title: The long-term effects of planting and harvesting on secondary forest dynamics under climate change in northeastern China.
abstract: Unlike the virgin forest in the Changbaishan Nature Reserve in northeastern China, little research on a landscape scale has been conducted on secondary forests in the region under conditions of a warming climate. This research was undertaken in the upper Hun River region where the vegetation is representative of the typical secondary forest of northeastern China. The spatially explicit forest landscape model LANDIS was utilized to simulate the responses of forest restoration dynamics to anthropogenic disturbance (planting and harvesting) and evaluate the difference of the restoration process under continuation of current climatic conditions and climate warming. The results showed that: (1) The interaction of planting and harvesting has organizational scale effects on the forest. The combination of planting and harvesting policies has significant effects on the overall forest but not on individual species. (2) The area expansion of the historically dominant species Pinus koraiensis is less under climate warming than under continuation of current climatic conditions. These suggests that we should carefully take historically dominant species as the main focus for forest restoration, especially when they are near their natural distribution boundary, because they are probably less capable of successfully adapting to climate change.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.|Qingyuan Forest CERN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.|Qingyuan Forest CERN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China.
authors.forename: Xingyuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.
authors.forename: Hongshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: He
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.
authors.forename: Limin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.
authors.forename: Bernard J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China.|Qingyuan Forest CERN, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China.
authors.forename: Lizhong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D057231:Climate Change; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D016468:Forestry; D065928:Forests; D028223:Pinus / Q000502:physiology*