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Forest disturbances have long-lasting effects on forest functions and how the forest re-grows. Accounting for long-term time scales and different how forests regrow post-disturbance poses a significant challenge to designing effective conservation and mitigation strategies.<\/p>\n

The study suggests these challenges can be addressed by embracing a whole of landscape perspective. While carbon sequestration, carbon storage, or biodiversity cannot all be maximized everywhere on small spatial scales, a larger landscape has the capacity to deliver better levels of biodiversity and carbon co-benefits.<\/p>\n

As all three objectives cannot be simultaneously maximized in small reserves, it is important to conserve large tracts of more strictly protected forest landscapes to maintain a range of regenerating stages. The size of protected areas should be guided by the minimum dynamic area framework, which would help to determine the minimum reserve size required to incorporate natural disturbance regimes and maintain ecological processes.<\/p>\n

In addition, forests must be allowed to attain older ages if they are to reach their full biodiversity and carbon storage potential. Protecting existing primary forests and increasing the size of strictly protected forest landscapes (for example, 're-wilding<\/a>') is needed to encompass shifting patch mosaics driven by a wide range of disturbances. These strategies would help maintain a range of ecosystem functions in times of accelerating environmental change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Article authors<\/h2>
\"Heather<\/a><\/div>

Heather Keith<\/a><\/h3>
Heather is a Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University. Her research is aimed at understanding the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, particularly forests, to improve their management for conservation and climate change mitigation.<\/div><\/div><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Additional authors<\/h2>\n
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Martin Mikol\u00e1\u0161, Marek Svitok, Radek Ba\u010de, Garrett W. Meigs, William S. Keeton, Arne Buechling, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Daniel Koz\u00e1k, Kurt Bollmann, Kre\u0161imir Begovi\u010d, Vojt\u011bch \u010cada, Oleh Chaskovskyy, Dheeraj Ralhan, Martin Du\u0161\u00e1tko, Matej Feren\u010d\u00edk, Michal Frankovi\u010d, Rhiannon Gloor, Je\u0148\u00fdk Hofmeister, Pavel Janda, Ondrej Kameniar, Jana L\u00e1busov\u00e1, Linda Majdanov\u00e1, Thomas A. Nagel, Jakob Pavlin, Joseph L. Pettit, Ruffy Rodrigo, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Milo\u0161 Rydval, Francesco M. Sabatini, Jonathan Schurman, Michal Synek, Ond\u0159ej Vostarek, Veronika Zemlerov\u00e1, and Miroslav Svoboda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Reference<\/h3>\n

Mikol\u00e1\u0161, M., Svitok, M., Ba\u010de, R., Meigs, G. W., Keeton, W. S., Keith, H., Buechling, A., Trotsiuk, V., Koz\u00e1k, D., & Bollmann, K. (2021). Natural disturbance impacts on trade-offs and co-benefits of forest biodiversity and carbon. Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em>, 288(1961), 20211631. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rspb.2021.1631<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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