfires and windstorm leading to salvage cutting have been
interpreted as the impact of climate change. It is concluded that changes in selected
climate parameters are very important to display the climate change digitally.
The outputs of this study could help in future forest management planning
decisions and determination of silvicultural prescriptions. Furthermore, the
obtained results might be the basis for the integration of climate change to
forest management planning related to future climate projections and scenarios.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Forest Industry Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Uzay Karahalıl
0000-0002-9661-4028
Türkiye
Publication Date
March 15, 2020
Submission Date
February 15, 2019
Acceptance Date
January 7, 2020
Published in Issue
Year 2020 Volume: 21 Number: 1
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