Forestry, from theory to practice: Central European ideas in native Patagonian forests in a context of climate change

Abstract

In recent decades restoration, conservation, and sustainable forest management have been fundamental in mitigating global climate change (Zhang et al., 2021; Kauppi et al., 2022; Gregor et al., 2022). Through sustainable forest management (SFM), mitigation can be extended by conserving carbon in forest products (Nabuurs et al., 2018; Verkerk et al., 2020; Tognetti et al., 2022; Loguercio et al., 2024). However, climate change affects the health of the forest and jeopardizes the capacity of forest managers to achieve their objectives and meet forest-related needs of society (FAO, 2017), affecting SFM in many aspects, such as tree growth, tree mortality due to drought and heat, pathogen outbreak, and inducing changes in disturbance regimes, particularly fire (Keenan, 2015; Cailleret et al., 2017; Choat et al., 2018; Upadhyay and Tripathi, 2019; Kitzberger et al., 2022; Reiter et al., 2024).