Response of Boreal and Tropical Forest Ecosystems to Extreme Weather Events

Dear Colleagues,

The overall goal of this Special Issue is to bring together the most recent experimental and modeling studies focused on a better understanding of the possible response of tropical and boreal forest ecosystems to extreme weather events. Boreal and tropical forests cover wide areas of the Earth’s surface and play an essential role in providing habitats for a large number of plants, animals, and microorganisms. The increased frequency of anomalous weather events over the last decades in different regions, such as heat and cold waves, droughts and heavy precipitation, wind storms and hurricanes can significantly influence forest ecosystems. These influences are manifested in forest and tree damage, loss of biodiversity, disturbance of forest functioning, alteration of GHG exchange, etc. Increased frequency of heat waves and drought events can result in higher risks of forest fires that, in turn, lead to the loss of forest resources. Forest and tree damage (e.g. windthrows, windfalls) caused by wind storms may lead to changes in forest microclimate, energy and water budgets, GHG exchange, etc. It is obvious that the response of forest ecosystems to weather anomalies can vary significantly in different geographical regions within and across different biomes.

For this Special Issue, we invite scientists working in meteorology, climatology, ecology, biogeochemistry, and forestry to contribute new experimental and modeling studies of forest–atmosphere interactions on local and regional scales. Contributions can include but are not limited to the following: analysis of forest damaging risks associated with atmospheric hazards, the response of various forest ecosystems to extreme weather events, sensitivity of forest ecosystems to large scale atmospheric variability modes (e.g., ENSO, PDO, NAO, AMM), biophysical and biochemical forest feedbacks on the atmospheric processes, etc.

Prof. Dr. Alexander Olchev
Guest Editor

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• boreal forests
• tropical forests
• extreme weather events
• tree and forest functioning
• field measurements
• modeling experiments
• remote sensing data analysis
• GHG fluxes
• forest microclimate
• large scale atmospheric variability modes